America and Europe face a “disaster in the making” because of Congress budget cuts to a critical weather satellite, one of Barack Obamas top science officials has warned.
The satellite crosses the Earths poles 14 times a day, monitoring the atmosphere, clouds, ice, vegetation, and oceans. It provides 90% of the information used by the National Weather Service, UK Met Office and other European agencies to predict severe storms up to seven days in advance.
But Republican budget-cutting measures would knock out that critical capacity by delaying the launch of the next generation of polar-orbiting satellites, said Jane Lubchenco, who heads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency.
Read more at Weather satellite budget cuts a disaster in the making – Obama official | Science | guardian.co.uk.
An effort to get Barack Obama to re-install 32 solar panels that were originally installed at the White House in 1979 during the Carter administration - ended in disappointment for environmental campaigners today.
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Hong Kong's Clean Air Network has decided to forego the serious serious approach to raising awareness about the city's air pollution. Check it out.
As reported in deslogblog.com, "Notorious climate skeptic Pat Michaels of the CATO Institute finally admitted openly on CNN this weekend that 40 percent of his funding comes from - wait for it - Big Oil."
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A warming climate could see millions of adult Mexicans migrate to the US as rising temperatures cause a drop in crop yields, according to a study by researchers at Princeton University.
An international team of climate scientists led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that climate change is "undeniable" and clearly driven by the "human fingerprints" of greenhouse gas emissions. The findings are based on new data that was not reviewed during the most recent 2007 report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The Environmental Protection Agency, showing some of the kind of guts and emotional fortitude that the Senate seems unable to find in the global warming debate, rejected an effort to keep it from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, saying that e-mails released in last fall’s “Climategate” scandal gave it no reason to reconsider the science of global warming.
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