Wednesday, March 9
PDAC-CIM Luncheon
12 noon – 2:00 pm
MTCC, South Building, Room 718
Climate Science? The Real Social, Environmental and Economic Costs.
In a desire to stop global warming, governments are adopting policies that promise to regulate much of our personal and professional lives. Lawrence Solomon, columnist, National Post and founder and managing director of Energy Probe Research Foundation, discusses that in the absence of sound science, it is reckless to pursue policies that will transform the planet for the worse. The good news: Thanks to a global backlash, governments everywhere are failing in their attempts to impose their vision on their citizens.
Wine sponsor:
The City of Timmins 100th Anniversary Committee and The Porcupine Prospectors and Developers Association
Tickets: $65 each
Showing posts with label Water Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water Rights. Show all posts
Friday, November 19, 2010
El cambio climático afectará a la disponibilidad de agua dulce - Planeta CNN - CNNMéxico.com
El cambio climático afectará a la disponibilidad de agua dulce - Planeta CNN - CNNMéxico.com
Maybe the Harper Government is right?? Maybe they feel our Canadian water is theirs to take??
Wish I had somebody intelligent to talk with.- My finances have reached a threshold where I can no longer be a jet setter.
MEXICO CITY (CNNMéxico) - The possible rising temperatures and changing precipitation levels caused by climate change not only affect the intensity and frequency with which they are floods or droughts. They could also decrease the availability of freshwater for human consumption.
Carlos Patiño Gómez, assistant coordinator of Integrated Water Management, the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA), said that according to scientific estimates, climate change could affect the quantity and quality of available fresh water, and therefore, sectors such as agriculture.
Patino explained that the IMTA performs calculations to estimate how much water could be lost because of global warming, because such information is currently unknown.
According to mathematical models developed by IMTA, which calculate the impacts of climate change in specific
Maybe the Harper Government is right?? Maybe they feel our Canadian water is theirs to take??
Wish I had somebody intelligent to talk with.- My finances have reached a threshold where I can no longer be a jet setter.
MEXICO CITY (CNNMéxico) - The possible rising temperatures and changing precipitation levels caused by climate change not only affect the intensity and frequency with which they are floods or droughts. They could also decrease the availability of freshwater for human consumption.
Carlos Patiño Gómez, assistant coordinator of Integrated Water Management, the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA), said that according to scientific estimates, climate change could affect the quantity and quality of available fresh water, and therefore, sectors such as agriculture.
Patino explained that the IMTA performs calculations to estimate how much water could be lost because of global warming, because such information is currently unknown.
According to mathematical models developed by IMTA, which calculate the impacts of climate change in specific
Friday, October 29, 2010
Climate Change Expanding Dead Zones in Great Lakes, Other Waters | OnEarth Magazine
Climate Change Expanding Dead Zones in Great Lakes, Other Waters | OnEarth Magazine
Nitrogen and phosphorous-laden sediments flowing into Lake Erie from inland sources are a primary cause of oxygen-starved dead zones. This animation shows sediment plumes in Lake Erie during March 2010.
Areas of low oxygen are 30 times more prevalent in the nation’s waterways now than they were in 1960, according to a recent federal report. And climate change means they will continue to worsen.
The multi-agency report [PDF, 2.7 MB], released in September, states that the low-oxygen condition known as hypoxia has been detected in half of the more than 600 national waterways analyzed by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Hypoxia is often caused by increased nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. These common components of fertilizer often enter lakes and streams with runoff from farms and lawns. Nitrogen released into the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion can also settle onto the water’s surface.
“What we do affects the amount of nutrients that wash off the land and are ultimately carried by rivers to the coast,” said report co-author Herb Buxton, coordinator of the Geological Survey’s program on toxic substances hydrology. “Runoff is the conveyer belt for moving nutrients from the landscape to our coastal systems.”
Nitrogen and phosphorous-laden sediments flowing into Lake Erie from inland sources are a primary cause of oxygen-starved dead zones. This animation shows sediment plumes in Lake Erie during March 2010.
Areas of low oxygen are 30 times more prevalent in the nation’s waterways now than they were in 1960, according to a recent federal report. And climate change means they will continue to worsen.
The multi-agency report [PDF, 2.7 MB], released in September, states that the low-oxygen condition known as hypoxia has been detected in half of the more than 600 national waterways analyzed by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Hypoxia is often caused by increased nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. These common components of fertilizer often enter lakes and streams with runoff from farms and lawns. Nitrogen released into the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion can also settle onto the water’s surface.
“What we do affects the amount of nutrients that wash off the land and are ultimately carried by rivers to the coast,” said report co-author Herb Buxton, coordinator of the Geological Survey’s program on toxic substances hydrology. “Runoff is the conveyer belt for moving nutrients from the landscape to our coastal systems.”
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