"Yosemite's Largest Ice Mass Is Melting Fast"
"Lyell Glacier has shrunk 62% over the past century and hasn't moved in years. It's a key source of water in the park, and scientists say it will be gone in 20 years."
Source: LA Times, 10/04/2013
Climate Change
"First Global Emissions Market for Airlines Wins Support"
"China, India and the U.S. joined others nations in approving a road map for building the first global market to reduce emissions from the $708 billion airlines industry."
Source: Bloomberg, 10/04/2013
"Al Gore: US Media ‘Intimidated, Frightened’ on Climate Change"
"Al Gore ripped U.S. television coverage of climate change Friday, alleging the media is cowering before industry-funded global warming 'deniers.'"
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 10/02/2013
"Freighter Makes First-Of-Its-Kind Transit Of Northwest Passage"
"A Danish shipping company announced Friday the first-ever voyage of a large commercial freighter through the Northwest Passage -- a journey made possible by the disappearance of Arctic ice due to global warming.
Source: NPR, 09/30/2013
Climate Report By IPCC Says Warming ‘Extremely Likely’ Man-Made
"STOCKHOLM -- Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday."
Source: AP, 09/27/2013
Texas Study Reveals Most Residents Believe In Global Warming
"Don’t judge a book by its cover. Or in this case, a state by its politicians. According to a study conducted by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, 70 percent of Texans accept that global warming is taking place."
Source: Huffington Post, 09/26/2013
Live in a Flood Zone? Check Your Insurance. It May Be About To Go Up
"A new federal flood-insurance reform law requires maps to take account of projected sea level rise in designating flood zones, as federal subsidies for properties in flood zones fade to zero."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 09/26/2013
Most US Public Companies Ignore Rule on Climate Risk Disclosure
In 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) required publicly traded companies to disclose to their stockholders (and the public) what business risks they might face from climate change. Almost three-quarters of the companies are still ignoring the rule, and their shareholders are flying blind.
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"Environmental Leaders To Obama: 'No Deal' On Keystone XL Pipeline"
"The leaders of 25 environmental and climate action groups sent an open letter to President Barack Obama on Tuesday, urging him to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and avoid any 'deal-making' with the Canadian government."
Source: Huffington Post, 09/25/2013
"What It Means To Be 95 Percent Certain About Climate Change"
"WASHINGTON -- Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill."
Source: AP, 09/25/2013
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