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Peter Gleick cleared of forging documents in Heartland expose

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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Guardian: A review has cleared the scientist Peter Gleick of forging any documents in his expose of the rightwing Heartland Institute's strategy and finances, the Guardian has learned. Gleick's sting on Heartland brought unwelcome scrutiny to the organisation's efforts to block action on climate change, and prompted a walk-out of corporate donors that has created uncertainty about its financial future. Gleick, founder of the Pacific Institute and a well-regarded water expert, admitted and apologised...

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Dry Lands Getting Drier, Wet Getting Wetter

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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ScienceDaily: A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world's oceans, signalling shifts and an acceleration in the global rainfall and evaporation cycle. In a paper just published in the journal Science, Australian scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, reported changing patterns of salinity in the global ocean during the past 50 years, marking a clear fingerprint of climate change. Lead...

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Ghana: Food Security, Climate Change and Global Resource Scarcity

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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Public Agenda: Global demand for food will double in coming decades, through population growth and rising levels of consumption. Ensuring the planet produces enough food for all in a sustainable way will be a real challenge, and climate change will hamper our efforts if it is not tackled. Food security is crucial to helping the poorest countries help themselves out of poverty. This is why the United Kingdom is leading on making food security an issue that is discussed at a global level. Starting at the upcoming...

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Dump the pump: When oil will lose its lustre

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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New Scientist: PEOPLE have fretted about when the world's oil will start to run out ever since M. King Hubbert came up with the idea of "peak oil" back in the 1950s. The American geologist, who worked for Shell, pointed out that we are destined to reach a moment when oil production stops rising and goes into terminal decline. With it, the era of cheap oil that fuelled the post-war economic boom would end. The idea still provokes great debate, and many forecasters are predicting that global production will peak...

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United States: Report: Boulder’s ‘Impressive’ energy savings under Climate Action Plan still not enough

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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Daily Camera: The energy savings achieved by Boulder's Climate Action Plan programs have been "impressive" and reasonably cost-effective, but they still leave the city far from achieving its Kyoto Protocol goal. That was the conclusion of analysts from the Rocky Mountain Institute, who dug into the various programs funded by Boulder's Climate Action Plan tax, also known as the carbon tax, which generates about $1.8 million a year to fund energy-efficiency and renewable energy programs. Boulder commissioned...

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As austerity falters, European economists say: "Price carbon!"

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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Mother Jones: Turmoil over budget cuts roils Greek streets. France elects an anti-austerity president. Even Germany's Austerity Queen Angela Merkel faces electoral backlash. It appears Europeans are getting sick of tightening their belts. But when you can't cut any more, there's little else to do but hustle up more cash. For governments allergic to raising income taxes, a European Climate Foundation analysis released yesterday shows there's a less painful way to slash deficits--one that could save the planet...

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Colorado River changing with the climate

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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High Country News: At some point, the way Colorado River water gets divvied up is going to have to change. As we've noted in past writings, the lower basin states of Arizona and Nevada use more water than they're allowed to under the compact that runs the river. Climate change will likely make droughts worse, and reduce the total amount of water available to states using the river's water. In preparation for this inevitable need to change the system, the Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the river's dams and reservoirs...

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Canada: Under heavy fire, Mulcair defends ‘polluter pay’ stand on oil sands

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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Globe and Mail: Despite a sustained Conservative attack that accuses him of pitting east against west, Thomas Mulcair refuses to back down from his assertion the unchecked development of the oil sands is responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in other sectors. Heritage Minister James Moore demanded that the NDP Leader apologize to Western Canadians. He also pointed out that Mr. Mulcair has admitted to never visiting the Alberta oil sands. "He should be ashamed of himself for attacking the...

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Release of Arctic methane could accelerate warming

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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New Scientist: Melting Arctic permafrost could put even more methane - a potent greenhouse gas - into the atmosphere than previously thought, with worrying implications for the pace of global warming. Many ice sheets that sit like caps over rock crevices trap natural seeps of methane; when they melt, the gas can quickly be released into the atmosphere in "burps". Geologists have long suspected that iced-over geological structures might entrap vast stores of ancient methane that seep from coal and gas deposits,...

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After Greenpeace protests, Apple promises to dump coal power

Monday, May 21st, 2012

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Wired: Apple is cleaning up its energy act. The computer company says that by early next year, the energy used to power its worldwide data centers will all come from renewable sources, such as solar, wind power, or hydro-electric dams. It announced the news Thursday in a post to its website. That`s a victory for the environmental activists at Greenpeace, who have been pressuring Apple for more than a year to clean up its act and commit to renewable energy. A major sticking point has been Apple`s...

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