[MCN] " US protected areas are increasingly isolated, housing development in their surroundings is decreasing their effective size … "

[Lance Olsen]

PNAS. January 12, 2010. 
 
Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their conservation value. 
Volker C. Radeloff, Susan I. Stewart et al.
 
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/2/940.abstract?sid=4718e5e2-8fa3-475a-9b92-032f399600c3
 
"   …  housing growth poses the main threat to protected areas in the United States whereas deforestation is the main threat in developing countries."
 
"If long-term trends continue, another 17 million housing units will be built within 50 km of protected areas by 2030 (1 million within 1 km), greatly diminishing their conservation value. US protected areas are increasingly isolated, housing development in their surroundings is decreasing their effective size  …   "

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"Ignorance of remote causes disposeth men to attribute all events to the causes immediate and instrumental: for these are all the causes they perceive."

Thomas Hobbes
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“Teleconnections can be defined as linkages between climate anomalies at some distance from each other. 

"The large distances in space and the differences in timing between these anomalous events make it difficult for one to believe that one event (El Nino or La Nina) could possibly have influence on the other (e.g. drought in southern Africa or hurricanes in the tropical Atlantic). Nevertheless, physical and statistical research has shown that such linkages do exist.”

Michael Glantz. Currents of Change : Impacts of El Nino and La Nina on Climate and Society. Cambridge University Press, 2001

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