Although they called for a Russian helicopter to lift them to safety off thin, broken ice on the Arctic Ocean last June, a Cedarburg native and his fellow explorer will attempt again this year to become the first ever to cross the ice cap in summer without sled dogs and supply drops. Lonnie Dupre and teammate Eric Larsen, the Cedarburg native, said they will re-attempt the historic first in polar exploration while facing possible death by polar bears, canoeing in the open ocean or pulling hundreds of pounds of equipment over unstable ice ridges up to three stories tall so that they can draw attention to the impact of global warming on the ocean's ice.
The growing effects of climate change and global warming créate a need for protection of environmentally displaced persons. While governments could use current international and domestic definitions of refugee to protect environmentally displaced persons, it is unlikely that any government will do so. Even if governments did extend existing refugee and asylum laws to include environmentally displaced persons, it would provide insufficient protection. In addition, it would consume judicial resources needed for persons currently receiving protection under refugee and asylum laws. The protection of environmentally displaced persons, while necessary, should not fall under current asylum and refugee laws. Instead, new domestic and international laws should grant environmentally displaced per...
As a professional speaker, I've spent much of the past four years performing at colleges across the country. While the subject of my show is rare and interesting wildlife on all seven continents, I also address the effects of global warming. I do this by showing a photo of a Canadian glacier with a large lake at its foot. "That lake wasn't there 50 years ago," I tell my audience. "That lake is there because of human-caused global warming. Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that global warming is real and caused by humans, it amazes me that it's still a controversy here in the United States. But it's not a scientific controversy; it's a political controversy. In fact, 97 percent of climate scientists -- those who do the actual peer-reviewed research -- are in agreemen...
While wadding up some newspapers to start a fire, I noticed a Gazette interview of Rep. Shelley Moore Capito. Capito says the government does not need to take quick action to counter the effects of global warming. While unable to name any, she claimed to be "looking at the studies." Nevertheless, she described predictions of disaster as "ludicrous. I suggest she read Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer for the New Yorker; Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas, a National Geographic Emergency Explorer and journalist; Hot: Living through the Next Fifty Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard, who has investigated global warming for 20 years; and The View from Lazy Point by Carl Safina, a Ph.D. naturalist and mar...
WASHINGTON, May 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With the $125 million summer blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow" opening nationwide today, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is taking advantage of the Hollywood marketing blitz to talk about the very real, very present health threats of climate change. While the film's creators freeze Manhattan, pelt Tokyo with killer hail, dump snow on New Delhi, and demolish Los Angeles with tornadoes, the actual effects of global climate change are dramatically remaking the only planet we have and impairing public health around the world today. Climate change is a fact, and one that disproportionately harms children, the elderly, and other vulnerable individuals." said Kent Bransford, M.D., a member of PSR's Board of Directors. "If we ignore the loomi...
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Jim Sliwa of the American Society for Microbiology, +1- 202-942- 9297, or from May 21-25, 2007: +1-416-585-3716, jsliwa@asmusa.org
Do you recall sweaters and jackets being carried when attending the summer concerts at the Redlands Bowl? Air conditioning was turned on only for brief periods, if that. The mountains were green and pine beetles where an unknown factor. Our deserts catching on fire was never an issue. The list can go on. What change has take place? The summers are much warmer and the average annual rainfall is significantly dropping. The forest and desert vegetation becomes weak without water, and we have fires never seen before. In the United States, heat records are broken daily, and Redlands posted a record, 118. Worldwide, glaciers are melting, precipitation is decreasing, higher ocean temperatures creating fiercer storms and reducing the fish supply, etc.
Climate change in the next 80 years threatens the Rocky Mountains' ski resorts and water supply, according to the third annual State of the Rockies Report Card. The study also found minorities and the poor are more likely to live near toxic sites and that there is some disparity in how communities nurture their young.
An avid runner, horseback rider, golfer and scuba diver, fourth- grade teacher Anne Marie Wotkyns says she's willing to try just about anything once. That's why she'll be leaving today for Antarctica, where she will research the effects of global warming on the ice-covered continent at the bottom of the world.
It would be a catastrophe of biblical proportions. Joshua Tree National Park, it has been reported, is in danger of eventually losing its Joshua trees, due to the insidious combined effects of air pollution and global warming.
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