NEWS: Fish and climate change streaming talks
30/06/08 20:11
To quote a recent
email: Increases in river and stream temperatures
caused by water use, landscape alteration, and
climate change were discussed in a May 6 symposium
at the Western Division American Fisheries Society
annual meeting in Portland,
Oregon.
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Dams Be Damned?
26/06/08 19:06
Given that there are
more than 45,000 large dams in place worldwide, the
central problem of freshwater climate adaptation
for the coming century is the best means of
managing water infrastructure like dams, irrigation
systems, water treatment plants, and hydroelectric
power systems. Even conservation issues in most
areas of the world are going to involve carefully
managing water resources that (somehow) balance
development and the integrity of natural systems.
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Meteorology & Climate Change Skepticism
26/06/08 18:29
Your local TV
meteorologist seems like she or he should be
my
natural ally: a
person in the local media market you trust, who is
educated in climate science, and who can relate
climate science and climate change trends to the
daily news. These meteorologists should be the
local evangelists of climate change. Sadly, they
are often not. Read
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NEWS: IPCC freshwater climate change report
25/06/08 04:28
The IPCC has recently
put together a separate report on freshwater and
climate change. Read
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NEWS: streaming freshwater adaptation talk
24/06/08 19:50
A symposium from the
Western Division of the American Fisheries Society
focused on climate change and bull trout has been
posted online for live streaming.
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Skymilestones
16/06/08 13:01
Sometime in the past
six weeks or so I passed 100,000 flight miles
(160,000 km) since I started this position.
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NEWS: Watery Feet & Conserving Water
14/06/08 10:43
Saving water in daily
practice is not a big issue in regions that are not
drought stressed. The trendy term du jour about
reducing clean water consumption is water footprint
— something like the concept of a carbon
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Adventures in Cabbing
13/06/08 11:36
DC is very hot this
week — it was 97 degrees F when I landed on Monday,
and yesterday was much hotter. And very humid. On
landing, I needed to get to my B & B quickly
and decided to opt for a cab. Taxis are a little
out of favor in the climate change world,
especially in cities with a decent mass transit
system like DC. But I didn’t see an alternative.
Popping out of the terminal, I took the first cab
in line. The small man in the front seat turned to
me and said in a thick accent, Hello. Where are you
going? Seventeenth and Lanier, near Adams-Morgan, I
said. Where’s that? I leaned back, suddenly very
hot and very tired.
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The 32-Year DC Zoo Review
11/06/08 04:35
I can remember 1976
vividly. I was eight, it was the country’s
bicentennial, and my family took a big driving trip
from Texas to Washington, DC, that summer in our
new Toyota wagon.
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Another Shot in the Arm
11/06/08 03:37
Well, the travel
clinic nurse said as I rolled my sleeve back up.
There’s not much else I can give you any more.
You’re a walking advertisement for immunizations.
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