Climate Changes Updates 9 October 2013
1) IMF, World Bank heads lend clout to climate change efforts
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/08/us-imf-climate-idUKBRE99712320131008
2) OECD: ‘No bailout’ for climate threat
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24450438
3) Tropics first region on globe to hit a new climate era, research finds.
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/10/climate-departure
4) Celeb-studded documentary uses scientists, everyday Americans to tell less inconvenient truths
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059988528
5) Marita Noon: fracking is environmentally safe, economically stimulating
6) Alaska sinks as climate change thaws permafrost
7) Penn State climate scientist’s lawsuit puts spotlight on pro-pollution lobby
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-pc-penn-state-climate-scientist-lawsuit-20131008,0,4777243.column#ixzz2hI8OHM2N
8) New analysis confirms the danger of climate change
9) Global warming threatens Hudson Bay Lowlands Arctic refuge
10) Uncertainty lies ahead with Zichal’s exit, but advocates optimistic about continuity
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059988491
11) S. Korea, China hold inaugural talks on climate change
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/10/09/85/0301000000AEN20131009004500315F.html
- Saudi efforts to weaken IPCC report in Stockholm exposed –
http://www.rtcc.org/2013/10/09/saudi-arabia-implicated-in-attempts-to-obstruct-ipcc-report/
- Tropics set to face critical climate change within decade –
http://www.rtcc.org/2013/10/09/tropics-set-to-face-critical-climate-change-within-decade/
- OECD chief: carbon price vital to address climate change –
http://www.rtcc.org/2013/10/09/oecd-chief-carbon-price-vital-to-address-climate-change/
One very good example would be the vilalge of Kivalina in Alaska. They have to re-locate the entire vilalge because there ground is melting. They are trying to sue oil companies for global warming in order to come up with the $400 Million needed to move the vilalge of 400 people. (I don’t know how it cost $1 Million per person).Another example could be the southwest and the severe water and energy shortage that may be just a few years away. Lake Mead is drying up and the water level may soon be too low to produce elecricity at Hoover Dam. (You can google for that, there are lots of stories about it. The study that concluded that climate change is contributing was performed by Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego.)