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Jan 10, 2013, 08:07 AM »
Fears for a dozen killer whales trapped in Canada ice
By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:45 EST
Twelve killer whales could be in imminent danger after getting trapped by ice in the Hudson Bay off the shore of northern Quebec, the Canadian broadcaster reported.
Video posted on the CBC website showed the giant sea mammals taking turns to breathe by popping up through a small patch of open water amid fields of white ice.
But Tommy Palliser, who traveled from the small Inuit village of Inukjuak, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from where the whales are trapped, said the hole is shrinking, creating a dangerous situation for the creatures who live underwater but need air to survive.
The federal government is sending a team of experts Thursday to investigate whether and how the whales can be saved.
Inukjuak mayor Peter Inukpuk called for the government to send an icebreaker to create a route for the whales to open water.
It should be possible, he told CBC, saying the Hudson Bay only froze over two days earlier and the ice is "not thick, thick as in previous years."
He said the whales appear to be aware of their predicament.
"It appears from time to time that they panic," he said.
"Other times they are gone for a long time, probably looking for another open space, which they are not able to find."
But a department of fisheries official said it would be costly and complicated to send an icebreaker — since the machines are being used extensively and are not nearby. And even if one is sent, it may not arrive in time.
Experts told the broadcaster it is not uncommon to find whales trapped in a frozen sea, a situation that can often lead to death for the animals.
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Jan 10, 2013, 08:19 AM »
Newly discovered colony of penguins receives first human visitors
Experts from Belgian research station in Antarctica are first to visit and photograph 9,000-strong emperor penguin colony
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guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 January 2013 09.00 GMT
A previously unknown colony of about 9,000 emperor penguins has received its first human visitors.
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and US colleagues discovered the colony from satellite images.
The birds' gave away their location by leaving faecal stains on the ice.
Three experts from Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station have now become the first people to visit and photograph the colony.
They travelled to the site on Antarctica's Princess Ragnhild coast in early December.
The expedition leader, Alain Hubert, said: "I knew from last year's satellite study that there could potentially be an emperor colony east of Derwael ice rise.
"Because we were operating not far from this the satellite location, I decided to force the way and try to access this remote and unknown place.
"The surprise was even more than all I could have expected or dreamed about: I realised while counting the penguins that this was a very populated colony.
"It was almost midnight when we succeeded in finding a way down to the ice through crevasses and approached the first of five groups of more than a thousand individuals, three-quarters of which were chicks. This was an unforgettable moment."
Hubert and Soete had been studying ice loss 30 miles (50km) from the colony at a remote site 150 miles from the Princess Elisabeth research station.
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Jan 10, 2013, 09:50 AM »
Almost half of the world's food thrown away, report finds
By Rebecca Smithers, The Guardian
Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:35 EST
Figures from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers show as much as 2bn tonnes of food never makes it on to a plate
As much as half of all the food produced in the world – equivalent to 2bn tonnes – ends up as waste every year, engineers warned in a report published on Thursday.
The UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) blames the "staggering" new figures in its analysis on unnecessarily strict sell-by dates, buy-one-get-one free and Western consumer demand for cosmetically perfect food, along with "poor engineering and agricultural practices", inadequate infrastructure and poor storage facilities.
In the face of United Nations predictions that there could be about an extra 3 billion people to feed by the end of the century and growing pressure on the resources needed to produce food, including land, water and energy, the IME is calling for urgent action to tackle this waste.
Their report, Global Food; Waste Not, Want Not, found that between 30% and 50% or 1.2-2bn tonnes of food produced around the world never makes it on to a plate.
In the UK as much as 30% of vegetable crops are not harvested due to their failure to meet retailers' exacting standards on physical appearance, it says, while up to half of the food that is bought in Europe and the US is thrown away by consumers.
And about 550bn cubic metres of water is wasted globally in growing crops that never reach the consumer. Carnivorous diets add extra pressure as it takes 20-50 times the amount of water to produce 1 kilogramme of meat than 1kg of vegetables; the demand for water in food production could reach 10–13 trillion cubic metres a year by 2050.
This is 2.5 to 3.5 times greater than the total human use of fresh water today and could lead to more dangerous water shortages around the world, the IME says, claiming that there is the potential to provide 60-100% more food by eliminating losses and waste while at the same time freeing up land, energy and water resources.
Tim Fox, head of energy and environment at the IME, said: "The amount of food wasted and lost around the world is staggering. This is food that could be used to feed the world's growing population – as well as those in hunger today. It is also an unnecessary waste of the land, water and energy resources that were used in the production, processing and distribution of this food."
In order to prevent further waste, governments, development agencies and organisation like the UN "must work together to help change people's mindsets on waste and discourage wasteful practices by farmers, food producers, supermarkets and consumers," the IME said.
© Guardian News and Media 2013
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January 10, 2013
Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide
By SARAH LYALL
WORCESTER, England — Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to have been all too predictable: Around the world, extreme has become the new commonplace.
Especially lately. China is enduring its coldest winter in nearly 30 years. Brazil is in the grip of a dreadful heat spell. Eastern Russia is so freezing — minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and counting — that the traffic lights recently stopped working in the city of Yakutsk.
Bush fires are raging across Australia, fueled by a record-shattering heat wave. Pakistan was inundated by unexpected flooding in September. A vicious storm bringing rain, snow and floods just struck the Middle East. And in the United States, scientists confirmed this week what people could have figured out simply by going outside: last year was the hottest since records began.
"Each year we have extreme weather, but it's unusual to have so many extreme events around the world at once," said Omar Baddour, chief of the data management applications division at the World Meteorological Organization, in Geneva. "The heat wave in Australia; the flooding in the U.K., and most recently the flooding and extensive snowstorm in the Middle East — it's already a big year in terms of extreme weather calamity."
Such events are increasing in intensity as well as frequency, Mr. Baddour said, a sign that climate change is not just about rising temperatures, but also about intense, unpleasant, anomalous weather of all kinds.
Here in Britain, people are used to thinking of rain as the wallpaper on life's computer screen — an omnipresent, almost comforting background presence. But even the hardiest citizen was rattled by the near-biblical fierceness of the rains that bucketed down, and the floods that followed, three different times in 2012.
Rescuers plucked people by boat from their swamped homes in St. Asaph, North Wales. Whole areas of the country were cut off when roads and train tracks were inundated at Christmas. In Megavissey, Cornwall, a pub owner closed his business for good after it flooded 11 times in two months.
It was no anomaly: the floods of 2012 followed the floods of 2007 and also the floods of 2009, which all told have resulted in nearly $6.5 billion in insurance payouts. The Met Office, Britain's weather service, declared 2012 the wettest year in England, and the second-wettest in Britain as a whole, since records began more than 100 years ago. Four of the five wettest years in the last century have come in the past decade (the fifth was in 1954).
The biggest change, said Charles Powell, a spokesman for the Met Office, is the frequency in Britain of "extreme weather events" — defined as rainfall reaching the top 1 percent of the average amount for that time of year. Fifty years ago, such episodes used to happen every 100 days; now they happen every 70 days, he said.
The same thing is true in Australia, where bush fires are raging across Tasmania and the current heat wave has come after two of the country's wettest years ever. On Tuesday, Sydney experienced its fifth-hottest day since records began in 1910, with the temperature climbing to 108.1 degrees. The first eight days of 2013 were among the 20 hottest on record.
Every decade since the 1950s has been hotter in Australia than the one before, said Mark Stafford Smith, science director of the Climate Adaptation Flagship at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
To the north, the extremes have swung the other way, with a band of cold settling across Russia and Northern Europe, bringing thick snow and howling winds to Stockholm, Helsinki and Moscow. (Incongruously, there were also severe snowstorms in Sicily and southern Italy for the first time since World War II; in December, tornadoes and waterspouts struck the Italian coast.)
In Siberia, thousands of people were left without heat when natural gas liquefied in its pipes and water mains burst. Officials canceled bus transportation between cities for fear that roadside breakdowns could lead to deaths from exposure, and motorists were advised not to venture far afield except in columns of two or three cars. In Altai, to the east, traffic officials warned drivers not to use poor-quality diesel, saying that it could become viscous in the cold and clog fuel lines.
