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Oliver Stone – History of the United States – Chapters 1 through 9

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Whole Foods CEO: ‘Climate Change Is Not Necessarily Bad’

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/18/1470631/whole-foods-climate-change/

By Rebecca Leber on Jan 18, 2013 at 12:56 pm

It has been a week of controversial statements from Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. First, the self-described libertarian quickly walked back his statement that Obamacare is “like fascism,” admitting it was a “bad choice of language.” And on Friday Mackey — a longtime denier of manmade climate change — told Mother Jones that warming temperatures is “not necessarily bad”:

Contrary to what has been written about me I am not a “climate-change skeptic.” Climate change is clearly occurring, and based on what I have read global temperatures have increased about 1.5 degrees Celsius over the past 150 years.

We’ve been in a gradual warming trend since the ending of the “Little Ice Age” in about 1870, and climate change is perfectly natural and not necessarily bad. In general, most of humanity tends to flourish more when global temperatures are in a warming trend and I believe we will be able to successfully adapt to gradually rising temperatures. What I am opposed to is trying to stop virtually all economic progress because of the fear of climate change. I would hate to see billions of people condemned to remain in poverty because of climate-change fears.

Mackey makes light of a global issue that has destroyed homes, businesses, and basic resources.
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Amazon rainforest showing signs of degradation due to climate change – Nasa

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/18/amazon-rainforest-climate-change-nasa

Rainforest area twice the size of California experiencing drought rate that is unprecedented in a century, study shows

• Jonathan Watts, Latin America correspondent

guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 January 2013 11.33 EST

The megadrought in the Amazon rainforest during the summer of 2005 caused widespread damage and die-offs to trees, as depicted in this photo taken in western Amazonia in Brazil. Photograph: JPL-Caltech/Nasa

The US space agency Nasa warned this week that the Amazon rainforest may be showing the first signs of large-scale degradation due to climate change.

A team of scientists led by the agency found that an area twice the size of California continues to suffer from a mega-drought that began eight years ago.

The new study shows the severe dry spell in 2005 caused far wider damage than previously estimated and its impact persisted longer than expected until an even harsher drought in 2010.

With little time for the trees to recover between what the authors describe as a “double whammy”, 70m hectares of forest have been severely affected, the analysis of 10 years of satellite microwave radar data revealed.

The data showed a widespread change in the canopy due to the dieback of branches, especially among the older, larger trees that are most vulnerable because they provide the shelter for other vegetation.

“We had expected the forest canopy to bounce back after a year with a new flush of leaf growth, but the damage appeared to persist right up to the subsequent drought in 2010,” said study co-author Yadvinder Malhi of Oxford University. (more).

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Weekend Reading: “What We Know About Climate Change”

What We Know About Climate Change – Kerry Emanuel

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2013/01/18/weekend-reading-what-we-know-about-climate-change/

By David Wogan | January 18, 2013 |

Over the long MLK weekend (in the US), I’ll be reading Kerry Emanuel’s new book “What We Know About Climate Change”. Dr. Emanuel, you might recall, is the MIT climate researcher who coproduced the video urging us to find common ground on climate change. His book, now in its second edition, is an everyman’s guide about the science of climate change: an overview of the stuff we do know (scientifically), while also being upfront about what we don’t know.

After I posted Dr. Emanuel’s video earlier this week, I was inundated with feedback – overwhelmingly negative – about climate change science and the role of humans in the whole thing. The comments and my inbox were full of conspiracy theories about how climate change researchers fabricate the whole issue to secure grant funds (for those cushy professorial jobs!), and a flat out denial of the greenhouse gas effect (!!).

So with this in mind, I encourage the reader to pick up this book with hopes that we can discuss it and climate change science with more civility and a basis in science. The book is short (93 pages) and inexpensive; Amazon has it in hardcover for about $10, and $8 digitally.

About the Author: David Wogan is an energy and policy writer from Austin, TX. You can follow David on the web. Follow on Twitter @davidwogan.

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Severe droughts in Amazon linked to climate change, says study – CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57564795/severe-droughts-in-amazon-linked-to-climate-change-says-study/
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CBS News/ January 18, 2013, 5:03 PM

The extent of the 2005 megadrought in the western Amazon rainforests during the summer months of June, July and August as measured by NASA satellites. The most impacted areas are shown in shades of red and yellow. / NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC

An area in the Amazon twice the size of California is experiencing what scientists call a “megadrought.” The prolonged drought, which began in 2005, has caused widespread damage to the area and may possibly be a sign that the rainforest is showing the first signs of large-scale degradation due to climate change.

A research team, led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, analyzed nearly a decade of satellite data over the Amazon. The team looked at rainfall measurements and the moisture content of the forest canopy.

The most striking data came from the summer of 2005, when 270,000 square miles of forest experienced a severe drought that caused widespread, observable damage to the canopy. The drought conditions were so severe that the rainforest was unable to fully recover before the next drought struck in 2010.

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Heat waves, storms, flooding: Climate change to profoundly affect U.S. Midwest in coming decades

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130118104121.htm

A flooded urban street. (Credit: Don Becker, USGS)

Jan. 18, 2013 — In the coming decades, climate change will lead to more frequent and more intense Midwest heat waves while degrading air and water quality and threatening public health. Intense rainstorms and floods will become more common, and existing risks to the Great Lakes will be exacerbated.

Those are some of the conclusions contained in the Midwest chapter of a draft report released last week by the federal government that assesses the key impacts of climate change on every region in the country and analyzes its likely effects on human health, water, energy, transportation, agriculture, forests, ecosystems and biodiversity.

Three University of Michigan researchers were lead convening authors of chapters in the 1,100-plus-page National Climate Assessment, which was written by a team of more than 240 scientists.

University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia was a lead convening author of the Midwest chapter. Dan Brown of the School of Natural Resources and Environment was a lead convening author of the chapter on changes in land use and land cover. Rosina Bierbaum of SNRE and the School of Public Health was a lead convening author of the chapter on climate change adaptation. Missy Stults, a research assistant with Bierbaum and a doctoral student at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, was a contributing author on the adaptation chapter.

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Healthy Planet, Healthy People: A conversation with Al Gore

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Sustainable World – sequence of videos on Permaculture

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We produce videos for the purpose of sharing information, sustaining a healthy planet, and providing educational material about solutions to environmental challenges.

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