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Climate-change disconnect is baffling
Posted by PoughKeepsie Journal: None Given on October 27th, 2013
Poughkeepsie Journal: We are currently experiencing a slow-motion catastrophe. The dye is cast. We have emitted enough carbon into the atmosphere to guarantee climate change and rising sea levels. Some of our most precious real estate, our commercial capital and destination beaches, are doomed. And yet, instead of proactively considering possible solutions, from abstaining from new building on fragile coastlines to moving inland, the response of many is to deny that they are or will ever experience the effects of climate...
Forest reveals climate change’s surprising damage to moose, maple syrup
Posted by PoughKeepsie Journal: None Given on November 29th, 2012
Poughkeepsie Journal: Higher sea levels. More intense storms. Drought.
These are the most common impacts associated with climate change.
But what about pond algae? Or diseased moose? Or less maple syrup?
In the December edition of the scientific journal BioScience, scientists detail how climate change has been affecting — and could further change — a forest ecosystem in New Hampshire. The study seeks to go beyond the most obvious impacts to understand how climate change is playing out at a unique location in...
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Posted by PoughKeepsie Journal: None Given on September 15th, 2012
Poughkeepsie Journal: There is a lot to be gleaned by the fact that carbon-dioxide emissions – the ones contributing to climate change – have fallen dramatically in the United States of late.
It is, indeed, welcome news because the world is in for a long struggle to keep these emissions in check, and the United States still creates far more than its fair share of the pollution.
But there should be concern over how, exactly, the United States has seen this decline: It has come mostly through the trend of cheap and...
Report predicts rising sea levels in lower Hudson Valley
Posted by PoughKeepsie Journal: None Given on November 14th, 2010
PoughKeepsie Journal: A new state environmental report predicts sea levels could rise more than four feet in some coastal areas of the state over the next 70 years, with dramatic implications for New York City, Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley.
The Hudson River is at sea level in New York City. Rising waters' effects will be felt far upstream, the report says.
"Sea level rise and coastal flooding from storm surges are already impacting and will increasingly affect New York's entire ocean and estuarine coastline...
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