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Climate change, migration or adaptation?
Posted by Vancouver Sun: Pete McMartin on February 8th, 2014
Vancouver Sun: “Severe drought has U.S. West fearing worst” -- front page headline, New York Times, Sunday, Feb. 1
A young couple on the Canada Line asks for directions to the airport. They are flying home to San Francisco after a week skiing in Whistler, despite the fact there was not much snow.
“But there was more snow in Whistler,” the man says, “because there’s none in Tahoe.”
California is in its third year of drought, its worst in 500 years. Within three months, 17 of its rural communities will run...
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US setting up networked ‘climate hubs’ to deal with climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2014
United Press International: The U.S. government says it's creating seven new "climate hub" networks to help people, especially farmers, deal with the effects of global warming.
The hubs, consisting of real-world and online networks, will work out OF Department of Agriculture offices around the country to connect existing government agencies more effectively, a department release reported Wednesday.
By helping scientists, farmers, ranchers and forestland-owners communicate, officials said, the hubs will help keep harmful...
The floods: what a shower
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2014
Guardian: Rotting carpets, sodden furniture and drenched possessions are making life desperate for swaths of Britain, from the Somerset Levels in the west, to Saffron Walden in the east. The misery is real, and – as ever – it is inflaming an itch to blame. The Environment Agency chief, Chris Smith, seemed to do everything possible to draw the deluge of fury his way. He stopped off first, not at one of the most drenched, but one of the driest villages in the corner of Somerset he was visiting. He failed to...