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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense
2009-11-30 Scientific American Evidence for human interference with Earth’s climate continues to accumulate Answers to the most common mythological claims by contrarians and denialists (follow the link for the answers): Claim 1: Anthropogenic CO2 can’t be changing climate, because CO2 … Continue reading
Tagged Science, Skeptics
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Happy New Year 2011
The GOES series of satellites keep an eye on the weather happening over the continental U.S. and eastern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and had a busy time with wild weather in 2010. Today, GOES-13 captured one of the last images … Continue reading
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Freak weather could have been predicted
2010-12-30 NatureNews doi:10.1038/news.2010.685 UK Met Office is being held back by a lack of computing power, says its chief scientist Julia Slingo. This year was a busy one for meteorologists, as they tracked heat waves, monsoons, and winds carrying volcanic … Continue reading
Ocean Acidification
2010-12-03 ‘Acidification’ May Push Already Over-Stressed Oceans into the Red Cancun/Nairobi/Plymouth, 2 December 2010 – The future impact of rising emissions on the health of seas and oceans may be far more wide-ranging and complex than was previously supposed, a … Continue reading
How does your green roof garden grow?
2010-12-29 American Society for Horticultural Science 5 common green roof plants tested for optimal substrate, drought conditions UNIVERSITY PARK, PA — Growing plants on rooftops is an old concept that has evolved from simple sod roofing to roof gardens and … Continue reading
Can Social Science Combat Climate Change?
2010-12-28 Scientific American Scientists remove some of the guesswork about how individuals will use energy in 2050 by looking at past campaigns to induce personal change and their effectiveness Roughly 44 percent of Californians smoked tobacco in 1965. By 2010, … Continue reading
A Natural By-Product of Nature
2010-12-27 greenman3610 CO2 is a naturally occurring compound, that plays a profound and vital role in a myriad of natural processes. How could more of it be bad? Here’s how (click here)
Tagged Greenhouse Gases, Politics, Science
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Renewables and the Smart Grid
2010-06-25 Scientific American Wrangling Renewables and the Smart Grid: How Can the [USA] Federal Government Change the Future of Electricity? The commissioner of the federal agency responsible for electricity supply in the U.S. explains the ongoing transformation of the energy … Continue reading
Casualties of Climate Change
2011-01-10 Scientific American Shifts in rainfall patterns and shorelines will contribute to mass migrations on a scale never before seen By Alex de Sherbinin, Koko Warner and Charles Ehrhart | January 10, 2011 Since the beginning of recorded time, climate-forced … Continue reading
Global Warming or Climate Change
2010-12-21 Climate Denial Crock of the Week Switching the words “climate change”, for global warming, — is it a devious, Orwellian perversion of the language, a mind controlling neurolinguistic word play engineered by psychological manipulators of the New World Order?. … Continue reading
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Water Shortages
2010-12-07 Environmental Research Letters Climate change will hit water supply hardest in developing countries Climate change is predicted to have a big impact on water supply, but to date there have been few estimates of the total cost of adaptation … Continue reading
Tagged Adaptation, Impact, Models, Water
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Cloud Feedback
2010-12-10 Science Cloud ‘feedback’ affects global climate and warming, says Texas A&M study COLLEGE STATION, Dec. 9, 2010 – Changes in clouds will amplify the warming of the planet due to human activities, according to a breakthrough study by a … Continue reading
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CO2 A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning
2010-12-21 NY Times MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii — Two gray machines sit inside a pair of utilitarian buildings here, sniffing the fresh breezes that blow across thousands of miles of ocean.They make no noise. But once an hour, they spit … Continue reading
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Wind turbines on farmland may benefit crops
Wind turbines in Midwestern farm fields may be doing more than churning out electricity. The giant turbine blades that generate renewable energy might also help corn and soybean crops stay cooler and dryer, help them fend off fungal infestations and … Continue reading
Tagged Adaptation, Wind
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A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation
2010-12-21 Nature Climate Change Scientists have proposed a novel strategy to help policymakers identify and overcome obstacles to adaptation. It is increasingly recognized that — even with early and rapid mitigation — society will need to adapt to climate impacts. … Continue reading
Tagged Impact & Adaptation, News
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EPA Plans Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards for Power Plants and Refineries
2010-12-23 Scientific American New rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from existing and new power plants and oil refineries could take effect in 2012 New standards for climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and oil refineries were announced … Continue reading
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Global Temperature and Europe’s Frigid Air
2010-12-11 NASA GISS This is the warmest January-November in the GISS analysis, which covers 131 years. However, it is only a few hundredths of a degree warmer than 2005, so it is possible that the final GISS results for the … Continue reading
Cold Burn
2010-12-21, Monbiot.com Yes, the extreme cold in the UK right now really could be a result of global warming. There were two silent calls, followed by a message left on my answerphone. She had a soft, gentle voice and a … Continue reading
Loss of Arctic Ice May Promote Hybrid Marine Mammals
2010-12-16 Science Daily Scientists have expected for some time that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in summer by the end of this century. Writing in the December 15 issue of the journal Nature, a trio of researchers say the seasonal … Continue reading
Arctic Report Card 2010
2010-10-22 NOAA Return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely Record temperatures across Canadian Arctic and Greenland, a reduced summer sea ice cover, record snow cover decreases and links to some Northern Hemisphere weather support this conclusion More (click here)
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Polar bears could survive on persisting ice
2010-12-15 Nature News But Arctic ice must be protected from oil and pollution. Some summer sea ice is likely to persist in the Arctic into the next century, providing a last refuge for polar bears, seals and other animals, researchers … Continue reading
Tide turns against corn ethanol
2010-12-20 Nature News Biofuel subsidy sees limited extension in US tax bill as opposition grows Buffeted by the economic crisis and a drop in the oil price, US producers of corn ethanol are encountering increasing scepticism from the legislators on … Continue reading
2010: probably the hottest year ever recorded
2010-12-14 The Guardian UK Temperature records tumbled in Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Burma and Pakistan, causing heatwaves and devastated harvests 2010 was the year of the heatwave, with record temperatures set in 17 countries. Two leading groups of scientists say … Continue reading
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La Nina may be at its peak, says Australia’s weather bureau
2010-12-21 Scientific American / Reuters The strongest La Nina weather event in nearly half a century, resulting in heavy rains and flooding which has damaged crops and flooded mines in Australia and Asia, may be at its peak, the Australian … Continue reading
Tagged Impact & Adaptation, News, Science
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Welcome to ClimateInsight
Welcome to ClimateInsight.WordPress.com. The static pages are primarily content transferred from a website which was previously privately hosted by me, Alan Burke. My goal is to express scientific issues understandably for those of you who aren’t usually exposed to scientific … Continue reading
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