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Water Wars: Repub Only Ones Who Don't Link Drought And Climate Change
2015-08-03 01:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: The historic California megadrought has now dragged on into its fourth year and a new study shows Republicans are the only ones who think it has nothing to do with climate change. Two-thirds of Californians think global warming helped caused the drought, but 62 percent of Republicans disagree with that, according to a new study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute. In fact, a third of Republicans, 31 percent, said the world would never see any effects from climate change. "The threat...
Startling Footage Calif Reservoirs Shows Devastating Impact Epic Drought
2015-08-01 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If you`re wondering how much damage four years of an epic drought can wreck, look no further than the condition of California`s depleted reservoirs. In new footage of the Folsom, Oroville and Shasta reservoirs--captured by the California Department of Water Resources (CA-DWR) on July 20--it`s genuinely startling to see how little water remains. The CA-DWR wrote on Facebook that Folsom Lake measured at 34 percent of capacity, Lake Oroville at 35 percent and Lake Shasta at 45 percent. Jay Famiglietti,...
Poll: Californians are more worried about climate change because drought
2015-07-30 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A new poll shows Californians are increasingly freaked out about climate change. The poll also shows that Californians think the state`s historic drought is related to climate change. Pollsters didn`t ask specifically if the drought is spurring climate change concerns, but the implication seems obvious. As a Californian I can say the drought at least makes me feel, on a gut level, that something big is shifting. When I am not darting from shadow to shrinking shadow, or squeezing a few drops of...
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Smart Utility Systems Addresses Drought Crisis Through Silicon Valley Water & Energy Innovation Center And Smart H2O Mobile App
2015-07-30 08:37:00| publicworks Home Page
Smart Utility Systems (SUS), an award-winning provider of SaaS technology solutions for utilities, recently announced two important milestones in its commitment to solving today’s most critical water and energy conservation challenges, with the inauguration of its Water & Energy Innovation Center in Santa Clara and the launch of its new Smart H2O mobile app.
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Poll Finds Most Californians Say Climate Change Linked To Drought
2015-07-30 06:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Nearly two-thirds of Californians believe global warming is having an impact on the state`s persistent drought, sharing Gov. Jerry Brown`s environmental concerns as he presses for tougher climate change standards, according to a new statewide poll released Wednesday. The Public Policy Institute of California found that 79 percent of residents agree that global warming is either a very serious or somewhat serious threat to California`s quality of life. And across racial groups, 69 percent of Latinos...
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