United Kingdom: The high seas are too precious to be left to plunderers and polluters

Guardian: The oceans are changing faster today and in more ways than at any time in human history. We are the cause. Which is why I welcome the launch of the Global Ocean Commission, dedicated to ending the neglect, in international affairs, of the high seas. These seas lie far beyond the horizon – 200 nautical miles offshore to be precise – and begin where sovereign national waters give way to the global commons, owned by none, shared by all. There was a time when foreign travel gave many people a familiarity...

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Sen. Marco Rubio, GOP’s choice for State of the Union response, doubts climate change

McClatchy: Sen. Marco Rubio will offer up the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address next week, demonstrating the younger, more diverse face of the party as the nation confronts such issues as immigration. But Rubio doesn't think much of climate change, one of the other hot political topics of the moment. That puts the 41-year-old Rubio squarely in the anti-science wing of his party and among a shrinking number of Americans with doubts about global warming. The Florida...

URL: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/02/08/3842349/sen-marco-rubio-gops-choice-for.html

White-out! Blizzards hit north-east US

Independent: The north-eastern United States and eastern Canada were pummelled yesterday by a severe blizzard which brought furious winds and hours of snowfall, knocking out power for more than 600,000 people across the region, and forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights and other transport links. In places, there was more than 3ft of snow. At least six deaths were blamed on the storm conditions, according to the Associated Press. A man in his seventies was reported to have died when a driver lost control...

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Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed, Mr. President

Huffington Post: In his recent New Republic interview, President Obama said we "need some big technological breakthrough" to tackle climate change. Mr. President -- our nation already has the technologies to protect the climate while advancing prosperity. Here's how. Your National Renewable Energy Laboratory showed just last June how to produce 80 to 90 percent of America's electricity from proven, reliable and increasingly competitive renewable sources like the sun and wind. That confirmed the findings of...

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amory-lovins/climate-change-no-breakth_b_2654248.html

What You Need to See to Understand Blizzard ‘Nemo’

Climate Central: The blizzard of 2013, named "Nemo" by weather.com, is unleashing a paralyzing blitz of heavy snow, strong winds, and coastal flooding in the Northeast. These images and videos help explain the dynamics powering the storm, as well as its potential consequences. This three-day satellite loop from NASA shows how the blizzard grew out of a moisture-charged storm traversing the southern part of the country, and a northern system riding the polar jet stream down from the Midwest. Once those two systems...

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Boulder NCAR scientist says climate change worsens Northeast storm

Daily Camera: Climate change will likely add to the final snowfall totals from the monster winter storm lashing the Northeast by 5 to 10 percent, according to a leading expert on climate change at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished senior scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at NCAR, said Friday that snowfall totals from the storm are being influenced by both warmer air temperatures, leading to the atmosphere retaining more moisture, and a 1-degree increase in...

URL: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_22552972/boulder-ncar-scientist-says-climate-change-worsens-northeast

Sorting out the crisis from the entertainment

Delaware Online: Have you noticed that we are spending a lot more time talking about the weather? Superstorm Sandy did terrible damage, as did the multiple "rare" bouts of extreme weather that have hit the country in recent years. We are barely finished discussing the public cleanup of Sandy. Now a major snowstorm is hitting New England, causing power outages and traffic jams even before the bulk of the snow has fallen. Extreme weather is now a given. How much longer will it still be considered "extreme" and...

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Blizzard Buries New England, Breaks Snowfall Records

Climate Central: Millions of New Englanders woke up to a staggering amount of snow as well as coastal flooding problems on Saturday after one of the worst winter storms on record slammed the region with whiteout conditions and hurricane-force winds, dumping more than 3 feet of snow in some places. The storm shut down travel across the region, knocked out power to nearly 700,000 customers, stranded motorists in their vehicles on Long Island, and exceeded benchmarks set during the infamous Blizzard of 1978, which...

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Kerry promises 'fair, transparent' review of planned Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada

Associated Press: Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday promised a "fair and transparent" review of a Canadian company's plan to pipe oil from western Canada to refineries in Texas. In his first comments about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline since becoming secretary of state, Kerry said he is waiting for a review begun by his predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and hopes to make a decision in the "near term." The State Department has jurisdiction over the $7 billion pipeline because it crosses an international...

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US to decide soon on Canada pipeline project

Agence France-Presse: The United States will make a decision soon on the fate of a controversial Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, new Secretary of State John Kerry vowed Friday, as he met his Canadian counterpart. In a sign of the strong ties between the two North American neighbors, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird was the first foreign leader to be met by Kerry at the State Department since he took over the job a week ago. "The Keystone XL pipeline is a huge priority for our government and for the Canadian economy,"...

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Indigenous resistance forces Malaysia to scale back twelve dam megaproject

Agence France-Presse: A Malaysian state minister Friday said the government would not push ahead with building a dozen new dams on Borneo island, acknowledging they have caused outrage from local tribes and environmentalists. The proposals sparked fears that the dams would destroy pristine rainforests, endanger wildlife, and displace natives in Sarawak, a Malaysian state crossed by powerful rivers with rich jungle habitats. "It is not a firm plan to build 12 dams. I don't think we will need that. We will only need...

URL: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130208/malaysian-state-scales-back-borneo-dam-plans-1

Hole In Antarctic Ozone Layer May Be On The Mend

RedOrbit: According to satellite data, the most recent hole in the ozone layer measured over Antarctica was the smallest it has been in ten years. Other long-term research studies also indicate that the Earth`s ozone layer seems to be on the mend thanks to international agreements to protect this vital layer of the atmosphere. Continuing the work started by ERS-2 and Envisat satellites, imaging from the European Space Agency's (ESA) MetOp weather satellite showed the yearly hole over Antarctica to be at...

