Posted on 09/17/2018 2:19:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A San Diego State University team received one of the first grants from Californias Climate Change Research Program, created by the state legislature in 2017 to support research on reducing carbon emissions.
The nearly $1.8 million award was the second largest of 10 awarded by the California Strategic Growth Council from among nearly 70 proposals submitted. The funding comes from the state cap-and-trade program, which limits and auctions rights to greenhouse gas emissions in California. SDSU biologist Rebecca Lewison and senior research scientist Megan Jennings lead the grant-funded project, which will focus on integrating ecosystem and local community planning to build resilience to climate change.
The work will build on their ongoing research on connected landscapesplaces that allow wildlife to move and disperseto develop tools to support climate-smart conservation and land-use planning. At the same time, the project aims to take a more comprehensive approach to other landscape features such as wildfire risk and water sustainability.
"What's exciting about this opportunity is that it builds on our connectivity research, while giving us an opportunity to leverage and partner with other areas of expertise and excellence on campus," said Jennings. The team includes engineer Alicia Kinoshita, geographer Doug Stow, and Sherry Ryan, director of the School of Public Affairs.
Walter Oechel, director of SDSUs Global Change Research Group and interim dean of the College of Sciences, called the grant a major advance for conservation research in Southern California that will support critical new research on sustainability of natural ecosystems under climate change and other human disturbances.
The project partners SDSUs Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management, which Lewison and Jennings co-direct, with the Climate Science AllianceSouth Coast to engage stakeholders from local jurisdictions, land management agencies, and organizations involved in conservation and land-use planning. The teams primary project partners also include the two regional planning agencies in Southern California, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) and the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), as well as a tribal working group led by the Pala Band of Mission Indians, and the City of Carlsbad.
The work will focus on natural lands from San Diego to Ventura counties, and inland to western Riverside and San Bernardino counties with a goal of providing sound science to inform planning for sustainable ecosystems and communities in Southern California.
This project is an excellent example of CSU scholarship that focuses on student engagement and applied research, said Ganesh Raman, assistant vice chancellor for Research in California State Universitys Office of the Chancellor.
They will get exactly what they pay for.....and on taxpayers dime.
Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide - Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts? By Timothy Ball
No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)
Those two articles take Greenhouse Theory at face value and by the criterion set up in the theory itself finds no evidence of warming on the basis of greenhouse effect.
Sky-high hole blown in AGW theory?
"Forbes reports on a peer-reviewed study that uses NASA data to show that the effects of carbon-based warming have been significantly exaggerated. In fact, much of the heat goes out into space rather than stay trapped in the atmosphere, an outcome that started long before AGW alarmists predicted:"
That article explains why no Hot Spot has been found.
The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory
Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics
Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'
Simple Chemistry and the Real Greenhouse Effect.
Those four articles each show that Greenhouse Theory itself has no basis in reality due to a direct conflict with the known laws of physics. No wonder the smoking gun "hotspot" can't be found.
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
That article kills any thought of planetary warming from any cause apart from the inter-glacial period we are in. Think about it. If there is absolutely no sign of an acceleration of sea level rise how could the planet be warming? The rise in sea level in the last 100 years is far less than the average over the last 18,000 years caused by the inter-glacial period we are in.
Not to worry. San Diego will be destroyed by a tsunami before the year is out.
Its predicated on global warming and in the second paragraph it is identified as pertaining to building resilience to global warming.
Total BS.
... one of the first grants from Californias Climate Change Research Program,
... which limits and auctions rights to greenhouse gas emissions
... called the grant a major advance for conservation research in Southern California that will support critical new research on sustainability of natural ecosystems under climate change and other human disturbances.
This grant is funded by CA voters only?
This is why esteemed academics who refuse to go along with the Global Warming scam are vilified and ostracized. They could put multi-million dollar grants like this at risk and undermine the perks of being a researcher who is saving the world.
I understand they also got funding for a unicorn husbandry program.
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