Global Warming- President’s Vision Encompasses A Next-Generation Energy SystemBy Elizabeth SteinTuesday’s State of the Union (SOTU) speech included much that was music to environmentalists’ ears. The headline, of course, is the commitment to take serious action to address the most significant challenge our generation faces – climate change. And, with it, the extreme weather and public health burdens that are already making life hard […]
- Latest Mississippi River Delta News: February 14, 2013BP feud with US government over gulf oil spill heats up By Harry R. Weber, FuelFix. February 13, 2012. "BP is preparing for battle with the U.S. government as it steps up its efforts to defend itself against up to $21 billion in civil fines that it could face in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill…" (Read more) Groups concerned RESTOR […]
- Signed, sealed, delivered: 133,501 petitions to #makeBPpayBy Ryan Rastegar and Elizabeth Skree, Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign Today, staff from Environmental Defense Fund, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society and Earthworks hand delivered 133,501 petitions to the U.S. Department of Justice, urging them to hold BP accountable to the fullest extent of the law for the 2010 gulf oil dis […]
- President’s Vision Encompasses A Next-Generation Energy System
- State Of The Climate
- January 2013 National OverviewThe average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during January was 32.0°F, 1.6°F above the 20th century average, tying with 1958 as the 39th warmest January on record. The January nationally-averaged precipitation total of 2.36 inches was 0.14 inch above the long-term average. The January precipitation average masked both wet and dry extremes across the nati […]
- January 2013 Synoptic DiscussionJanuary is the heart of the winter season when the cold polar air masses of the circumpolar vortex have the greatest likelihood of expanding south across the United States. The polar jet stream (which marks the edge of the circumpolar vortex and the boundary between the cold polar air masses to the north and the warmer sub-tropical air masses to the south) w […]
- January 2013 WildfiresFor January 2013, 964 fires (2nd most on record) burned 8,573 acres (2nd most on record) , which is 8.9 acres burned/fire (4th most on record). […]
- January 2013 National Overview
Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
- NOAA
- Louis W. Uccellini selected as next director of NOAA’s National Weather Service
- Research finds new way to identify which El Niño events will have biggest impact on U.S. winter weather
- Bamford named new assistant administrator for NOAA's National Ocean Service
- Tortugas marine reserve yields more, larger fish
- Free nautical 'BookletCharts' available for boaters
- Air
- Koch Nitrogen Company to Pay $380,000 Civil Penalty for Clean Air Act Violations at Facilities in Iowa and KansasEnvironmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Lenexa, Kan., Feb. 13, 2013) - Koch Nitrogen Company LLC has agreed to pay a $380,000 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at facilities in Iowa and Kansas. Inspections of three of Koch’s facilities in 2007 and 2009 revealed violations of the risk management program required by the Clean Ai […]
- Koch Nitrogen Company to Pay $380,000 Civil Penalty for Clean Air Act Violations at Facilities in Iowa and Kansas
- Water
- Presque Isle Bay Removed from Great Lakes “Area of Concern” List; Second Area in U.S. to be DelistedWASHINGTON (Feb. 14, 2012) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that Presque Isle Bay, on the Pennsylvania shore of Lake Erie, has been removed from the list of heavily contaminated Great Lakes sites targeted for cleanup by the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Environmental conditions in Presque Isle Bay have significantly […]
- Presque Isle Bay Removed from Great Lakes “Area of Concern” List; Second Area in U.S. to be Delisted
- EPA
- Ocean Temperatures
- Buffalo, NYRecent Water Temperature: 32.0°F (-0.0°C) Observation Date and Time: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:54:00 GMT […]
- Cleveland, OHRecent Water Temperature: 37.4°F (3.0°C) Observation Date and Time: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:54:00 GMT […]
- Eagle Point, TXRecent Water Temperature: 55.6°F (13.1°C) Observation Date and Time: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:54:00 GMT […]
- Buffalo, NY
- Invasive Species
- NRCS Accepts Applications for Conservation Innovation Grants (Feb 14, 2013)NRCS Accepts Applications for Conservation Innovation Grants (Feb 14, 2013)USDA's... […]
- Tree and Human Health May be Linked (Jan 16, 2013)Tree and Human Health May be Linked (Jan 16, 2013)Evidence... […]
- NRCS Accepts Applications for Conservation Innovation Grants (Feb 14, 2013)
- Energy Research
- Technologist Richard Simpson: Helping solve Sandia's unique problems
Principal technologist Richard Simpson at DOE's Sandia National Laboratories has filled a canyon with soap bubbles, shot photos of flaming liquefied natural gas from a helicopter, floated balloons hundreds of feet in the air to calibrate cameras, chopped out pieces of a Cape Canaveral launch pad to haul across the country for tests and hoisted a beer with Paul Tibbets, pilot of the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan in World War II.
