Opinion | Water Scarcity Will Increase Risk of Conflict, Says New National Intelligence Report
Report is less comprehensive than previous assessments and omits key flashpoints for water conflict.
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Report is less comprehensive than previous assessments and omits key flashpoints for water conflict.
What were the big stories of last year? What are the big looming stories that are set to continue?
Confusion about California’s drought stems from the failure of some scientists, bloggers, reporters, and others to distinguish among three separate questions.
Droughts – especially severe droughts – are terribly damaging events. The human and ecosystem costs can be enormous, as we may relearn during the current California drought.
It is now early 2014 and the rains have not come, for the third year in a row.
It is time to recognize the serious California drought for what it is: a bellwether of things to come; a harbinger of even more serious challenges to California water resources allocation, management, and use.
Nearly two years ago, Science magazine published the following Lead Letter, signed by 255 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences addressing attacks on the integrity of climate science. The science has continued to strengthen, the evidence in real world observations has become even stronger and more obvious.
OK, put away your guns. We’re not talking shooting wars, at least not yet, at least not in the U.S. We’re talking politicians shooting off their mouths, political wars, and court battles. But water is serious business.
Sometime, about one year from now, the front pages of whatever decent newspapers are left will carry a headline like the one above, announcing that for the first time in human existence (or in nearly a million years, or 3 million years, or 15 million years), the global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide — the principal gas causing climate change — will have passed 400 parts per million.
This week is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the man who would help settle, once and for all, the question of the cause of cholera.
One of the most important and threatening risks of climate change is sea-level rise (SLR).
One of the reasons that climate change is such a big issue is because the global climate is an integral part of the Earth’s entire ecosystem, tied to so many of the big and little things that society cares about.
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