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Climate change and the president

Washington Post: PRESIDENT OBAMA will deliver his 2013 State of the Union address on Tuesday, and expectations are high that he will devote significant time to climate change. We hope that he adopts a different approach to explaining the need for action than he did in much of his first term. In past addresses, talking about green jobs didn't work, nor did talking about energy independence. The credible way to justify fighting climate change is to discuss the science, the real reason to cut carbon emissions. There...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-and-the-president/2013/02/09/317db2fa-7239-11e2-a050-b83a7b35c4b5_story.html

State of the Union 2013: On climate, which Obama will show up Tuesday night

Politico: President Barack Obama's annual addresses to Congress offer a glimpse at a leader whose rhetoric on energy and the environment has changed dramatically over the past four years -- from his calls to pass sweeping climate legislation in 2009 to a full-throated embrace of natural gas last year. The speeches also matched the ebbs and flows in Obama's political fortunes. Four years ago, as a popular president with Democratic House and Senate majorities, Obama told Congress that his greenhouse gas...

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FSU to License New Supercapacitor Invention.

Supercapacitors have great advantages over rechargeable batteries in that they charge and discharge energy very rapidly and last much longer overall

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New map pinpoints cities to avoid as sea levels rise

New Scientist: SYDNEY, Tokyo and Buenos Aires watch out. These cities will experience some of the greatest sea level rises by 2100, according to one of the most comprehensive predictions to date. Sea levels have been rising for over 100 years - not evenly, though. Several processes are at work, says Mahé Perrette of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Some land is sinking, some is rising. Stronger currents create slopes in sea surface, and since all things with mass exert a gravitation...

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NAFTC Launches Electric Drive Vehicle Automotive Technician Training Program.

The NAFTC will debut its Electric Drive Vehicle Automotive Technician Training course at the San Jacinto College Transportation Center in La Porte, Texas from February 11-15.

URL: http://green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips213/feb13013.html

Impact Of Climate Change On Agriculture Will Be Mixed: USDA

RedOrbit: Over the next 25 years, increasing temperatures will have a "generally detrimental" impact on most types of crops and livestock, according to one of two reports detailing climate change and adaptation strategies released earlier this week by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The report, entitled "Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation," states that the effects of global warming will be mixed over the next 25 years. Higher temperatures may force crop...

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Resolute Marine Energy Receives Preliminary Permit for Alaska Wave Energy Project.

This approval is an important milestone for RME. After several years of research and testing we are finally poised to move forward with a commercial project that will have us providing renewable power to a community,

URL: http://green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips213/feb13011.html

Siemens to Supply 80 Turbines for North Sea Offshore Wind Farm.

When it comes online in 2015, the wind power plant's total generating capacity of 288 megawatts will be sufficient to supply some 370,000 households.

URL: http://green-energy-news.com/nwslnks/clips213/feb13012.html

Minnesota moose population plummets, activists blame climate

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 decline for years but never at the precipitous rate documented this winter," Tom Landwehr, Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources commissions, said in a statement Wednesday. This year's drop in population continues...

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Migrating ocean microbe may help protect coastlines

Scientific American: From butterflies to lobsters, climate change is expected to spur migration of species, with potentially devastating consequences for ecosystems and economies. But in the case of a one-celled organism dwelling in the oceans named Amphisteginid foraminifera, a change in its habitat may lessen the devastation to some coastlines at risk from erosion and powerful storms. In a new study, scientists report that the discus-shaped creatures are likely to shift their ocean range by hundreds of miles...

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Making climate change a priority, Obama gives hope to activists

American-Statesman: Where other people see perfectly healthy trees, Anna Graybeal sees drought-stricken skeletons. "The changing climate is putting these trees at risk," she says, gazing out, with a hint of terror, from a table at an Austin coffee shop recently. As volunteers for the Citizens Climate Lobby, Graybeal, 47, a psychologist, and her friend, Susan Adams, 40, a technical writer, are among a dozen or so Austinites working on a seemingly Sisyphean effort to get federal lawmakers to adopt a tax-and-dividend...

URL: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/opinion/making-climate-change-a-priority-obama-gives-hope-/nWFjr/

The Scary Truth About Climate Change: Best #Cityreads of the Week

Atlantic: Our weekly roundup of the most intriguing articles about cities and urbanism we've come across in the past seven days. Share your favorites on Twitter with #cityreads. "Life at the Top," Adam Higginbotham, New Yorker When the architect Norman Foster initially presented sketches for the Hearst Tower, the first skyscraper approved for construction in Manhattan after September 11th, one of the questions the building's prospective owners asked was: How are we going to clean those windows? In...

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New clean air plans

Times Union: The nation's first greenhouse gas control program, which includes New York, is being changed to further cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants while not making electrical bills shoot up. Environmental groups Thursday applauded changes to the nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, saying it will help combat climate change, while the state's power plant owners offered more lukewarm support. "Since the destruction of Hurricane Sandy, the public has been waiting to see what steps...

URL: http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/New-clean-air-plans-4261457.php

Record snow in a warming world? The science is clear

Daily Climate: As the Northeast digs out from under a mammoth blizzard, it might seem easy for climate change skeptics to point to such intense storms as evidence that global warming isn't real. The reality is that such snowstorms often don't occur despite global warming, but because of it. They would be wrong. "Climate change contrarians and deniers love to cherry-pick individual events to argue that they are somehow inconsistent with global warming, when they are not," said Michael Mann, director of...

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Senior Dem: Obama vows to tackle climate - eventually

The Hill: President Obama's message to House Democrats on Thursday: Yes, acting on climate change is important. But it's going to have to wait in line. Obama barely touched on energy policy during his roughly 20-minute address to the Democratic caucus on Thursday, spending more time on fiscal issues, guns and immigration. But Democratic lawmakers questioned the president about climate change during Obama's appearance at their retreat in Lansdowne, Virginia, Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters....

URL: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/281839-senior-dem-obama-vows-to-tackle-climate-eventually-

Global warming bringing big changes to U.S. forests

Associated Press: Big changes are in store for the nation`s forests as global warming increases wildfires and insect infestations, and generates more frequent floods and droughts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture warns in a report released this week. The compilation of more than 1,000 scientific studies is part of the National Climate Assessment and will serve as a roadmap for managing national forests across the country in coming years. It says the area burned by wildfires is expected to at least double over...

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EPA moves forward with climate change protection plan; asks for comments

The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency is formally moving forward with its Climate Change Adaptation Plan. Beginning Friday, the EPA is accepting comments on its draft plan, which calls for the agency to amend its operations -- including the promulgation of new regulations -- to account for increasingly rapid global warming. The effort comes in response to a 2009 government-wide directive via President Obama's Council on Environmental Quality, requiring agencies to plan this year for future climate...

