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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15219">        <title>Written in the Rings</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15219</link>        <description>The study of tree rings opens a window into the
West’s distant past, and warns us that the region’s
future may be dangerously hot and dry</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Lowell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dendrochronology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>radiocarbon dating</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>paleoclimates</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ma</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rex Adams</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bristlecone pine</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hot Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Andrew Ellicott Douglass</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chaco Canyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Percival</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>crossdating tree rings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hal Fritts</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-30T15:48:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15476">        <title>Why should the Arctic Refuge matter to the ski
industry?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15476</link>        <description>The writer, who runs the Aspen Skiing Company, worries
about global climate change — a lot</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Ski Industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:46:19Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16999">        <title>Why are there still climate-change deniers?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16999</link>        <description>Auden Schendler finds the evidence compelling but
resistance persistent about global-climate change.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Auden Schendler</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change denial</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:43:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15220">        <title>Who'll stop the rain?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15220</link>        <description>January may have brought rain and snow to parts of the
West, but the study of past climates warns us that we still have to
learn to live with drought</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Weather</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Pagano</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drought</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>precipitation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowpack</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Wesley Powell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Arid Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wallace Stegner</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dendrochronology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tree rings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>paleoclimate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global
warming</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16453">        <title>Where there's fire, there's global warming</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16453</link>        <description>Climate scientist Anthony Westerling is working to
illuminate the connection between rising global temperatures and
the increasing ferocity of the West’s forest fires</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Anthony Westerling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate scientists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest fires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildfires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Scripps Institution of
Oceanography</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science Express</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowpack</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northern Rocky Mountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northern California</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cascade Mountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra Nevada</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ecological
re</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-21T23:29:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15319">        <title>Where did the Northwest’s moisture go?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15319</link>        <description>The writer is used to anything but an unseasonably dry
Northwest</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Aimee Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:45:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16201">        <title>What’s behind all these natural
disasters</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16201</link>        <description>The writer looks behind natural disasters that bedevil our
time</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15431">        <title>What happened to winter?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15431</link>        <description>An unusual winter sends ripples through the West's water
and wildlife systems, and leaves scientists wondering whether
global warming is the cause.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Winter</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rainfall</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>snowpack</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wolves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone National Park</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water supply</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>weather</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>seasons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate variation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ski industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Death Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kelly
Redmond</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Regional Climate Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ski resorts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cascade
Mountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>R</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:24:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16165">        <title>We all lose when scientists sell their
credibility</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16165</link>        <description>The writer says Michael Crichton does not deserve a
journalism award from scientists for his book, State of
Fear, about global warming</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ben Long</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:28:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16356">        <title>Tribes look to cash in with 'tree-market' environmentalism</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16356</link>        <description>The Nez Perce Tribe is trying to combat global warming
– and make a few bucks – by planting trees for carbon
dioxide sequestration</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Joshua Zaffos</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>reservation economics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forestry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kyoto Protocol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tree planting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Reservations and Economic</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nez Perce Indians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>carbon sequestration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Carbon Offset Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ted Dodge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>carbon banking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>cap and trade systems</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>change</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-12T02:56:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15231">        <title>Tree rings reveal a fiery past — and
future</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15231</link>        <description>Tree-ring scientists Tom Swetnam and Julio Betancourt
study past climatic conditions seeking clues to better forest
management</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michelle Nijhuis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>wildfires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tree rings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dendrochronology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Interagency Fire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forest fire</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Julio Betancourt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>paleoclimates</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Research</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fire scars</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>La Nina</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Center</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Swetnam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>El Nino</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laboratory of Tree-Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hot Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>weather patterns</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-30T15:46:44Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15710">        <title>Topsy turvy weather may be a sign of worse to
come</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15710</link>        <description>The writer goes camping and finds topsy turvy
weather</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>John Krist</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:47:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15874">        <title>Toothy nuisance moves north</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15874</link>        <description>Nutria, destructive beaver-like mammals from South
America, are moving into the Skagit River Valley of northwestern
Washington, and some believe a warming climate is to
blame</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Weather</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rodents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nutria</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>exotic wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rodents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>introduced wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skagit River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fur industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nuisance wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pamela Meacham</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>warming temperatures</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pacific
Northwest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Philip Mote</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climatologists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Nature Conservancy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>trapping</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>h</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:28Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15359">        <title>Those who choose risk should bear the cost</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15359</link>        <description>The writer looks at buildings sliding down a hill and
says, 'No more.'</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>John Krist</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Weather</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Human Beings And Nature</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:45:22Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15620">        <title>This mayor sees a different shade of green</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15620</link>        <description>Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is striving to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and make his city environmentally
sustainable</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>J.M. McCord</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Climate Change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities In Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Seattle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Washington</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Greg Nickels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mayors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kyoto
Protocol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>greenhouse gases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sustainability</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Denis Hayes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Orin Smith</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Seattle
City Light</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydropower</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wind power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>2005 City Livability Award</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmentali</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-05-16T22:59:56Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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