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Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 14 hours ago
Unlike the two most recent presidential elections, when there were Stark differences between the candidates' views on Climate science and policy, this year three of the four candidates for president and vice president agree with the scientific consensus on Climate change. The lone skeptic on human-caused warming of the four major party candidates is Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who happens to be on the ticket with one of the most tenacious advocates for Climate science and policy measures in the U.S. Senate - John McCain of Arizona. Keep reading for a full assessment of the candidates' take on Climate change science, and whether it is natural or man-made. For local Washington, D.C. weather, see our full forecast through the week. ...
Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 90 days ago
It"s once again the economy that is driving a presidential campaign, and almost nobody is "stupid" about recognizing that in 2008. When over 80 percent of Americans tell pollsters that they think the country is headed in the wrong direction, it reflects a whole range of issues - the war in Iraq, America"s place in the world, the state of the nation"s moral and civic health, Climate change, etc. But nothing drives voters unrest quite like their pocketbook concerns. Soaring energy prices, the home mortgage crisis, stock market plunges, health care costs and creeping inflation fears are adding to those concerns on almost a daily basis. So it"s no surprise that the presidential candidates expect to be spending the bulk of their time between now and the election talking about it. Given the complexity of the problems, and the lack of any clear-cut, easy answers, it also isn"t shocking that the candidates have fallen into all-too familiar rhetoric on the subject either. Look at yesterday"s debate over taxes for example. Trying to return his party to the champion of smaller government and spending discipline, John McCain pledged to slash federal spending and balance the budget by the end of his first term in office (a questionable prospect at best) while keeping taxes low. "The choice in this election is Stark and simple," McCain said at a town hall meeting in Denver. "Senator Obama will raise your taxes, I won"t." Barack Obama says that his t ...
Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 84 days ago
A study into the potential effects of global warming on Earth's largest creatures paints a Stark picture. Endangered migratory whales will be faced with shrinking Antarctic feeding grounds, a report on the effect of Climate change... ...
Source: www.charlotte.com --- 17 days ago
Now comes the hard part. UNC Charlotte Chancellor Phil Dubois recommended to the college's board of trustees Thursday morning that the school establish a football program starting in 2013 in the college division formerly known as I-AA. But Thursday's recommendation was not an ending for the long-running “Will there be football?” saga at Charlotte. It's only the beginning. I want football at UNC Charlotte. But even after this, I'm not certain it will ever happen. The financial hurdles– assuming the Dubois plan is accepted in mid-November when the trustees vote on it – are extremely high. “The cold, Stark financial reality we face is that those who say they want football are going to have to help pay for football,” Dubois said in his speech to the trustees. And that's even after Dubois tamped down significantly the recommendations from the Football Feasibility Committee, which had advocated UNCC starting football a year earlier (in 2012) and trying to enter Division I-A by 2016. Dubois instead believes that UNCC should stay in Division I-AA a lot longer than 2016 and will give no timetable for a move to college football's highest division, believing that to be a decision for a future chancellor. This announcement comes in the midst of such a stormy economic Climate that it's quite possible either the Dubois plan will have to undergo another major alteration (like retro-fitting a current stadium for football instead of building a new ...
Source: clipmarks.com --- 85 days ago
clipped by: Elisabeth Eaves clipper's remarks: We've all heard that coral reefs are in trouble, but this is one of the first major studies showing just how much trouble. Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk A third of the world's reef-building coral species are facing extinction. That is the Stark conclusion from the first global study to assess the extinction risks of corals. Writing in the journal Science, researchers say Climate change, coastal development, overfishing, and pollution are the major threats. The economic value of the world's reefs has been estimated at over $30bn (£15bn) per year, through tourism, fisheries and coastal protection. "It's not just the fact that something like a third of all reef-forming corals are threatened, but that we could be facing the loss of large areas of these ecosystems within 50 to 100 years. "The implications of that are absolutely staggering - not only for biodiversity, but also for economics." The analysis shows that reef-building corals are more threatened than any group of land-dwelling animals except amphibians. ...