Meanwhile, China is enduring its worst winter in recent memory, with frigid temperatures recorded in Harbin, in the northeast. In the western region of Xinjiang, more than 1,000 houses collapsed under a relentless onslaught of snow, while in Inner Mongolia, 180,000 livestock froze to death. The cold has wreaked havoc with crops, sending the price of vegetables soaring.
Way down in South America, energy analysts say that Brazil may face electricity rationing for the first time since 2002, as a heat wave and a lack of rain deplete the reservoirs for hydroelectric plants. The summer has been punishingly hot. The temperature in Rio de Janeiro climbed to 109.8 degrees on Dec. 26, the city's highest temperature since official records began in 1915.
At the same time, in the Middle East, Jordan is battling a storm packing torrential rain, snow, hail and floods that are cascading through tunnels, sweeping away cars and spreading misery in Syrian refugee camps. Amman has been virtually paralyzed, with cars abandoned, roads impassable and government offices closed.
Israel and the Palestinian territories are grappling with similar conditions, after a week of intense rain and cold winds ushered in a snowstorm that dumped eight inches in Jerusalem alone.
Amir Givati, head of the surface water department at the Israel Hydrological Service, said the storm was truly unusual because of its duration, its intensity and its breadth. Snow and hail fell not just in the north, but as far south as the desert city of Dimona, best known for its nuclear reactor.
In Beirut on Wednesday night, towering waves crashed against the Corniche, the seaside promenade downtown, flinging water and foam dozens of feet in the air as lightning flickered across the dark sea at multiple points along the horizon. Many roads were flooded as hail pounded the city.
Several people died, including a baby boy in a family of shepherds who was swept out of his mother's arms by floodwaters. The greatest concern was for the 160,000 Syrian refugees who have fled to Lebanon, taking shelter in schools, sheds and, where possible, with local families. Some refugees are living in farm outbuildings, which are particularly vulnerable to cold and rain.
Barry Lynn, who runs a forecasting business and is a lecturer at the Hebrew University's department of earth science, said a striking aspect of the whole thing was the severe and prolonged cold in the upper atmosphere, a big-picture shift that indicated the Atlantic Ocean was no longer having the moderating effect on weather in the Middle East and Europe that it has historically.
"The intensity of the cold is unusual," Mr. Lynn said. "It seems the weather is going to become more intense; there's going to be more extremes."
In Britain, where changes to the positioning of the jet stream — a ribbon of air high up in the atmosphere that helps steer weather systems — may be contributing to the topsy-turvy weather, people are still recovering from the December floods. In Worcester last week, the river Severn remained flooded after three weeks, with playing fields buried under water.
In the shop at the Worcester Cathedral, Julie Smith, 54, was struggling, she said, to adjust to the new uncertainty.
"For the past seven or eight years, there's been a serious incident in a different part of the country," Mrs. Smith said. "We don't expect extremes. We don't expect it to be like this."
Reporting was contributed by Jodi Rudoren from Jerusalem; Irit Pazner Garshowitz from Tzur Hadassah, Israel; Fares Akram from Gaza City, Gaza; Ellen Barry and Andrew Roth from Moscow; Ranya Kadri from Amman, Jordan; Dan Levin from Harbin, China; Jim Yardley from New Delhi; Anne Barnard from Beirut, Lebanon; Matt Siegel from Sydney, Australia; Scott Sayare from Paris; and Simon Romero from Rio de Janeiro.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: January 11, 2013
An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the organization for which Omar Baddour works. It is the World Meteorological Organization, not association.
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Jan 11, 2013, 09:17 AM »
Astronomers spot biggest structure in the universe
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, January 11, 2013 9:04 EST
Astronomers on Friday said they had observed the largest structure yet seen in the cosmos, a cluster of galaxies from the early Universe that spans an astonishing four billion light years.
The sprawling structure is known as a large quasar group (LQG), in which quasars — the nuclei of ancient galaxies, powered by supermassive black holes — clump together.
The discovery in the deep Universe was made by a team led by Roger Clowes at the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute at Britain's University of Central Lancashire.
It would take a spaceship travelling at the speed of light four thousand million years to get from one end of the cluster to the other.
To give a sense of scale, our galaxy (the Milky Way) is separated from its nearest neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, by two and a half million light years.
"While it is difficult to fathom the scale of this LQG, we can say quite definitely it is the largest structure ever seen in the entire Universe," Clowes said in a press statement issued by Britain's Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).
"This is hugely exciting, not least because it runs counter to our current understanding of the scale of the Universe."
The paper appears in a RAS journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Jan 11, 2013, 09:19 AM »
Red-dust sunset as west Australia braces for cyclone
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, January 11, 2013 7:17 EST
Western Australians were bracing for a cyclone with residents warned to batten down for storms and destructive winds gusting up to 140 kilometres per hour (90 mph).
Cyclone Narelle was estimated to be 525 kilometres (325 miles) north of Exmouth and 505 kilometres north-west of Karratha near the Pilbara mining region and moving southwest at 13 kilometres per hour.
"Although there is no immediate danger you need to start preparing for dangerous weather and keep up to date," the Western Australia department of fire and emergency services said in an alert.
Images posted by Perth Weather Live showed a towering red dust storm over the ocean ahead of the cyclone.
A huge wall of reddish cloud, topped off with billowing white rose up from the ocean.
Tug boat worker Brett Martin, who captured the fearsome pictures 25 nautical miles from the town of Onslow, reported conditions were glassy and flat before the storm hit late Wednesday.
But when the wild weather arrived, the swell lifted to two metres, winds increased to 40 knots and visibility was reduced to 100 metres.
Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Austen Watkins told the West Australian newspaper the stunning view was created as wind and rain caused the storm to dump the sand and dust it had ingested while passing Onslow.
Western Australia's Pilbara region is an important resources hub, with major iron ore and gas facilities. Cyclones are common in northern and western Australia during the warmer months of summer.
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Originally published January 11, 2013 at 8:51 PM | Page modified January 11, 2013 at 9:38 PM
Climate change moving faster than predicted
The draft report sums up what has become increasingly apparent: The country is hotter than it used to be, rainfall is becoming more intense and erratic and rising seas and storm surges threaten U.S. coasts.
By Neela Banerjee
Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON – The effects of climate change driven by human activity are spreading through the United States faster than had been predicted, increasingly threatening infrastructure, water supplies, crops and shorelines, according to a review of climate science and its effects by a federal-advisory committee.
A draft of the Third National Climate Assessment delivers a bracing picture of environmental changes and natural disasters that mounting scientific evidence indicates is fostered by climate change: heavier rains in the Northeast, Midwest and Plains states that have overwhelmed storm drains and led to flooding and erosion; sea-level rise that has battered coastal communities; drought that has turned much of the West into a tinderbox.
"Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present," the report says. "Americans are noticing changes all around them. Summers are longer and hotter, and periods of extreme heat last longer than any living American has ever experienced. Winters are generally shorter and warmer."
The draft report — more than 1,000 pages compiled by more than 300 experts during the past three years — sums up what has become increasingly apparent: The country is hotter than it used to be, rainfall is becoming both more intense and erratic, and rising seas and storm surges threaten U.S. coasts.
It arrives days after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its annual State of the Climate Report, which noted that 2012 was the hottest year on record.
Together, the two major reports and a year of drought, wildfires, floods and freak storms have teed up for President Obama the chance to take substantial steps on climate change, environmentalists said.
The report explicitly addresses the most controversial question in climate change, saying that consumption of fossil fuels by humans is the main driver of climate change.
The report adds that the changes are already exacting an economic toll: "Infrastructure across the U.S. is being adversely affected by phenomena associated with climate change, including sea-level rise, storm surge, heavy downpours and extreme heat."
The report details 13 airports that have runways that could be inundated by rising sea level. It mentions that thawing Alaskan ground means 50 percent less time to drill for oil.
