By Matt Pearce11 February 2014 (Los Angeles Times) – President Obama declared a state of emergency in Georgia on Tuesday as the southern state awaited what the National Weather Service called a potentially “crippling” ice and snow storm “of historical proportions.” The roads in Atlanta, usually clogged with traffic, were unusually quiet at midday Tuesday […]
10 February 2014 (mongabay.com) – 365-988 million birds are killed in the U.S. each year in collisions with buildings, estimates a review published last month in the journal The Condor: Ornithological Applications. The research, based on some 92,869 records across 23 studies, finds that low-rise buildings (56 percent) and residences (44 percent) rather than skyscrapers […]
30 January 2014 (NBC News) – Andy Domenigoni, a fourth generation vegetable farmer in Riverside California, is feeling the pain from the state’s drought. It has been so dry there for so long that officials have declared what’s called an “exceptional drought.” California Farms Going Thirsty Technorati Tags: California,North America,drought,global warming,climate change,crop failure,agriculture
By Sam Carana4 February 2014 (Arctic News) – While much of the continental United States endured several cold snaps in January 2014, record-breaking warmth gripped Alaska. Spring-like conditions set rivers rising and avalanches tumbling. NASA Earth Observatory illustrates these words with the image above. The above map depicts land surface temperature anomalies in Alaska for […]
Contact: Nick Manning, University of Waterloo, 519-888-4451, 226-929-76273 February 2014 (University of Waterloo) – Arctic lakes have been freezing up later in the year and thawing earlier, creating a winter ice season about 24 days shorter than it was in 1950, a University of Waterloo study has found. The research, sponsored by the European Space […]
By D. R. Tucker4 February 2014 (Coffee Party USA) – I appreciate your courage in having Mr. Inglis on The Matt Lewis Show — and I do mean courage, since I recognize that it’s far easier to ridicule Inglis as a RINO (Republican in Name Only) than it is to engage with his arguments. You […]
By Bobby Magill3 February 2014 (Climate Central) – One of the biggest concerns about producing crude oil from the Alberta tar sands is its impact on climate change, which has been a major part of the debate about whether the Keystone XL Pipeline should be built. A new University of Toronto-Scarborough study published Monday says […]
By Kurtis Alexander30 January 2014 (San Francisco Chronicle) – It is a bleak roadmap of the deepening crisis brought on by one of California’s worst droughts – a list of 17 communities and water districts that within 100 days could run dry of the state’s most precious commodity. The threatened towns and districts, identified this […]
By Peter Sinclair13 January 2014 (Climate Crocks) – They need the water. Your baby will have to look elsewhere. STFU. LATimes: “I believe we’re at a point where we see light at the end of the tunnel,” Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said. Water samples had shown positive signs that traces of a coal-cleaning chemical were […]
BOSTON, 14 January 2014 (Associated Press) – Gov. Deval Patrick took the wraps off a $50 million plan Tuesday that he says will help prepare Massachusetts for the challenges posed by climate change on public health, energy, transportation and basic infrastructure. The initiatives, unveiled by the governor at the New England Aquarium, include a $40 […]