URL: http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/energyenvironment/281915-epa-puts-forward-climate-change-adaptation-plan

United Kingdom: Bee deaths 'not down to pesticides'

BBC: Last week the European Commission proposed that member states restrict the use of certain classes of pesticide that are believed to be harmful to bees. The Today programme's science correspondent Tom Feilden explains that this comes after the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) issued guidance on the use of chemical neonicotinoids, in which they recognised "high acute risks" to bees who encountered residue from these sprays in pollen and nectar in crops like oilseed rape and sunflowers. Speaking...

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Scientists to Obama: Convene climate change 'summit' to map out federal action

The Hill: Several scientific organizations are urging President Obama to convene a "national summit" on climate change to identify effective federal policies as well as state and local government actions. The request, spelled out in a letter Friday, highlights how advocates are pinning their hopes on aggressive White House steps in Obama's second term as global warming legislation remains a non-starter in Congress. "Such a national summit on climate change should be informed by science and could bring...

URL: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/281909-scientists-to-obama-convene-climate-change-summit-to-map-out-federal-action

Massachusetts to lower cap on emissions by power plants

Boston Globe: Massachusetts and eight other Northeast states are slashing by nearly half the amount of carbon dioxide power plants are allowed to emit -- a dramatic reduction that is expected to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars to the state for energy efficiency programs while combating global warming. In announcing the decision Thursday, the states said consumers and businesses should, on balance, see a negligible impact on their electricity bills when the new limits go into effect next year. The biggest...

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Halley VI and other Antarctic research stations – in pictures

Guardian: The British Antarctic Survey's new research station at Halley Bay is a portable pod structure that uses scent, colour and curves to take the edge off the world's longest winter

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Storm’s Heavy Snow and High Winds Lash at the Northeast

New York Times: A vast storm system descended on the Northeast on Friday, bringing high winds, deepening snow and threats of flooding to southern New England and reopening the old wounds of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and New York. After a day of pelting wet snow, five states — New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island — had declared states of emergency, and Massachusetts had banned vehicles from every road in the state. As dusk fell, conditions quickly deteriorated. Major highways...

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Germany isn’t all that sunny and a case for a diversified energy world

Fox: In President Obama's new term, his administration faces some critical decisions about his energy policy. His poster-child-like focus on the solar industry has been tainted by scandals like Solyndra and many others, putting into question the billions in subsidies for no return in these specific cases. Politics plays a big part in a business that takes investment dollars from the government. The importance of this issue to Wall Street on job creation and economic impact of the energy industry is...

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Saving a Shrinking Lake

Inter Press Service: Approaching the Lake Chad basin from Gulfe, a small locality 45 kilometres from Cameroon's Far North Regional capital Maroua, the atmosphere of despair is palpable: dusty air, fierce and unrelenting winds, wilting plants and sand dunes suggest that this once lush area is undergoing a terrible change. Nothing breaks the expanse of sparse vegetation but the occasional withered tree and some scorched shrubs. Bordered by Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria, Lake Chad once spanned 25,000 square kilometres...

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Climate Change May Make Flu Seasons Worse

Inside Science: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, influenza continues to be widespread in 38 states. Since this season's severe epidemic started earlier than expected, many people who wanted to get a vaccination may not have received one before the outbreak began. According to research done at Arizona State University in Tempe, there are hints that climate change may be a factor in the flu season's early timing. Using data going back to 1997, Sherry Towers and her colleagues found...

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Winter Storm Batters Northeast; 500,000 Without Power

Associated Press: A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books, with a potential for up to 3 feet of snow, clobbered the New York-to-Boston corridor on Friday, grounding flights, sending office workers home early and knocking out power to half a million customers across the Northeast. By Friday night, more than 18.5 inches of snow had fallen in parts of central Connecticut, and more than 16 inches covered parts of Mansfield, Mass., a half-hour drive southwest of Boston. Throughout the...

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New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Australia

Mongabay: Electricity supplied from a new wind farm is cheaper than that from a new gas or coal-fired power plant in Australia, reports a new analysis published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. According to the study, wind-generated electricity costs AU$80 ($83) per megawatt hour compared with compared to AU$143/MWh ($148) from a new coal plant or AU$116/MWh ($120) from a new baseload gas plant. The rates including the cost of emissions under Australia's carbon pricing system, however "even without a...

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Boston Blizzard: Northeast Snowed In As 'Nemo' Barrels Through

Associated Press: A massive storm packing hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions is sweeping through the Northeast, dumping nearly 2 feet of snow on New England and knocking out power to more than a half a million customers. More than 23 inches of snow had fallen in parts of central Connecticut by early Saturday, and more than 21 inches covered Randolph in southeastern Massachusetts. The National Weather Service says up to 3 feet of snow is expected in Boston, threatening the city's 2003 record of 27.6...

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Climate Change And The Blizzard: Nor'easters More Fierce With Global Warming, Scientists Say

Huffington Post: Climate change may or may not have helped generate the nor'easter lashing the East Coast this weekend. Such storms happen with some regularity, after all. But the amount of snow the storm called "Nemo" ultimately dumps, and the extent of flood damage it leaves in its wake, may well have ties to global warming, climate scientists suggested. Michael Mann, a climatologist who directs the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, compared a major storm like Nemo -- or Hurricane...

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Northeast Blizzard Warnings Posted As Region Braces For Up To Several Feet Of Snow

Associated Press: A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books, with a potential for up to 3 feet of snow, clobbered the New York-to-Boston corridor on Friday, grounding flights and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers across the Northeast. By Friday evening, more than 14 inches of snow had fallen in Belmont, Mass., just northwest of Boston, and more than 13 inches covered parts of northeastern Connecticut. Throughout the Northeast, about 350,000 homes and businesses...

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/northeast-blizzard-warnings_n_2644643.html

Blizzard wallops Northeast, closes roads

Reuters: A blizzard continued to pummel the Northeastern United States on Saturday, disrupting thousands of flights, shutting down roads and mass transit and blanketing the region with heavy snowfall. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, with more than 200,000 reported outages in Massachusetts, more than 100,000 in Rhode Island, and 30,000 in Connecticut, according to local utilities. Forecasters warned that about 2 feet of snow would blanket most of the Boston area with some spots getting as...

