By Raju Gusain29 June 2013 Dehradun (India Today) – New satellite images of Kedarnath clearly indicate the devastation which has taken place there. The images, taken by US based NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite on 23 June 2013, when compared with old National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) images provided by the Uttarakhand Space Application Centre, show […]
By Tim Radford for Climate News Network, part of the Guardian Environment Network 5 July 2013 (The Guardian) – Governments that agreed to try to restrict global warming to a rise of no more than 2°C may have set themselves the wrong target, according to Swiss scientists. Marco Steinacher from the University of Bern and […]
By Kaci Poor for The Times-Standard, and Alicia Chang and Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writers6 July 2013 (Eureka Times-Standard) – […] An updated U.S. drought monitor map for California — released each Thursday by the National Drought Mitigation Center — shows nearly all of California, including Humboldt County, falling under a severe drought designation. ”This […]
By Carolyn Kormann3 July 2013 (The New Yorker) – “We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,” President Obama said last week as he outlined his climate-change plan. The gibe was widely tweeted and repeated, the message clear: when it comes to global warming, Obama won’t tolerate any more anti-science bunk. […]
GUWAHATI, 6 July 2013 (Times of India) – The rain-fed mighty Brahmaputra and its tributaries flowing above the danger level across Assam have hit nearly one lakh [100,000] people inundating human habitations and farmland in ten districts with Dhemaji being the worst-hit. Incessant rainfall in the catchment areas of the state’s upper reaches and neighbouring […]
5 July 2013 (Associated Press) – There’s a dangerous but basic equation behind the killer Yarnell Hill, Arizona wildfire and other blazes raging across the West this summer: More heat, more drought, more fuel, and more people in the way are adding up to increasingly ferocious fires. Scientists say a hotter planet will only increase […]
By Nita Bhalla5 July 2013 NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women and children who have survived deadly floods in India could now be at risk of being sold as brides or into domestic and sex work by traffickers preying on vulnerable families, aid agencies say. The floods and landslides, triggered by heavier than normal […]
By Roxanne Palmer3 July 2013 (Associated Press) – Polar bears aren’t the only animals affected by climate change — a warmer world could soon be threatening that centerpiece of a New England summer: the Maine lobster. And what’s bad news for the Maine lobster is likely bad news for Maine. These tasty cockroaches of the sea […]
PITTSBURGH, 3 July 2013 (Associated Press) – A group of Protestant churches has become the first U.S. religious body to vote to divest its pension funds and investments from fossil fuel companies because of climate change concerns. The United Church of Christ, which traces its origins back to the Pilgrims in 1620 and has about […]
The end of an era. The Oil Drum was the single best source for intelligent discussions about the future of world energy production, with a contrapuntal theme of global warming chat. Rembrandt broke the news that TOD is closing: …due to scarcity of new content caused by a dwindling number of contributors. Despite our best […]
