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Will New York governor meet self-imposed fracking deadline?
Posted by Star-Gazette: None Given on December 7th, 2014
Star Gazette: Gov. Andrew Cuomo surprised supporters and critics alike in October, when he casually mentioned during a debate that the state's long-awaited report on the health impacts of hydraulic fracturing is "due at the end of the year."
With just weeks remaining in 2014, the state Department of Health reiterated Friday that it anticipates finishing up the report -- which has been in the works since 2012 and will determine the fate of large-scale fracking in New York -- by month's end.
Still, advocates...
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California’s drought may be worst in a millennium
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 7th, 2014
ClimateWire: When Daniel Griffin first heard media reports earlier in the fall that California's drought was the worst in the past few centuries, he didn't quite buy it.
Griffin, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, had a decade of experience studying paleoclimate and environmental science using tree-ring data. From his research on blue oak trees, he knew that periods without a lot of precipitation weren't that uncommon in the state's...
Study: Less lake effect snow, more rain near Great Lakes as climate changes
Posted by Syracuse: None Given on December 7th, 2014
Syracuse: The Great Lakes region could see less lake effect snow and more rain by the late 21st century, a new study suggests.
The study by University of Wisconsin researchers says a warmer planet will mean up to a 50 percent drop in lake effect snow in areas downwind of the Great Lakes, which includes Buffalo and Syracuse. As the lakes and air get several degrees warmer, and ice nearly disappears from the lakes, the air blowing from the west will bring more rain, the study says.
"The total amount of...
Peru climate change talks slowed by clashes rich & poor nations
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 7th, 2014
LA Times: International climate talks in Lima, Peru, are entering their final week, with few hints of whether a newfound optimism that marked the start of negotiations will ultimately translate into an agreement that would rein in climate change.
Convened by the United Nations, the talks aim to craft the framework for an international accord to curtail heat-trapping emissions and adapt to changes already occurring on the planet. The final agreement is due to be signed in Paris next December.
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Phil typhoon sparks calls climate action
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 7th, 2014
Agence France-Presse: While loved ones braced for the full impact of Typhoon Hagupit back home, Filipino activists in Lima urged climate negotiators Saturday to act with more urgency in drafting a global plan to limit such potentially life-threatening events.
"To us in the Philippines, we are not any more debating on whether or not the impacts of climate change are here, we have experienced it," Voltaire Alferez of the Aksyon Klima Pilipinas NGO grouping said on the sidelines of the talks.
"Year after year we are...