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Growing University Highlights Connecticut's Water Woes

National Public Radio: Lack of water supply isn't just an issue in hot spots like Texas, Colorado and the Mississippi; it has also become a problem in the Northeast, where rivers are drying out in the summers and infrastructure developments are competing more for resources. One of the area's biggest public universities, the University of Connecticut, needs more water. But plans to obtain it are generating controversy in a region where the availability of water is becoming more and more unpredictable. The Water Source...

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Blizzard of 2013 Brings Another Threat: Coastal Flooding

Climate Central: While the blizzard bearing down on New England has understandbly brought national attention to what could be record snowfall, the storm brings another dangerous threat to the region: coastal flooding. The blizzard of 2013 may cause major coastal flooding along the Massachusetts coastline from a storm surge as high as 5 feet and waves greater than 30 feet tall. The storm also arrives just days after a report warned of the region's growing vulnerability to such storm-surge events. The report, by...

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Drought to Last Through April; Southwest May Improve

Climate Central: Large storms brought some short-term relief to drought-afflicted areas over the past week, and allowed the footprint of the national drought to shrink slightly. However, while similar rainstorms are forecast to continue during the coming weeks, there is only slight potential for drought recovery for the rest of the season. A new seasonal drought outlook calls for the U.S. drought to persist or develop even more in the areas that have suffered the most from low precipitation over the past year...

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Amazon river ecosystems being rapidly degraded, but remain neglected by conservation efforts

Mongabay: The world's largest river system is being rapidly degraded and imperiled by dams, mining, overfishing, and deforestation, warns a study published last week by an international team of scientists. Writing in the journal Conservation Letters, researchers led by Leandro Castello, a research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center, catalog the litany of threats facing the Amazon river and its tributaries. They note that existing terrestrial protected areas may not be enough to protect river ecosystems...

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Working less would slow climate change, group argues

CBC: Want to save the planet? Stop going to work. That's the conclusion of a report from Washington think-tank the Center for Economic and Policy Research this week. The report makes the claim that even a 0.5 per cent annual reduction in the length of the average workweek could be enough to cut between eight and 22 per cent of every degree of global warming that's expected between now and 2100. The CEPR is a left-leaning think-tank based in Washington, D.C. Although scientific opinion on the topic...

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Keystone XL: Pressure on Kerry ahead of meeting with Canada counterpart

Guardian: The US secretary of state, John Kerry, steps into America's biggest environmental controversy on Friday in his first meeting with a foreign minister since his swearing in. Kerry's meeting in Washington with Canadian foreign minister, John Baird, will almost certainly touch on the Keystone XL pipeline project: a symbol of dirty oil for environmentalists, a route to market for land-locked Alberta. "I have no doubt that subject will come up, as it always does with our Canadian counterparts," the...

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Utilities prepare for carbon rules on operating power plants

ClimateWire: Imposing greenhouse gas regulations on the nation's existing power plants is the main climate priority sought by environmental groups as President Obama begins a second term. But that move has been anticipated in the utility sector, and many of its members are prepared for it, according to industry officials. The present fleet of coal-fired generating plants is getting smaller as cheap natural gas replaces coal and as older facilities close because of age and the high costs of installing new equipment...

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Promised Land – first look review

Guardian: Here is an entertaining anti-corporate thriller directed by Gus Van Sant, very much in the mainstream-activist mode that gave us Milk and Good Will Hunting (rather than, say, the avant-gardist who directed Gerry and Paranoid Park, or the fey trendoid who brought us Restless or Last Days). The star is Matt Damon, who of course gained rather more than simply acting chops by co-scripting and producing Good Will Hunting (along with Ben Affleck, and look where he's ended up). Damon has produced this one...

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Budget deal cuts EU energy spending, promises climate focus

Reuters: An EU budget haggled out in marathon talks on Friday cut deeply into a new transport and energy fund and sacrificed ambition to make farming greener, but broke ground by committing a fifth of spending to the climate. Spending for cross-border transport, energy and telecoms projects was one of the main victims of the focus on austerity. It was chopped to just under $40.14 billion, down from an initial proposal that had earmarked 50 billion. "This is at least a door opener for interconnecting...

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Antarctic Adelie Penguins Learn To Cope With Climate Change

RedOrbit: Researchers studying Adélie penguins say that the Antarctic birds are actually coping with climate change, for now. A team set out with a five-year NSF grant to conduct research on how penguin populations cope with climate change, and on how individual birds cope. During the expedition, they wanted to know why some penguins succeed in coping with climate change, while others do not. Researchers say that paying close attention to successfully breeding penguins can offer up clues to scientists...

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United Kingdom: Thousands of wind turbines to go up as subsidies cut

Telegraph: The "dash for wind' has been prompted by a cut in subsidies due this year and an apparent relaxing of the planning rules. Some 763 turbines are due to be built onshore in 2013, up 60 per cent from last year. Already there are 4,366 turbines in operation in the UK providing 8.2GW of power, enough to power 4.5 million homes for a year. There are a further 7,843 turbines that have been approved but are yet to be built, bringing the total due to go up in the UK to more than 10,000. In the...

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Could Nemo Inspire More Dubious Climate Change Coverage?

Mother Jones: Weather forecasts predict that Snowstorm Nemo will be highly unusual in its intensity-the worst blizzard the Northeast has seen in ages. Already, thousands of flights have been canceled and people are scrambling to stock up on emergency supplies. So it might seem like now would be the perfect opportunity for the media to sound the alarm about the connection between climate change and extreme weather. But a new study finds that exactly the opposite is true: When it gets cold out, some prominent newspaper...

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Science Groups Push Obama for Climate Change Summit

Climate Central: Six scientific societies are asking the White House to hold a national summit on climate change. In a letter delivered to President Barack Obama on Friday, days before his annual State of the Union address, the groups lay out a plan for a summit "to identify policies and actions that can be taken by each Federal agency and by state and local governments to address the causes and effects of climate change.' "We would like to offer the support and assistance of the thousands of scientists and...

