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This Week's Items of Interest
January 26, 2016
Climate Change Symposium - Caltrans Sustainability Event
Climate Change 101, Understanding the Science and Effects   
(01.29.2016)

Two randomly selected audience members will be invited to lunch with the speakers as Dr. Steve Cliff's guest

Planet - Climate Change - Global Heat Record
Record hot years near impossible without manmade climate change (01.25.2016)

New calculations shows there is just a 0.01% chance that recent run of global heat records could have happened due to natural climate variations. 
The world's run of record-breaking hottest years is extremely unlikely to have happened without the global warming caused by human activities, according to new calculations.
Thirteen of the 15 hottest years in the 150-year-long record occurred between 2000-14 and the researchers found there is a just a 0.01% chance that this happened due to natural variations in the planet's climate.
Planet - Climate Change - Hydropower
From the Nile to the Amazon, climate change threatens hydropower  (01.20.2016)

Fr om the Amazon to the Nile to the Mekong, rivers are a lifeblood for many nations, filling taps and irrigation canals and generating hydroelectricity that is powering economic development. But a new study warns that changes to river flows caused by climate change threaten that. Thousands of hydrodams risk being left high and dry by mid-century as global warming takes hold.
Prosperity - US DOT - $50 million 
( 01.26.2016 )

Last December, the US DOT launched their Smart City Challenge to show what's possible when communities use technology to connect their diverse transportation assets into a single interactive network that improves lives through greater safety, ease, efficiency, and reliability. The winning mid-sized city will receive up to $40 million in Federal funding; up to $10 million from Paul Allen's Vulcan[external link] to support deployment of electric vehicles and other carbon emission reduction strategies; and fleet-wide installation of Mobileye technology aboard transit buses..
Planet - Climate Change - Quiz

Climate change is the toughest environmental challenge of our lifetime. Are you up-to-date on what's causing it and how it impacts our world?  
Planet - Climate Change - Innovation
Oslo trash incinerator starts experiment to slow climate change  (01.25.2016)

Oslo's main waste incinerator began the world's first experiment to capture carbon dioxide from the fumes of burning rubbish on Monday, hoping to develop technology to enlist the world's trash in slowing global warming.
The test at the Klemetsrud incinerator, which burns household and industrial waste, is a step beyond most efforts to capture and bury greenhouse gases at coal-fired power plants or factories using fossil fuels.
People - Innovation - Drone
MEDICAL TRANSPORT DRONES COULD TRANSFORM HEALTH CARE IN OVERCROWDED CITIES   (01.25.2016)

One day in early June 2014, the heart from a brain-dead 27-year-old man, a car crash victim, was sped from one hospital to another in Chennai, India. It was 6:30 p.m., right in the middle of rush hour, and 26 police officers worked hard to keep the 8-mile route free of traffic. The trip, normally a two-hour journey at that time of day, took 13 minutes.
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Planet - Methane Leak - Air Quality
Leaking Los Angeles Gas Well Ordered Shut Down  
(01.23.2016)
The Southern  California Gas Co. has been ordered to permanently close and seal a storage well that's poured natural gas into the air over a Los Angeles neighborhood for months and driven thousands from their homes.
A hearing board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District on Saturday also ordered the utility to fund an independent health study for residents of the Porter Ranch neighborhood and inspect all 115 wells at the Aliso Canyon storage facility to help prevent future leaks.
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