Up to 10,000 Yosemite visitors at risk of hantavirus [CO2 blamed] | news10.net

UC Davis Vector-Borne Disease Ecologist Janet Foley believes there may be several reasons for the recent outbreak: the dry winter left food in scarce supply, and sent deer mice into closer contact with people in the wilderness.

"I do suspect that it has to do with the climate, climate change, it's just a harsh year for animals, hard on all the animals this year," Foley explained.

Climate Change is Causing the Island Homes of Panama’s Guna Indians to be Washed Away - ICTMN.com

López says the Congress is considering a 30-year proposal by the private company Wildlife Works Carbon, LLC to market carbon credits for 247,000 acres of Guna forest. Those funds could help the Congress conduct a study to determine the best mainland areas for settlements and begin relocating the village, but he says the Congress is apprehensive about making such a long-term commitment with a private company, or of selling their REDD+ credits at too low a price. “I think that this shows the hypocrisy of the industrial countries,” López argues. “In addition to damaging the world with their carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, now we have to negotiate the future or our forests and our rivers with them so that they pay us something for conserving them. I think they should pay us without demanding much in exchange, because we have conserved them until now, and whether or not we receive money from companies in industrialized countries, or the United Nations, etc., we are going to continue conserving our forests.”

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The Non-Green Weenie of the Week, and Other Notes | Power Line

I’m sure Mann will win a shelf full of Green Weenies if this suit proceeds, and in any case he’s a lock for the eventual Power Line Green Weenie Hall of Fame (Paul Ehrlich will be the first inductee, needless to say).

Satori, greenery and mockery

Another Fund, Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF), has also been established with contributions from development partners.

The BCCRF has so far received US$170 million and more is expected in the course of time. A few projects have already been initiated with support from this Fund.

Bangladesh should take effort to solicit money from a US$ 513 billion fund pledged at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development held in June, a senior government official said.

"As governments, private sector, civil society and other groups expressed their commitments at the summit, now our goal is to secure climate funds for the country," said SM Ahsanul Aziz, deputy director (climate change), Department of Environment (DoE).