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Kenya: Waiting for El Nino

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Samuel Maina - Oct. 09 (Special Report) - Kenyans are waiting for the El Nino rains anticipated between now and December 2009 with mixed feelings. Inasmuch as the El Nino is itself a natural disaster that in it's ‘moderate' form is expected to displace at least 100,000 people and leave 750,000 in need of humanitarian aid according to IRIN, most Kenyans actually want [...]

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Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: U.N.

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 11 (Special Report) - Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark U.N. report said on Thursday. Compiled by 24 U.N. agencies, the 348-page document gave a grim assessment of the state of the planet's freshwater, especially in developing countries, and described the outlook for coming generations as deeply worrying. Water is part of the complex web of factors that determine prosperity and stability, it said. Lack of access to water helps drive poverty and deprivation and breeds the potential for unrest and conflict, it warned.

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Drudge, Fox News again suggest a few days of cold weather trump climate change science

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Mar. 03 (News Analysis) - Following the Drudge Report's lead, Fox News hosts Neil Cavuto, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity each suggested that, in Cavuto's words, a "massive snowstorm," which recently hit the East Coast, calls into question the scientific consensus on "global warming." However, climate scientists reject the notion that short-term changes in weather provide any evidence for or against the existence of climate change.

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Australia Faces Collapse as Climate Change Kicks in: Are the Southwest and California Next?

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joseph Romm - Feb. 02 (Special Report) - Australia has been suffering its worst heatwave on record, the first time temperatures exceeded 110 F for 3 days running. It’s been so hot that on Thursday, the low at Melbourne airport was 87 F. Australia is the canary in the coal mine for climate-driven desertification. The astonishing decade-long drought in southern Australia was declared ‘worst on record’ last year. My headline quote is from the UK’s Independent story, which notes: Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth, is regarded as highly vulnerable. A study by the country’s blue-chip Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation identified its ecosystems as "potentially the most fragile" on earth in the face of the threat.

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Who'll start the rain?

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Suzanne Bopp - Aug. 06 (Special Report) - China is probably the world's largest practitioner of cloud seeding, spending about $90 million a year. Now, eager to ensure rain comes before -- not during -- the Olympics, the Beijing Weather Modification Office plans to seed the clouds that float by beforehand, hoping to wash the pollution from the air and wring out any event-delaying precipitation.

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How Can We Avert Dangerous Climate Change?

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

arxiv.org - By James Hansen - Dec. 25 (Special Report) - We did not face up to the dark side of the industrial revolution until it was thrust in our face. London choked on smog. A river in the United States burned. Forests were damaged by acid rain. Fish died in many lakes. These problems were traced to pollutants from fossil fuels. We have solved or are solving those pollution problems, at least in developed countries. But we did not address them until they hit us with full force. That approach, to wait and see and fix the problems post facto, unfortunately, will not work in the case of global climate change. On the contrary, the inertia of the climate system, the fact that much of the climate change due to gases already in the air is still 'in the pipeline', and the time required for economically-sensible phase-out of existing technologies together have a profound implication. They imply that ignoring the climate problem at this time, for even another decade, would serve to lock in future catastrophic climatic change and impacts that will unfold during the remainder of this century and beyond.

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Media Frenzy and the Forgotten Refugees

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:55:46 -0700

Link TV - Oct. 29 (News Analysis) - As hte California fires rage and millions of Americans are displaced, the US media has mobilized... but what about coverage of another serious displacement issue?

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Hurricane Dean: 1 Of 10 Most Intense Atlantic Hurricanes Ever Measured

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:42:43 -0700

The Daily Green - Aug. 21 (News Report) - Early this morning Hurricane Dean, after mercilessly intensifying over deep warm waters in the western Caribbean, slammed the Yucatan Peninsula around Chetumal as a Category 5 hurricane with winds upwards of 165 miles per hour ...

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The Climate of Denial Changes

Tue, 22 May 2007 07:58:43 -0700

Link TV - May. 22 (Special Report) - (VIDEO - 4:32) Scientists and governments agree that climate change is real. A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms our fears, and news programs worldwide are presenting the facts. Polling graphics created by American University's School of Communication reveal how the largest pollution generating nations intend to deal with the problem. (Part of LinkTV's Global Pulse series: "a fast-moving overview of international news and events comparing reports by national broadcasters and dissecting the media spin -- your global news positioning service.") Sources: NBC and CBS from the U.S.; NHK, Japan; TV5, France; BBC, England; Once Noticias, Mexico.

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