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May 1, 2009
11:00 AM

CONTACT: National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)
Andrea Keller Helsel, NPCA, 202.454.3332

National Parks Conservation Association Praises Introduction of the Climate Change Safeguards for Natural Resources Conservation

Statement by Mark Wenzler, Director, Clean Air and Climate Programs

WASHINGTON - May 1 -  "Already, global warming is degrading America's national parks. Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) have introduced a bill, the Climate Change Safeguards for Natural Resources Conservation Act (H.R. 2192), which offers effective tools to fight back.

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NPCA is a non-profit, private organization dedicated to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the U.S. National Park System.
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Climate Chaos Predicted by CO2 Study

(photo: Greenpeace) The world will overshoot its long-term target on greenhouse gas emissions within two decades. A study has found that the average global temperature will rise above the threshold that could cause dangerous climate change during that time.

Scientists have calculated that the world has already produced about a third of the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that could be emitted between 2000 and 2050 and still keep within a 2C rise in global average temperatures.

Posted in climate change, global warming

Climate Change Hitting Entire Arctic Ecosystem, Says Report

Ilulissat Icefjord a UNESCO World Heritage site in western Greenland. The Greenland ice sheet has continued to melt in the past four years with summer temperatures consistently above the long-term average since the mid 1990s. (AFP/Slim Allagui)

Extensive climate change is now affecting every form of life in the Arctic, according to a major new assessment by international polar scientists.

In the past four years, air temperatures have increased, sea ice has declined sharply, surface waters in the Arctic ocean have warmed and permafrost is in some areas rapidly thawing.

In addition, says the report released today at a Norwegian government seminar, plants and trees are growing more vigorously, snow cover is decreasing 1-2% a year and glaciers are shrinking.

Posted in arctic ice, climate change, global warming

Washington Forum Draws Worst Greenhouse Polluters

Smoke billows from a chemical plant on the outskirts of Changzhi, Shanxi province in this March 23, 2009 file photo. (REUTERS/Stringer)

WASHINGTON - Diplomats from the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters including the United States, China and India are set to take part in a forum on Monday at the U.S. State Department aimed at getting a U.N. agreement to curb global warming.

The two-day meeting of so-called major economies is meant to jump-start climate talks in advance of a December deadline, when the international community meets in Copenhagen to find a follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, which limits climate-warming greenhouse emissions and expires in 2012.

Posted in climate change, Environment, global warming

Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate

Steam billows from a factory near the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. (AFP/File/Tim Sloan)

For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.

"The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood," the coalition said in a scientific "backgrounder" provided to lawmakers and journalists through the early 1990s, adding that "scientists differ" on the issue.

Posted in climate change, global warming

Wildfires Add to Speed of Global Warming

The smoke from Southern California wildfires, which burned over 500,000 acres in a two-week period, drifts out over the Pacific Ocean in this NASA file satellite image from October 2007. In a vicious cycle made worse by humans, scientists now believe fires spur climate change, which in turn makes blazes bigger, more frequent and more damaging to the environment. (REUTERS/NASA/Handout)

Wildfires that ravage California and other major forested areas around the world are speeding the pace of global warming as they pump more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

And the planet's rising temperatures that spur droughts and hotter summers, in turn, are sparking even more widespread fires.

Posted in climate change, Environment, global warming

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 23, 2009
2:57 PM

CONTACT: American Rivers
Amy Kober, American Rivers, 206-213-0330 x23

Climate Change Causing Many Rivers Worldwide to Shrink

American Rivers responds to National Center for Atmospheric Research study

WASHINGTON - April 23 - Many of the world's rivers are losing water and in many cases, climate change is to blame, according to the findings of a new global study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The results, to be published May 15 in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate, also reveal that future food and water supplies could be threatened.

American Rivers, the nation's leading river conservation organization, is helping communities reduce the negative river and freshwater impacts brought by climate change.

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American Rivers is the only national organization standing up for healthy rivers so our communities can thrive. Through national advocacy, innovative solutions and our growing network of strategic partners, we protect and promote our rivers as valuable assets that are vital to our health, safety and quality of life.

Founded in 1973, American Rivers has more than 65,000 members and supporters nationwide, with offices in Washington, DC and the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast, California and Northwest regions.

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Posted in climate change, Environment, global warming

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 23, 2009
1:06 PM

CONTACT: Defenders of Wildlife
Cat Lazaroff, 202-772-3270

Ashley Judd, Jeff Corwin Call on Congress to Help Wildlife Survive Global Warming

Actress, celebrity biologist testify about need to fund measures to safeguard natural resources

WASHINGTON - April 23 - Actress Ashley Judd, and biologist and TV personality Jeff Corwin, spoke to Congress this morning about the need for substantial, dedicated funding to help safeguard America's wildlife and natural resources from the impacts of global warming.

Testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, Corwin and Judd urged Congress to ensure that comprehensive climate and energy legislation addresses not only the carbon pollution that causes global warming, but also the effects that are already being seen on the ground.

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Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
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Gore: 2009 Turning Point in Environment Battle

Yuyun Ismawati (from left), Olga Speranskaya, Hugo Jabini, Marc Ona Essangui, Rizwana Hasan, Wanze Eduards and Maria Gunnoe at the end of the Goldman Prize ceremony. (Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle)

Former Vice President Al Gore said Monday that this year is "the Gettysburg" for the environment and that the United States will have to lead the fight against global warming if true progress is going to be made.

Posted in Activism, climate change, Environment, global warming

Greens Hail Obama's OK to Regulate Greenhouse Emissions

Greenpeace, which hailed Friday's announcement, warned against precisely that possibility, noting that the decade-long fight for regulating greenhouse gases had shown that \"industry will exploit every ambiguity, every gap and every loophole in legislation to avoid real climate action as much and as long as possible.\" (Getty image)

WASHINGTON - U.S. green groups hailed Friday's formal finding by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that carbon dioxide and several other greenhouse gases "endanger" public health and welfare as a landmark – if long overdue – step toward slowing global warming.

Posted in climate change, epa, global warming, pollution
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