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Britain's fourth largest wind farm gets go ahead amid strong local opposition

Telegraph: Proposals by green energy company Ecotricity for up to 22 windmills at Heckington Fen in Lincolnshire have been approved by the Secretary of State despite being objected to by the local council. Ecotricity said it spent four years researching, planning and consulting to gain approval for its largest wind park to date. The new site will produce enough green electricity each year to power almost 40,000 homes and will have a generating capacity above 50MW, it is said. The announcement comes...

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Attention investors: Climate policy could knock off half the value of fossil fuel companies

Grist: A recent (subscriber-only) report from HSBC Global Research helps shed some light on what`s at stake in the fight over climate policy. Short answer: a hell of a lot, especially if you`re invested in fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency says that, to have a 50 percent chance of limiting global average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, we can only afford to burn about a third of known fossil-fuel reserves between now and 2050. That means leaving around $20 trillion worth of assets...

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Nemo And Climate Change Connection: Scientists Weigh-In

Huffington Post: A 2006 Nor'easter blotted out New England. Climate science suggests that such storms are becoming heavier -- and more common. The Union of Concerned Scientists has posted an informative breakdown on the connections between the winter storm bearing down on the Northeast and the planet's changing climate. "It's Cold and My Car is Buried in Snow. Is Global Warming Really Happening?," notes that storms like this one -- a classic Nor'easter -- are well-known to residents along the nation's North...

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Canada: Environmental protection is tied to health of economy

Montreal Gazette: In a speech last week to his Conservative caucus, Stephen Harper laid out four priorities for his government: citizenship, crime, the economy and families. Following this week's report to the House of Commons by Scott Vaughan, the federal commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, he would be well advised to add a fifth to that list: environmental regulation. Vaughan's report points out numerous weaknesses and confusions in federal environmental protection laws and monitoring...

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Can Obama pair Keystone, climate action?

Politico: President Barack Obama is approaching two of the most crucial energy decisions of his presidency: Should he disappoint climate activists by approving the Keystone XL pipeline? And should he anger industry groups by imposing tough greenhouse gas limits on existing power plants? But the president may have a third option: trying to placate both sides. Greenlighting Keystone while he moves forward with the power plant regulations could limit the political fallout from either move, handing Republicans...

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Fog-catching fabric could improve water collection in deserts

SciDevNet: A novel and affordable fabric may improve the efficiency of water collection from fog, helping to provide freshwater in desert areas. Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT), in the Netherlands, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, turned a cotton fabric into a water-collecting material by coating it with a polymer called PNIPAAm. The fabric switches between absorbing moisture directly from the air when it is foggy and cold, and releasing it as water at warmer...

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New way to identify which El Niño events will have biggest impact on U.S. winter weather

ScienceDaily: Weather forecasters have long known that El Niño events can throw seasonal climate patterns off kilter, particularly during winter months. Now, new research from NOAA and the University of Washington suggests that a different way to detect El Niño could help forecasters predict the unusual weather it causes. A network of buoys that spans the Pacific, the TAO-Triton array, observes conditions in the upper ocean and is essential for forecasting El Niño months in advance, and for monitoring it as...

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Tougher air standards OK'd by Northeastern states

New Haven Register: Connecticut and the eight other Northeastern states that take part in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) on Thursday announced they have agreed to new standards that will further reduce air polluting emissions. RGGI is a market-based program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that was created in 2007, and Thursday's announcement by the nine states that participate comes after a two-year review of the existing standards and what implementing more stringent measures might mean....

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U.S. Northeast cap-and-trade program said to lower cap

Bloomberg: The U.S. Northeast's cap-and-trade program, which was been hampered by pollution limits that exceed carbon emissions, is expected to reduce its cap by as much as 45 percent tomorrow, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Companies in the nine states that participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will be permitted to emit a total of about 91 million tons of carbon dioxide a year under the new policies, Dale Bryk, a director and attorney at the New York-based environmental...

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United Kingdom: Minister unveils new solar power standards

BusinessGreen: Solar panel installers will be required to adhere to stringent new standards over the coming months, designed to ensure they are up to date with the latest technology developments. Climate Change Minister Greg Barker today unveiled the new guide to installing solar photovoltaics, and a major update to the MIS 3002 standard for solar PV contractors, which individuals must follow in order to gain the certifications necessary to offer customers feed-in tariff incentives. Any installer wishing...

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Climate change could impact wave height, says study

SciDevNet: Average wave size will increase in many parts of the southern hemisphere over the twenty-first century, but decrease in the north, according to an international study on the impact of climate change on oceanic activity. The study, published in Nature Climate Change last month (13 January), predicts a wave height increase of between 20 and 30 centimetres in an area covering at least seven per cent of the surface of the world's oceans. This is due to the poleward intensification of the westerly winds...

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U.S. Rep. Ed Markey calls on president to address climate change, lands Sierra Club endorsement

Republican: Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey is calling on President Barack Obama to officially acknowledge climate change in this year's State of the Union address while lauding an environmental endorsement in his own bid to replace Secretary of State John Kerry in the U.S. Senate. Markey, a Malden, Mass. native, now has the support of the Sierra Club as he takes on Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch of South Boston, to win the Democratic nod and then become the next U.S. senator from the Bay State. "Throughout...

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First-time reports from industry reveal massive methane emissions

ClimateWire: U.S. EPA's addition of oil, gas and coal methane emissions to its online greenhouse gas tracking tool revealed an 82.6-million-metric-ton increase in carbon dioxide equivalents over numbers from the previous year, when those figures were not available. EPA published data yesterday for 2011, adding 12 new sources from the reporting program since last year's 2010 figures. Although carbon dioxide is a much more abundant greenhouse gas than methane, the latter makes a far bigger impact on climate...

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Mass., eight other states to sharply cut power plant carbon dioxide emissions

Boston Globe: Massachusetts and eight other Northeast states are nearly halving the amount of carbon dioxide power plants are allowed to emit - a dramatic reduction that is expected to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars to the state while combatting global warming. The revision of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative agreement comes four years after the nine-state program first put in place a cap aimed at curbing emissions of the key heat-trapping gas in order to slow manmade climate change. "This...

