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California Wildfire Season Likely To Get Worse When Santa Ana Winds Arrive
2013-08-10 07:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: California truly is the Golden State this summer -- golden brown -- and that has fire officials worried heading into the peak of the wildfire season. It's still weeks before the fire-fanning Santa Ana winds usually arrive and already it's been a brutal fire season, with nearly twice as many acres burned statewide from a year ago, including 19,000 scorched this week in a blaze still raging in the mountains 90 miles east of Los Angeles. That fire, burning nearly 30 square miles, was almost half...
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PRESS RELEASE: Faris Lee Investments Completes Pre-Sales of Two Restaurant Properties in California for a Total of $3.7 Million
2013-08-09 17:10:00| National Real Estate Investor
Darcie Giacchetto Faris Lee Investments completed the sales of two free-standing, single-tenant retail properties that are occupied by My Big Fat Greek Restaurant in the Southern California cities of Temecula and LaVerne. read more
California wildfires getting worse due to climate change
2013-08-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Southern California Public Radio: The Silver Fire near Banning is just the latest in a series of large wildfires burning throughout the state California, which has seen an increase in fire in recent years. In fact, in just the past 10 years, California has seen three of the largest fire years on record. Now a new report by the state points to cause: climate change. "The wildfires are getting worse, despite our ability to fight them better," said George Alexeeff, director of California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment,...
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A sobering new climate report for California
2013-08-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KQED Science: An immediate and growing threat. Thats how Californias lead environmental agency and the Governors office describe climate change in the latest in a series of periodic reports on the subject. The report cites already discernible impacts of climate change and attempts to pinpoint the main drivers no pun intended. In California, nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector trains, planes and automobiles, and the last in particular. According to...
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California Lawmakers Ask for Offshore Fracking Probe
2013-08-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A group of state lawmakers has asked the federal government to investigate hydraulic fracturing off the California coast where new oil leases have been banned since a disastrous oil spill in 1969. Fracking has occurred in the Santa Barbara Channel at least 12 times since the late 1990s, and regulators earlier this year approved a new project, according to a recent report by The Associated Press, which obtained well permits and internal emails through the Freedom of Information Act. The extent of...
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