[MCN] Reality check : Environmental regulations

[Lance Olsen]

http://news.berkeley.edu/berkeley_blog/strong-environmental-regs-spotty-enforcement/

Excerpts: "Despite what you might think from the howls of business 
groups and conservative commentators, the enforcement system is not 
nearly as strong as it should be."

"Unfortunately, environmental enforcement problems seem to have 
continued into this century. A 2012 report by General Accounting 
Office says that the Environmental Protection Agency still reported 
'substantial rates of noncompliance in some programs.'"

http://news.berkeley.edu/berkeley_blog/strong-environmental-regs-spotty-enforcement/



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CLIMATE CHANGE PLUS HUMAN PRESSURE CAUSED LARGE MAMMAL EXTINCTIONS IN 
LATE PLEISTOCENE
NASA Earth Observatory -- MEDIA ALERT -- September 30, 2004
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2004/2004093017689.html>

"Of more than 150 genera of megafauna -- that is, animals weighing 
more than 44 kilograms (97 pounds) -- living on Earth 50,000 years 
ago, at least 97 were extinct by 10,000 years ago.  If you look at 
localized extinctions instead of global extinctions, 121 genera 
disappeared from at least one continent."

"'One thing we can do, as conservationists, is to create and connect 
natural areas' to allow animals to move around, he added."

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"Observed heat wave intensities in the current decade are larger than 
worst-case projections."

Auroop R. Gangulya, et al. Higher trends but larger uncertainty and 
geographic variability in 21st century temperature and heat waves. 
PNAS, September 15, 2009





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