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US takes complaint over India's solar programme to the WTO

BusinessGreen: The US has filed a dispute at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) claiming India's national solar programme violates international agreements by discriminating against foreign-made solar products. Under WTO procedures, the two countries have 60 days to resolve the dispute through talks, after which the US may request the WTO to adjudicate if the matter remains unsolved. The action targets the country-wide programme India launched in 2010, named the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. It...

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Marco Rubio: Another Senator Who Doubts Global Warming

Slate: Picking out one United States legislator for antiscientific thinking is quite a chore since the field is so crowded. But Marco Rubio (R-Fla) deserves a bit of extra attention; for one thing he sits on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. For another, he appears to be one of the Republican White House hopefuls for at least the next election cycle. For a third, I'm still not terribly happy about his comments on the age of the Earth. So, given all that, when he casts doubt...

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Obama's secretary pick has conservation, oil industry chops

Greenwire: President Obama this afternoon is scheduled to announce that REI chief Sally Jewell will be nominated to become the 51st secretary of the Interior, an unconventional pick that has garnered early praise from conservation groups and some oil industry backers. Jewell, who has led the outdoor retailer since 2005, was considered a dark horse candidate to replace outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who plans to depart by the end of next month. She will become the first woman to be nominated...

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Food security: Agriculture groups shore up financing for seed banks to help farmers adapt to climate change

ClimateWire: The DNA of the world's food crops just got a little more secure. Two leading agricultural organizations, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and CGIAR (formerly known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Consortium, have agreed to invest $109 million over the next five years in the world's seed banks, which maintain 706,000 samples of seeds and vegetative material. Most of the funds will go into maintenance and regular operations in the seed banks at 11 CGIAR research...

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Life-Threatening Blizzard Poised to Strike New England

Climate Central: A life-threatening and historic blizzard that could rank among the top 10 snowstorms on record in southern New England is poised to plaster the region this weekend with snow that will be measured in feet rather than inches. The storm could also cause major coastal flooding and produce hurricane-force wind gusts, forecasters said. Beginning on Friday, snow and mixed precipitation is being forecast to move into the heavily populated I-95 corridor between New York City and Boston, and from overnight...

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Winter Storm Expert to Lead National Weather Service

Climate Central: By Andrew Freedman Follow @afreedma The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is turning to an agency veteran and winter weather expert, Louis W. Uccellini, to lead the troubled National Weather Service (NWS) at a time of budget challenges and ongoing debate over the agency's performance during Hurricane Sandy. Acting director Laura K. Furgione will return to her previous role as deputy administrator of the NWS. NOAA made the announcement as the agency geared up to warn the public...

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Threat Of Upcoming Blizzard Seen Through 6 Images

Climate Central: The blockbuster snowstorm headed for southern New England beginning on Friday is expected to unleash a potentially crippling amount of snow in some areas, perhaps more than 2 feet. Due to the combination of high winds and heavy snow, blizzard warnings have been issued from Maine to Long Island, including Boston, Hartford, Providence, and New York City. The worst of the weather is expected to come on Friday night into Saturday, when snow could fall at rates of 2-to-4 inches per hour in some areas,...

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New England to bear brunt of powerful blizzard

Reuters: New England braced on Thursday for a possibly record-setting winter storm, with forecasts of up to 2 feet of snow already causing airlines to cancel thousands of flights and utilities to prepare for power outages. The storm was blowing in from the Midwest where it began dropping snow on the Chicago area on Thursday afternoon. It was due to bring light snow to the Northeastern United States on Friday morning before ramping up to blizzard conditions by afternoon. In Boston, which was expected...

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Nepal to stimulate fish breeding for food security

SciDev.Net: Norway is helping Nepal in fish breeding technology FAO / R. Faidutti [KATHMANDU] Scientists from Norway and Nepal say they are ready to launch a plan to manipulate the breeding cycle of carp stocks and get the fish species to spawn more than once a year to improve food security in the Himalayan country. The plan for a low-cost system for off-season fry production was announced last month (January 25--26) at the first annual review of the 3.3 million-dollar, four-year, Fish Farming Development...

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Report: nearly half the timber from Mozambique to China is illegal

Mongabay: Forty-eight percent of the timber making its way from Mozambique's forests to Chinese companies was harvested illegally, according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which blames the problem on widespread corruption and poor governance. The illegal logging cost Mozambique, the world's fourth least-developed country in the world according to the UN, $29 million in tax revenue, says the report. "Despite recent commendable efforts by the Mozambican Government to control...

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Wind Energy Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuel Power Plants in Australia

Yale Environment 360: Unsubsidized wind power is now cheaper than electricity produced from new coal- and natural gas-fired power stations in Australia, according to an analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The study said that electricity can be supplied from a new wind farm at a cost of 80 Australian dollars per megawatt hour, compared to 143 Australian dollars from a new coal plant and 116 Australian dollars from a new natural gas plant. Even without a recently imposed carbon price, wind energy is 14 percent cheaper...

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Report Shows How Energy Efficiency Can Cut Energy Usage in Half by 2030

EcoWatch: The Alliance Commission on National Energy Efficiency Policy released a report today with recommendations that would put the U.S. on a path towards doubling its energy productivity by 2030. The commission, which is chaired by U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) and National Grid U.S. President Tom King, is a diverse coalition of energy leaders that includes representatives from energy utilities, academia, industry and environmental groups. Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), serves...

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Climate Change Set to Batter U.S. Agriculture, Forests

Climate Central: Climate change is likely to transform U.S. agriculture by mid-century, reducing yields of many staple crops and the productivity of livestock operations, according to a new government analysis. Rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns will also harm the nation's forests, increasing their vulnerability to fires, insect infestations and disease. Those are some of the dramatic projections outlined in a pair of analyses released Tuesday by the Agriculture Department. The documents,...

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Fate of the Earth Takes Center Stage

New York Times: Where is the great American play about climate change? Is there even a good one? Say what you will about the potential end of civilization as we know it, but there's no denying it is dramatic stuff. That's why it's odd that as climate change finally moves forward in the national conversation, with President Obama making it a centerpiece of his inauguration speech, New York theater has mostly avoided it. Short works and the recent Off Broadway play "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet" have touched...

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Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in 'financial damage' and human rights violations

Mongabay: Investing in companies that flout local community rights in developing countries often leads to severe economic losses, according to a new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI). A rising trend in "land grabbing" from Africa to South America by corporations and even foreign governments results in social instability, which can lead to large-scale protests, violence, and even murder, delaying and sometimes derailing projects. Such instability poses massive risk to any investor, not to...

