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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability
From the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050, an unprecedented wave of urban growth. While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents, they will also face … Continue reading
The Government of Canada’s record on climate change (2006-present)
From Climate Action Network Canada, 2011-03-25: The current government has taken a reckless approach to one of the greatest challenges of our time. Despite the fact that the impacts of climate change have become increasingly obvious, the government has failed … Continue reading
Study Sheds Light on How Heat is Transported to Greenland Glaciers
Warmer air is only part of the story when it comes to Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet. New research by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) highlights the role ocean circulation plays in transporting heat to glaciers. Greenland’s ice … Continue reading
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Tagged Bergen, Glacier, Greenland, Helheim Glacier, Ice, Ice sheet, Nature Geoscience, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Lord Lawson’s ‘misleading’ climate claims challenged by scientific adviser
Tory peer accused of using ‘meaningless’ comparisons to try to make his argument against the need to tackle global warming Lord Lawson, the former chancellor, has been privately accused by the government’s chief scientific adviser of making “incorrect” and “misleading” … Continue reading
Shortages of scarce natural resources coming, warn chemists
Leading chemists from around the world have warned that scarce natural resources, such as phosphate minerals mined for fertilisers, are “dwindling at an alarming rate” and shortages could hit within a generation. (See Nature’s coverage of the phosphate crisis here … Continue reading
Middle East Turmoil Reflects Global Anxiety about Wheat
Supplies of the staple food grain are tight–and may get tighter Underlying the wave of unrest across North Africa and the Middle East is the fact that some of the cries for democracy are coming from mouths in need of … Continue reading
Cutting carbon dioxide helps prevent drying
Washington, D.C.—Recent climate modeling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give the Earth a wetter climate in the short term. New research from Carnegie Global Ecology scientists Long Cao and Ken Caldeira offers … Continue reading
Measurements of winter Arctic sea ice shows continuing ice loss, says CU-Boulder study
The 2011 Arctic sea ice extent maximum that marks the beginning of the melt season appears to be tied for the lowest ever measured by satellites, say scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder‘s National Snow and Ice Data Center. … Continue reading
Flood Experience Boosts Climate Change Acceptance
People who have directly experienced flooding are more likely to be worried about climate change, according to a new study People who have directly experienced flooding are more likely to be worried about climate change and willing to adopt energy-saving … Continue reading
When it comes to the environment, education affects our actions
The first set of findings from the survey are based on data from more than 22,000 individuals and show that people with degrees are 25% more likely, on average, than people with no education qualifications to adopt pro-environmental behaviours, at … Continue reading
Gas Industry Working Overtime to Smother Revived FRAC Act Efforts To Rein In Hydraulic Fracturing
Last week, US Senators Robert Casey (D-PA) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) reintroduced legislation to the Senate that would close the oversight gap that the gas industry has taken full advantage of since 2005. The “Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals … Continue reading
Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore’s law apply to solar cells?
The sun strikes every square meter of our planet with more than 1,360 watts of power. Half of that energy is absorbed by the atmosphere or reflected back into space. 700 watts of power, on average, reaches Earth’s surface. Summed … Continue reading
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Tagged Earth, Energy, Moore's law, POWER, Renewable, Solar, Solar energy, Technology
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Pew Report: Canada’s Boreal Forest Houses World’s Largest Water Source
Top scientists call boreal protection a global priority A first of its kind report by the Pew Environment Group reveals that Canada’s boreal, the world’s largest intact forest and on-land carbon storehouse, contains more unfrozen freshwater than any other ecosystem. … Continue reading
Ancient ‘hyperthermals’ a guide to anticipated climate changes
Scripps researchers document the history of sudden global warming events, impacts on marine life Bursts of intense global warming that have lasted tens of thousands of years have taken place more frequently throughout history than previously believe, according to evidence … Continue reading
Affordability of batteries key to harnessing wind and solar power
PNNL report looks at promising electrochemical energy storage systems RICHLAND, Wash. – Future batteries used by the energy grid to store power from the wind and sun must be reliable, durable and safe, but affordability is really the key to … Continue reading
Water for an integrative climate paradigm
International climate negotiations are deadlocked between the affluent global North and “developing” South, between political Left and Right, and between believers and deniers. Now, authors writing in the latest issue of the International Journal of Water argue that a more … Continue reading
Inventing the Future of Energy: A Q&A with ARPA-e’s Arun Majumdar
How can a small federal agency help reinvent how the U.S. produces and uses energy? ENERGY DIRECTOR: Arun Majumdar, pictured here, is the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-e, a high risk energy research effort by the … Continue reading
Untapped crop data from Africa predicts corn peril if temperatures rise
A team led by a Stanford researcher has found a valuable, untapped resource in historical data from crop yield trials conducted across sub-Saharan Africa. Combined with weather records, they show that yield losses would occur across 65 percent of maize-growing … Continue reading
Climate Change Poses Arctic Challenge for U.S. Navy
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences exposes new national security challenges for the Navy as a result of climate change If it’s a challenge for the USA with their small Arctic coastline then it’s an even greater challenge for Canada … Continue reading
Blue Carbon: An Oceanic Opportunity to Fight Climate Change
Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grasses soak up to five times more carbon than tropical forests, making their conservation critical Mangroves are tangled orchards of spindly shrubs that thrive in the interface between land and sea. They bloom in muddy … Continue reading
Oil Sands Need More Study – Alberta
The Globe & Mail newspaper has published two articles concerning scientific studies of the impact of the oil sands on the environment. As usual, they do not provide links to the relevant studies, leaving commentary open to confirmation bias, misrepresentation … Continue reading
2010 Russia heat wave due to natural variability, say U.S. scientists
The 2010 Russian heat wave that killed thousands and cut into that country’s grain harvest was primarily due to natural variability, not human-spurred climate change, U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The 2010 Russian heat wave that killed thousands and cut into … Continue reading
Polar Ice Sheets Melting Faster Than Predicted
The thick glaciers covering Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than scientists expected By Lauren Morello and ClimateWire Ice loss from the massive ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating, according to a new study. If the trend … Continue reading
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