Archive for November 12th, 2009
Editor note: This post has been joined by Part II on additional technical documentation. Mr. Hawkins’s study is presented to increase the interest in this highly important, politically
Tags: Environmentalism, master resource, Renewable energy, Wind power, Windpower pollution
With the countdown to the climate change summit in Copenhagen underway, a new article says that rich countries need to pay the full incremental cost of low carbon technology for developing
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in the UK has released a hard-hitting report on the state of the UK Climate Change Act. IMechE says: To decarbonise the nation and achieve the 80%
The BBC is reporting food shortages in the wake of mudslides in El Salvador. At least 140 are dead and thousands live without water or electricity. My friend Ana Sylvia who I’ve known since
Tags: Data Comparisons, disasters, El Salvador, Lucia
Al Gore visited his second home here in San Francisco this week, taking the opportunity to promote his new book and talk about climate change. He granted an interview to our cross-town rival, the
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Who says that environmental news always has to be about cap and trade or disappearing glaciers? Some of our green reading today tends toward the offbeat: edible clothing (think pasta blouses and a
When hurricane Katrina blew into New Orleans four years ago, Matt Petersen watched in shock as the floodwaters retreated, revealing one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history:
Egyptian tourism commercials present the Red Sea as an untouched paradise where “the sun shines 365 days a year” and the water is full of exuberant marine life. But the reality is that the
I’m sold on geothermal heating. Just check out my previous blog post. But being trained as a journalist, I can’t help but strive for at least some kind of balance. And so, I’ve felt it
On Wednesday, Columbia University’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions released a guide titled “The Psychology of Climate Change Communication.” Freely available
Q: Do you have current facts and figures about how much rain forest is being destroyed each day around the world, and for what purpose(s)? – Teri, via e-mail A: Pinning down exact
Indian Kashmir’s glaciers are melting fast because of rising temperatures, threatening the water supply of millions of people in the Himalayan region, a new study by Indian scientists
Temperatures at the earth’s surface have increased by between 0.2 and 0.4 degrees C in the past 30 years. The vast majority of scientists attribute this warming trend to higher concentrations
A thousand years ago, the steep slopes of Vietnam’s southern highlands were cloaked by forests of towering pines and other trees. Tribesmen roamed the forests, hunting wild boar and deer under a
I knew we wanted to put in high quality, energy-efficient windows for our renovation of Sheepdog Hollow simply because that appeared to be the right thing to do – especially since we opted to
Increasing availability of ensemble outputs from general circulation models (GCMs) and regional climate models (RCMs) permits fuller examination of the implications of climate uncertainties in
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We set forth an argument for the integration of social science research with natural science and engineering research in major research infrastructure investments addressing water science. A
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The Yaqui River Basin (YRB) is the most important wheat-producing region in Mexico. The main source of irrigation water in the Yaqui basin (over 80%) is surface water. Crop production
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A significant seasonality in stratomesospheric CO (24–100 km) above mid-latitudes is derived from FTIR via a new regularization scheme. Half hourly means from the Zugspitze (47.42°N, 10.98°E,
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We present eddy covariance measurements of net CO2 flux (Fc) made during a controlled release of CO2 (0.3 t d−1 from 9 July to 7 August 2008) from a horizontal well ∼100 m in length and ∼2.5
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Several recent studies have highlighted the possibility that the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems have started loosing part of their ability to sequester a large proportion of the anthropogenic
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Over the past decade the southern catchments of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB), responsible for much of Australia’s agricultural output, have experienced a severe drought (termed the “Big
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The large AD 1258 eruption had a stratospheric sulfate load approximately ten times greater than the 1991 Pinatubo eruption. Yet surface cooling was not substantially larger than for Pinatubo
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We present a record of lake-level changes from Hurleg Lake, a freshwater lake in the arid Qaidam Basin on the NE Tibetan Plateau, an area with few high-resolution paleoclimate records. The
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Using an interactive aerosol-climate model we find that absorbing anthropogenic aerosols, whether coexisting with scattering aerosols or not, can significantly affect the Indian summer monsoon
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We present 2 new decadal-resolution foraminiferal Mg/Ca-SST records covering the past 6–8 centuries from the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM). These records provide evidence for a Little Ice Age
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Long-term sediment traps were deployed from September 2005 to August 2007 in the northern Laptev Sea to assess the annual variability in vertical export of particulate organic carbon (POC). The
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An Earth System model with an oceanic biogeochemical component is shown to reproduce accurately the seasonal course of sea-ice and chlorophyll distribution in the Arctic region. It is argued that
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