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Role of gas will be limited in climate-change battle, experts note
Posted by Oil & Gas Journal: Nick Snow on October 18th, 2013
Oil & Gas Journal: Natural gas potentially can help address global climate change, but its contributions will be limited, certain experts agreed. More intelligent multinational carbon emissions reduction policies that countries are willing to actually follow will be essential, the experts said Oct. 8 at a Bipartisan Policy Center conference on the global gas renaissance and climate change.
“We haven’t made progress in greenhouse gas emissions reduction,” said Joseph E. Aldy, an assistant public policy professor...
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Madagascar: floods & locust swarms threaten to leave residents hungry
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 18th, 2013
Guardian: Faravavy, 32, lives in the middle of an arid plain 93 miles south of Betioke in southern Madagascar. She tries to support herself and her three children by cultivating maize, red beans and manioc, but is unable to grow enough to generate an income or even feed her family all year round. "We never have any crops to sell," Faravavy says. "We eat everything we produce."
During the lean season, which runs from October to March, when new crops are planted but not yet harvested, Faravavy and her youngest...
Raging Australian wildfires raise questions about climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 18th, 2013
Christian Science Monitor: The worst fires to hit Australia’s east coast in more than a decade have raised questions about what if any lessons have been learned from previous bushfire tragedies and stoked controversy over the federal government’s climate change credentials.
Firefighters in New South Wales admitted they were unprepared for the hot and windy conditions that led to Thursday’s inferno, which turned hundreds of houses into smoldering ruins and left at least one person dead. At the height of the emergency, 97...
Ethiopian dam plans spark regional tensions
Posted by SciDevNet: None Given on October 18th, 2013
SciDevNet: A group of Egyptian academics and experts have declared their opposition to the current plans for the US$4.8 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam -- on which work has started, and which will be Africa's largest hydroelectric power plant when completed -- because they believe it will damage their country.
Egypt's Nile Basin Group was set up to assess the possible threat from the dam, which will lie close to Ethiopia's border with Sudan. Its members warn that the structure could slash the Nile's...