Court rules anti-science group has no right to the emails of UVA climate scientists

By Michael Mann17 September 2012 Breaking: A victory for science! ATI loses ATI/UVa FOIA case. Judge issues final order. Affirms the university’s right to withhold scholarly communications and finds that the documents & personal emails of mine demanded by ATI were indeed protected as the university had contended. I am gratified for the hard work […]

Struggling with drought, Texas town removes police chief, librarian

By Marques G. Harper   14 September 2012 JONESTOWN – Struggling with the economic effects of a two-year drought, Jonestown has shed its police chief and head librarian. With revenue down — fees from boat launches and building permits have dropped significantly, officials have said — the Lake Travis community’s City Council late Thursday unanimously approved […]

Arctic sea ice shrinks to smallest extent ever recorded

By John Vidal and Adam Vaughan, www.guardian.co.uk14 September 2012 Sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its smallest extent ever recorded, smashing the previous record minimum and prompting warnings of accelerated climate change. Satellite images show that the rapid summer melt has reduced the area of frozen sea to less than 3.5 million square […]

Food security effects of climate change will be felt in 10 years

Contact: Esther Harward, Press Officer, University of Leeds, +44 113 343 4196, e.harward@leeds.ac.uk 12 September 12 Research released today shows that within the next 10 years large parts of Asia can expect increased risk of more severe droughts, which will impact regional and possibly even global food security. The report, led by the University of […]

Thirty dead in Nigeria flood, 120,000 displaced – 500,000 displaced in Niger since July

Satellite view of Benue River, Nigeria in 2009   Satellite view of Benue River, Nigeria in 2012 KANO, Nigeria, 10 September 2012 (AFP) – The death toll from flooding in eastern Nigeria after heavy rain and the release of water from a dam in Cameroon has risen to 30, with some 120,000 people displaced, an […]

Georgia governor declines to declare drought

By Neela Banerjee16 September 2012 FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia (Los Angeles Times) – In this southern suburb of Atlanta, the lawns skirting the million-dollar homes are lush, and the swimming pools full. But farther south, the Flint River has thinned into mud flats at a time of year when surges of white water would normally be crashing […]

New York is lagging as seas and risks rise, critics warn – ‘You can’t make a climate-proof city’

By MIREYA NAVARRO10 September 2012 With a 520-mile-long coast lined largely by teeming roads and fragile infrastructure, New York City is gingerly facing up to the intertwined threats posed by rising seas and ever-more-severe storm flooding. So far, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has commissioned exhaustive research on the challenge of climate change. His administration is […]

Russia will not cut carbon emissions under extended Kyoto climate pact

By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya; Editing by Alister Doyle and Pravin Char13 September 2012 Moscow says Kyoto extension ineffective Says developing nations must be involved in emissions deal MOSCOW, 13 September 2012 (Reuters) – Russia confirmed on Thursday it would not make cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from 2013 under the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol, joining Canada and […]

Carbon Disclosure Project: ‘Extreme weather events are causing significant financial damage to markets’

Contact: Lisa Lee, Director of Communications, CDP Headquarters, London +44 (0)7554 430 962 / +44 (0) 20 7415 7196 lisa.lee@cdproject.net Catherine von Altheer, Communications Manager, CDP Headquarters, London+44 (0) 7794 003 903 | +44 (0) 20 7970 5682 Catherine.vonAltheer@cdproject.net 12 September 2012 London – Following increasing incidents of extreme weather events which disrupted business operations […]

From dry rivers to dead deer, U.S. drought impact felt everywhere

By Greg Botelho15 September 2012 (CNN) – Well before Hurricane Isaac hit Louisiana and brought localized heavy flooding, the weather story of the summer was not about an abundance of water – it was the lack thereof. And it still is. Farmers and residents in 40 states know this all too well, as this summer’s […]

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