Source: newsblaze.com --- 87 days ago
'With McCain as president, Americans can look forward to aggressive, hands-on leadership on Climate change that stands in Stark contrast to the Bush administration do-nothing approach.' ... Source: www.blogher.com --- 29 days ago
While I was out this morning going to the farmers' market and getting breakfast, you know normal Sunday morning activities, the Prime Minister met with the Governor General, dissolved Parliament and called an election. (Personally I quite prefer my own Sunday morning activities.) Canadians will be heading to the polls on Tuesday, October 14 to elect a new government, even thought Stephen Harper said that it's going to be a tight election and they are anticipating another minority government . So why are we going to the polls ? This is what the Stephen Harper said in his public statement as reported by the Toronto Star. “The frank reality is this parliament is at its useful end, and Canadians have to give somebody a mandate,” Harper later told reporters. “The Opposition doesn’t want to support us and the government does not want to change direction. That’s an impasse and the public should decide. Liberal leader Stephen Dion addressed the press saying Canadians "face a "Stark choice" between the "most Conservative government in Canadian history" that doesn't believe government can have a positive effect on the country and a Liberal party that is progressive and sees government as an agent for tackling poverty, unemployment and Climate change." Halimand's Unheard Voice has a round up of links and official statements, including Jack Layton's . Layton says that if Canadians vote his party into power it will be a real change. "I’ll be a ... Source: gristmill.grist.org --- 27 days ago
By Joseph Romm This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project . ----- When George Bush declared that the United States is addicted to oil, it may have been the most insightful moment of his presidency. It is a cruel but apt analogy, and that's why the big push for more domestic oil production is so disturbing. John McCain has created the "Drill Here, Drill Now" mantra, as though he wants to sink a well wherever he's standing at the moment. When vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin gave her coming-out address at the Republican National Convention, the crowd started changing " Drill, Baby, Drill ." McCain's selection of Palin was a concession to conservatives in many ways, including those who think Climate change is liberal mythology and fossil energy is the fuel of the future . But what would life be like for an America still addicted to oil? The nature of addiction is that the drug is in control. It trumps morality, judgment, and common sense. Under its influence, good people commit crimes to get their next fix. If they exhaust one vein, they search for another. And another. Eventually, they hit bottom. When they do, they face a Stark choice: withdraw or die. So it is with our addiction to oil. Our dependence has compromised our morality, our security, our economy. We sacrifice our sons and daughters to maintain our supply. We occupy Islamic holy lands and ... Source: gristmill.grist.org --- 25 days ago
By Guest author This is a guest essay by Ben Block, a staff writer with the Worldwatch Institute . It is reprinted with Worldwatch Institute's permission. ----- Sarah Palin, U.S. vice presidential candidate, may be an influential actor in Congressional efforts to pass Climate change legislation. Photo Courtesy State of Alaska. When comparing the U.S. presidential candidates' green credentials, both contenders support greater action to address Climate change through a cap on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. While Republican candidate John McCain's reduction targets are more modest than the promises of Democrat Barack Obama , either candidate should offer a significant shift from the largely stalled policies of the current administration. Among the vice presidential candidates, however, the choices offer significant contrasts in ideology and policy. Democrat Joe Biden supports action that reflects the stance taken by Senator Obama. Meanwhile, Republican nominee Sarah Palin has stated that she does not believe global warming to be human-caused -- a Stark difference from her running mate Senator McCain. As the country's second-in-command and president of the Senate, the next U.S. vice president could become a crucial player in attempts to pass a sweeping Climate change bill through the Congress and reach a diplomatic solution on a new international Climate change agreement. During her two years as Alaska's governor, Palin has moved for ... Source: www.pnwlocalnews.com --- 5 days ago
Candidates for the 23rd Legislative District’s senate seat drew Stark distinctions over Climate change and environmental policy in a candidate forum in Bremerton Tuesday. ...
Source: www.thewest.com.au --- 94 days ago
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Murray-Darling Basin shows what will happen if society buries its head in the sand rather than act over ... ... Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com --- 66 days ago
China currently leads the world in its use of renewable energy, and is poised to also take first place on investment in clean energy technologies, according to a new report from an international non-profit, The Climate Group. The report serves as a Stark contrast to the steady drumbeat of recent news about China’s pollution problems, [...] ... Source: www.mondaq.com --- 97 days ago
No one can have escaped the Stark warnings on Climate change and the need for those responsible for funding, procuring and building new infrastructure to have one eye on "sustainable development". ... Find more results for Stark Climate on RSSMicro.com |
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A third of the world's reef-building coral species are facing extinction. That is the Stark conclusion from the first global study to assess the extinction risks of corals. Writing in the journal Science, researchers say Climate change, coastal de Submitted by Beatrice Baxter to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment ...
