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Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
Climate Change, Green living, Politics, Science & Technology, Nov 23rd, 2010,
OK so let me set one thing straight first: I don’t like football! Sorry for all the football fans out there but I’ve never been and never will be a fan of soccer, apart for maybe the occasional happy glimpse at sexy men in shorts. That being said, I loved James Atkins’s book and I have to admit that the football metaphors, even for a football dummy like me, made some of the more complex issues relating to climate change real easy to understand. Climate Change for Football Fans is a funny book, which takes the edge of things, even…
Tags: book review climate change, cap and trade, Climate Change for Football Fans, global warming, James Atkins
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Nov 17th, 2010,
I don’t know if you are familiar with the SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence)@home project, where computer owners can use their personal computers to help search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. The SETI project has been around since May of 1999 and the idea behind it is pretty unique: tap into the computing power of as many personal computers as you possibly can, considering otherwise a lifetime will not be long enough to process all the data you’re up against. Well from today on a new project with the same basic idea of shared and…
Tags: Climate change, climate models, Climate@home, ClimatePrediction, computing power, forecast climate change, global warming, natural disasters, SETI, SETI@home, weatherathome
Climate Change, Green living, Science & Technology, Nov 15th, 2010,
Recently Facebook launched their Green on Facebook page in an effort to green up their image after the big dirty coal data center debacle of earlier this year. According to their Facebook page, the Green on Facebook is run by Facebook and will highlight our efforts to be a green and sustainable global citizen. Together with 56.000 others, I became a fan op the page, and as many others I’m sure I’m pretty disappointed with the content of it. The wall is filled with links to various articles about different environmental topics, but very little information is available about Facebook’s…
Tags: carbon emissions, Climate change, CO2 emissions, coal, datacenter, Facebook, global warming, Green on Facebook, Greenpeace, renewable energy
Climate Change, Nature, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Nov 12th, 2010,
The Chinese are well known for their strange experiments and use of nature. Just think about China’s rainmaking escapades, the country’s unstoppable need for damn building and it’s bewilderment over artificial snowflakes. Well this winter, the Chinese have yet another quiet unusual plan. To help solve the water shortage in Peking, the country is putting everything into place to collect and melt snow into water. One hundred cubic meter of snow should be processed hourly this winter. Parts of the collected snow will be turned into water; some of it will be dumped in neighboring rivers. By doing this, China…
Tags: China, Climate change, global warming, melted snow, peking, water shortage, water shortage in Peking
Wildlife & Flora, Sep 12th, 2010,
Did large herbivores like the woolly mammoth go extinct because of climate change, hungry humans, or both? The debate is out. It makes sense that as climate change disrupts everything we know about our natural world we would look to the past for answers. This is like watching the neighbor’s house go up in smoke, thanking god it’s not your own, knowing meanwhile that it could easily happen to you. So you prepare yourself, at least mentally. You then decide what sentimental items you’ll grab and where you’ll go next. And if your neighbor’s house burned down because they hadn’t…
Tags: extinction, global warming, ice age, Pleistocene
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Sep 10th, 2010,
IPCC Climate scientists have already stated that air travel contributes to climate change though emitting CO2, water vapor, nitrous oxides, sulfate aerosols and soot. Each of these varieties of airplane emissions factor into global warming in different ways, including short and long-term warming effects. A new scientific paper from Norway compares the climate impact of different modes of both passenger and freight transport. The study puts ocean and rail as having the lowest impact in terms of freight, with light trucks and air having the highest across the board. In the case of passenger travel, ‘rail, coach or two- and…
Tags: aerosols, air, cars, Climate change, co2, freight, global warming, impact, long term, nitrous oxide, planes, rail, short term, transport, travel, vapor
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Sep 8th, 2010,
Geo-engineering doesn’t prevent at all the rise of the tides. Engineering on a global scale is not a solution, even in an emergency, to the climate damage caused by human activities. This is the conclusion reached by a team of British, Chinese and Danish researchers after a new study on the future of the Earth’s oceans. In their opinion there is no escape: sea levels will rise at least 30-70 cm by the end of 2100, even using the latest weather manipulation techniques. Substituting geo-engineering for the control of emissions would create an enormous risk for future generations, according to…
Tags: Climate change, global warming, sea, sea level, water
Climate Change, Natural disasters, Sep 6th, 2010,
El Niño, one of the most impressive natural phenomena affecting our planet, is also changing appearance
Tags: climate, El Nino, environment, global warming
Climate Change, Sep 5th, 2010,
Can a tiny filter feeder give scientists clues into the mechanism of de-glaciation? The truth is, the science behind climate change is dense, a layered chocolate cake full of elusive clues. Getting to the sweet spot of such science in order to understand what we are currently experiencing – rising temperatures, rising sea levels, more frequent and ferocious storms, flooding, drought, loss of biodiversity – often involves studying parts of the earth that have endured similar change before.
