While the national government remains slow to deal with climate
change, many cities have been moving ahead. … Just ask Los
Angeles. The City of Angels has struggled with the basic fact
that it is a desert metropolis since its founding. …
Virtually no community in America has been untouched by a major
storm, hurricane or flood, a major power outage, a scorching heat
wave or a withering drought. … My goal is to share a
message with thousands of my fellow local elected officials: Our
environmental and energy challenges are also our economic
opportunities.”
“A UCLA study released Friday projects a significant decline
in snowfall on the ranges that provide a dramatic backdrop to
urban Southern California. … The research, funded by the
U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, is
the second study in a series examining the effects of climate
change on the Los Angeles region.”
“A pair of airborne sensors developed by NASA, coupled with
on-the-ground smartphone apps, could make the lives of farmers
like [Zachary] Sheely a little easier. … The flights allow
for accurate mapping of the snow cover and reveal how much
meltwater it is expected to generate.
“A new study from the University of California at Davis finds
that many of California’s unique fish species could go extinct if
global warming continues at current rates.”
“[New York Mayor Michael] Bloomberg on Tuesday unveiled a
$20-billion plan to save New Yorkers from themselves and an
increasingly hostile Mother Nature. … New York plans to
spend billions to gird for rising seas, more rain and nasty
storms brought on by global warming.”
“For at least 20 years now, water scientists have impressed upon
us the unavoidable effects of climate change already under way in
California. … And, yet, we Californians continue to rely
on a decades-old water allocations framework that assumes our
climate will remain unchanged.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources
Conservation Service has set a June 14 deadline for California
farmers and land stewards to apply for the Conservation
Stewardship Program.
The program is designed to provide conservation benefits,
including improvement of water/soil quality, wildlife habitat
enhancement and adoption of conservation practices addressing
climate change.
Un grupo de científicos cree que, si continúan las tendencias
actuales, California podría perder ciertas especies de salmón y
otros peces nativos de agua dulce en el próximo siglo debido al
cambio climático.
If the climate continues to evolve as predicted by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United States
stands little to no chance of satisfying its current biofuel
goals, according to a new study by Rice University and the
University of California at Davis.
I felt slightly hurt. I am an environmentalist — I work for
Greenpeace. Did he think that makes me some moral arbiter of fun,
sternly passing judgment on those who ignore the perils of
climate change to enjoy a weekend
in the mountains?
