Above is a great graphic from NRDC that shows how the ongoing costs of the Senate’s inability to act on climate change. You can find the embed code here.
Drought linked to climate change has reversed a decades-long trend of increased global plant growth
- “Earth has done an ecological about-face,” a NASA statement said. “Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought.”
NOAA scientist admitted that 75% of the BP oil is still in Gulf
- An August 4, 2010 report showing that 75 percent of the BP oil was gone from the Gulf was not peer reviewed.
“Opportunistic” Bacteria Feasting Slowly on Underwater Oil in Gulf
- “A new study confirming the existence of a massive plume of oil trapped deep underwater in the Gulf of Mexico defies notions that bacteria, while they are degrading the oil, will make as quick work of petroleum lingering in the water’s cold depths as they have on the surface.”
- “The project has gone according to plan—downstream water users are contributing the equivalent of US$ 0.50 per month to a fund for conservation, and the upstream farmers in Santa Rosa have been cultivating bees instead of cutting down trees for agriculture. This is a watershed agreement that has worked.”
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