And overall it says up to $6.1 billion in repairs need to be made to Alaskan roads, pipelines, sewer systems, buildings and airports to keep up with global warming.
Sewer systems across America may overflow more, causing damages and fouling lakes and waterways because of climate change, the report said.
With the White House working on so many economic, foreign and domestic policy fronts, it remains unclear if the president will use the scientists' findings and the evidence to speak up more on climate.
The White House declined to comment on the climate report because it had not had a chance to review it. It also would not comment on specific on any specific efforts Obama might make to address climate change.
The National Climate Assessment report does not offer policy proposals to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions or to help specific communities adapt to climate change.
Instead, it details the risks they face.
The final assessment will be issued in early 2014, and public comment on the draft will be accepted until April 12.
Material from The Associated Press and The Washington Post is included in this report.
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Jan 12, 2013, 08:53 AM »
6 million volunteers clean up garbage worldwide
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, January 11, 2013 10:56 EST
More than six million volunteers from 96 countries collected an unprecedented 100,000 tonnes of garbage last year as part of a global, web-driven clean-up campaign, cyber-environmentalists said Friday.
"Last year the most astonishing numbers of volunteers attended clean-ups in Sweden, Bulgaria and in Slovenia," Tiina Urm, spokeswoman for World Cleanup 2012 told AFP.
Nearly 700,000 Swedes, 322,000 Bulgarians and 265,000 Slovenians turned out to clear trash, often illegally dumped garbage, pinpointed with special software using Google Maps.
"In the last five years seven million volunteers have attended our clean-up actions," Urm said.
The Let's Do It! campaign started in 2008 in Estonia, where organisers created special software to map and photograph over 10,000 illegal garbage dumps across the Nordic nation of 1.3 million people.
In what proved an unexpected success, over 50,000 volunteers collected 10,000 tonnes of illegal garbage from roadsides, forests and towns in just five hours.
Backers of the clean-up campaign say the world is drowning in 100 million tonnes of illegally dumped trash.
A global cyber-environmentalist meeting to be held in Tallinn in February will focus on ways to expand the global clean-up.
Pictures, data and maps about World Cleanup 2012 are available on
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Jan 12, 2013, 08:55 AM »
Poachers hack apart 2-month-old rhino with axes and machetes
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, January 11, 2013 12:34 EST
A two-month old rhino was hacked at least 18 times with axes and machetes when she got too close to poachers cutting off her slain mother's horn in South Africa, a conservation NGO said Friday.
"The poor baby had obviously tried to return to its mother while the poachers were removing her horn and they slashed at her face with a panga and an axe repeatedly in order to chase her away," said Karen Trendler of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.
The baby rhino had "18 very deep lacerations across her face, one which cuts right through her stump and the other through her skull," but was said to be "doing remarkably well".
Poachers slaughtered a record 668 rhinos in South Africa last year as demand on the Asian black market for their horns continued to surge.
Some think the material, which is of the same material as human nails, has medicinal values.
Those claims have been widely discredited.
The female calf is being cared for at a special orphanage for baby rhinos near Mokopane 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of Pretoria, Trendler told AFP.
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Originally published Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Beijing air pollution goes from 'crazy bad' to 'beyond belief'
What phrase is appropriate to describe Saturday's jaw-dropping air-pollution reading, when all of Beijing looked like an airport smokers' lounge?
By EDWARD WONG
The New York Times
BEIJING — One Friday more than two years ago, an air-quality monitoring device atop the U.S. Embassy in Beijing recorded data so horrifying that someone in the embassy called the level of pollution "Crazy Bad" in an infamous Twitter post. That day the Air Quality Index, which uses standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), had topped 500, which was supposed to be the top of the scale.
So what phrase is appropriate to describe Saturday's jaw-dropping reading of 755 at 8 p.m., when all of Beijing looked like an airport smokers' lounge? Though an embassy spokesman said he did not have comparative data, Beijing residents who follow the Twitter feed said the Saturday numbers appeared to be the highest recorded since the embassy began its monitoring system in 2008.
The embassy's @BeijingAir Twitter feed said the level of toxicity in the air was "Beyond Index," the terminology for levels above 500; the "Crazy Bad" label was used just once, in November 2010, by an embassy employee. According to the EPA, levels between 301 and 500 are "Hazardous," meaning people should avoid all outdoor activity. The World Health Organization has standards that judge a score above 500 to be more than 20 times the level of particulate matter in the air deemed safe.
In online conversations, Beijing residents tried to make sense of the latest readings.
"This is a historic record for Beijing," Zhao Jing, a prominent Internet commentator who uses the pen name Michael Anti, wrote on Twitter. "I've closed the doors and windows; the air purifiers are all running automatically at full power."
Other Beijing residents online described the air as "post-apocalyptic," "terrifying" and "beyond belief."
The municipal government reported levels as high as 478 Saturday in central Beijing, according to The Associated Press. It was not clear why that number was lower, but even that level is considered hazardous according to EPA standards. (By comparison, the air-quality index in New York City, using the same standard, was 19 at 6 a.m. Saturday.)
Pollution levels in Beijing had been creeping up for days, and readings were regularly topping 300 by midweek. The interior of the gleaming Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport was filled with a thick haze Thursday. The next day, people working in office towers in downtown Beijing found it impossible to make out skyscrapers just a few blocks away. Some city residents scoured stores in search of masks and air filters.
It was unclear exactly what was responsible for the rise in levels of particulate matter, beyond the factors that regularly sully the air in Beijing. Factories operating in neighboring Hebei province ring the city of more than 20 million. The number of vehicles on Beijing's streets has been multiplying at an astounding rate. And Beijing sits on a plain flanked by hills and escarpments that can trap pollution on days with little wind.
Xinhua, the state news agency, reported Dec. 31 that Beijing's air quality had improved for 14 years straight, and the level of major pollutants had decreased.
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As Australia heatwave hits new high, warning that bushfires will continue
As crews battle 'atrocious conditions' fire chiefs say that lives have been saved by better ways of predicting outbreaks
Alison Rourke
The Observer, Saturday 12 January 2013 15.48 GMT
Australia's heatwave set a new high of almost 50C as authorities warned that large uncontrolled bushfires would continue to threaten areas in the south-east of the country.
Meanwhile, in remote Moomba, a gas exploration and processing town in the outback of South Australia, the temperature hit 49.6C by mid-afternoon, making it the hottest of the two-week spell, and 48.6C in the town of Bourke, 500 miles north-west of Sydney.
In other parts of New South Wales (NSW) authorities fought nearly 100 bushfires with many still out of control. Fire crews also fought blazes in Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland. In the south, firefighters struggled to control a massive bushfire near the town of Cooma, that has burned through 10,000 hectares. In the late afternoon an emergency alert was issued indicating that danger from fire was imminent.
NSW rural fire service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said the last week had presented some of the "most atrocious" fire-fighting conditions he had seen in 30 years. "When it comes to fire, this week will be recognised as one of the worst, if not the worst danger weeks NSW has ever experienced," he added.
Around 350,000 hectares of land has been destroyed and thousands of livestock have been lost. Many blazes have been grass fires which travel two or three times faster than an average bushfire. They are easy to start and spread quickly, particularly as there has been plenty of grass on the ground following two wet summers in 2011-12.
Fitzsimmons paid tribute to the fire crews' efforts in preventing major losses: "To come through those conditions with the minimum amount of property being reported as damaged or destroyed and no loss of life is an extraordinary testament to the fire-fighting effort on the ground and the strategies used."
Many fires began on Tuesday when large areas of the state were given a fire danger rating of "catastrophic", the highest possible level. High temperatures and strong winds fanned the flames of 140 fires across the state. "We've never seen conditions like that and never want to see them again," said Fitzsimmons.
Garry Morgan, chief executive of the Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre, said big improvements in the way bush fires could be predicted, the direction they were likely to take and their spread had been significant in protecting lives and livelihoods. "If we'd had these fires eight years ago, we'd have had a big loss of life. It's been an amazing outcome."
