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Joe Biden kinda sorta maybe opposes Keystone XL pipeline
Grist: Vice President Joe Biden told an activist on Friday that he doesn`t support the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, according to a post on the Sierra Club website. While the veep was working the crowd at an event in South Carolina, Elaine Cooper got a moment with him: I asked him about the administration’s commitment to making progress on climate and whether the president would reject the pipeline. He looked at the Sierra Club hat on my head, and he said “yes, I do – I share your views – but I am… Continue reading
Airborne laboratory used to measure California’s snowpack
LA Times: Teams will fan out across the Sierra Nevada on Thursday to perform their final snow survey of the season, a closely watched rite of spring that helps determine how much water will flow to farms and cities in coming months. But 18,000 feet above the Sierra slopes, an airborne experiment is underway that could revolutionize that ritual Continue reading
Environmentalists target controversial logging practices in California
Mongabay: The Sierra Club has launched a campaign against clear-cutting by a logging giant in California. Two weeks ago the environmental group sent a letter to Sierra Pacific Industries asking it to disclose the area of forests it has clearcut over the past five years and intends to raze this year. Sierra Pacific, which is led by Red Emmerson, is one of the largest landowners in America Continue reading
Protestors crank up calls for Obama to block tar sands pipeline
BusinessGreen: An estimated 35,000 protestors descended on Washington yesterday to call on President Obama to block the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline once and for all. The “Forward on Climate” event was hailed as the largest climate change protest in US history by organisers and will further crank up pressure on Obama ahead of the crucial decision later this year on whether the pipeline can proceed. The protest, which was backed by a host of green NGOs, including the 350.org campaign, the Sierra… Continue reading
Renewables in Bed With Natural Gas?
Climate Desk: It`s no secret that environmentalists are going through a bit of an identity crisis when it comes to natural gas. Celebrities including Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon, and Yoko Ono have aligned themselves with green groups like the Sierra Club to come out steadfastly against gas because of fracking, the drilling technique that harvests most of it, citing concerns about water and air contamination. Meanwhile others, including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Environmental Defense Fund, have boosted… Continue reading
Mountain forest study shows vulnerability to climate change
Phys.Org: CU-Boulder assistant professor Noah Molotch deploying an automated snow depth sensor and solar panel in Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. Continue reading
Gene Flow May Help Plants Adapt To Climate Change
redOrbit: The traffic of genes among populations may help living things better adapt to climate change, especially when genes flow among groups most affected by warming, according to a UC Davis study of the Sierra Nevada cutleaved monkeyflower. The results were published online June 27 by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Continue reading
Heavy snowstorms consistent with a warming planet, scientist says
Tahoe Daily Tribune: -Global warming could make record-setting snowstorms in some parts of the country more common, but not in the Sierra Nevada, according to scientists with the Union for Concerned Scientists. “Heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet,” said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for www.wunder ground.com, in a statement from the Union. “In fact, as the Earth gets warmer, and more moisture gets absorbed into the atmosphere, we are steadily loading the dice in favor of more extreme… Continue reading
Heavy snowstorms consistent with a warming planet, scientist says
Tahoe Daily Tribune: -Global warming could make record-setting snowstorms in some parts of the country more common, but not in the Sierra Nevada, according to scientists with the Union for Concerned Scientists. “Heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet,” said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for www.wunder ground.com, in a statement from the Union. “In fact, as the Earth gets warmer, and more moisture gets absorbed into the atmosphere, we are steadily loading the dice in favor of more extreme… Continue reading
Coalition declares Sierra, Delta habitats threatened by climate change
Sacramento Bee: Both the Sierra Nevada and the San Francisco Bay-Delta have been named by environmental groups to a new list of 10 American habitats threatened by climate change. The list was released Wednesday by the Endangered Species Coalition, a network of hundreds of conservation groups in the United States. The 10 threatened habitats – deemed most important for endangered species in a warming world – were selected by a panel of 10 scientists from across the country representing academia and… Continue reading
