Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Reuters | Australia swelters after record hot 2013; farmers slaughter cattle, bushfire warning
"Monsoon rains in Australia's north failed last summer and the entire continent endured its hottest year since records began in 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology said on Friday. Average temperatures were 1.2 degree Celsius above the long-term average [...]
Sam Weaver, Energy Expert and Pragmatist
Candidate Sam Weaver (photos from sam4council.org/) This is the fourth in a series of candidate profiles written by students in Instructor Jeff Browne’s CU News Corps course at CU-Boulder. Lars Gesing is a graduate student from Hamburg, [...]
Can Boulder Reduce Its GHG Emissions by 80%?
Front Range fire activity, 2000-2003 (Images courtesy COB) On Friday, October 4, 2013, at a PLAN-Boulder County forum moderated by PBC board member Bruce Goldstein, Brett KenCairn, Boulder’s new senior environmental planner, gave a presentation [...]
Cooling the Climate Candidates Forum: Tackling Smokestacks, Tailpipes and Trash Cans
Monday, September 30th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Boulder Public Library, Canyon Theater What do council candidates say about how we can take action on climate change? Join Eco-Cycle, the Sierra Club and Community Cycles at their “Cooling the [...]
UCAR AtmosNews | Inside the Colorado deluge
Matt Kelsch, a hydrometeorologist in UCAR’s Community Programs who volunteers with NOAA’s cooperative weather observing program, measures the historic daily total of 9.08 inches at Boulder’s official station on September 12. (Photo by Bob [...]
BillMoyers.com | Drought Helped Spark Syria’s Civil War
Thousands of Syrian Muslims pray for rain at the Grand Umayyad Mosque in central Damascus in 2006. (AP Photo Bassem Tellawi). Climate change is already hurting the world’s most vulnerable populations. Those who live in areas hit hard by [...]
EPA Chief to hold climate change town hall at CU-Boulder Wednesday
The newly confirmed leader of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is coming to Boulder. Gina McCarthy, the Administrator of the EPA will be in town holding a town hall meeting where she will discuss President Obama’s climate action [...]
Brother, Can You Spare Some (Climate) Change? Carbon Emission Reduction Targets for Boulder
Lake Mead (by dameetch, flickr commons) 2°C! Two degrees centigrade (3.6°F) is the aspirational limit set in 2009 by the “Group of Eight” (G8) nations for global temperature rise as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions. What does the G8 [...]
From Threat to Adaptation: Is the dialogue on Climate Change shifting?
"The World Revs its Heat Engine"NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Collection “Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble And if I stay it will be double . . . ” The Clash 1982 The question in this song was at the [...]
BIFF Films: “You’ve been moved. Now get Moving.”
The Annual Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) has a motto for their Call 2 Action films – “You've been moved. Now get moving.” A group of environmental and social justice films are part of the BIFF Call 2 Action program – films [...]
