Year: 2008

Climate Change and the American West

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“…  profound impacts on the mountains, streams and range …”

  “The trends are in place,” said Fee Busby,  rangeland ecologist …
“The trends are going to continue.”

The report will be posted online this morning at
www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-3/default.php.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
05/27/2008

USDA on global warming
Climate report adds more gloom
Review out today offers clearer picture of how warming will affect
scenery familiar to Utahns
By Judy Fahys

      A landscape plagued with dust storms and drought, rangeland that
won’t support cattle, streams too hot for trout, forests felled by
beetles and fire – it’s all part of the scenario painted in a new
report on climate change by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

     The projections are not exactly new.

     Many of them have been reported by scientists and the media in
the past five years.

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Climate and High-Latitude Herbivores

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“…  the plants on which they depend already have reached their peak
productivity and have begun to decline in nutritional value….”

“… leading to fewer births and to more deaths among caribou calves.”

“”Variation in the landscape provides an insurance policy for
animals, like caribou, that count on being able to climb to the top
of the next hill or go across the next valley to find plants that are
still newly emergent and highly nutritious. Climate change is
reducing the value of that insurance policy,” said Post.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080521201206.htm
Climate Change Does Double-whammy To Animals In Seasonal Environments

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UK Climate Change: Agriculture/Wine-making

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Imperial College London

Public release date: 25-May-2008
Contact:
Danielle Reeves
danielle.reeves@imperial.ac.uk
44-020-759-42198

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” … Selley predicts that … cool and intermediate … varieties
will be confined to
the far north of England … with ‘warm’ and ‘hot’ varieties seen throughout
the midlands and south of England.”
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Research suggests parts of UK could be too hot for wine-making by 2080

Increasing summer temperatures could mean some parts of southern
England are too hot to grow vines for making wine by 2080, according
to a new book launched today (26 May 2008).

The author, Emeritus Professor Richard Selley from Imperial College
London, claims that if average summer temperatures in the UK continue
to rise as predicted, the Thames Valley, parts of Hampshire and the
Severn valley, which currently contain many vineyards, will be too
hot to support wine production within the next 75 years.

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Asheville Rising Tide builds green power plant in Duke CEO’s front yard

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May 25, 2008 – Charlotte, NC Today, activists with Asheville Rising Tide broke ground on a new 800 Mw clean energy power plant in Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers front yard. The power plant will tap into a previously unexplored energy source known as hot air which has been found in large concentrations at Roger’s residence, 330 Eastover Rd, Charlotte, NC. “The hot air emitting from Jim Rogers mouth has been around for quite some time, but the last couple of years has seen an exponential growth of this untapped energy source as Rogers parades around the country calling for greenhouse gas reductions while building the dirty Cliffside coal plant. This was simply an opportunity we couldn’t pass up,” said Jill Rockingham, chief engineer for the project. Continue reading