He also has been audited for buying such things as party bubble juice on his government procurement card.
"You buy 20 party bubble machines, they kind of wonder why. You buy 50 gallons of party bubble juice, and they really wonder why," he said.
Richard Simpson has a pretty interesting job.
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Long baseline neutrino experiment moves forwardAccording to current understanding, the most abundant particle in the universe is the neutral, almost massless, and virtually undetectable neutrino. […]
- Technologist Richard Simpson: Helping solve Sandia's unique problems
Principal technologist Richard Simpson at DOE's Sandia National Laboratories has filled a canyon with soap bubbles, shot photos of flaming liquefied natural gas from a helicopter, floated balloons hundreds of feet in the air to calibrate cameras, chopped out pieces of a Cape Canaveral launch pad to haul across the country for tests and hoisted a beer with Paul Tibbets, pilot of the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan in World War II.
He also has been audited for buying such things as party bubble juice on his government procurement card.
"You buy 20 party bubble machines, they kind of wonder why. You buy 50 gallons of party bubble juice, and they really wonder why," he said.
Richard Simpson has a pretty interesting job.
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Long baseline neutrino experiment moves forward
- Energy Savers
- Gifting Our Children with Energy AwarenessGifting Our Children with Energy Awareness Teaching our children about energy efficiency will help them preserve their planet. […]
- Gifting Our Children with Energy Awareness
- Food And Drugs
- U.S. Marshals seize drug products distributed by a Florida companyU.S. Marshals, acting on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, today seized tainted dietary supplements from Globe All Wellness, LLC (Globe All), in Hollywood, Fla. The products may be unsafe because they contain an undisclosed active pharmaceutical ingredient. […]
- U.S. Marshals seize drug products distributed by a Florida company
- Consumer Health
- Searching Online for 'Hemorrhoids'?In Google's annual roundup of popular search terms, hemorrhoids was the top trending health issue in the United States for 2012. Learn what causes hemorrhoids, how are they treated, and preventive steps you can take to keep from having hemorrhoids yourself. […]
- Searching Online for 'Hemorrhoids'?
The National Climate Assessment
Believe it or not, the United States government is actually taking global warming seriously. A study mandated by congress, National Climate Assessment and Development Climate Assessment, highlights the impact of global warming on health, infrastructure, water supply, agriculture and especially more volatile weather.
The costs of climate change are escalating rapidly. Will we be able to adapt?
1. Substantial adaptation planning is occurring in the public and private sectors and at all levels of government, however, few measures have been implemented and those that have appear to be incremental changes.
2. Barriers to implementation of adaptation action include lack of funding, policy and legal impediments, and difficulty in anticipating climate-related changes at local scales.
3. There is no “one-size fits all” adaptation, but there are similarities in approaches across regions and sectors. Sharing best practices, learning by doing, and iterative and collaborative processes including stakeholder involvement, can help support progress.
4. Climate change adaptation actions often fulfill other societal goals, such as sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, or improvements in quality of life, and can therefore be incorporated into existing decision-making processes.
5. Vulnerability to climate change is exacerbated by other stresses such as pollution and habitat fragmentation. Adaptation to multiple stresses requires assessment of the composite threats as well as tradeoffs amongst costs, benefits, and risks of available options.
6. The effectiveness of climate change adaptation has seldom been evaluated, because actions have only recently been initiated, and comprehensive evaluation metrics do not yet exist.