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Category Archives: Climate
Climate shifts ‘not to blame’ for African civil wars
Climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa, a study suggests.
It challenges previous assumptions that environmental disasters, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, had played a part in triggering unrest.
Instead, it says, traditional factors – such as poverty and social tensions – were often the main factors behind the outbreak of conflicts.
The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the United States.
via BBC News – Climate shifts ‘not to blame’ for African civil wars.
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Posted in Climate, Opposing Views
Tagged adaptation, Africa, Africa Climate, Climate Change
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The all new African Views
African Views is a participatory organization. Our mission is to attract and organize related ideological, intellectual, and authoritative information into meaningful categories. Our website, often referred to as AV framework, is geared to promote strategic economic integration, establish fair cultural exchange and representation of African and African Diaspora communities in every country in the world. The AV framework welcomes and encourages the documentation of knowledge. Therefore, discussions and debates are welcome with supporting material from anyone who wishes to share knowledge, information or experience.Welcome to the African Views AV framework.
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Posted in Climate, Countries, Politics
Tagged Africa, Africa Climate, Forest Definition
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Chair of IPCC Review Panel Backs Climate Science Assessment Process, Despite Flaws : Blog : Breaking : Climate Central
On Monday, Harold Shapiro, a former president of and current economics professor at Princeton University, formally presented the United Nations with a report assessing the procedures of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had come under intense criticism for months, beginning with the so-called “climategate” affair late in 2009 and continuing with the discovery of a few errors in the panel’s most recent report, issued in 2007 (most notably the “glaciergate” misstep in reporting how quickly Himalayan glaciers will melt). Critics also accused the IPCC’s Chairman, Rajendra K. Pachauri, of conflicts of interest related to his financial dealings.
Posted in Climate, Countries, Opposing Views, UNFCCC
Tagged adaptation, Africa, Africa Climate, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change
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Shogun for Waiting
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Tagged adaptation, Africa, Agriculture, Biodiversity, biofuel, Climate Change, Indigenous Knowledeg, IPCC, Soil
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Review of IPCC workings set to open
The body admits one error, concerning the melting date of Himalayan glaciers, but robustly rebuts the wider charge.
The review panel was set up by the InterAcademy Council which comprises bodies such as the UK’s Royal Society.
IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri will be the first person to present to the panel when it begins on Friday, and is expected to outline the organisation's rules and procedures.
“I’ve read many many comments about the IPCC and I’ve talked to people inside and outside the organisation,” said Robbert Dijkgraaf, co-chair of the InterAcademy Council.
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Africa skeptical over funds to combat global warming
Africa on Tuesday expressed doubt over the capacity of developed nations to keep their financial commitments made during last years Copenhagen summit to help poor countries deal with climate change.”It;s primordial to know whether the financial pledges will be kept. Doubts have been expressed and we have indications that these doubts are justified,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told the opening of an African Union meeting in Addis Ababa.Meles said that at the next climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, in December, “we need to refine our strategies in concentrating especially on the implementation of the financial commitments of Copenhagen.”The Ethiopian leader is the chief negotiator appointed by the 53 member states of the African Union for all issues relating to climate change. Africa has decided that it wants a single voice to represent it during international meetings.
via AFP: Africa skeptical over funds to combat global warming.
Posted in Climate, Opposing Views
Tagged Agriculture, Biodiversity, Carbon, Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, COP 15, IPCC
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What Climate Change Means for Wine Industry
“At a time when climate change is already making it harder for people in Bangladesh to find enough drinking water, it seems callous to fret about what might happen to premium wines” according to Williams from Frog’s Leap.
Williams is the founder of Frog’s Leap, one of the most ecologically minded wineries in Napa and, for that matter, the world. Electricity for the operation comes from 1,000 solar panels erected along the Merlot vines. The heating and cooling are supplied by a geothermal system that taps into the earth’s heat. The vineyards are 100 percent organic and — most radical of all, considering Napa’s dry summers — there is no irrigation.Yet despite his environmental fervor, Williams dismisses questions about preparing Frog’s Leap for the impacts of climate change. “We have no idea what effects global warming will have on the conditions that affect Napa Valley wines, so to prepare for those changes seems to me to be whistling past the cemetery,” he says, a note of irritation in his voice. “All I know is, there are things I can do to stop, or at least slow down, global warming, and those are things I should do.”Williams has a point about keeping things in perspective.
via What Climate Change Means for Wine Industry | Wired Science | Wired.com.
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Scientists Say Growing Grain For Food Is More Energy Efficient
Using productive farmland to grow crops for food instead of fuel is more energy efficient, Michigan State University scientists concluded, after poring over 17 years’ worth of data to help settle the food versus fuel debate.It is 36 percent more efficient to grow grain for food than for fuel,” said Ilya Gelfand, an MSU postdoctoral researcher. “The ideal is to grow corn for food, then leave half the leftover stalks and leaves on the field for soil conservation and produce cellulosic ethanol with the other half.”
via Scientists Say Growing Grain For Food Is More Energy Efficient – US News and World Report.
Scientists Say Growing Grain For Food Is More Energy Efficient
Using productive farmland to grow crops for food instead of fuel is more energy efficient, Michigan State University scientists concluded, after poring over 17 years’ worth of data to help settle the food versus fuel debate.It is 36 percent more efficient to grow grain for food than for fuel,” said Ilya Gelfand, an MSU postdoctoral researcher. “The ideal is to grow corn for food, then leave half the leftover stalks and leaves on the field for soil conservation and produce cellulosic ethanol with the other half.”
via Scientists Say Growing Grain For Food Is More Energy Efficient – US News and World Report.
The West is Food Insecure- Food rots in Kenya as volcano shows might!
The East African nation flies up to £1.3 million of freshly cut flowers to Europe each day but British, Dutch and Kenyan airlines have all grounded their flights from Nairobi since Thursday.Some 400 tonnes of flowers were due to be destroyed on Sunday, and from then onwards flowers and fresh goods will be destroyed each day that the crisis caused by the volcanic ash cloud continues.
Is there an irony in this?
Kenya can not produce enough food for the stomach but is able to generate 1.3 Million pound flowers per day — food for the Western Souls?
Food security issues are just political talk and about volcanic purses of dough for some!!
via Fresh goods for supermarkets rot in Kenya as volcano grounds flights – Telegraph.
Posted in Climate, Coal, Countries, Opposing Views
Tagged food insecure, Food security, iceland, volcanoe
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