Australia is one of the top three bush-fire-prone places in the world, along with the west coast of the US and France's Mediterranean coast. Improvements in weather prediction and communications have helped to change the authorities' ability to manage outbreaks.
"We can tell people where the smoke is heading, how far away the fire is and when to get out of their houses," said Morgan. "There's no doubt the messaging to communities about the dangers is much better too."
Fitzsimmons said there had to be "a demonstrable shift and an improvement to the way that communities engaged and warned" after the Black Saturday fires in Victoria in 2009, which claimed the lives of 173 people and shocked the nation. "There was a very deliberate decision made to improve our systems and our language to make sure we put out a clear and simple set of messages and instructions [to the public]."
In the past week the Rural Fire Service has had an unprecedented number of hits on its website, Facebook page, Twitter account.
The heatwave of the past two weeks has been a key factor in the scale of the week's fires. On Monday, the country experienced its hottest day on record, with an average high temperature across the continent of 40.3C, surpassing the 1972 record of 40.1C. The third-hottest day on record was on Tuesday.
The first nine days of 2013 have recorded average maximum temperatures of more than 39C, making the length, severity and extent of the heatwave unprecedented, according to the climate commission's special report on the heat wave.
The scorching conditions have come at the end of the hottest four-month period on record. Seven of the 20 hottest days by average maximum have been registered just this month. A delayed northern monsoon has meant that there has been less moisture and cloud cover over the continent, leaving a huge inland area to bake for most of the past two weeks.
The danger is likely to last for some time according to Fitzsimmons. "In the short term, over the next week, there is nothing in the forecast that demonstrates any meaningful substantial rain will fall. Until we get some, we will have a landscape susceptible to fire," he said.
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US scientists in fresh alert over effects of global warming
US National Climate Assessment reveals that severe weather disruption is going to be commonplace in coming years
Robin McKie, science editor
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 12 January 2013 21.16 GMT
Global warming is already having a major impact on life in America, a report by US government scientists has warned. The draft version of the US National Climate Assessment reveals that increasing storm surges, floods, melting glaciers and permafrost, and intensifying droughts are having a profound effect on the lives of Americans.
"Corn producers in Iowa, oyster growers in Washington state and maple syrup producers have observed changes in their local climate that are outside of their experience," states the report.
Health services, water supplies, farming and transport are already being strained, the assessment adds. Months after superstorm Sandy battered the east coast, causing billions of dollars of damage, the report concludes that severe weather disruption is going to be commonplace in coming years. Nor do the authors flinch from naming the culprit. "Global warming is due primarily to human activities, predominantly the burning of fossil fuels," it states.
The uncompromising language of the report, and the stark picture that its authors have painted of the likely effects of global warming, have profound implications for the rest of the world.
If the world's greatest economy is already feeling the strain of global warming, and is fearful of its future impact, then other nations face a very worrying future as temperatures continue to rise as more and more greenhouse gases are pumped into the atmosphere.
"The report makes for sobering reading," said Professor Chris Rapley, of University College London. "Most people in the UK and US accept human-induced climate change is happening but respond by focusing attention elsewhere. We dismiss the effects of climate change as 'not here', 'not now', 'not me' and 'not clear'.
"This compelling new assessment by the US experts challenges all four comforting assumptions. The message is clear: now is the time to act!"
Bob Ward, of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics, said: "For those outside the US, this report carries a brutal message because it shows that even the world's leading economy cannot simply adapt to the impacts of climate change. The problem clearly needs concerted international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to avoid the worst potential consequences."
The national climate assessment, written by a team of 240 scientists, is required every four years by US law. The first was written in 2000, though no report was issued while George W Bush was president. The next came out in 2009. The latest is only a draft version and will be revised after comments by other scientists and the public.
However, observers have noted that the 2013 version is far more uncompromising in its language. "The bluntness reflects the increasing confidence we have in the science and day-to-day realities of climate change," said one of its authors, Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Centre at Texas Tech University.
The report highlights, among other things, that 13 American airports have runways that could be inundated by rising sea levels, and that billions of dollars will be needed to repair Alaskan roads, pipelines, sewer systems, buildings and airports where melting permafrosts are disrupting the landscape. These are problems that will not just affect the US. They will be repeated across the planet.
Environmental groups are now hoping that the report will revitalise the debate over climate change in the US and stimulate the administration of Barack Obama into taking action over an issue that has been put on the backburner. "There is so much that is already happening today," said Hayhoe. "This is no longer a future issue. It's an issue that is staring us in the face today."
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Draft report from NCA makes clear link between climate change and extreme weather as groups urge Obama to take action
By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
Friday, January 11, 2013 21:24 EST
Future generations of Americans can expect to spend 25 days a year sweltering in temperatures above 100F (38C), with climate change on course to turn the country into a hotter, drier, and more disaster-prone place.
The National Climate Assessment, released in draft form on Friday , provided the fullest picture to date of the real-time effects of climate change on US life, and the most likely consequences for the future.
The 1,000-page report, the work of the more than 300 government scientists and outside experts, was unequivocal on the human causes of climate change, and on the links between climate change and extreme weather.
"Climate change is already affecting the American people," the draft report said. "Certain types of weather events have become more frequent and/or intense including heat waves, heavy downpours and in some regions floods and drought. Sea level is rising, oceans are becoming more acidic, and glaciers and Arctic sea ice are melting."
The report, which is not due for adoption until 2014, was produced to guide federal, state and city governments in America in making long-term plans.
By the end of the 21st century, climate change is expected to result in increased risk of asthma and other public health emergencies, widespread power blackouts, and mass transit shutdowns, and possibly shortages of food.
"Proactively preparing for climate change can reduce impacts, while also facilitating a more rapid and efficient response to changes as they happen," said Katharine Jacobs, the director of the National Climate Assessment.
The report will be open for public comment on Monday.
Environmental groups said they hoped the report would provide Barack Obama with the scientific evidence to push for measures that would slow or halt the rate of climate change – sparing the country some of the worst effects.
The report states clearly that the steps taken by Obama so far to reduce emissions are "not close to sufficient" to prevent the most severe consequences of climate change.
"As climate change and its impacts are becoming more prevalent, Americans face choices," the report said. "Beyond the next few decades, the amount of climate change will still largely be determined by the choices society makes about emissions. Lower emissions mean less future warming and less severe impacts. Higher emissions would mean more warming and more severe impacts."
As the report made clear: no place in America had gone untouched by climate change. Nowhere would be entirely immune from the effects of future climate change.
Some of those changes are already evident: 2012 was by far the hottest year on record, fully a degree hotter than the last such record – an off-the-charts rate of increase.
Those high temperatures were on course to continue for the rest of the century, the draft report said. It noted that average US temperatures had increased by about 1.5F since 1895, with more than 80% of this increase since 1980.
The rise will be even steeper in future, with the next few decades projected for temperatures 2 to 4 degrees warmer in most areas. By 2100, if climate change continues on its present course, the country can expect to see 25 days a year with temperatures above 100F.
Night-time temperatures will also stay high, providing little respite from the heat.
Certain regions are projected to heat up even sooner. West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware can expect a doubling of days hotter than 95 degrees by the 2050s. In Texas and Oklahoma, the draft report doubled the probability of extreme heat events.
Those extreme temperatures would also exact a toll on public health, with worsening air pollution, and on infrastructure increasing the load for ageing power plants.
But nowhere will see changes as extreme as Alaska, the report said.
"The most dramatic evidence is in Alaska, where average temperatures have increased more than twice as fast as the rest of the country," the draft report said. "Of all the climate-related changes in the US, the rapid decline of Arctic sea ice cover in the last decade may be the most striking of all."
Other regions will face different extreme weather scenarios. The north-east, in particular, is at risk of coastal flooding because of sea-level rise and storm surges, as well as river flooding, because of an increase in heavy downpours.
"The north-east has experienced a greater increase in extreme precipitation over the past few decades than any other region in the US," the report said. Between 1958 and 2010, the north-east saw a 74% increase in heavy downpours.
