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• Chance of Rain Reviews “Tree Rings’ Tale”

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 464
  Emily Green had some kind words for my book in the LA Times : Many texts about climate change begin with rapidly melting polar ice, but Fleck’s opens instead with the 19th century explorer John Wesley Powell and his navigation of the Colorado River. Ferociously wild in Powell’s time, the Colorado is tamed by ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The Great Unraveling

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 464
  Michael Gardner has a nice summary of what’s at stake in the litigation blocking the complex deal under which California agrees to throttle back its use of Colorado River water: Southern California’s water managers insist it should be easy to overcome the latest challenge to a landmark, seven-state pact to ...
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• Colorado River water pact in jeopardy: Ruling covering Salton Sea could unravel complex deals

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 499
  From the San Diego Union Tribune:“Southern California’s water managers insist it should be easy to overcome the latest challenge to a landmark, seven-state pact to share the Colorado River that also produced a vast new supply of water for the San Diego region.But nearly a century of litigation and political ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Odds of Extra Water for Mead Drop

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 464
  It remains too early to say a whole lot about what to expect in the 2009-2010 water year on the Colorado River, but the odds of extra water to buck up Lake Mead are dropping. Last month, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation put the chances at 50-50 that there would be enough water in Lake Powell to spill extra, above and ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Water planning after the age of infrastructure

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 499
  From Planetizen, an article on that begins with the early history of the Colorado River, and continues:” … As the Homestead Act was pushing farmers westward and checkerboarding the uninhabited territories, Powell compiled his experiences exploring the rivers and lands of the western U.S. into a report and ...
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• Colorado River Citizens Forum takes place in Valley

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 499
  From the Imperial Valley Press:“The International Boundary and Water Commission held its Colorado River Citizens Forum in El Centro on Monday to update the forum’s board on various projects in the Valley. The event took place in the Imperial Irrigation District’s Condit Auditorium on Broadway Street.Anna ...
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• Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: E-Mails Don’t Put Water in the Colorado River

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 464
  From this morning’s newspaper : Here in the Southwest, the question of whether we can trust climate science — not the few scientists involved in the e-mails, but the enterprise as a whole — matters a great deal because of what the science’s leading practitioners have been telling us in recent years. Tucked ...
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• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
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• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
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• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• Managing A River, Naturally

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 132
  By damming the Colorado River, we changed a natural environment in to a managed one. Now, we’re learning to manage that environment in a way that…seems more natural. The Department of the Interior will undertake an experimental initiative to improve the management of Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River as ...
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• Saturday’s top of the scroll: Grand Canyon sandbar restoration planned with high water flows from Glen Canyon dam

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 499
  From the Environment News Service:“The Department of the Interior will undertake an experimental initiative to improve the management of Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River as it flows through Grand Canyon National Park, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Thursday during the Colorado River Water ...
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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• US Summer Trip 2009 in Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon

  
  SkyMinds.Net — Authority: 125
  Voici la neuvième journée de l’ US Summer Trip 2009 . Il est 6h du matin et nous sommes déjà dans le hall sud du Golden Nugget, qui se trouve être quasiment en face du Plaza, ce qui est plutôt pratique. Nous attendons le bus qui doit nous emmener à l’aérodrome de Boulder City. Quelques bus ...
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