Blogging the End of the World™
By Coral Davenport13 February 2013 Fifteen years ago, when President Clinton raised the specter of climate change in his State of the Union address, he spoke of a “gathering crisis” that would need to be stopped “at some point in the next century.” Now scientists say that crisis is starting to arrive – and President […]
By Monte Morin12 February 2013 (Los Angeles Times) – Ancient plant and animal matter trapped within Arctic permafrost can be converted rapidly into climate-warming carbon dioxide when melted and exposed to sunlight, according to a new study. In a report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of environmental […]
By Linda Uan12 February 2013 (WA Today) – On an average day in Kiribati we can look out across our calm and peaceful lagoons and see people fishing and going about their daily business and everything is at it has been for many generations. But this is deceptive. We now know that we are being […]
Shanghai, 7 February 2013 (AFP) – A Chinese court has jailed three people and given 13 others suspended sentences over their roles in a violent anti-pollution protest last year, state media said. A court in Qidong on Wednesday sentenced the individuals, who were among thousands who protested against a planned waste water pipeline at a […]
By Maina Waruru11 February 2013 NAIROBI, Kenya (AlertNet) – Kenya’s hopes of becoming one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa with a body legally empowered to advise on mitigating the effects of climate change have hit a dead end, after President Mwai Kibaki rejected a law that would have created a Kenya Climate Change […]
By PAUL KRUGMAN10 February 2013 (The New York Times) – Last week Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, gave what his office told us would be a major policy speech. And we should be grateful for the heads-up about the speech’s majorness. Otherwise, a read of the speech might have suggested that he was offering […]
By Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor 8 February 2013 (LiveScience.com) – Despite signs of an economic recovery, the Great Recession’s scope and impact was so widespread and corrosive that it has left millions of Americans permanently damaged financially, a new study finds. The research from the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University […]
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent; Editing by Doina Chiacu9 February 2013 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The population of moose in northeastern Minnesota dropped by 35 percent since last year, prompting state officials to cancel this year’s fall hunt and conservationists to blame warming temperatures for the massive creature’s decline. “The state’s moose population has been in […]
By Jeff Hecht9 February 2013 (New Scientist) – Geoengineering is being tested – albeit inadvertently – in the north Pacific. Soot from oil-burning ships is dumping about 1000 tonnes of soluble iron per year across 6 million square kilometres of ocean, new research has revealed. Fertilising the world’s oceans with iron has been controversially proposed […]
By Philip Bump8 February 2013 (Grist) – “We live in a world in which the climate is changing.” This statement from the EPA, the first line in its draft “Climate Change Adaptation Plan” [PDF] released today, is basic. But that the EPA is saying it is important. For two reasons. The first is that the […]
