Mass migration on the horizon. Expect lots of cheap real estate, emptied highways. Lance ————————————————————- “The Las Vegas Valley gets 90 percent of its drinking water from the river, which also supplies tens of millions of people in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. “The UNLV study is… Continue reading
Billings Gazette (Billings, Montana) December 12, 2008. Forest Service peers into future with climate change http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/12/12/news/state/27-climatechange.txt By BRETT FRENCH Of The Gazette Staff More weeds, loss of some plant and animal species and more intense wildfires are some of the future scenarios the U.S. Forest Service faces under the looming… Continue reading
—————————————- “As CO2 increases and weather patterns shift, the chemical composition of our rivers will change, and this will affect the oceans,” says co-author Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology. “What we learned from this work is that the ocean system is much more sensitive to… Continue reading
For Immediate Release 11 December, 2008 Groups unite to challenge the definition of forests under UNFCCC/REDD Poznan, Poland (UN Climate Conference)–Global Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society, World Rainforest Movement, Global Justice Ecology Project, Via Campesina, the International Youth Delegation and the STOP GE Trees Campaign united today to challenge the… Continue reading