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Aspen Env't Forum: Big ideas Thinkers and doers exchange grand visions in the scenic Rockies	Lisa Hymas	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The first full day of the first-ever Aspen Environment Forum kicked off Thursday morning with a handful of the impressive invitees taking a couple minutes each to share a 'big idea.' Throughout the day, others tossed their sizeable thoughts into the ring. A sampling: Majora Carter. Majora Carter, founder and head of Sustainable South Bronx: 'Make the invisible places visible.' Carter talked about how her home borough and other low-income or minorit ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, CSAs, farmers markets, food, green living, waste (all these topics)

Spring in a Step EPA will request public comment on GHG regulation this spring		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:06 PM on 27 Mar 2008 SCOTUS decreed that the U.S. EPA must decide whether the climate-change effects of carbon dioxide endanger public health, and, at long last, the agency is moving on that decision -- kinda. In a letter to U.S. lawmakers Thursday, chief Stephen Johnson wrote that the EPA is writing proposed rules for regulation of CO2 emissions "from stationary and mobile sources" and will som ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Meanwhile ... Not looking good for ice shelf in the Antarctic	Sir Oolius	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
... over there: While the area of collapse involves 160 square miles at present, a large part of the 5,000-square-mile Wilkins Ice Shelf is now supported only by a narrow strip of ice between two islands, said CU-Boulder's Ted Scambos, lead scientist at NSIDC. 'If there is a little bit more retreat, this last 'ice buttress' could collapse and we'd likely lose about half the total ice shelf area in the next few years.' Shouldn't that be 'Region of Beachfront Reclamation' ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Antarctica (all these topics)

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Giant Antarctic ice chunk collapses		25 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:12 PM on 25 Mar 2008 A 160-square-mile chunk of ice -- that's seven times the size of Manhattan -- has collapsed off of the Wilkins ice shelf in Antarctica. The entire ice shelf, which is approximately the size of Connecticut, is "hanging by a thread," says climate scientist David Vaughan: "We'll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be." Scientists are not concerned that the ice breaka ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

Unclear and Present Danger Climate change may cloud Lake Tahoe's waters, study says		25 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:45 PM on 25 Mar 2008 Climate change will likely cloud Lake Tahoe's famously clear waters within a decade, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California at Davis. Warmer temperatures are likely to alter and eventually shut down the lake's deep-water circulation, eventually turning the waters a murky green, researchers said. "A permanently stratified Lake Tahoe becomes ju ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, United States (all these topics)

On thin ice Arctic ice alarmingly scarce, say NOAA, NASA, NSIDC	Joseph Romm	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Yes, I know you've all heard that we've had 'record' refreezing of Arctic ice. Big shock there. We had record melting followed by a temporary cooling La Ni�a event. What those denier/delayer-1000 talking points don't tell you is that the refrozen ice is very thin and still at record low levels following the staggering ice loss this summer. To set the record straight, on Wednesday, the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA had a teleconference to show the surpri ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The Early Bird Gets Confused Early-springing spring is a climatic consequence		20 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:28 PM on 20 Mar 2008 You may have gone to bed last night in one season and woken up in another, as spring officially began at 1:48 a.m. EDT Thursday. (Yes, apparently "they" know the exact time.) We kind of feel like its about damn time the sun came out, but in fact trees are blossoming and birds are singing earlier than ever, say biologists -- and that's not ideal. Among the consequences of a cl ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

Hey, did you hear about those glaciers?	David Roberts	18 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I'm told they're melting.
Topics: climate change impacts (all these topics)

For Guinness Sakes Climate change will make Ireland less green, says well-timed report		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:47 PM on 17 Mar 2008 It's St. Patty's day -- so you just knew someone would do a study on the impact of climate change on Ireland, didn't you? Sure enough, the Irish American Climate Project has issued a report entitled "Changing Shades of Green," warning that decreased rainfall could necessitate a nickname change for the Emerald Isle, and summer droughts could bring about Potato Famine ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Ireland, news (all these topics)

It's a Glac-Sure Thing World's glaciers melting rapidly, report says		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:29 AM on 17 Mar 2008 The world's glaciers are melting quite rapidly and will likely cause all sorts of environmental problems, according to data from the World Glacier Monitoring Service. The WGMS tracks the health of 30 "reference" glaciers throughout the world and has said that their rate of melt has sped up significantly in recent years. Between 1980 and 1999, the glaciers shrunk an average of 11.8 inc ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

The Way You Move Climate change has it out for transportation infrastructure, says report		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 5:08 PM on 11 Mar 2008 Climate change is likely to wreak havoc on U.S. transportation infrastructure, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Research Council. Think bridge joints weakened by too-high temperatures, flooded tunnels, shipping disrupted by heavy storms, roads threatened by erosion, and much, much more! Coastal regions are likely to be especially hard hit, as more and ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, placemaking, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

