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Gloomy prediction on California drought
Posted by Sun: Joe Nelson on August 23rd, 2014
Sun: Bill Patzert, long referred to by his colleagues in the science community as the “Prophet of California Climate,” had some predictions Friday on California’s severe drought, and they were anything but good.
El Nino-like weather patterns associated with fluctuating ocean temperatures have been thrown off balance, likely due to climate change. As a result, there has been less rain and warmer weather, and it will not end any time soon, Patzert said.
“When the Pacific speaks, everybody better listen,”...
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Urban Metabolism: Understanding Your City by Understanding its Flow
Posted by Daily Kos: None Given on August 23rd, 2014
Daily Kos: Note: Climate change is the overarching environmental issue of our time and I'm a huge proponent of urging national and world leaders to take action. However, I often wonder what it is they're going to do once a treaty is signed to reduce CO2 emissions. It's not like there's a magic switch that will turn off all the centralized power plants and get most cars off the roads. Our current infrastructure is so inefficient and wasteful at its core that it depends on energy stored in fossils a million years...
Hundreds Weigh in on Fracking Rules in NC’s Drilling Epicenter
Posted by Time Warner: Julie Fertig on August 23rd, 2014
Time Warner: Hundreds of concerned home and business owners turned out Friday night for the second of four public hearings in Sanford on rules to govern the North Carolina fracking industry. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the practice of injecting water, sand and chemicals far below the ground to extract natural gas. Since fracking would occur in the Sanford region, many local home and landowners came to express their thoughts and concerns. Shortly after the public hearing got underway, about a dozen...
Australia: Wilderness Society: Wild Rivers Act replacement ‘weak regulation’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 23rd, 2014
Guardian: Ecologically and culturally sensitive parts of Cape York will be declared to be “strategic environment areas” under a new plan to allow development that replaces Queensland’s controversially scrapped wild rivers laws.
The Queensland government has publicly released a 52-page plan, a fortnight after repealing Labor’s 2005 Wild Rivers Act, which banned strip mining, intensive agriculture and in-stream dams in that part of far north Queensland.
The Cape York regional plan was tabled in parliament...