The Daily Climate - October 9, 2008
by
Emily Gertz
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2008-10-09 09:06:00 UTC
Topics:
- Agreement Reached to Save Sumatran Forests (DotEarth - The New York Times online)
- Economic Ills Should Not Distract from Warming, Says IPCC's Pachauri (Reuters)
- Carbon Traders or Corporate Raiders? Environmentalists debate the merits of California's greenhouse-gas reduction proposal (Sacramento News & Review)
- Nuclear Option: Atomic Power Generates Energy, But Not Many Votes (Environmental Capital - Wall Street Journal Online)
- Everything -- Too Cheaply Metered (Kevin Kelly - The Technicum)
- SMART 2020 Report: Smart Grids Can Cut CO2 Emissions by 15% (Treehugger)
- Adapting to Global Warming, Under Discussion in Amsterdam (Real Climate)
- Note to McCain: Overhead projector is not a planetarium projector [[ Okay, not specifically about global warming. But it struck me as an anti-science gesture on McCain's part to mischaracterize this
grant of aattempt to grant a mere $3 million to Chicago's Adler Planetarium. According to Wired News, Adler hosts over 400,000 schoolchildren and visitors a year. The Adler's last planetarium projectorlastedhas been in use for around 40 years. So if this one lasts as long, the cost to the nation's taxpayerswill workwould have worked out to $0.1875 per museum visitor -- whose understanding of the science of the universe will benefit. Good investment.]] (boingboing.net)
Image: Deforestation in Sumatra between 1992 and 2002. Source: NASA Earth Observatory.
"Indonesia is rapidly losing its lowland forests to logging, much of it illegal...[I]n the two Landsat scenes shown above, the pattern of deforestation can be clearly discerned. Deep green in these images shows lush vegetation in the forest cover. In both scenes, deep and pale red shows areas where there is little or no vegetation, often bare ground from where forest has been completely stripped. The latter Landsat scene from 2001 not only shows extensive clear cut areas, but also new logging roads built into the remaining forest to facilitate future cutting. This lowland forest region is located on Indonesia’s largest island, Sumatra, roughly 100 km southwest of the provincial capital of Jambi."
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