The midwest was projected to enjoy a longer growing season – but also an increased risk of extreme events like last year's drought. By mid-century, the combination of temperature increases and heavy rainfall or drought were expected to pull down yields of major US food crops, the report warned, threatening both American and global food security.
The report is the most ambitious scientific exercise ever undertaken to catalogue the real-time effects of climate change, and predict possible outcomes in the future.
It involved more than 300 government scientists and outside experts, compared to around 30 during the last such effort when George W Bush was president. Its findings were also much broader in scope, Jacobs said.
There were still unknowns though, the report conceded, especially about how the loss of sea ice in Greenland and Antarctica will affect future sea-level rise.
Campaign groups said they hoped the report would spur Obama to act on climate change in his second term. "The draft assessment offers a perfect opportunity for President Obama at the outset of his second term," said Lou Leonard, director of the climate change programme for the World Wildlife Fund. "When a similar report was released in 2009, the Administration largely swept it under the rug. This time, the President should use it to kick-start a national conversation on climate change. "
However, the White House was exceedingly cautious on the draft release, noting in a blogpost: "The draft NCA is a scientific document—not a policy document—and does not make recommendations regarding actions that might be taken in response to climate change."
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Tens of millions could face droughts and floods due to carbon emissions: report
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, January 13, 2013 13:33 EST
Tens of millions of people may be spared droughts and floods by 2050 if Earth-warming carbon emissions peak in 2016 rather than 2030, scientists said on Sunday.
Climate researchers in Britain and Germany said emission cuts now would delay some crippling impacts by decades and prevent some altogether.
By 2050, an Earth heading for warming of 2-2.5 degrees Celsius (3.6-4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100 could have two very different faces, depending on the route taken to get there, said their study published in the journal Nature Climate Change
Policies that cap Earth-warming carbon emissions in 2016 and then reduce them by five percent per year could see between 39 and 68 million people spared exposure to a higher risk of water shortages by 2050, Nigel Arnell of the University of Reading told AFP.
This is the best-case scenario, though.
In contrast, if emissions peak in 2030 and fall by five percent annually, the number who escape this risk drops to between 17 and 48 million.
Similarly, about 100-161 million people would avoid a higher risk of river flooding on the 2016-peak scenario.
This compares to 52-120 million people if emissions peak 14 years later, said Arnell, director of the university's Walker Institute on climate change.
"Basically in 2050, the 2030-peaking policy has about half to two-thirds of the benefit than the best (2016) policy," even though both lead to a similar temperature peak of about 2-2.5 deg C by 2100, he said.
"You may hit the same (temperature) point at the end of the century but… the mayhem that's been caused on the way to that point is different under the different pathways."
Under a scenario without any emissions curbs, temperatures could rise as much as 4-5.5 deg C, said the new paper which claimed to be the broadest assessment yet of the benefits of avoiding climate change impacts.
Global average warming of 4 deg C would see almost a billion people have less water in 2100 than they have now, and 330 million will be at greater risk of river flooding, Arnell told a pre-release press conference.
A peak in 2016 seems unlikely, with the world's nations aiming to adopt a new global climate pact by 2015 for entry into force only five years later.
The latest round of UN climate talks that concluded in Doha, Qatar in December failed to set pre-2020 emissions cuts for countries that have not signed up to the Kyoto Protocol that seeks to curb warming, even as scientists warned the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere continues to rise.
Three of the world's four biggest polluters — China, the United States and India — are among those with no binding emission limits, which cover countries responsible for only about 15 percent of the world's carbon pollution.
Many scientists believe that Earth is set for warming that will be far above the United Nations' 2 deg C target on pre-industrial levels.
"Reducing greenhouse gas emissions won't avoid the impacts of climate change altogether of course, but our research shows it will buy time to make things like buildings, transport systems and agriculture more resilient to climate change," said Arnell.
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Fire threatens top Australian telescope site Siding Spring Observatory
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, January 13, 2013 9:30 EST
Australia's top research observatory home to several telescopes used by scientists from around the world was under threat from wildfires on Sunday as hot weather and lightning storms stoked scores of new blazes.
The Rural Fire Service (RFS) of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, issued an emergency warning for an out-of-control fire raging towards the Siding Spring Observatory, a remote global research facility.
"About a dozen isolated properties at Mt Woorut, including Siding Spring Observatory, may come under threat," the RFS said.
"This is a large and dangerous bush fire… Police have evacuated the area around Siding Spring. Firefighters and waterbombing aircraft are on scene."
Siding Spring, a mountain-top site in the Warrumbungle ranges about 500 kilometres (310 miles) north-west of Sydney, houses 10 operating telescopes run by Australian, Polish, British, Korean and American researchers.
Administered by the Australian National University's research school of astronomy and astrophysics, Siding Spring is the nation's major optical and infrared observatory and one of the top facilities of its kind in the world.
A university spokeswoman said all observatory personnel had been confirmed as "safely evacuated and accounted for".
"The university is working closely with the NSW Rural Fire Service and monitoring the situation," she told AFP.
Crews were battling difficult conditions, with temperatures in the area in excess of 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahreheit) and hot north-westerly gusts blowing at about 60 kilometres (37 miles) per hour.
The fire was burning across a four-kilometre front, with a strong southerly change later in the evening expected to complicate containment efforts.
A partner observatory at Canberra's Mount Stromlo was destroyed by wildfires in January 2003 that killed four people and razed more than 500 homes.
Five telescopes, residences and more than a dozen buildings were ruined in the Mount Stromlo inferno, forcing the termination of a number of major projects including a digital survey of the southern hemisphere's skies.
Large parts of Australia have sweltered under extreme heat in the past week, sparking hundreds of wildfires that have destroyed more than 100 homes.
In the northern state of Queensland train services were halted Sunday due to fears that tracks would buckle under scorching heat that has seen bitumen road surfaces melt in some towns.
The RFS said lightning storms started about 40 new fires overnight in northern NSW, fanned by strong winds, though most were in remote areas and not a threat to properties.
By Sunday evening there were 134 fires burning across NSW, 43 of which were out of control, according to the RFS.
Wildfires are a common threat in arid Australia, particularly in the hotter months between December and February, and the government's Climate Commission has warned that global warming will increase the fire risk.
Some 173 people were killed and more than 2,000 homes destroyed during the so-called Black Saturday firestorm in 2009, Australia's worst natural disaster of modern times.
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6:38 pm – Wang's Fed Up: Charles Wang sounded like a man who's had it with the Town of Hempstead. He didn't even have a good take on Kate Murray's olive branch phone call on Friday, saying he told the Hempstead Supervisor that he didn't want their conversation to end up in Newsday. Murray called Newsday and told a reporter not just her side of the conversation, but what Wang told her.
The deadline is about to pass, and apparently Wang's patience is through, too. "Angry, disappointed, some might say disgusted," he told reporters in a pre-game briefing. I asked him if this is the first time reality has hit him that the Islanders could be playing somewhere other than Nassau County. "It is," he said, "and that is very sad." Asked if he would give priority to meetings with an outside municipality over the Town of Hempstead, he acknowledged, "There is time to do both."
I asked Wang if it's possible Hempstead Town didn't take his bluff seriously because he has always gone out of his way to say he wanted to make the Islanders work in Nassau County. "I guess maybe," he said. "It's not what I want. But it's not like they are giving me many choices."
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5:55 – Charles Wang to meet with media at 6:15 pm. I'll have an update soon after. Tom Suozzi confirmed to drop the puck, flanked by Bossy and Trottier. So much for making this one night about Tavares and hockey!
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Advocacy and Action Alerts
Inviting your Member of Congress or other elected official to visit and tour your homeless assistance program can be one of the most impactful ways to interact with them and engage them in the movement to end homelessness. Site visits involve letting your representatives or senators see first-hand how your program operates and help them meet with staff and consumers, so that they can make the connection between your program working to end homelessness in their district, and the legislation they work on every day in Washington, DC.
So how and when can you conduct a site visit? This blog will give you a little more background, and your opportunity is coming soon! The House and Senate will be in recess, working back in the districts, from April 30 to May 4! With several federal funding bills expected to be released in the coming weeks, the May recess offers a perfect opportunity to explain the importance of increasing federal homelessness funding to better service people at risk of or experiencing homelessness in their districts.
