These are news blurbs I got by searching Google News for “la nina.” To read any of them, go to: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&q=%22la+nina%22&btnG=Search Lance Bolivia: Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 9 ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland – 1 hour ago The Civil Defense reported a cumulative total of 58,929 affected families and 52… Continue reading
Web address: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071027180556.htm Land Clearing Triggers Hotter Droughts, Australian Research Shows ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2007) – A University of Queensland scientist has led groundbreaking research which shows that clearing of native vegetation has made recent Australian droughts hotter. In an Australian first, they applied the CSIRO Mark 3 climate model,… Continue reading
——————————————- ” … halfway measures won’t do the job. To stabilize our planet’s climate, we need to find ways to kick the carbon habit altogether.” —————————————– Carnegie Institution Public release date: 14-Feb-2008 Contact: Ken Caldeira kcaldeira@stanford.edu 650-704-7212 Stabilizing climate requires near-zero carbon emissions Now that scientists have reached a consensus… Continue reading
———————————— “NBCD2000 will provide an invaluable baseline for quantifying the carbon stock in U.S. forests and will improve current methods of assessing the carbon flux between forests and the atmosphere.” “The data sets that are now available should be of interest to natural resource managers across the U.S. For the… Continue reading