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Groups Urge EPA to Resume Legal Action in Fracking Water Contamination Case

EcoWatch: style="margin-top: 0px;"> Earthworks Conservation and citizen groups from Texas and around the country today sent a letter calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Administrator Ron Curry to resume legal action against Range Resources for polluting the drinking water of homeowners near its operations in Weatherford, Texas. The letter also calls upon the EPA to require the company to immediately supply clean drinking water to homeowners whose wells were polluted during...

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Renewables cheaper than coal in Australia — a preview of things to come

Grist: I`m morbidly fascinated by the way conventional wisdom lags behind evidence, like the CW that renewable energy is expensive and fossil fuels cheap. In fact, there is a tectonic shift underway. Renewable energy prices are declining as technology improves, economies of scale kick in, financing mechanisms mature, and public policy begins to take some (inadequate) account of the negative externalities of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the cost of coal-fired electricity is heading up. It`s getting harder to...

URL: http://grist.org/climate-energy/renewables-cheaper-than-coal-in-australia-a-preview-of-things-to-come/

States announce deal to cut greenhouse gasses

Associated Press: Nine northeastern and mid-Atlantic states agreed Thursday to strengthen existing limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that burn fossil fuels. The new rules announced by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative would lower the cap on carbon dioxide emissions from the current 165 million tons to 91 million tons in 2014 — a 45 percent reduction from 2005 levels. The cap would be lowered an additional 2.5 percent per year from 2015-2020. The RGGI cap-and-trade program is the nation's...

URL: http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/2013/02/07/states-announce-deal-cut-greenhouse-gasses/xaGJ8JAH2DKauMI4lzdfUL/story.html

EPA to issue climate change plan Friday

The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency is set to unveil a plan to counter the effects of climate change. The draft EPA Climate Change Adaptation Plan, to be published for public consideration in Friday's edition of the Federal Register, is meant to guide the agency's response to global warming, which it says is occurring at a rapidly increasing rate. "Until now, EPA has been able to assume that climate is relatively stable and future climate would mirror past climate," reads a notice previewing...

URL: http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/energyenvironment/281721-epa-to-issue-climate-change-plan-friday-

US water system under stress, firms warn

Bloomberg: Leaks and investment delays threaten the US water system, exposing the value of a commodity that in short supply disrupts businesses, according to a web campaign. The "Water is Your Business" site went live today, sponsored by the National Association of Water Companies and US Chamber of Commerce. It urges companies to stop neglecting infrastructure upgrades as water use for energy and electricity production doubles worldwide in the next 25 years, according to International Atomic Energy Agency...

URL: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/water-issues/us-water-system-under-stress-firms-warn-20130207-2dzl9.html

United Kingdom: Sellafield to be prosecuted for sending radioactive waste to wrong disposal site

Press Association: Sellafield has pleaded guilty to sending several bags of radioactive waste to the wrong facility, according to the Office for Nuclear Regulation. The nuclear power company admitted sending four bags of mixed general waste to the Lillyhall landfill site in Workington, Cumbria, in April 2010. The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, tissues and clothing, should have gone to the low level waste repository, at Drigg. Sellafield Limited said the error was caused by a new monitor which...

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The Scary Truth About How Much Climate Change is Costing You

National Journal: Jimmy Strickland can tell you exactly how much money rising sea levels have cost his business. In 1989, he opened his accounting firm in a one-story brick building near Norfolk's historic cobblestoned Hague district, which surrounds one of this low-lying city's many tidal rivers. Dressed in pinstripes and a large, gold class ring, the white-haired Strickland is a consummate Southern gentleman--and also a consummate small-business owner. In his soft coastal accent, he tells the story of how the...

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Could Climate Change Be Al-Qaida's Best Friend in Africa?

Slate: French troops are currently planning a swift exit from Mali, but the local government's battle with Islamist insurgents rages on. Meanwhile, the international community continues to ask itself what went wrong in a country once seen as a model for the region. But some climate analysts say they saw the civil war brewing--and, more importantly, that climate change could be an increasingly prominent factor in crises in the region. There's a lot of debate in the global security establishment about...

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United Kingdom: Nationwide launches new green home loan

BusinessGreen: Fears the government's Green Deal energy efficiency scheme will be undercut by cheaper loans from established lenders look set to materialise, after Nationwide Building Society today launched a new energy efficiency loan offer boasting interest rates from 2.29 per cent. The building society said its new Green Additional Borrowing service would allow existing mortgage customers to take out loans of between £5,000 and £20,000 to undertake approved energy efficiency measures. It added that the...

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More Americans convinced of climate change, poll finds

USA Today: Americans are increasingly convinced that the planet's climate is changing and show more support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, finds a Duke University online survey released Thursday. The share of Americans who say climate change is occurring - 50% say definitely and 34% say probably - has rebounded, reaching what may be its highest level in national polls since 2007, according to the survey of 1,089 adults conducted Jan. 16-22. Slightly more than half, or 54%, say climate change is...

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New England eyes potentially record-setting blizzard

Reuters: New England braced on Thursday for a possibly record-setting winter storm, with forecasts of up to two feet of snow prompting local officials to urge residents to prepare. The storm was blowing in from the Midwest where it was expected to begin dropping snow on the Chicago area on Thursday afternoon. It was due to bring light snow to the northeastern United States on Friday morning before ramping up to blizzard conditions by afternoon. In Boston, which was expected to see some of the heaviest...

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Forecaster keeps neutral El Niño outlook for Northern Hemisphere spring

Reuters: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a key U.S. weather forecaster, on Thursday held to its view that the El Niño climate phenomenon should pose few weather problems in the Northern Hemisphere through spring. In its monthly report, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center (CPC), a part of NOAA's National Weather Service, said prediction models overall point to a neutral forecast through spring, though it has less confidence in its outlook for summer. While maintaining a neutral...

