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- Proposed program for homeowners would reduce flooding risk (www.northernlife.ca)City staff are seeking council approval for a subsidy program that would help cover the cost of flood-prevention measures in homes at a high risk of flood or sewer backup.
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2003 European heat wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org)The 2003 European heat wave is one of the hottest summers on record in Europe, especially in France. The heat wave led to health crises in several countries and combined with drought to create a crop shortfall in Southern Europe. More than 30,000 Europeans died as a result of the heat wave
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3.A tree a day for each car -Len Wiseman Lively (www.thesudburystar.com)
I appreciate the Green Planet presentations that give us some important means of assessing our own impact on the planet.
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4.Ash cloud from Iceland volcano halts air traffic across Europe, effects reverberate worldwide (ca.news.yahoo.com)
An ash cloud from Iceland's spewing volcano halted air traffic across a wide swath of Europe on Thursday, grounding planes on a scale unseen since the 2001 terror attacks
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5.Global warming poses threat to city lands (www.thesudburystar.com)
It's alarming how much of Greater's Sudbury is built on flood plains and just how few people know it, says Liette Vasseur, co-chair of Greater Sudbury's Climate Change Consortium.
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Sudbury Environmental News - Reducing global warming needs ‘war-time effort’ (www.northernlife.ca)Climate change educator and activist David Noble Some city councillors and community leaders have said the city needs to be prepared for climate change by preparing plans and engaging the public.
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Let's not fret over climate migration (www.theglobeandmail.com)The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has claimed in its reports that the most profound single impact of climate change will be “climate migration” – the displacement of as many as 200 million poor people to big cities and other countries due to flooding, shoreline erosion or drought.
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Police investigate Nude Snow Woman (www.nj.com)Police told a Rahway, New Jersey family to cover their nude snow woman after an anonymous complaint.
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In the past few years, a rhetorical firestorm has engulfed the debate about global warming, pitting science against spin, with inflammatory words on both sides. That debate only intensifed recently when former Vice-President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize for his populist environmental campaign.
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Climate Change's O.J. Simpson Moment (www.tomdispatch.com)“In early 2009,” writes Bill McKibben in a soon-to-be-published new book, “just as Obama was getting set to unveil his energy plans, word came that 2,340 lobbyists had registered to work on climate change on Capitol Hill (that’s about six per congressman), 85 percent of them devoted to slowing down progress.”
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11.Most Credible Climate Skeptic Not So Credible After All | Mother Jones (motherjones.com)
Michaels' credibility on climate is called into question by a trove of documents from a 2007 court case that attracted almost no scrutiny at the time. Those documents show that Michaels has financial ties to big energy interests—ties that he's worked hard to keep secret
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Siding with skeptics, Tory MP decries climate-change 'alarmism' (www.theglobeandmail.com)Opposition attacks Conservative government's sincerity on global warming after Maxime Bernier publicly questions scientific consensus
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Sudbury examines better flood response (www.northernlife.ca)After the June 26 flood, city staff formed a working group to look into the flood results and possible prevention measures.Their third and final report was presented to city council on Feb. 10.
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Winter continues to confuse Sudbury (www.thesudburystar.com)While December got the local snowmobiling season off to a good start with a healthy dose of the white stuff, January was snow-parched. In fact, a low snowfall record was almost set. February, likewise, has been pretty short of snow to date.
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Culture Change - Climate Science: Shooting the Messenger (www.culturechange.org)Regarding the recent attacks on top climate scientists, Radio Ecoshock takes the case of Richard B. Alley
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Look Beyond Forests to Fight Climate Change (northernwoodlands.org)Here’s an important point to make for those of you deeply concerned about climate change: We’re not going to solve the problem by promoting forest growth
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Effects of climate change migrating North. (www.thesudburystar.com)Complicating the best-laid regreening plans is the interminable march of climate change, which will also compete to shape our landscape. Thus, the next few decades will bring as much dramatic change as the last few.
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Olympic no-show snow due to climate change: scientist (ca.news.yahoo.com)The David Suzuki Foundation says global warming and climate change are in part responsible for what's happening to a key Olympic venue.
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January may set a new record (www.thesudburystar.com)Last winter, it was a case of too much snow and not enough places to put it.This winter in Greater Sudbury and across much of the northeast, it's a case of not enough. And it's also barely cold enough to hold onto what's come down.
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James Hansen's Storms of My Grandchildren. (slate.com)NASA's Prophet Will Give You Nightmares. Ignore James Hansen's climate predictions at your peril
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U.N. Official, Yvo de Boer, Says Climate Deal Is at Risk - NYTimes.com (www.nytimes.com)Facing a Jan. 31 deadline, major countries have yet to submit their plans for reducing emissions of climate-altering gases, one of the major provisions of the agreement,
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Arctic a growing security issue for U.S.; CIA shares spy photos of ice cap (ca.news.yahoo.com)The CIA normally concerns itself with terrorism and other threats to U.S. security, so the recent revelation that it is routinely monitoring the Arctic's rapidly shrinking ice cap, and now sharing spy satellite photos with climate-change scientists, caught some by surprise.
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Reinventing cities critical to climate (marketplace.publicradio.org)Most of the hard work building a low-carbon economy and lifestyle is going to be done in local communities. Commentator Alex Steffen says more than ever, acting globally means acting locally.
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Canada destroys websites parodying climate policy - thegreenpages (www.thegreenpages.ca)The government of Canada has used strong-arm tactics to shut down two parody websites criticizing Canada's poor environmental policy, taking down 4500 other websites in the process.
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An Eco-Activist in Bali (thetyee.ca)As co-founder of ForestEthics, Tzeporah Berman has been at the front lines of environmental causes in British Columbia for years. This piece is drawn from her Bali blog,
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