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2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #11
Posted on 16 March 2013 by John Hartz
- Canada losing its seasons
- Can the world fight climate change and energy poverty at the same time?
- Chief of US Pacific forces calls climate biggest worry
- Five companies vie to build wind farms off North Carolina
- Global warming brings on more pollen
- Green Climate Fund planning
- India and Bangladesh very short of water
- President Obama should abandon the all of the above energy strategy
- Somalia famine partially blamed on climate change
- US EPA likely to delay climate rules for new power plants
- Warming drives worrying surge in Arctic fishing
- Why saving the planet means saving the economy, too
Canada losing its seasons
“Canada is not a country, it’s winter,” Canadians say with pride. But the nation’s long, fearsome winters will live only in memory and song for Canadian children born this decade.
Canada Losing Its Seasons by Stephen Leahy, Inter Press Service (IPS), Mar 11, 2012
Can the world fight climate change and energy poverty at the same time?
The United Nations has set two huge energy-related goals for the coming century. The first is to bring electricity to the 1.3 billion people who still don’t have it. The second is to curtail fossil fuel use and keep global warming below 2°C.
Can the world fight climate change and energy poverty at the same time? by Brad Pulmer, Washington Post, Mar 10, 2013
Chief of US Pacific forces calls climate biggest worry
America’s top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region: climate change.
Chief of US Pacific forces calls climate biggest worry by Bryan Bender, Boston Globe, Mar 9, 2013
Five companies vie to build wind farms off North Carolina coastline
Five companies are interested in developing wind farms in the ocean off North Carolina, hoping to take advantage of what could be the East Coast’s most promising chance to create energy through giant turbines anchored to the sea floor.
Five companies vie to build wind farms off North Carolina coastline by Sean Cockerham McClatchy News, Mar 12, 2013
Global warming brings on more pollen
With global warming, temperature extremes are becoming a norm -- and that's bad news for allergy sufferers.
In a single century, our planet went from one of the coldest decades since the last ice age to one of the hottest. That hasn't happened in the last 11,300 years, according to a recent study on global temperatures published in the journal Science.
By 2100, temperatures will rise "well above anything we've ever seen in the last 11,000 years," said study co-author Shaun Marcott.
Global warming brings on more pollen by Elizabeth Landau , CNN, Mar 12, 2013
Green Climate Fund Planning
As the new board of the United Nations Green Climate Fund meets in Berlin this week, activist and watchdog groups here