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Call for Christie to consider climate change in Shore rebuilding
2013-02-18 12:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: Did global warming and rising sea levels trigger Hurricane Sandy? And does it matter? Gov. Christie says it doesn't. Whether environmental changes caused the storm is an "esoteric question," he said at a news conference at the Shore earlier this month. Victims of the storm don't "give a damn" either - as confirmed by a group of Sandy survivors who applauded Christie's remark. But scientists say they all need to start caring. Because regardless of what caused Sandy, even those skeptical about...
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03.14: The Golden Shore: California's Love Affair with the Sea
2013-02-12 21:36:33| Powells Books Events Calendar
Part history, part travelogue, part love letter, The Golden Shore (Thomas Dunne) tells the story of California's majestic coastline and ocean. David Helvarg captures the spirit of the California coast, its mythic place in American culture, and its role in a state whose ongoing natural disasters and unremitting sense of renewal are intimately linked to its deep connection with an ever-changing sea.
03.14: The Golden Shore: California's Love Affair with the Sea
2013-02-08 23:36:04| Powells Books Events Calendar
Part history, part travelogue, part love letter, The Golden Shore (Thomas Dunne) tells the story of California's majestic coastline and ocean. David Helvarg captures the spirit of the California coast, its mythic place in American culture, and its role in a state whose ongoing natural disasters and unremitting sense of renewal are intimately linked to its deep connection with an ever-changing sea.
Food security: Agriculture groups shore up financing for seed banks to help farmers adapt to climate change
2013-02-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The DNA of the world's food crops just got a little more secure. Two leading agricultural organizations, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and CGIAR (formerly known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Consortium, have agreed to invest $109 million over the next five years in the world's seed banks, which maintain 706,000 samples of seeds and vegetative material. Most of the funds will go into maintenance and regular operations in the seed banks at 11 CGIAR research...
Christie's backing of federal shore rules raises worries
2013-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: Shore houses that have been in working-class families for generations will be abandoned. Property values will spiral downward, leaving Shore towns' budgets in tatters. That is the dire scenario painted by a growing coalition of federal, state, and local officials along the Jersey Shore after Gov. Christie's announcement last week that New Jersey would adopt the federal government's preliminary floodplain maps - which would effectively require houses along large swaths of the Shore to be elevated...
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