Site visits can be quick tours, or more involved events including speakers and the media. Both are effective, and which type you plan depends on your Member's availability and your goals for the site visit. Most importantly, you should pick one to two policy issues on which to focus. This will depend largely on your specific program and the types of federal funds you use. For example, do you serve homeless people with McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants? Do you serve youth? Veterans? You should choose a policy issue to discuss with your Member of Congress based on what matters most to your program.
The congressional office you're working with may want to include press coverage, which is a great opportunity to raise awareness on the issue for both you and the Member of Congress. You should also consider getting your local partners involved in the planning process and actual site visit. Consider inviting other key stakeholders in your community who may be able to help encourage the Member of Congress to attend.
Throughout the site visit, make sure that whatever the Member is seeing or hearing, including program outcomes, personal stories from consumers, and the unmet need in your community, is being connecting to the policy issue and "ask" you're making of your Member.
The early May recess is truly an ideal time to connect with your Member on federal funding issues or other policy priorities. If you'd like to conduct a site visit, we can help! You can use our advocacy toolkit for a step-by-step guide, or you can reach out to me at firstname.lastname@example.com for help deciding who to invite and on which policy issues to focus. We're here to help in any way you need and can't wait to hear about all the visits Members of Congress will be doing to homeless assistance programs in May!
The results are in… and you did GREAT!
We are so impressed with all the advocacy efforts we've seen over the last few weeks that we wanted to take our weekly blog post opportunity to say "thank you!" In February, following the release of the President's Budget Proposal, the Alliance called on all of you to write as many letters as possible to your Members of Congress urging them to support the President's request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants. We set the goal of sending 500 letters and you blew it out of the water! In about a month, you were able to send at least 613 letters!! That's 23% more than our goal – incredible!
During that time, two congressional sign-on letters circulated, one in the House and one in the Senate, about the importance of funding for HUD's McKinney-Vento programs. The House letter, circulated by Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI), called for funding McKinney-Vento at $2.231 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2013, as requested by the President. This letter received a very impressive 65 signatures! That beats all the similar letters from 2010 and 2011! The Senate letter, calling for robust funding for HUD's McKinney-Vento programs in FY 2013, received 28 signatures!
As you can tell, our partners did an incredible job on McKinney-Vento advocacy. But we're not done bragging about you yet! A third letter circulating in the House called for $75 million to fund approximately 10,000 new HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing vouchers in FY 2013. This letter received another impressive 64 signatures from representatives in a very short period of time.
In addition to these signatures, you got many Members to weigh in separately and directly with their colleagues on the Appropriations Committee about the importance of providing increased funding for these and other key homelessness programs. All in all, we sent a loud and clear message to Congress – these programs serve the most vulnerable in a cost-effective or –efficient way. And more importantly, they work!
So what happens next? As is always the case in Congress, you can never know for sure. But here's what we think will happen: The House and Senate will each decide very soon how much overall money the HUD Appropriations Subcommittee (in charge of funding for HUD programs) will have to spend. Once that number is decided, they will move pretty quickly to divide that amount up among each HUD program. They're expected to begin releasing and voting on bills as soon as next month in the Senate and possibly shortly afterward in the House. As you can see, decisions are being made now! It's important to keep up our involvement and advocacy during these key decision-making times. Work with us in the coming weeks to keep breaking records, and to keep up the fantastic showing we've seen from all of you for these key programs! On behalf of the entire team here at the Alliance, we just want to say THANK YOU for all of your help so far – now let's keep our momentum going!
If you'd like to get involved, email me at email@example.com or check out our campaign pages!
As you may have seen, the House released a budget plan this week that shrinks the deficit, cuts taxes, and reduces spending on social programs. What you may not have realized, however, is how much this plan would affect the fiscal year (FY) 2013 funding process for key programs for homeless and at-risk people, including HUD's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants, Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, and homeless veteran programs.
This plan – officially called a "budget resolution" – is a regular and important part of the federal budget process. It is not law but sets out Congress' budgetary plans for the year. The most important aspect of the budget resolution is that it lays out the overall amount of funding that will be available to the Appropriations Committee for its annual funding bills. This overall amount is then eventually split up among countless federal programs, including homeless assistance programs.
In theory, the House and Senate should agree on a budget resolution by April 15 of each year. This often does not happen, though. In fact, the Senate does not plan to pass a budget resolution at all this year, since last year's big debt deal included an agreement about how much funding would be available to the Appropriations Committee this year.
However, the House still plans to pass a budget resolution this year – one that goes beyond last year's agreement in cutting overall funding for the annual funding bills. The budget resolution released earlier this week includes 2 percent, or $19 billion, less overall for the Appropriations Committee this year than Congress agreed to in the debt deal. The House budget resolution will disproportionately draw those cuts from domestic spending (which include key safety net and affordable housing programs) instead of from defense spending.
The end result of all of this is that the House will be writing annual funding bills that spend less money overall than the Senate's bills do – especially for domestic programs. This, in turn, will affect how much each program is able to receive in the two chambers' versions of the bills. And it will make final negotiations between the House and Senate for compromise funding levels a bit more complicated.
We do know one thing for sure, though: Despite the differences in the House and Senate, the Appropriations Committees are expected to move more quickly than usual and release and vote on these bills as soon as next month – which means we need your help right away!
It's incredibly important to get involved in our FY 2013 McKinney, RHYA, and veterans advocacy campaigns – and the sooner, the better! Members of Congress are starting to make funding decisions, and we want to make sure that ending homelessness is a priority for them.
If the District's 70+ degree weather today is any indication, it's spring time here in our nation's capital, and that means two things: the Cherry Blossoms are about to bloom and appropriations season is in full swing!
In addition to writing letters to your senators and representatives urging them to submit their funding priorities to the Appropriations Committees, there are currently two Dear Colleague letters circulating in the House supporting increased HUD McKinney-Vento and HUD-VASH funding.
Dear Colleague letters, also known as "sign-on letters," are usually sponsored by one to three Members of Congress and contain a message for specific people in Congress – in this case, the sign-on letter is addressed to the Chair and Ranking Member of the Appropriations Committee or an Appropriations Subcommittee. The letters asks to increase or maintain funding levels for specific programs for the upcoming fiscal year. The sponsors circulate the letter among their colleagues in either the House or Senate (in this case, both letters are in the House) to gather signatures.
The first letter is being circulated by Rep. Gwen Moore's office in support of providing the $2.321 billion requested by the President for the Department of Housing and Urban Development's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants for fiscal year (FY) 2013.
The second letter is being circulated by Reps. Al Green, Mike Michaud, and Michael Grimm in support of providing $75 million for new HUD – Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) vouchers in FY 2013. The President also requested $75 million for the vouchers, which will provide approximately 10,000 new vouchers for homeless veterans.
Dear Colleague letters are an easy way for a Member to show support and convey that support to their colleagues and constituents. The sign-on letters are also a great opportunity to connect with your Members' offices!
If you would like to see your representative's name on either of these letters supporting increased funding for homeless veterans and the nation's most vulnerable people, reach out to them! Let the offices know that the letters are being circulated and that you, as their constituent, would like to see them sign on! View the HUD-VASH or McKinney letters on our website for more talking points, sample letters, and instructions on how your representative can show their support! Then be sure to let us know who you contacted!
As we mentioned before, the President released his fiscal year (FY) 2013 Budget Proposal last week, and it included a whopping 17 percent increase to HUD's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants, raising the funding level to $2.231 billion. This would be the largest one-year increase to homeless assistance in nearly 20 years!
As you can imagine, there was a lot of excitement at the Alliance when we saw this. This funding level would allow communities to continue their existing activities, expand the rapid re-housing and prevention efforts through the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and continue HEARTH implementation while funding new permanent supportive housing through the Continuums of Care.
