California’s agricultural lands have largely escaped the effects of global warming, but the honeymoon may soon be over. New research suggests that irrigation has kept croplands cool, essentially countering rising temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions in the last half century. But in the future, global warming will win out and agricultural areas will see hotter temperatures.Global warming impact looms over farmlands (Contra Costa Times)
Archive for January, 2007
Mayors gather in Alaska to see global warming effects firsthand (North County Times)
January 31, 2007Arctic Ice Melting Rapidly, Study Says
January 31, 2007Times Herald-Record – Climatologists have announced that global warming has reached its tipping point, and Time magazine reported it in the April 3 . Glaciologist Eric Rignot of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and Pannir Kanagaratnam, a research .Take action to fight global warming now
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January 30, 2007Vindicator – The book spreads the alarm about global warming through photos, charts, lists, statistics, maps and Gore’s personal observations. People caused global warming, says Gore, so he calls on people world leaders as well as everyday citizens to do .ECOLOGY THEME Worth checking out Books about the environment are .
Washington Post – I first got interested in forming a political action committee, but the red tape was too much,” he said, before unleashing enough Global warming statistics to make a scientist envious. Hexum said he had been mulling the idea of working for .NAMES & FACES
Divine intervention
January 29, 2007California announced that it has filed a civil suit against six US and Japanese automakers for their alleged contribution to global warming, a first such legal fight in the United States.California sues six carmakers over global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin – . Robert Klitgaard says Jackson’s “career is living Drucker,” calling him “an accomplished entrepreneur of noble causes in . organizations), to tackle some of the most intractable problems facing society, from port security to global warming and from .Jackson looks to uphold Drucker’s legacy
Get real about global warming (The Burlington Free Press)
January 29, 2007COLUMBUS (AP) – Nebraska’s biggest power district has been advised to get ready for Global warming. Federal regulations or new taxes would raise the price of coal to Nebraska Public Power District and other power generators, a Washington, D.C., law firm told the NPPD board Wednesday.NPPD advised to prepare for Global warming rules (Scottsbluff Star-Herald)
Blue sky tinkering – Telegraph.co.uk
January 28, 2007Heat: how to stop the planet burning George Monbiot Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 304pp, 17.99 ISBN 0713999233 It may be too late to do anything about global warming. So, rather than pretending it can be stopped, shouldn’t we concentrate on coping with the disruption?Clear and present danger (The New Statesman)
| Tropical SSTs: Natural variations or Global warming? RealClimate - Sep 11, 2006 . which exhibit oscillatory ‘AMO’ behavior, the observed tropical SST trends can only . These studies do not conclusively show a hurricane/global warming link, let . |
Tropical SSTs: Natural variations or Global warming? – RealClimate
Tropical SSTs: Natural variations or Global warming? – RealClimate
January 28, 2007Rising ocean temperatures linked by some studies to tropical storms are very likely a result of global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research.Study links ocean warming, emissions (Dallas Morning News)
| Educate youth on the environment Miami Herald, FL - 19 hours ago Al Gore’s movie on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, is now the fourth-largest . Monitoring the Future, a federally funded national survey on trends in the . |
Outdoors enthusiasts see signs of global warming (The Olympian)
January 27, 2007Iceland’s president is offering his tiny North Atlantic country as a case study for the world as it works its way through the perils of global warming.Iceland’s President Says the World Should Look to Icebound North for Global Change Help (Environmental News Network)
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January 26, 2007Herald Tribune – Some companies are researching how to factor global warming into rates and how to devise incentives for policyholders to reduce . Critics say catastrophe funds have similar effects. Florida’s catastrophe fund also is in the red, and the debt will be .STAFF PHOTO / DANIELLE RAPPAPORT
| Farmland could soon feel warming effects San Mateo County Times, CA - Sep 17, 2006 SACRAMENTO California’s agricultural lands have largely escaped the effects of global warming, but the honeymoon may soon be over. . |
Farmland could soon feel warming effects – San Mateo County Times
Letters to the editor (The Burlington Free Press)
January 26, 2007In 1990, I had the good fortune of being hired by Rich Tarrant as the director of human resources for IDX. During the next eight years, I had the continued good fortune of reporting to Rich directly.Letters to the editor (The Burlington Free Press)
Chattanooga Times Free Press – To protect future generations from the effects of global warming, we need to stop this trend of increasing pollution,” Emily Figdor, a . The utility industry is studying ways to pump carbon dioxide gases into underground sites if the CO2 can be .Plentiful power
Study says global warming isnt suns fault (MSNBC)
January 25, 2007The suns energy output has barely varied over the past 1,000 years, raising chances that global warming has human rather than celestial causes, a study shows.Study says global warming isnt suns fault (MSNBC)
Global warming focus of forum held in FCity
January 24, 2007
| Christian Aid offers radical ideas to combat global warming Independent Catholic News, UK - Sep 28, 2006 . using agriculture to take on changes to the climate in ways that are . their own carbon emissions and pressing governments to take action to stop global warming. . |
Christian Aid offers radical ideas to combat global warming – Independent Catholic News
High County News – Hot times hot damn Michelle Nijhuis has just won the 2006 Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for her series on global warming in the West, which concludes with this issue s feature story. States tighten rules, challenge feds to .Save Our Snow
Blue sky tinkering – Telegraph.co.uk
January 24, 2007
| Blue sky tinkering Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 21 hours ago . warming are now considering wacky ways of deliberately . as geoengineering the manipulation of the global environment to counter climatic change. . |
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January 23, 2007Austin American-Statesman – And statistics from the National Weather Service show that August was one of the worst on record. But has it really been . research by Camille Parmesan, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Texas and an expert on global warming .Hot and bothered
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January 23, 2007Tribune-Chronicle – SACRAMENTO California’s agricultural lands have largely escaped the effects of global warming, but the honeymoon may soon be over. New research suggests that irrigation has kept croplands cool, essentially countering rising temperatures caused by .Farmlands to see climate change Research: Irrigation has produced a .
