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Drought hinders California's clean energy goals
2014-07-20 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: California's ongoing drought could complicate the state's effort to combat global warming. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Sunday (http://bit.ly/1qTT5Ej ) that a drought stretching on for years could slash the amount of clean energy collected from the state's dams and send emissions spewing from other sources. State officials are pushing utility companies by 2020 to obtain 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources that also include wind and solar power. California is in its third...
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Drought hinders state's emissions goals
2014-07-20 15:42:03| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: No state has done more than California to fight global warming. But a deepening drought could make that battle more difficult and more expensive. A prolonged dry spell, stretching on for years, would slash the amount of power flowing from the state's hydroelectric dams, already running low after three parched winters. The dams have, for years, been one of California's main sources of clean electricity, generating power without spewing greenhouse gases into the air. Drought forces utility companies...
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Drought Conditions Linked to Human Activity
2014-07-19 20:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: US Government scientists have developed a new high-resolution climate model that shows southwestern Australia's long-term decline in fall and winter rainfall is caused by increases in manmade greenhouse gas emissions and ozone depletion. "This new high-resolution climate model is able to simulate regional-scale precipitation with considerably improved accuracy compared to previous generation models," said Tom Delworth, a research scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton,...
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Extreme Drought in CA Triggers Halting Fracking Waste Injection Avoid Aquifer Contamination
2014-07-18 22:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review of more than 100 others in the state`s drought-wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there. The state`s Division of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources on July 7 issued cease and desist orders to seven energy companies warning that they may be injecting their waste into aquifers that could...
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High-tech approach to help with drought
2014-07-18 04:43:05| Agriculture - Topix.net
A local man hopes his drone technology will help the agriculture industry which brings $5 billion a year into San Diego County during the drought.
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