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FW: Mining reduces fish
by James Kotcon 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Great study our from Than, documenting that Mining reduces fish populations. Water quality is more important than the physical stream structure. http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20140701/GZ01/140709912 Also, I just heard about a court case in Colorado where the judge ruled that the BLM and USFS had to consider the climate impact from the CO2 released from a mining lease on federal land. That would be a game changer if it holds up. JBK

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from ScienceDaily e-newsletter: To address climate change, nothing substitutes for reducing carbon dioxide emissions
by Paul Wilson 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

To address climate change, nothing substitutes for reducing carbon dioxide emissions <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_environment/~3/MOS…> Posted: 27 Jun 2014 10:30 AM PDT The politically expedient way to mitigate climate change is essentially no way at all, according to a comprehensive new study. Among the climate pollutants humans put into the atmosphere in significant quantities, the effects of carbon dioxide are the longest-lived, with effects on climate that extend thousands of years after emissions cease. But finding the political consensus to act on reducing carbon dioxide emissions has been nearly impossible. So there has been a movement to make up for that inaction by reducing emissions of other, shorter-lived gasses, such as methane, hydrofluorocarbons, and nitrous oxide, and particulates such as soot and black carbon, all of which contribute to warming as well. -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous" ~ Aristotle

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