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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Food for Thought? Chu on it!
Climate Progress: Stephen Chu: “We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California,” Part 2
Green Car Congress: Energy Secretary Warns California Agriculture and Cities in Jeopardy from Climate Change
Food for Thought? Chu on it!
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said. ...
Stephen Chu: “We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California,” Part 2
Climate Progress —
Finally, we have a top administration official telling it like it is. Energy Secretary and Nobelist Stephen Chu told a Los Angeles Times reporter: In a worst case, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra snowpack could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture.“I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen ,” he said. Precisely. [ You can listen to an interview with the LAT reporter and me on “To the Point” ...
Stephen Chu on climate change: “Wake up,” America, “we’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California,” Part 2
Climate Progress —
... Finally, we have a top administration official telling it like it is. Energy Secretary and Nobelist Stephen Chu told a Los Angeles Times reporter: ...
Energy Secretary Warns California Agriculture and Cities in Jeopardy from Climate Change
Green Car Congress —
... In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said that water shortages resulting from worst case scenarios of climate change could eliminate agriculture in California and place its cities in jeopardy. ...
Climate & environment - Feb 5
Energy Bulletin - —
... homepage California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns Jim Tankersley, Los Angeles Times 'We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California,' Steven Chu says. He sees education as a means to combat threat. --- California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Tuesday. In his first interview since taking office last month, the Nobel-prize-winning physicist ...
Global warming could erase California's farms
Ecoearth.info Blog —
In another sign that change has indeed come to the White House, President Obama's Energy Secretary, Stephen Chu, is discussing the threat of global warming in new, stark and -- frankly -- frightening terms. This is not the kind of warning we ever heard from the Bush Administration. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times , his first since being confirmed as Energy Secretary, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist said that all agriculture in California could be undermined by global warming by the end of this century. In other words, within the space of one lifetime, the ...
Public Awareness Key Strategy To Combat Global Warming, Says Energy Secretary
Energy Priorities —
... the threat of warming is keeping policymakers focused on alternatives to fossil fuels. But he said public awareness needs to catch up. Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and global-warming skeptic, made a statement imploring Chu to take note of the "real-world data, new studies and the growing chorus of international scientists" that question climate claims. A barbershop quartet's broken record does not a chorus sing. " California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns "
Steven Chu on climate change: 'Wake up,' America
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Finally, we have a top administration official telling it like it is. Energy Secretary and Nobelist Steven Chu told a Los Angeles Times reporter: ...
Chu: 'economic disaster' from warming
Ecoearth.info Blog —
by Jim Tankersley Earlier this week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu caused a stir in the Golden State - and many circles across the country - with his warnings that global warming could spell the demise of California agriculture by century's end. Chu isn't a climate scientist - he's a Nobel-winning physicist - but he's served on several climate-change commissions, and in his position, will be one of President Obama's point men on the climate issue. His comments came in a 40-minute interview, his first since being confirmed as secretary. "This is a real economic disaster in the ...
The Economy of Climate Burn
The Radio Ecoshock Show —
... Witness the incredible statements by Dr. Steven Chu, Obama's new Energy Secretary. He told the Los Angeles Times on Feb 4th that there may be no agriculture in California by the end of this century. He doesn't see how the great California cities can survive either. The water supply in the mountains is no longer coming. There will not be enough water to keep the California civilization going - and with it, the largest source of agricultural products (that means food!) in North America. Not small news. ...
Burning questions
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Northern California, in fact, offers a glimpse of the havoc that the extreme weather conditions scientists associate with climate change could cause, especially when combined with other crises. In a Los Angeles Times interview, new Secretary of Energy Steven Chu offered an eye-popping warning (of a sort top government officials simply don't give) about what a global-warming future might hold in store for California, his home state. Interviewer Jim Tankersley summed up Chu's thoughts this way: ...
California officials to farmers: No water for you
Greenbang —
... Climate change is already being blamed for California’s ongoing drought woes, and new US Energy Secretary Stephen Chu recently warned the situation could become far worse unless drastic action is taken. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times earlier this month, Chu warned, “We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” ...
Murder, He Wrote
Climate Progress —
... how species are going extinct, ecosystems are being rendered uninhabitable for the creatures that live in them, and how famine and diseases are spreading. When I write about solutions I often focus on how people and governments are mostly oblivious to what is happening and to how little time we have left to act boldly and forcefully to effect the radical change that the scientists tell us is necessary. I agree absolutely with what what Steven Chu, the new Secretary of Energy told the LA Times in an interview a couple of days ago. I don’t think the American public has gripped ...
Gates Foundation strategy raises key question: Can the problems of the developing world be solved by ignoring global warming?
Climate Progress —
... warns that the “scale of climate change as recorded in Northern Darfur is almost unprecedented, and its impacts are closely linked to conflict in the region, as desertification has added significantly to the stress on traditional agricultural and pastoral livelihoods.” Compare Gates’ words to those of Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who spent the last few years becoming an expert on both clean energy and climate science. Chu recently explained to the Los Angeles Times what happens to even a rich area when its relatively arid parts see a drop in ...
Gates Foundation stuck in tar, part 1
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Compare Gates' words to those of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who spent the last few years becoming an expert on both clean energy and climate science. Chu recently explained to the Los Angeles Times what happens to even a rich area when its relatively arid parts see a drop in precipitation and a severe loss in snowpack: ...
