Experts: Half World Faces Water Shortage by 2080
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/11/18-0
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Month: November 2008
CO2 and Oxygen-Depletion in Oceans
Nature-Published online 14 November 2008
News
Marine dead zones set to expand rapidly
Rising carbon dioxide levels will make oceans
more hostile to life.
Quirin Schiermeier
Rising levels of carbon dioxide could increase
the volume of oxygen-depleted ‘dead zones’ in
tropical oceans by as much as 50% before the end
of the century – with dire consequences for the
health of ecosystems in some of the world’s most
productive fishing grounds.
Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat of Catastrophic Climate Change?
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“‘Many climate scientists find the response to global warming completely
baffling,’ says Elke Weber, a Columbia University psychologist and the
chair of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change’s Public
Attitudes/Ethical Issues Working Group.”
“The truly disconcerting thing about this work is that it shows how
difficult it is to change people’s views and behaviors with factual
information.”
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AlterNet November 14, 2008
Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat
of Catastrophic Climate Change?
http://www.alternet.org/story/106982/
By Lisa Bennett
Three years ago, I became obsessed with global
warming. Practically overnight, my worries about
its potential effects outstripped my worries
about so many other national and global issues,
even personal ones.
Indeed, as the mother of two young boys, I began
to think it a bit crazy that I attended to every
bump and scrape on my children’s little bodies
and budding egos, but largely ignored the threat
likely to put sizeable areas of the world,
including parts of the coastal city where we
live, underwater within their lifetime.
US Fish and Wildlife Service Releases Flawed New Wilderness Policy for Wildlife Refuge System
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 14, 2008 1:39 PM
CONTACT: The Wilderness Society
Maribeth Oakes, 202-429-2674, Maribeth_Oakes@tws.org
Kathy Westra, 202-429-2642, Kathy_Westra@tws.org
US Fish and Wildlife Service Releases Flawed New Wilderness Policy for Wildlife Refuge System
Policy Ignores Global Warming, Exempts Alaska Refuges from Wilderness Review Process
WASHINGTON-November 14. The Wilderness Society (TWS) today criticized the Bush Administration for its hasty release of a flawed new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wilderness stewardship policy for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Major deficiencies of the new policy, issued yesterday, are that it fails to take into account the issue of climate change in managing the 21 million acres of designated Wilderness within the nation’s 540 wildlife refuges, and that it exempts all refuge lands in Alaska from requirements for wilderness reviews. In addition, the policy was released without any opportunity for public comment-a serious problem given the document’s other shortcomings.