But the President's Budget Proposal is not law, so we still have to convince Congress to follow through with the Administration's recommendations before they're official – still, the President's Budget Proposal initiates the discussion about funding priorities and thereby raises our chances that Congress will consider increasing funding for HUD's McKinney-Vento programs. As such, we've already launched an effort to leverage the Administration's request and educate Congress on the importance of making these programs a priority in FY 2013.
So what, you may ask, can you do to help? Well, for starters, join our FY 2013 McKinney Appropriations Campaign! We need as many people as possible to send letters to their Members of Congress in the next several weeks. In fact, we've set a goal of working with our partners across the country to send at least 500 letters to Members of Congress in support of the $2.23 billion funding level by March 20.
March 20 is the deadline for representatives to submit their official list of FY 2013 funding priorities, called programmatic requests, to their colleagues on the Appropriations Committee. Senators have just a few extra days, until March 23. After that, the Appropriations Committee will look at the priorities and start to craft the HUD appropriations bills based on those requests. So, we must act now to ensure that Members of Congress recognize that they should prioritize funding for homeless assistance this year.
We need your help! You can use this sample letter to send letters, and then ask your partners and colleagues to send letters, too. Make sure to let us know if you have any questions and how many letters you send, so we can keep track to see if we reach our goal. Keep us in the loop or get more information by emailing Amanda Benton at firstname.lastname@example.com.
On Monday, the Administration released its fiscal year (FY) 2013 Budget Proposal. This is the start of the Alliance's advocacy season and we're excited by some of the numbers! This year is a great time to start getting involved with advocating for homeless assistance programs – join us today!
If you're wondering what the President's Budget Proposal is – and why it's important – you're not alone. This big document is released every year by the Administration in early February . It officially kicks off the federal budget process for the upcoming fiscal year, which will start on October 1.
A couple of weeks ago, we discussed why this proposal matters. The President's budget Proposal is not law. It's meant to serve as a guide for Congress as it makes its own decisions about appropriations and the federal budget.
The President's FY 2013 Budget Proposal includes suggested funding levels for many key programs targeted toward low-income or homeless people. This year, we at the Alliance were really excited to see some impressive increases proposed to homeless assistance programs:
- $2.23 billion for HUD's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants, a 17 percent increase over the FY 2012 level;
- $1.35 billion for targeted homeless veteran programs within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a 33 percent increase over the FY 2012 level; and
- $19.07 billion for Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, including $75 million for about 10,000 new HUD-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) vouchers.
These increases of about $330 million to VA's homelessness programs and HUD's McKinney-Vento programs each (not to mention funding for additional HUD-VASH vouchers) are a clear sign of the Administration's commitment to implementing the HEARTH Act and the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness – even in a time of extremely tight budgeting.
The Budget Proposal also included flat funding (the same as in FY 2012) for countless other federal programs, including many that are important to homeless and at-risk people:
- Runaway and Homeless Youth Act programs;
- Homeless programs within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration;
- Education for Homeless Children and Youth programs; and
- Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs.
In addition, it proposed some cuts to key programs, including Project-Based Rental Assistance, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), Section 811, and the Emergency Food and Shelter Program. For more details on the Administration's proposed funding levels, click here.
So, what happens next? Congress has already begun to hold hearings on the Budget Proposal, and soon they'll start to craft their own proposals. The Alliance is planning to launch major advocacy campaigns around several high-priority funding issues, including for HUD's McKinney-Vento programs, RHYA programs, and VA's Zero Homelessness Initiative. If you are interested in participating in any of these campaigns, please contact us!
In the vast majority of our advocacy blog posts, we discuss congressional advocacy. But there is also another important kind of advocacy: efforts aimed at the Administration and government agencies.
Late last year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released an interim regulation for the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program, as required by the HEARTH Act updating HUD's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants. Normally, HUD releases a draft regulation, the public then comments on the regulation, and, finally, HUD takes those comments into consideration before publishing a final regulation – which only then goes into effect.
In this case, though, Congress specifically gave HUD more money to run the new ESG program, so HUD had to act quickly. HUD released this interim regulation, which officially went into effect on January 4, but they are still taking comments!
We've received a lot of questions from people who aren't sure their comments matter this time, since the regulation is already in effect. So, we want to be clear: your comments are really critical!
The public has until Friday, February 3 to comment on the regulation. HUD will then consider those comments before eventually publishing a final, updated regulation. So, although comments won't immediately affect the program, they'll have a significant impact in the way the program is ultimately designed over the long run. If you or your community had any concerns about the regulations, now is your time to address them!
We've put out a lot of resources about the ESG regulation itself and recommendations and resources for communities beginning to implement the new ESG program. They can all be found at www.endhomelessness.org/ESG.
To provide people with an easy starting point and helpful guidance, the Alliance has released a draft of our own comments – the newest resource at www.endhomelessness.org/ESG. But just as you may use our comments to craft your own, we would love additional feedback from our partners across the country as to what we should include in the Alliance's final comments. We want to hear your feedback and concerns about our comments and the regulation itself.
If you have thoughts of suggestions, please email Amanda Benton at firstname.lastname@example.com and include "ESG Comments" in the subject line.
Even though this is a different kind of advocacy, it's just as important. It will have a long-term impact on the communities tools have at their disposal to prevent and end homelessness. We hope you'll take the time to submit comments to HUD, and we can't wait to hear from you with any questions, concerns, or feedback.
As we discussed last month, there are plenty of ways to engage the media to raise awareness among the public and decisionmakers about homelessness in your community. Last month, we focused on the opportunity provided by the holidays to highlight the issue. Today, we'd like to discuss an upcoming opportunity to use data to raise awareness.
About a year ago, the Alliance released The State of Homelessness in America 2011. By working with our local partners, we were able to draw more attention to the issue of homelessness and its solutions than we could have working alone. In fact, dozens of local and national media outlets ran stories last January that mentioned the report and focused on how communities were coping with the challenges of the recession and its lingering effects.
The release of new local, state, or national data is often a great opportunity to work with the media and write editorials, submit letters to the editor, or pitch stories. The data provided in the report is the "hook" reporters are looking for, and it provides an opportunity to tell the story about the great work being done locally to address homelessness, despite the challenging economic situation. It is critical to inform the media – and through them, our communities and opinion leaders – about the importance of ending homelessness.
The Alliance is excited to announce another opportunity to collaborate with our partners across the country to do so. Next Thursday, January 12 at 1 p.m. ET, the Alliance will host a webinar to launch a national media campaign to raise awareness about homelessness. The campaign will occur in conjunction with the release of a new Alliance report with national and state data on homelessness, economic indicators of homelessness, and the demographic drivers of homelessness.
During the webinar, presenters will summarize the key findings of the report and discuss strategies for approaching reporters. We'll even send out sample letters to the editor and other sample materials after the call to make it easier to contact members of the media. With our partners' help, we can use this new report to educate and persuade decisionmakers about the scope of this problem and ways to implement real solutions.
If you are interested in joining the campaign but are unable to participate in the webinar, please contact Kate Seif at firstname.lastname@example.com.
2011 was a tumultuous year, to say the least. With everything from threats of a government shutdown in April, to major deficit reduction negotiations in August, to the failure of the Super-Committee in November, Congress was certainly able to hold our attention these last twelve months.
With elections and sequestration on the horizon, 2012 may be no different.
As a result, this next year will be challenging but it will also provide numerous opportunities to get involved and impact the legislative process. The Alliance's advocacy team will be busy throughout the year keeping everyone informed with the latest news and opportunities to get involved, through reaching out to the media, meeting with your Members of Congress, conducting site visits, and more! Here's a preview of what's coming up for 2012:
- Media Awareness Campaign. Shortly into the new year, the Alliance will be releasing a report, similar to The State of Homelessness in America in 2011, and we want to make sure it has as big a media impact as possible. On January 12, we will be hosting a webinar to explain why this report matters to your community and how you can use its data to educate local decisionmakers and the public about the problem of homelessness in your community. For more information on this upcoming event, please click here.
