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Does Climate Change Cause Crime?

Posted on Jun 25, 2010 by Scott James.

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Here’s the theory: climate change contributes to rising temperatures and dropping water levels, which in turn leads to lower catch volume and smaller fish, which pushes some Lake Naivasha fishermen in Nairobi’s Rift Valley to cast their nets into the world of crime. Naivasha police say that most of their recent arrests for kidnapping, rape, robbery, carjackings and other crimes have been of fishermen, up to ten a week. In addition, fishing has become so difficult that fishing “cartels” are forming, and some have been killed for fishing in a group’s regular territory.
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Waterboxx Could Save California Winery 145,000 Gallons a Year

Posted on Jun 10, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.

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A test of an ingenious water saving device invented by Lily grower Pieter Hoff, is being undertaken at Robert Mondavi’s vineyard in California’s Napa Valley, and is expected to save the winery 145,000 gallons of California’s precious water every year. The idea for the Popular Science Invention Award-winning Groasis Waterboxx developed from the way seeds are nurtured naturally in less drought-stressed environments.

Because of climate change, California growers have to plan for a future climate that is moving about a quarter of a mile North every year. If this recreation of Napa’s old climate works, the winery won’t have to move with it.
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Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works Desalinates Using Biofuels

Posted on Jun 09, 2010 by Jennifer Lance.

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Like every major city in the world, the population of London is growing straining the infrastructure in place to provide its residents with clean drinking water. Thus, the Thames Gateway Water Treatment opened this week to provide water during times of drought. This desalination plant runs off of biofuels and can quench the thirst of one million Londoners.

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Oil Companies Leverage Future California Drought in Vicious-Circle Ballot Measure

Posted on May 06, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.

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The Department of the Interior’s water allocations to California farmers eased up this year after a winter that finally brought rain, but long term, California is drying up with catastrophic climate change. And what precipitation we do get in our warmer future will increasing be dumped as monsoon-like rain and drain quickly to the sea, rather than lay around as snow to slowly supply plant-nourishing snow melt through the Spring growing seasons.

Continued use of temperature-raising fossil fuels will warm the climate in the Central Valley, leading to more future droughts and keeping unemployment high among farm-workers. In some farming communities, this unemployment rate has topped 40%. That number drives overall farm unemployment in California to levels not seen since the dust bowl emptied the Plains states, as farms failed due to drought.

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Is Climate Change Genocide?

Posted on Apr 22, 2010 by Scott James.

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Climate change and rising temperatures are widely believed to be causing the retreat of glaciers and lower river flows. According to researchers, that is what’s happening to the Andean glaciers. Evo Morales, President of Boliva, believes there should be an international court of environmental justice- and many Bolivians agree with him. In fact, Boliva’s UN Ambassador is preparing to present a proposal to Mexico’s COP16 to create an international court of justice.
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