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California's drought may be worst in a millennium
2014-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: When Daniel Griffin first heard media reports earlier in the fall that California's drought was the worst in the past few centuries, he didn't quite buy it. Griffin, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, had a decade of experience studying paleoclimate and environmental science using tree-ring data. From his research on blue oak trees, he knew that periods without a lot of precipitation weren't that uncommon in the state's...
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Californias Drought Ranks Worst at Least 1,200 Years
2014-12-05 13:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Record rains fell in California this week. Theyre not enough to change the course of what scientists are now calling the regions worst drought in at least 1,200 years. Just how bad has Californias drought been? Modern measurements already showed its been drier than the 1930s dustbowl, worse than the historic droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. That's not all. New research going back further than the Viking conquests in Europe still can't find a drought as bad as this one. To go back that far,...
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Southern California's pulling ahead of the pack in clean car innovation
2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Orange County Register: Silicon Valley is often described as the hub of California's clean technology economy, but Los Angeles and Orange counties are in the forefront of innovations in advanced transportation, according to a new report. Researchers for Next 10, a San Francisco-based think tank focused on alternative energy, found that collaboration among Southern California companies, local agencies and universities has spawned a host of new companies and initiatives to launch electric vehicles, build charging infrastructure...
30,000 People Urge California's Gov. Brown To Halt Offshore Fracking
2014-11-19 06:46:59| oilandgasonline News Articles
Citing fracking pollution’s threats to coastal communities and marine wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity recently delivered apetitionsigned by more than 30,000 people urging Gov. Jerry Brown to haltoffshore frackingin California’s coastal waters.
Chevron fined $329,700 for violations of Californias gasoline regulation; over-oxygenated gasoline in 2010 and 2011
2014-11-11 00:55:32| Green Car Congress
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