- Capitol Hill Day. Every year, the Alliance hosts a Capitol Hill Day (CHD) in conjunction with our National Conference on Ending Homelessness in Washington, DC in July. CHD offers conference participants an excellent opportunity to visit Capitol Hill and meet with their congressional offices (sometimes even the representatives and senators themselves!) in order to educate policymakers on the importance of homelessness programs in their districts. Last year's CHD was a huge success , so we very much look forward to topping it next year! Information on getting involved will be available next spring.
- Elections. Election season is a great time to educate your elected officials (and their potential replacements) and get them to discuss the issue that matter most to us: preventing and ending homelessness in our communities and nationwide. During the election cycle, it can be just as important to engage local leaders in the issues as it is to engage national leaders. As the debates heat up and all eyes turn toward November 6 (Election Day!), stay tuned for how you can get involved!
- Homeless Youth Campaign. As in 2011, the Alliance will be working to secure a funding increase for Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA) programs for fiscal year (FY) 2013. This will involve staying on top of the appropriations process and making calls, scheduling visits, and writing letters throughout the year.
- McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants Campaign. Compared to many of the programs within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, McKinney-Vento programs fared quite well in the last two appropriations cycles: they received an increase in FY 2011 and stayed flat for FY 2012. While we certainly consider these victories (especially in this fiscal climate), McKinney-Vento programs still need an increase in FY 2013 to fully implement the HEARTH Act. Securing additional funds this year will be more important than ever as HPRP ends in 2012.
Securing additional funding for programs with the biggest impact on preventing and ending homelessness is particularly important this year with the threat of an across-the-board cut in January 2013. Given these impending cuts, we must ensure that Congress works to prioritize affordable housing and targeted homeless assistance programs.
It will be more important to engage our Members of Congress this upcoming year than ever before. We cannot do this alone! We need your help to reach out to your Members to impact this important process. Please sign up for our advocacy update , check out our website , or email me if you'd like to get involved in any of these campaigns to help us make a difference in the lives of those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
All year, we've been talking on this blog about congressional appropriations. In April, Congress passed its fiscal year (FY) 2011 appropriations bill, more than five months into the fiscal year. FY 2012 officially started on October 1, and Congress finalized FY 2012 funding for several departments, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in November. But what about the other government agencies?
Last weekend, Congress passed legislation to finalize all remaining FY 2012 appropriations bills. This included funding for programs within the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, Education, and Veterans Affairs (VA), among many others. The bill includes:
• $115 million for Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA) programs;
• $75 million for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) homeless services programs;
• $65 million for the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program;
• $137 million for Health Care for the Homeless Centers;
• $65 million for the Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program; and
• $38 million for the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP), a slight increase over FY 2011.
When we look at both this bill and the one passed in November, we can see that funding for most targeted homeless assistance programs was held flat compared to FY 2011, despite deep cuts to many other federal programs. One notable exception to this was the joint HUD-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program, which actually received increased resources in FY 2012.
All of this tells us that funding for targeted homeless assistance programs was generally protected or even expanded, even while funding for many other programs was sizably reduced. This is due, in very large part, to the efforts of our partners across the country to ensure that Congress understands the importance and effectiveness of homeless assistance programs in communities. As 2011 and winds to a close and we look toward further efforts in 2012, the Alliance is confident that by working together with our partners, we can continue to advance ending homelessness as a federal priority.


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28 U.S. Code § 104 - Mississippi
Mississippi is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the northern and southern districts of Mississippi.Northern District
(a) The northern district comprises three divisions.
(1) The Aberdeen Division comprises the counties of Alcorn, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, Tishomingo, Webster, and Winston.
Court for the Aberdeen Division shall be held at Aberdeen, Ackerman, and Corinth.
(2) The Oxford Division comprises the counties of Benton, Calhoun, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tunica, Union, and Yalobusha.
Court for the Oxford Division shall be held at Oxford.
(b) The southern district comprises four divisions.
(1) The Northern Division comprises the counties of Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Issaquena, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Sharkey, Smith, Warren, and Yazoo.
Court for the Northern Division shall be held at Jackson.
(2) The Southern Division comprises the counties of George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, and Stone.
Court for the Southern Division shall be held at Gulfport.
(3) The Eastern Division comprises the counties of Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Perry, Wayne, and Walthall.
Court for the Eastern Division shall be held at Hattiesburg.
Source(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 883; Aug. 7, 1950, ch. 601, 64 Stat. 415; Pub. L. 90–92, Sept. 27, 1967, 81 Stat. 229; Pub. L. 91–546, §§ 2, 3,Dec. 14, 1970, 84 Stat. 1412; Pub. L. 95–408, § 2(b),Oct. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 883; Pub. L. 106–130, § 1,Dec. 6, 1999, 113 Stat. 1677; Pub. L. 108–455, § 2,Dec. 10, 2004, 118 Stat. 3628; Pub. L. 112–188, § 3,Oct. 5, 2012, 126 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 113–61, § 1,Dec. 20, 2013, 127 Stat. 665.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 170 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 90,36 Stat. 1116; Feb. 5, 1912, ch. 28, 37 Stat. 59; May 27, 1912, ch. 136, 37 Stat. 118; Feb. 12, 1925, ch. 212, 43 Stat. 882; May 19, 1936, ch. 428, 49 Stat. 1362; May 8, 1939, ch. 116, § 1,53 Stat. 684).
Provisions relating to the maintenance of offices by the clerks and marshals were omitted as covered by sections 452, 541 [see 561], 542 [see 561], and 751 of this title.
Changes in arrangement and phraseology were made.
2013—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–61amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) related to southern judicial district of Mississippi comprising five divisions and provided for holding court in those divisions.
2012—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 112–188added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a) which related to northern judicial district of Mississippi comprising four divisions and provided for holding court in those divisions.
2004—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 108–455inserted "and Cleveland" after "Clarksdale".
1999—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 106–130, in second sentence, struck out ": Provided, That court shall be held at Natchez if suitable quarters and accommodations are furnished at no cost to the United States" before period at end.
1978—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 95–408provided for holding court at Corinth.
1970—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 91–546, § 3, provided for holding court at Natchez if suitable quarters and accommodations are furnished at no cost to the United States.
Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 91–546, § 2, provided for holding court at Gulfport.
1967—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 90–92provided for holding court at Ackerman.
1950—Act Aug. 7, 1950, created Greenville division in the northern district with terms of courts to be held at Greenville.
Effective Date of 2013 Amendment
Pub. L. 113–61, § 2,Dec. 20, 2013, 127 Stat. 665, provided that: "This Act [amending this section] and the amendment made by this Act shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 20, 2013]."
Effective Date of 2012 Amendment
Pub. L. 112–188, § 4,Oct. 5, 2012, 126 Stat. 1434, provided that: "The amendments made by this Act [amending this section and section 105 of this title] take effect on the 60th day after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 5, 2012]."
Effective Date of 1978 Amendment; Savings Provision
Amendment by Pub. L. 95–408effective 180 days after Oct. 2, 1978, with such amendment not to affect the composition or preclude the service of any grand or petit juror summoned, empaneled, or actually serving in any judicial district on the effective date of this Act, see section 5 ofPub. L. 95–408, set out as a note under section 89 of this title.
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|Woman Hurt as Car Flips; Infant Unhurt
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An Ashe County woman was hurt as her car overturned on Old NC 16 south in the Crumpler area. Notably, her infant was unhurt in the 9:50am wreck, thanks to use of a child seat in the car. Trooper Olive identified the woman as 24-year old Audrey Miller of Grassy Creek, driver
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BUFFALO, NY - Buffalo's Winterfest and Powder Keg Festival are taking the year off.
The announcement was made Tuesday that the event will not be held this year so organizers can prepare for a new and permanent location along the city's waterfront in 2014.
"The committee truly feels that going forward the Buffalo waterfront provides a first-class venue that can produce an event that our city can be proud of and deserves," says Drew Cerza, festival organizer.
By this time next year, canal construction will be completed and available for ice-skating. The First Niagara Center will host indoor family activities as well as entertainment, food and drink. Outdoor winter fun will take place on the green space next to the arena.
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