Tags: Antartica, global warming, ice age
Climate Change, Politics, Sep 1st, 2010,
In the wake of a summer that spawned harsh heat waves and forest fires in Europe; and catastrophic floods in China, Pakistan and elsewhere in Asia, climate debate is back in the news. Debate about the significance or even existence of anthropogenic global warming featured prominently the headlines last winter during the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, the ‘Climategate’ scandal the IPCC and the Met Office were embroiled in; and when parts of Europe and the US experienced unseasonably cold temperatures. These major events were followed by a relative lull in media coverage of climate issues, punctuated by the odd…
Tags: Bjorn, Climate change, ClimateGate, copenhagen, debate, global warming, IPCC, King, Lawson, Lomborg, news, Pachauri, report, review, science, skeptical
Wildlife & Flora, Aug 29th, 2010,
The battle between polar bears and barnacle geese hearkens a dismal new era for fauna worldwide, who are forced by climate change to make unfortunate adjustments Nothing jerks the animal lover’s tears more than images of emaciated polar bears struggling in melting glacial water as global warming alters their icy habitat. Higher temperatures push these icons further from the seals they are accustomed to feeding on, so they have begun to seek their sustenance elsewhere. To the horror of the Wild Fowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) scientists who helped to bring a fledgling population of 300 in 1940 to its…
Tags: global warming, melting ice, Polar bears
Climate Change, Nature, Aug 7th, 2010,
A piece of ice four times the size of the island of Manhattan has broken off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier in what may be the largest glacier collapse in recorded history. A similarly sized piece of ice broke off the Petermann in 1962. This latest collapse reduces the glacier’s ice shelf by about 25%. According to a BBC News report the ice could disrupt shipping lanes between Greenland and Canada or freeze in place. From an National Geographic article: The so-called “ice island” covers a hundred square miles (260 square kilometers) and holds enough water to keep U.S. public tap water…
Tags: collapse, glacier, global warming, greenland, ice, island, Meunchow, Petermann
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Jul 29th, 2010,
Last night, I was watching the Weather Channel and something rather interesting was brought to my attention. A new report on Global Warming was published recently. The report was written by more than 300 scientists from 48 countries and confirms what we’ve known all along: Global Warming is here and it’s not going anywhere, any time soon. Although the report (which is the 20th in a series) is mainly about Global Warming, it doesn’t cite any particular causes of it. However, it does make one thing perfectly clear: “Global warming is undeniable.” One thing that was pointed out in the…
Tags: 10 indicators of a warming world, Annual State of the Climate Report, BAMS, Climate change, global warming, NOAA, report, study
Climate Change, Jun 28th, 2010,
Ethical investment consultant firm Eiris has judged 300 of Europe’s top companies in terms of their contribution to global warming and found that more than half are UK-based. Eiris found that the number of British companies determined to have a ‘very high impact on global warming’ was double that of any other country. Of those companies in the top 300 dedicated to solving or mitigating the problems of climate change, only 3% were located in Britain. Eiris’s findings come at a time when BP, one of the UK’s best-known companies, has attracted bad publicity worldwide over the Gulf of Mexico…
Tags: 300, Britain, British, Climate change, companies, Eiris, Europe, firm, global warming, oil, survey, UK
Climate Change, Jun 27th, 2010,
Today’s temperatures are predicted go as high hit 30C (85F) making it the hottest day of the year in England, with temperatures highest in London and the southeast. World cup fever – and the more civilized pursuit of eating strawberries and cream whilst watching a considerably smaller yellow ball move backwards and forwards at a much faster rate than a football ever could when North Korea are not playing – is gripping the country. But so is a heatwave. According to an article in the Guardian, ‘MeteoGroup weather forecaster Steve Ellison said the heatwave was caused by a ridge of…
