Articles 4/11/08
"Homebuyers need more information about the homes they are buying when they are buying. There should be a way for them to have easy access to information like how efficiently a home will use energy and water, how healthful and eco-friendly its materials are, and the price of a home needs to be discussed in terms of long-term monthly costs rather than the hardly relevant upfront cost." Source
"The Inuit recently filed a petition ... (t)he petition asks the commission to declare that the US is responsible for the violation of their rights. They also seek remedial recommendations that the US limit greenhouse gas emissions, establish a plan to protect Inuit culture and resources, mitigate any harm caused to the resources and implement a plan to provide assistance for the Inuit to adapt to unavoidable impacts of climate change." Source
"[T]here may be an unprecedented swarm of jellyfish heading for Europe ... Mr Brotz calls jellyfish “harbingers of change”. The solution isn’t to find ways of using them but to “stop polluting the ocean with nutrients and stop over fishing.” Source
"Mature and old growth forests can store or sequester extraordinary amounts of carbon, such as in the forests of the Pacific Northwest," said Dr. Jerry F. Franklin, a Professor with the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources. "An analogy would be that older forests can be viewed as having very large capital reserves, whereas younger forests have high cash flow, or carbon uptake, but contain very little capital, such as sequestered carbon. There's also a high 'transaction cost' when you 'liquidate' this stored carbon by harvesting the forest. The harvested sites are significant carbon sources leaking carbon dioxide to the atmosphere for many years to decades following the harvest." Source
"The West(ern United States) is now heating up at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world: While the global climate has "averaged 1.0 degree Fahrenheit warmer than its 20th century average," there are 11 western states which "averaged 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the region's 20th century average—which represents 70 percent more warming than for the world as a whole."Source
"The Inuit recently filed a petition ... (t)he petition asks the commission to declare that the US is responsible for the violation of their rights. They also seek remedial recommendations that the US limit greenhouse gas emissions, establish a plan to protect Inuit culture and resources, mitigate any harm caused to the resources and implement a plan to provide assistance for the Inuit to adapt to unavoidable impacts of climate change." Source
"[T]here may be an unprecedented swarm of jellyfish heading for Europe ... Mr Brotz calls jellyfish “harbingers of change”. The solution isn’t to find ways of using them but to “stop polluting the ocean with nutrients and stop over fishing.” Source
"Mature and old growth forests can store or sequester extraordinary amounts of carbon, such as in the forests of the Pacific Northwest," said Dr. Jerry F. Franklin, a Professor with the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources. "An analogy would be that older forests can be viewed as having very large capital reserves, whereas younger forests have high cash flow, or carbon uptake, but contain very little capital, such as sequestered carbon. There's also a high 'transaction cost' when you 'liquidate' this stored carbon by harvesting the forest. The harvested sites are significant carbon sources leaking carbon dioxide to the atmosphere for many years to decades following the harvest." Source
"The West(ern United States) is now heating up at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world: While the global climate has "averaged 1.0 degree Fahrenheit warmer than its 20th century average," there are 11 western states which "averaged 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the region's 20th century average—which represents 70 percent more warming than for the world as a whole."Source
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