Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles or tell us about other current items of interest in the comment thread below.
Warming chases plants uphill
Associated Press, Randolph E. Schmid, 6.26.08
Faced with global warming, plants are heading for the hills. A study of 171 forest species in Western Europe shows that most of them are shifting their favored locations to higher, cooler spots.
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Discouraging driving crucial in warming battle
San Francisco Chronicle, James Temple, 6.27.08
A sweeping plan to carry out California’s landmark law to fight global warming, made public Thursday by the state’s air board, addresses a problem that planning groups say has been overlooked in most federal legislation: suburban sprawl.
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G8 must bridge chasm on climate change
The Guardian (UK), 6.27.08
Tony Blair today called on leaders of the G8 group of rich nations to agree on practical solutions to global warming to bridge the “yawning chasm” between climate change “radicals and realists.”
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Winners and losers in Australian climate change
Reuters, 6.27.08
Climate change could alter the farming map of Australia, with some agricultural operations moving into the wetter north of the island continent as the major food-producing belt in the south dries up.
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Getting it right on global warming
San Francisco Chronicle, Editorial, 6.27.08
Now comes the hard part. After California enacted landmark climate-change goals two years ago, it faced the reality of adopting rules to get the job done.
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