To keep an eye on our finances we track of where our money is coming from and where it goes. The United States government wants to do the same thing for greenhouse gas emissions, sources and the sinks. Last week the United States Geological Survey released the first study detailing how much carbon is annually absorbed and stored in Western ecosystems, and where it ends up. Scientists hope the report will help land managers and policy makers turn down the dial on global warming. (Read the report.)
When you open a bottle of wine, your focus is usually on the contents. But what you remove to get at the wine is a subject of competition and debate within the winemaking industry.
Every year California about half of the precipitation, and almost all of the flooding, results from just a handful of intense storms... like the "Pineapple Express." At the American Geophysical Union meeting this week in San Francisco, 
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Sick of hearing about climate change? The more it progresses, the sicker we'll get.
The good news about climate-driven health impacts, says Humboldt County's Dr. Wendy Ring, is that most of them are familiar problems, albeit on a lesser scale than is forecast for the future.
Ring and her husband embarked on a cross-county speaking tour by bicycle over the summer, stopping in cities and states both red and blue to cultivate community demand for action on climate change from their local Congressional representatives. Her stop in Santa Rosa this week is part of a California swing toward the conservative bastions of the south with the same intent: to mobilize meaningful national policy action as soon as possible.
