“Goleta Mayor Paula Perotte appointed Katie Maynard to serve as her Planning Commission representative. The position became available when Perotte’s former Planning Commissioner, Meg West, resigned to serve on the Board of Directors for the Goleta Water District. ‘Ms. Maynard’s experience will be very beneficial as proposed projects come before the Commission,’ said Mayor Perotte. ‘It’s...
Read MoreThe following Climate Central article by John Upton was published January 25th, 2015 with the title above: Melbourne, the southernmost state capital of the Australian mainland, was established by Europeans a couple hundred years ago at the juncture of a great river and a wind-whipped bay. Port Phillip Bay sprawls over 750 square miles, providing feeding grounds for whales and sheltering coastlines for brine-scented beach towns. But...
Read MoreUCSB Geography Professor David López-Carr and graduate student Jessica Marter-Kenyon have just had an article published in Nature (Nature, 517, 265–267 [15 January 2015]; doi:10.1038/517265a), titled “Human adaption: Manage climate-induced resettlement.” The authors argue that governments need research and guidelines to help them to move towns and villages threatened by global warming. Excerpts: Inupiaq people are watching in horror...
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