A Climate of Fear E.U. report warns of increased security threats due to climate change		10 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:38 AM on 10 Mar 2008 A new report from the European Union's two top foreign-policy officials warns of a wide range of security threats that will be caused or exacerbated by climate change. The report echoes the concerns of earlier U.S. and U.K. reports, warning of "significant potential conflicts" over energy resources, climate-related mass migration, economic instability, and more. A g ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, European Union, news (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: Young, gifted, and green? New survey of U.K. youth reveals mixed attitudes about the future of the planet	Ben Tuxworth	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. Debates about how we should save the planet tend to explore the impossibility of almost every approach until someone says, 'We need to change the education system,' at which point it is deemed churlish to snigger. Catch 'em young, and it's job done seems to be the hope. Well, with only 100 months of planet-saving time left, ac ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, consumerism, green living, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Arctic expert predicts I will win $1000 this year	Joseph Romm	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
OK, he didn't say that directly: The polar cap in the Arctic may well disappear this summer due to the global warming, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, said on Friday. I originally wasn't going to post on this, but a number of people, including Earthbeat's Mike Tidwell (on whose show I will be appearing today) have sent it to me. I am skeptical the Arctic will be ice-free this year, but I'm open to any other ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate (all these topics)

Emissionaries wanted Check out Oregon PeaceWorks' '5% solution to the climate crisis'	JMG	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Oregon PeaceWorks, a venerable peace and social justice organization based in Salem, Oregon, has adopted a program of action to intended to help head off the next resource war(s). It's called the "5% Solution to the Climate Crisis," and it makes explicit the link between a chaotic climate and the natural follow-on consequences, which can be summarized as "All four horsemen of the Apocalypse."A destabilized climate means crop failures and loss of glaciers and ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

The League of Extraordinary Conditions EPA releases unconvincing justification for denying California waiver		29 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:54 AM on 29 Feb 2008 For the long wait that preceded it, the U.S. EPA's just-released justification for disallowing California to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions is rather anticlimactic. The 48-page document argues that California lacks the "compelling and extraordinary conditions" required for special regulatory permission, because the rest of the nation ...
Topics: California, cars, climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Movers and Fist-Shakers Alaskan village sues Big Fossil Fuel over link to climate change		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:35 AM on 27 Feb 2008 The tiny village of Kivalina, built on a barrier reef in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against 24 oil, coal, and power companies, alleging that Big Fossil Fuel's greenhouse-gas emissions are contributing to the climate-change-caused coastal erosion that threatens the village's very existence. Kivalina says that the companies should pay for its relocation. The ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Big Oil, climate, climate change impacts, coal, fossil fuels, litigation, news (all these topics)

Making a Splash Large water utilities form climate alliance		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:37 PM on 26 Feb 2008 Eight of the largest water agencies in the U.S. have formed the Water Utility Climate Alliance to strategize about dealing with climate change. Together, the eight members provide water to more than 36 million people, whose slaked thirst is endangered by "diminishing snowpack, bigger storms, more frequent drought, and rising sea levels," according to WUCA Chair Susan Leal. sources:� Associated ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, news, water crisis (all these topics)

Threatened to the Gills World fisheries still in danger of imminent collapse, says U.N.		25 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:07 AM on 25 Feb 2008 When last we checked in on the world's commercial fish stocks, they were in danger of collapsing within decades. And, sorry to say, they still are, according to a United Nations Environment Program report ominously titled "In Dead Water." Factor in climate change, overfishing, and pollution "and you see you're potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of w ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

Fire and rain The 'hell' before the 'high water' in the U.S.	Jon Rynn	23 Feb 2008	Gristmill
I just wanted to alert Grist readers to an excellent post at The Oil Drum called 'Fire and Rain: The Consequences of Changing Climate on Rainfall, Wildfire and Agriculture.' The author points out that 'Current climate change predictions for much of the West show increased precipitation in the winter or spring, along with earlier and drier summers.' To summarize his post, the drier summers will have profound impacts on the forests, grasslands, and agricultural areas. It ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, deforestation (all these topics)

Don't Let Your Right Get Left United Nations calls climate change a matter of human rights		22 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:49 PM on 22 Feb 2008 If climate change is a "largely unscientific hoax" and "political concoction" (in the words of Republican strategist Mary Matalin), it's a hoax and concoction that could threaten the rights of millions of people. Or so said the United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights this week. "Ultimately climate change may affect the very right t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Coil in Fear Giant pythons could spread in southern U.S., say feds		21 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:52 PM on 21 Feb 2008 You may think you're prepared for climate change -- solar-powered fan, flood insurance, nostalgic polar-bear picture, check, check, check -- but are you prepared for 20-foot, 250-pound snakes? Giant Burmese pythons could find some one-third of the United States to be habitable climate by 2100, according to a new map published by the U.S. Geological Survey. The pythons, which were originally dumpe ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

Change your lightbulbs ...	David Roberts	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
... or else a giant Burmese python will eat your children!!1!
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, wildlife (all these topics)

Why I titled my book Hell and High Water 'Climate change' and 'global warming' are not scary-enough terms	Joseph Romm	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Andy Revkin of the NYT has a good blog post on one of the main problems with climate messaging by scientists, environmentalists, and the like. In short, it sucks! One problem is the name 'global warming' or 'climate change.' It sounds like a vacation, not a crisis. Indeed, one of the main reasons I titled my book Hell and High Water is that I thought it was a better term -- more accurate of what is to come if we don't act, more descriptive, more visceral -- and I ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, messaging (all these topics)

Assail the Seven Seas Nearly all of world's oceans tainted by human activity, says study		15 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:52 PM on 15 Feb 2008 Human activity has tainted all but 3.7 percent of the world's oceans, and 41 percent of the world's waters have been heavily impacted, says a new study in Science. A graphic map illustrates in all-too-clear terms that the briny deep has taken a terrible toll from 17 human threats, including climate change, overfishing, fertilizer runoff, coastal development, and shipping pol ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, habitat loss, news, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

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