Year: 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 8, 2008
10:04 AM

 CONTACT: Center for Biological Diversity
Jonathan Evans, Center for Biological Diversity, (213) 598-1466
Joan Taylor, Sierra Club, (760) 408-2488

California Court Rules Land-use Decisions Must Address Global Warming:
Plans for Palmwood Mega-Resort Thrown Out
 
INDIO, California – August 8 – In response to a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, a California court has rejected a proposal to build a controversial luxury resort and golf course because the project’s environmental study failed to analyze the project’s greenhouse gas emissions. The lawsuit had challenged the city of Desert Hot Springs’ approval of the Palmwood resort near Joshua Tree National Park.

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The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
August 9, 2008

Violence to rise as city gets hotter
Kate Lahey

RISING temperatures are likely to bring increased
levels of violence to Melbourne by 2010, and are
highly likely to by 2030, a report being
considered by the city council finds.

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<http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspx?cid=23745&codi=35591&idproducttype=8&level=0>

Excerpts:
     * The number of flood disasters along
Canadian rivers seems to be on the rise, with 70%
of floods over the past century occurring after
1959.
     * Between 1950 and 2000, Canada experienced
at least 37 major droughts, about two thirds of
which occurred in the Prairie provinces.

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