Archive for November 30th, 2006
How was the 2006 Hurricane Season?
Posted by jennifer, November 30th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 40
Following Hurricane Katrina and Al Gore’s movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ many have come to expect an increase in the number and intensity of hurricanes hitting the US coast each year as the so-called “climate crisis” intensifies.
According to the US National Climatic Data Center, over the 10 years to the end of 2005, seasonal activity [...]
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Thinning Forests To Increase Water Yield
Posted by jennifer, November 30th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Forestry
Comments: 13
“Despite being portrayed as a villain, timber harvesting in the form of thinning can substantially counteract the impact of fire regrowth on water yield. The benefits of regrowth thinning have been widely studied throughout Australia. In Melbourne’s catchments, strip-thinning trials have shown that up to 2.5 million litres a year of additional run-off can be [...]

