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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Climate Change Causing More NY Flooding – Study
Severe storm flooding struck New York state’s Mohawk Valley on multiple occasions this year, while access to its reservoir already is being fought over by competing users, reports Brian Ackerman at the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Flooding and water-supply issues are expected … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, droughts, extreme weather, flooding, floods, global warming, New York
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Energy Efficiency Brings Less Power, More Profit to Missouri Utility
Kansas City Power & Light, in a historic shift for the utility, filed plans recently with Missouri regulators to sell less electricity, reports Steve Everly at the Kansas City Star. The company, like other utilities in the region, has depended … Continue reading
California, Hawaii Paving Way for Rooftop Solar Projects
Prompted by pressure from clean energy advocates, Hawaii and California are quietly working to remove a regulation that makes it difficult to install residential clean energy installations, once the total amount of such home generated power in a locality exceeds … Continue reading
Climate Change Cutting Down White Christmas
There was time when dreaming of a white Canadian Christmas would almost always be a dream come true, reports the Canadian Press at Global News. Indeed, the name Canada derives from Latin meaning “white”, referring to Canada’s historically snowy condition. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic, Canada, climate change, extreme heat, extreme weather, global warming
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Former US Secretary Tim Wirth Proposes Ambitious Clean Energy Agenda
Tim Wirth, a former US senator and Clinton era under-secretary of state, blamed the Obama administration for an ineffective climate change policy, Lisa Friedman of Energy and Environment news reported recently. Obama has to explain just how serious it is … Continue reading
Breakthroughs Creating Hyper-Efficient, Cheap Solar Power
Chemistry professor Xiaoyang Zhu and his team at the University of Texas discovered that using an organic plastic semiconductor in photovoltaic solar cells can double their efficiency, thus providing loads more electrical power far more cheaply. Dean Kuipers at the … Continue reading
Even 2-Degree Celsius Warming Could Be Catastrophic, Say Scientists
Levels of warming previously thought to be safe may instead trigger widespread melting of the world’s ice sheets and other catastrophic impacts, scientists said recently at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting, reports Douglas Fischer at the Daily Climate. “There’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Antarctica, climate change, environment, global warming, Greenland, James Hansen, sea level rise
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Cap and Trade Benefiting Economy in Massachusetts
Cap and trade is a process for curbing greenhouse gas emissions that involves capping emission limits for industries, and allows companies to trade unused emissions allowances as carbon credits with other companies. Massachusetts has adopted the process, often criticized … Continue reading
Record-Breaking Drought in Mexico Could Increase Migration
The sun-baked northern states of Mexico are suffering under the worst drought since the government began recording rainfall 70 years ago reports Francisco Rodriguez at the Associated Press in the Detroit News. Crops of corn, beans and oats are withering … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon emissions, climate change, drought, droughts, global warming, Mexico, migration
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Climate Deniers Applaud US Inaction on Climate Change
A group of climate change deniers at the UN Climate Change Conference Cop-17 at Durban, South Africa, praised the Obama administration’s refusal to support an extension of the Kyoto Protocol or an agreement on binding emissions cuts, reports Amy Goodman … Continue reading