Tags: Climate change, England, global warming, heatwave, london, skeptic, temperatures
Climate Change, Conservation, Green living, Nature, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, ,
India’s Minister of State for Environmental and Forest, Jairam Ramesh, recently announced plans to launch 2 satellites that will be specifically used to monitor environmental changes in the country. The first satellite, which will be launched in 2012, will monitor daily carbon emissions; while the second satellite will monitor India’s forest cover—also on a daily basis. Both satellites will be launched by the Indian Space Research Organization. According to Ramesh: “Currently, forest cover in the country can be known only after two years and the reduction of this period will help the government in taking steps immediately.” In addition to…
Tags: Climate change, daily carbon emissions, daily forest coverage, environmental changes, global warming, green cover, India, monitoring, protection, satellites, sustainable living
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Jun 23rd, 2010,
I’ll bet when you think of all the studies being done on CO2 and Global Warming, you probably figure a lot of it has to do with the atmosphere or the ocean or plants of some kind—since that’s what it seems to affect the most. However, scientists have recently developed a method for finding and tracking CO2 underground. Why underground? Well, consider that a lot of emissions come from power plants—coal plants and the like—so, scientists started investigating underground caverns, fissures and coal beds to find places where those emissions can be stored; thus reducing the amount of greenhouse gases…
Tags: atmosphere, carbon dioxide, co2, coal beds, coal seam, global warming, greenhouse gases, New Mexico, perfluorocarbon, tracing, tracking, underground
Climate Change, Nature, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Jun 22nd, 2010,
A few years ago, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that melting glaciers would put hundreds of millions of people at risk. However, a recent study published in the journal Science suggests the risk factor is considerably less than previously anticipated. The main area of focus in the study is the Himalayas and according to the study, about 60 million people in that area will suffer food shortages in future decades. While the glaciers are, indeed, shrinking and water sources will be depleted, the difference between this study and the UN warning has more to do with surrounding…
Tags: Climate change, food shortage, global warming, Himalayas, melting glaciers, research, risk, river basins, study, threat, water sources
Climate Change, Green living, Nature, Science & Technology, Jun 17th, 2010,
Flooding has swept away many homes and lives in China recently. However, it may surprise you to learn that the biggest threat is a lack of water, not the rising of it. Thousands of Tibetans face possible drought as a result of Global Warming and environmental degradation. It’s a rather devastating domino effect in the works at this point: melting glaciers and permafrost are causing the erosion of grasslands and wetlands, which in turn are posing a threat to the water sources of the Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow Rivers. Government scientist, Xin Yuanhong, who led an important survey of the…
Tags: China, drought, erosion, falling water levels, global warming, Mekong, Qinghai-Tibet plateau, rivers, Tibet, Yangtze, Yellow
Climate Change, Politics, Jun 13th, 2010,
A new survey of UK residents conducted by the University of Cardiff shows that public acceptance of climate change is alive and well in Britain. From an article in the Guardian: The survey showed that almost three-quarters (71%) of Britons are concerned about climate change. Some 78% think the climate is changing, which is down from 91% who said it was in a similar poll in 2005. In recent months, a considerable amount of fanfare has been given to a decline in public opinion regarding the veracity of climate change or global warming in both the US and UK. But…
Tags: American, belief, Britons, Cardiff, climate, Climate change, faith, global warming, Guardian, New York Times, poll, polls, science, survey, UK, University, US
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