Thursday, October 08, 2009

[New Zealand: Lots of CO2 emitted in attempts to fight killing frost]
A Puketapu vineyard has suffered a big loss after heating machinery used to battle the overnight frost burst into flames.
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One appliance from Taradale and an appliance and tanker from Napier were sent to the fire, which burned as helicopters hovered over other properties in the area trying to protect crops from the frost.
Warmer The Ocean, More The food For Fish
A new research finds that plankton, the basis of marine food webs, might grow faster in oceans that are warm. The sheer diversity of ocean food webs has made experts fear it would be impossible to predict how climate change will affect marine ecology.
E.ON cancels Kingsnorth - politics.co.uk
Conservative shadow climate change secretary Greg Clark said: "This latest news underlines the chaos in Labour's energy policy. At a time when the government is predicting power cuts by 2017 its plans for new capacity with carbon capture and storage are disintegrating."
Weekend forecast of frost puts farmers on edge | DesMoinesRegister.com
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, almost 30 percent of Iowa's corn crop is still immature and vulnerable to frost.

Temperatures are expected to dip into the mid-20s in the northern half of Iowa by Saturday night, which has Don Elsbrand of Allamakee County anxious.
Bipartisan Report Claims Solving the Climate Crisis “Depends on Tropical Forests”
The bipartisan Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests released an extensive report today calling on the Senate to consider tropical forest preservation as a central necessity in the climate bill in front of Congress. The group suggests that solving the climate crisis will be “nearly impossible without urgent efforts to stem tropical deforestation.”

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