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"Going with climate's flow; Environmentalists shift approach, planning to adapt to nature's changes" by Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | December 26, 2008
Environmental advocates, wildlife officials, and land trusts charged with protecting the natural world are beginning to take a new approach to climate change: rather than focus only on stopping it, they are also thinking about how to adapt to what's coming....
Yeah, it has gone from GLOBAL WARMING to CLIMATE CHANGE!
The reason being so that they can BLAME YOU!!!
More immediately, it means restoring bogs that could help prevent flooding, or serve as a fallback position for wildlife if sea levels rise....
Whadda ya mean IF? I've heard THEY WILL or YEARS!!! Oh, the "science" not EXACT is it?
This shift in approach comes as President-elect Obama recently announced his environmental team, calling global warming an urgent issue. Locally, a range of environmentalists and state officials are trying to anticipate the effects of climate change.... The state is focusing on creating tracts of unbroken wild space that provide a large, resilient habitat for species to weather climate change....
This is all about globalist land seizures, isn't it?
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In Hanson and Halifax, state environmental officials are restoring a cranberry bog, creating a more natural wetlands at Burrage Pond. The idea is that the wetlands will soak up water, helping to prevent flooding - and also act as a refuge for wildlife driven inland if coastal wetlands are submerged as sea level rises.
Whadda ya mean IF?
Elsewhere in Southeastern Massachusetts, state officials are partners in removing dams from Red Brook, in part so that salter brook trout will be able to find a cool habitat if the rest of the stream warms.
"It's pretty clear that what we've traditionally thought of as natural communities in Massachusetts, because of these warming temperatures, are probably going to change," said Mary Griffin, commissioner of the state department of fish and game. "As a department, we're thinking there are a number of actions we can take today in everything we do . . . we will use the climate change science as a factor in a lot of the things we do day to day," from land acquisition to habitat management.
Next year, the state plans to factor in climate change in making land acquisitions. Last month, environmental leaders from across the state came together at a first of its kind conference to discuss how to cope with the predicted effects on flora and fauna....
Told you!
Hector Galbraith, director of the climate change initiative at the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, is working with a panel of specialists to rank the vulnerability of habitat around the state to climate change.... While integrating climate change into current planning is relatively new, advocates noted that it was a critical time to rethink environmental strategies.
"I think the traditional conservation approach has embraced a sort of static view of the world, and that climate change is emphasizing the need for every one of us landowners to accept that change is going to happen," said Lisa Vernegaard, director of planning and stewardship at The Trustees of Reservations. "We could sit and wring our hands as change happens, but it would be just that - wringing our hands."
--more--"Yup, global warming.
"High winds whip up more power problems; Thousands of homes lose electrical service" by Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff | December 26, 2008
Scattered power outages darkened Christmas for thousands of families across the state, including in the Fitchburg area, where many residents just had power restored after a two-week blackout....
In the ice storm, 326,000 customers lost power across the state, but thousands in the Fitchburg area remained in the dark for nearly two weeks, some until late on Christmas Eve....
--more--"Even my local is no help:
"Faster Climate Change Feared; New Report Points to Accelerated Melting, Longer Drought" by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post | December 25, 2008
The United States faces the possibility of much more rapid climate change by the end of the century than previous studies have suggested, according to a new report led by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The survey -- which was commissioned by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and issued this month -- expands on the 2007 findings of the United Nations Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change. Looking at factors such as rapid sea ice loss in the Arctic and prolonged drought in the Southwest, the new assessment suggests that earlier projections may have underestimated the climatic shifts that could take place by 2100.
Ice expanse growing in Antarctica
So it appears that Arctic ice isn't vanishing after all
However, the assessment also suggests that some other feared effects of global warming are not likely to occur by the end of the century, such as an abrupt release of methane from the seabed and permafrost or a shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean circulation system that brings warm water north and colder water south.
Yeah, because IT AIN'T HAPPENIN'!!!
But the report projects an amount of potential sea level rise during that period that may be greater than what other researchers have anticipated, as well as a shift to a more arid climate pattern in the Southwest by mid-century. Thirty-two scientists from federal and non-federal institutions contributed to the report, which took nearly two years to complete. The Climate Change Science Program, which was established in 1990, coordinates the climate research of 13 different federal agencies.
Tom Armstrong, senior adviser for global change programs at USGS, said the report "shows how quickly the information is advancing" on potential climate shifts. The prospect of abrupt climate change, he said, "is one of those things that keeps people up at night, because it's a low-probability but high-risk scenario. It's unlikely to happen in our lifetimes, but if it were to occur, it would be life-changing."
Oh, so now we are in a "Day After Tomorrow" scenario?
Pfffffffttttt!!!!!
In one of the report's most worrisome findings, the agency estimates that in light of recent ice sheet melting, global sea level rise could be as much as four feet by 2100. The IPCC had projected a sea level rise of no more than 1.5 feet by that time, but satellite data over the past two years show the world's major ice sheets are melting much more rapidly than previously thought.
If they are LYING ABOUT THAT, why should we believe them about anything?
The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are now losing an average of 48 cubic miles of ice a year, equivalent to twice the amount of ice that exists in the Alps. Konrad Steffen, who directs the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and was lead author on the report's chapter on ice sheets, said the models the IPCC used did not factor in some of the dynamics that scientists now understand about ice sheet melting. Among other things, Steffen and his collaborators have identified a process of "lubrication," in which warmer ocean water gets in underneath coastal ice sheets and accelerates melting.
Maybe it was the underwater volcanoes?
Scientists also looked at the prospect of prolonged drought over the next 100 years. They said it is impossible to determine yet whether human activity is responsible for the drought the Southwestern United States has experienced over the past decade, but every indication suggests the region will become consistently drier in the next several decades....
You guys are kidding around, right?
And just to add insult to injury, the Globe slides this story (absent my paper) in on its website:
"Winter storm blankets West, heads east
RENO - As much of the country awoke to a welcome reprieve from heavy snowfall and ice-slickened roads, a new winter storm in the West snarled holiday traffic and darkened lights on Christmas trees in thousands of homes yesterday.
In the Sierra Nevada, heavy snow and whiteout conditions led police to shut down an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 80 for several hours between the California-Nevada line and Applegate, Calif.
About 10,000 Salt Lake City-area residents were without electricity yesterday morning after nearly a foot of snow fell in frigid temperatures. Utilities restored power within the hour.
The Utah snowstorm prompted winter storm warnings across western Colorado.
--more--"Yeah, whatever....