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Fishers Fight Over Dwindling Catch

Inter Press Service: Boats were tying up at the jetty and there was a bustle of activity as vendors cried their wares, offering shellfish to potential buyers, while young people, sharp knives in hand, filleted sea bass and red snapper. Meanwhile, on the promenade, octogenarian musicians played old-style cumbias and boleros for restaurant patrons. But the lighthearted atmosphere belied a sombre reality here in Puerto de la Libertad, a small town on the Pacific coast in the southwest of El Salvador. Standing next...

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New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilisations

Inter Press Service: The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food. Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold. This new era is one of rising food prices and spreading hunger. On the demand side of the food equation, population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of food into fuel for cars...

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Scientists Gauge Vulnerability of Earth's "Lungs" To Climate Change

RedOrbit: Because they draw in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen, tropical rainforests are often called "the lungs of the planet." However, yearly variations in climate can cause the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed and released by these forests to vary considerably. A new study conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Exeter, the Met Office-Hadley Centre and the Natural Environmental Research Council's (NERC) Centre for Ecology & Hydrology demonstrates that these variations reveal...

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Potable-Water-Reuse Ideas Go Forward in Texas, Despite Concerns

New York Times: The idea of turning treated sewage into drinking water may give some people pause. But with lake levels having officially dropped below 40 percent of capacity on Tuesday, this onetime oil boomtown plans to move ahead with the technology. The city hopes to produce five million gallons of water a day next year with potable-reuse technology, which officials say is safe. "There was probably a lot of reservations about reuse water projects when we first discussed it in the late '90s," Mayor Glenn Barham...

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Carbon release, storage by rainforests may increase by 50b tons

Mongabay: Faster plant growth due to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide may offset increased emissions from forest die-off in the tropics, asserts a new study based on climate modeling. The research, published this week in the journal Nature, looks at how year-to-year variations in CO2 levels effect the long-term rate of carbon storage in tropical forests. It found that previous models may have overestimated the likelihood of forest die-back by assuming excessive variability in CO2 levels, while underestimating...

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Renewables cheaper than coal in Australia — a preview of things to come

Grist: I`m morbidly fascinated by the way conventional wisdom lags behind evidence, like the CW that renewable energy is expensive and fossil fuels cheap. In fact, there is a tectonic shift underway. Renewable energy prices are declining as technology improves, economies of scale kick in, financing mechanisms mature, and public policy begins to take some (inadequate) account of the negative externalities of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the cost of coal-fired electricity is heading up. It`s getting harder...

URL: http://grist.org/climate-energy/renewables-cheaper-than-coal-in-australia-a-preview-of-things-to-come/

U.S. ‘Divestment’ Movement Gaining Momentum

Inter Press Service: A months-old national campaign to convince U.S. colleges, universities and city governments to withdraw investments from the world's largest oil and gas companies has seen some notable initial successes. On Tuesday, a city supervisor in San Francisco introduced resolutions calling on the city's retirement fund to "divest" all money it has in fossil fuel companies and gun manufacturers. That followed a significant recent decision by the city of Seattle's two-billion-dollar retirement fund to actively...

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In California, the Snow Tells the Future for the Water Supply

New York Times: Along Highway 50 in the Sierra Nevada, elevation 6,820 feet, a California winter ritual unfolded here on a recent morning. In the snow-blanketed meadow of a local homeowner's backyard, reporters representing news organizations from across the state followed a man on skis who kept plunging an aluminum tube into the snow. Leading the pack was Frank Gehrke, California's chief snow surveyor, the man responsible for measuring the Sierra Nevada's snowpack, the source of a third of this state's water supply....

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Obama Needs to Be Brutally Honest About Climate Change in His State of the Union

National Journal: President Obama surprised even his most ardent environmental backers with his impassioned inaugural pledge to fight climate change in his second term. In the State of the Union address Tuesday, he'll need to tell Congress and the American people how--specifically--he plans to take on the challenge. If he's honest, it won't be pretty. In his first term, Obama rarely spoke about the urgent and fearful nature of the climate crisis, or how long and difficult--politically, economically, and diplomatically--it...

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States’ Group Calls for 45% Cut in Amount of Carbon Emissions Allowed

New York Times: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the country's first regional system for capping carbon emissions and creating a market in carbon allowances, proposed a fundamental change on Thursday to increase electrical utilities' incentive to cut emissions from fossil-fuel plants by raising the cost of compliance. The regional group proposed a 45 percent reduction next year in the total carbon dioxide emissions allowed. The cut is not as draconian as that number suggests, however, because the new total...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/business/energy-environment/states-group-calls-for-45-cut-in-amount-of-carbon-emissions-allowed.html

Climate change is 'threat multiplier'

Politico: Severe drought. Record heat. Extreme storms. In the past year, the United States has experienced conditions that have already become commonplace in many of the most volatile parts of the world. But not until the day of his second Inauguration did President Barack Obama put climate change squarely back on the table, after a long presidential campaign from which the issue had been largely absent. While the fact of climate change might be fodder for political debate, it is widely accepted across...

URL: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/climate-change-is-threat-multiplier-87338.html?hp=l8

U.S. Missing Goal on Critical Emission Cuts

Inter Press Service: Environmentalists here are warning that the United States is not on track to meet a target of a 17-percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020, despite President Barack Obama's stated commitment. Yet, according to a new report by the World Resources Institute (WRI), a Washington-based environment think tank, the country can still meet that goal by using existing federal laws and state action, and investing in renewable energy sources. "Even without Congressional involvement or new technologies,...

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Australian wind farms undercut fossil fuel power prices

BusinessGreen: New research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has this week provided further evidence that renewable energy can increasingly compete on cost with fossil fuels, revealing that unsubsidised wind farms can undercut electricity sold by new coal or gas-fired power plants. The analysis suggests electricity can be provided from wind farms at a cost of A$80/MWh, while the cost of power from new coal or gas plants, which is now subject to a carbon tax, stands at A$143/MWh and A$116/MWh respectively....

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Asteroid may have killed dinosaurs quicker than scientists thought

Reuters: Dinosaurs died off about 33,000 years after an asteroid hit the Earth, much sooner than scientists had believed, and the asteroid may not have been the sole cause of extinction, according to a study released Thursday. Earth's climate may have been at a tipping point when a massive asteroid smashed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and triggered cooling temperatures that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers said. The time between the asteroid's arrival, marked by a 110-mile-(180-km-)wide...

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