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Numbers should ease fracking debate intensity
Posted by Appeal Democrat: Thomas Elias on May 26th, 2014
Appeal Democrat: There's a huge political implication in the big difference between 13.7 billion barrels of oil and 600 million. Similarly, there's meaning in the gigantic difference between 15 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 6.4 billion (the average California household uses about two to three cubic feet of natural gas per day). Taken together, it's the difference between fueling the entire United States for several years and fueling it for only about one month. Those are the differences between the amount...
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Investing in climate change is a long-term sales project, says governor
Posted by Central Valley Business Times: Gene Beley on May 26th, 2014
Central Valley Business Times: Climate change requires different political values and hasn’t yet captured the public’s imagination, California Gov. Jerry Brown told the University of California Gianni Foundation of Agricultural Economics Climate Change conference in Sacramento last week. The next day the San Francisco Chronicle ran a page one article telling how fruit growing in the Central Valley is in jeopardy as the tule fog seems to be slowly disappearing over the past 30 years, according to a UC Berkeley study.
In 1980...
Rising seas threaten Delaware coastal areas
Posted by Delaware Online: Jeff Montgomery and Molly Murray on May 26th, 2014
Delaware Online: Along Prime Hook Beach, one of Delaware's most flood-threatened spots, longtime resident James A. Joyce Jr. said he pays attention to hurricane hazards, but worries more often about winter northeast storms. "I've been here 18 years now and we've been fortunate so far," Joyce said. "None of the hurricanes have really hit us hard. But hurricanes are always bad for somebody, and eventually our luck is going to run out." For Delaware's coastal residents, all storms – be it a fast moving but highly...
Athabasca glacier melting ‘astonishing’ rate more five metres a year
Posted by Guelph Mercury: None Given on May 26th, 2014
Guelph Mercury: What's believed to be the most-visited glacier in North America is losing more than five metres of ice every year and is in danger of completely disappearing within a generation, says a Parks Canada manager.
The Athabasca Glacier is the largest of six ice sheets that form part of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park. It is a popular destination for tourists from around the world who climb aboard huge snow coaches to get an up-close look.
While it receives about seven metres of snowfall...
Threat to frogs may be sign of worse to come some Kansas scientists say
Posted by Wichita Eagle: Roy Wenzl on May 26th, 2014
Wichita Eagle: A bullfrog peers out from the shallows in a Kansas wetlands area.
Rafe Brown on Monday will head from Lawrence, where he teaches herpetology and other subjects at the University of Kansas. He'll go to islands in the Philippines, where, among other things, he'll catch frogs.
With other scientists, he'll tramp through jungles and climb volcanic island mountains looking for frogs, toads and other creatures of nature.
For scientists like him, studying frogs is not some sort of offbeat hobby....
Climate warming driving native trout to extinction, study says
Posted by NBC: None Given on May 26th, 2014
NBC: Montana fly fishing guide and shop owner Jason Lanier hooks a feisty rainbow trout almost every day he hits the waters in the lower valley of the Flathead River system. From an angler's perspective, the catch is a thrill. Rainbows put up a good fight, much better than the one offered by the state's native westslope cutthroat trout.
"And cutthroats that have some rainbow genetics in them typically fight harder for sure," the owner of the Bigfork Anglers Fly Shop told NBC News.
About 20 million...
Fracking: To save the climate, the gas must remain buried
Posted by Ecologist: Biff Vernon on May 26th, 2014
Ecologist: The fracking industry has a blind spot the size of an elephant, Biff Vernon wrote in this Open Letter to Mark Abbott, the MD of Egdon Resources - climate change, and the huge rises in sea level it will cause. 'Only carrying out orders' is no excuse.
Next year we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the completion of the church spire. In another 500 years it will only be visible to the jellyfish.
And thank you for having the patience to listen to me politely for over half an hour while I told...
Climate issues require clear policies
Posted by NewsDay: None Given on May 26th, 2014
NewsDay: The climate change debate comes full circle for Africa today as African Climate ministers descend in Harare for a crucial meeting occasioned by severe weather and extreme climate events which are exacerbating multiple stresses such as food insecurity and spread of diseases on the continent.
In 2012 alone, an estimated 37,3 million Africans were negatively affected by hydro-meteorological hazards; a 43,3% increase in annual average over the last decade.
So the meeting under the banner of African...
U.S. Wars in the Middle East: Imperialism and the Battle for Water
Posted by Global Research: None Given on May 26th, 2014
Global Research: Water is to the twenty-first century what oil was to the twentieth century: the commodity that determines the wealth and stability of nations.
People who think that the West’s interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria are only about oil are mistaken. Broadly speaking, Western interest in the Middle East is becoming increasingly about a commodity more precious than oil, namely water.
According to the U.S.-based Center for Public Integrity, Western nations stand to make up to a US$1 trillion from...
Nigeria to build Africa’s largest gas industrial park in Delta state
Posted by Worldstage: Adesanya Alao on May 26th, 2014
Worldstage: The Federal Government of Nigeria has revealed plans to construct Africa's first multi-billion dollar gas industrial park in Delta State, it was learnt yesterday.
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, who spoke at the opening session of a three-day National Conference/Exhibition on Gas Resources in Abuja, said that the dedicated gas industrial park is part of a comprehensive strategy for gas processing in the country.
The conference with the theme: "Deepening domestic...