New Report Documents Beneficial Impacts of Global Warming
The April issue
of Environment & Climate News reports on the release of Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts, a 1,063-page report documenting global warming’s beneficial impact
on the biosphere. It is the second in what will be a three-volume
series tracking and critiquing the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change. The first volume, Physical
Science, was released in
September 2013; the final volume, Human Welfare,
Energy, and Policies, will
be released in May 2014.
Also in this
issue:
A new report from
the American Wind Energy Association shows electricity prices are rising more
than four times as fast as the national average in nine of
the 11 states with the most wind power consumption.
A coalition
representing 70,000 New York landowners filed suit against New York Gov. Andrew
Cuomo, arguing the governor and his administration
are intentionally obstructing a decision to end the state’s hydraulic
fracturing moratorium.
The mountain pine beetle infestation
that has ravaged forests in the western United States and Canada in recent
years appears to be losing its grip. Green saplings are rejuvenating previously declining stands of dying
red and grey pines.
Colorado Gov.
John Hickenlooper is siding with the state’s ranchers and energy and natural
resource producers, urging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management not to impose unnecessary land-use
restrictions in the name of protecting sage grouse.
Two prominent
environmental groups sent a letter to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and
U.S. Bureau of Land Management opposing approval of a giant
wind-energy project on federal and private lands in Wyoming.
A recently
announced three-year, $35 million program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
will divert agricultural dollars away
from farm production, instead spending it on environmental activist causes.
The aim of the program is to take rural land out of agricultural production.
The full text of
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