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Water Wars: Repub Only Ones Who Don’t Link Drought And Climate Change
Posted by Inquisitr: None Given on August 2nd, 2015
Inquisitr: The historic California megadrought has now dragged on into its fourth year and a new study shows Republicans are the only ones who think it has nothing to do with climate change.
Two-thirds of Californians think global warming helped caused the drought, but 62 percent of Republicans disagree with that, according to a new study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute.
In fact, a third of Republicans, 31 percent, said the world would never see any effects from climate change.
"The threat...
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U.N. states agree post-2015 sustainable development agenda
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 2nd, 2015
Reuters: The United Nations 193-member states agreed on Sunday on an agenda for the world's sustainable development over the next 15 years that pledges to leave no-one behind and is now due to be formally adopted by world leaders at a summit in September. After two weeks of final negotiations and several all-night sessions, the sustainable development agenda of 17 goals and a declaration that covers implementation and review were agreed by consensus to replace eight Millennium Development Goals. There was...
Dead Salmon, climate change and Northwest dams
Posted by Seattle Times: Pat Ford on August 2nd, 2015
Seattle Times: THIS summer, we are feeling climate change in the Northwest. Rivers and waters started hot this spring and got hotter. Fishery agencies say 250,000 to 400,000 Columbia River Basin salmon are dead or will die. Sockeye salmon are the worst hit, but chinooks are dying, too, and sturgeon. Unrelieved hot water, at and above 70 degrees in the Columbia, Snake and many tributaries, is sickening and killing them. The best summary so far, by Hal Bernton in The Seattle Times, names the immediate causes: “Snowpack...
Without a federal EPA, as Scott Walker wants, environmental jeopardy
Posted by Cap Times: None Given on August 2nd, 2015
Cap Times: Gov. Scott Walker said that if he's elected president he'll strip the federal Environmental Protection Agency of most of its regulation powers.
That, former Department of Natural Resources Secretary George Meyer said, could stand to send Wisconsin back to days when the environmental impact from industry was plainly noticeable.
In an interview on WKOW-TV's "Capitol City Sunday," Meyer recalled the climate when he worked in the DNR's legal division before the 1970 formation of the EPA.
"In...
Planned Hawaii telescope incites culture clash
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 2nd, 2015
Associated Press: More than 2,500 astronomers from around the world are in Hawaii for a conference at a time when plans to install telescopes on two mountain summits have led to a standoff between scientists and cultural and environmental activists.
The International Astronomical Union's general assembly, which starts Monday, was planned years in advance but is happening amid protests because the mountains are held sacred by Native Hawaiians.
Some demonstrators on Maui and the Big Island were arrested Friday...
United Kingdom: Puffin numbers under threat from freak downpours
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 2nd, 2015
Guardian: Puffin numbers on one of Britain’s most important seabird colonies may be hit by the terrible summer weather, wildlife experts have warned. Flooded burrows on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast have been blamed for a serious drop in the number of fledged puffin chicks this year.
Each year National Trust rangers monitor 100 burrows with eggs on the islands and last year found 92 birds had fledged, seen as a remarkable success. But this year only about 50 successfully fledged chicks,...
Former Exxon President On Mission Clean Up Oil Sands
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on August 2nd, 2015
Environment News Service: Canada has given oil sands a dirty reputation, but a breakthrough, commercially viable technology has caught the eye of a former Exxon Mobil president who is putting it to use to clean up Utah`s billions of barrels of oil sands.
Imagine extracting high-quality oil out of the estimated 32 billion barrels buried in Utah`s oil sands, without creating the toxic wastelands that have resulted from oil sands projects in Western Canada. And imagine doing it at a cost that can still turn a profit in today`s...