A third of the world's reef-building coral species are facing extinction. That is the Stark conclusion from the first global study to assess the extinction risks of corals. Writing in the journal Science, researchers say Climate change, coastal developmen Submitted by Rooibos Bird to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment ...
America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a Stark warning on the nation’s coral reefs yesterday. US reefs near human populations face “intense” threats while even the most remote reefs are troubled, it says. The massive 2008 state of coral reef ecosystems report says a conservative message would be that nearly half of reefs are not in good condition and are in long-term decline. “The report shows that this is a global issue,” says Tim Keeney, deputy assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere (press release). “While the report indicates reefs in general are healthier in the Pacific than the Atlantic, even remote reefs are subject to threats stemming from Climate change, as well as illegal fishing and marine debris.” The report states:Since the last reporting effort [in 2005], the condition of resources declined, while threats in the majority of jurisdictions have been increasing. For about half of the jurisdictions, threats such as Climate change/coral bleaching, coral disease, and tourism and recreation have not changed significantly over the last three years, but have increased over the past 10-25 years. It took 270 scientists looking at 15 ecosystems to compile the near-600 page monster of a report, presented to the International Coral Reef Symposium in Fort Lauderdale. The graph below shows the ranking of ten common threats in these ecosystems*. “There are so many people here and all of them are ...
Coral reefs aren’t being protected against Climate change despite the protective zones set up to do just that, say researchers in a report just published in PLoS ONE. ( Paper and press release ) Lead researcher Nick Graham from Newcastle University says that the No-Take Areas (NTAs) set up in the 1960s and 70s were devised when Climate change wasn’t the big deal it is now. These zones have had no effect on the health of the coral, he says, and are in the wrong place. The NTAs are often small, and are surrounded by exploited areas, the report points out. The researchers looked at different fish populations in areas that were protected, and areas that weren’t. The results were Stark – “irrespective of body size and trophic categorization, NTAs provided no clear benefits for any of the fish groups in terms of their change in response to coral decline,” the report reads. The work follows a report earlier this year that fishing statistics for tropical regions were wrong, and that overfishing is a much bigger problem than thought. Elsewhere, Australian researchers are saying that warmer oceans will mean more coral diseases. They, like Graham and colleagues, traced the fate of a reef after a major bleaching event in 1998, but in the Great Barrier Reef off Australian, rather than the Indian Ocean. Other scientists, including the group The Nature Conservancy , have prepared a statement called the Honolulu declaration , calling for greenho ...
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Friday 29 August 2008 at 17:13:00 As delegates at African Climate change conference are criticised for not offsetting, events management experts insist buying offsets should become standard practice Firms hosting green events were given a Stark reminder of the need to minimise the environmental impact of their attendees this week after delegates at two African conferences on Climate... ...
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A drive along the I-5 corridor between Mount Shasta and Redding will quickly let even the casual observer know that California is experiencing a severe drought. The sight of a bare Mount Shasta and the exposed banks of Shasta Lake serve as Stark and constant reminders of the situation unfolding throughout the North State. In a statement on its website, the Department of Water Resources calls the drought of the past two years, “the most significant water crisis in California history.” The drought is also arguably the biggest factor in the wildfires that made this year’s “the worst fire season in California history,” according to Governor Schwarzenegger and CalFire. Intensifying disputes over bottling plants and dam removal in our area are symptoms of water, Climate change, and drought, local environmentalists say; these issues will become increasingly important to planning decisions in Siskiyou County. The severity of the current water crisis was first outlined by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on June 5, when he declared the drought official, and underscored in early September when state officials unveiled a “drought water bank” to prepare for the possibility of a third dry year in a row. In declaring the drought, Gov. Schwarzenegger said, “This drought is an urgent reminder of the immediate need to upgrade California’s water infrastructure. There is no more time to waste because nothing is more vital to protect our economy, our env ...