Rated • 1 review • botany, photography • flickr.com
Rated • 1 review • politics, california, global warming • legalnewsline.com
From the page: "SACRAMENTO -- California Attorney General Jerry Brown is taking his anti-GHG lecture show for local government officials on the road.
Brown this week announced he had invited more than 500 local officials to attend "workshops where they can learn practical ways to combat global warming by reducing dangerous greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions." The sessions will be held in five locations over two months starting in March.
Brown ran similar ideas by California's county officials at their annual meeting last November when he reeled off lists of ideas for county planners to cut local GHG emissions, LNL reported. Among his ideas were more high-density housing, reductions in parking and changes to building designs.
The latest idea "aims to provide concrete tips for addressing global warming in CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) documents," Brown's invitation letter stated. CEQA requires all California's public agencies to contribute to lowering state GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 with rules taking effect 2012."
Rated • 2 reviews • marine biology, global warming • sfgate.com
From the page: "Peering into the murky depths, Jane Lubchenco searched for sea life, but all she saw were signs of death.
Video images scanned from the seafloor revealed a boneyard of crab skeletons, dead fish and other marine life smothered under a white mat of bacteria. At times, the camera's unblinking eye revealed nothing - a barren undersea desert in waters renowned for their bounty of Dungeness crabs and fat rockfish.
"We couldn't believe our eyes," Lubchenco said, recalling her initial impression of the carnage brought about by oxygen-starved waters. "It was so overwhelming and depressing. It appeared that everything that couldn't swim or scuttle away had died."
Upon further study, Lubchenco and other marine ecologists at Oregon State University concluded that that the undersea plague appears to be a symptom of global warming. In a study published in the journal Science, the researchers note how these low-oxygen waters have expanded north into Washington and crept south as far as the California state line. And, they appear to be as regular as the tides, a cycle that has repeated itself every summer and fall since 2002.
"We seem to have crossed a tipping point," Lubchenco said. "Low-oxygen zones off the Northwest coast appear to be the new normal."
Rated • 1 review • politics, hawaii • honoluluadvertiser.com
Obama swept all of Hawaii's 51 districts
Honolulu Advertiser
February 21, 2008
From the page: "Party leaders had never had more than 5,000 people attend the caucuses and no one -- including the most optimistic local Obama volunteers -- predicted that turnout would be over 37,000."
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On the Road to Shigatze
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Rated • 2 reviews • bizarre, energy efficiency • citymill.com
TARPFOIL
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Rated • 1 review • politics, hawaii • honoluluadvertiser.com
Rated • 1 review • real estate, california, global warming • mercurynews.com
Brown to launch anti-warming effort
LOCAL OFFICIALS CONSIDERED LIKELY TO RESIST WORKSHOPS
By Steve Geissinger
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau
Article Launched: 02/19/2008 01:35:26 AM PST
From the page: "SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Jerry Brown is taking the global warming enlightenment skills he honed in the Bay Area across the rest of California today - a move that even supporters such as San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said will meet resistance.
Monday, Brown's aides told MediaNews he will announce he is convening voluntary regional schools for California's more than 500 county supervisors and mayors to advocate tough actions such new transportation impact fees and costly energy-efficiency.
"These workshops launch the first statewide movement to reduce the negative impact of local planning decisions on global climate," Brown said in a letter.
Although attendance is not required, Brown has, however, legally leaned on 23 individual local entities in search of reduced greenhouse gases. In the East Bay, he negotiated an agreement with ConocoPhillips on specific greenhouse gas reduction strategies.
"California must adopt the necessary changes that will encourage economic growth while reducing greenhouse gases," he said. "This difficult transition from our current escalating dependence on fossil fuel demands that cities and counties encourage maximum building efficiency and innovative land-use."
