Urban Heat Island Mitigation
From Climate Progress (always worth looking at) comes another idea for the Obama green global stimulus program. Part 1: What …
Category Archives: Environment
2 Trillion Tons of Ice — Gone
“New satellite data presented by NASA scientists shows the loss of an estimated 2 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, …
What Will Change Everything?
The always interesting Edge, asks some smart folks: “What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to …
Fish Stock Plummeting
We’ll all be vegans with no choice about it…. …walleye pollack, which accounts for a third of the total US …
Slump May Limit Moves on Clean Energy
Elisabeth Rosenthal writes in the NY Times about the worst of all possible outcomes of the economic melt down. From …
Rain Saturates Southern Brazil
Landslides and floods caused by heavy rain have killed at least 59 people and forced more than 43,000 from their …
Unprecedented Warming
While the planet has experienced numerous changes in climate over the past 65 million years, the most significant climate change …
Sea Ice at Lowest Volume Ever
“Sea ice at the top of the planet has apparently reached the lowest volume ever recorded, say scientists, with conditions …
CO2 Output Up, Reabsorption Down
“The world pumped up its pollution of the chief man-made global warming gas last year, setting a course that could …
Floods, landslides kill 50 in Vietnam, Thailand
Wild, unprecedented weather continues around the globe, not only in the U.S. “Flash floods and landslides have killed 50 people …
Warmest Decade
Attention! Ms. Palin! Attention! The decade ending in 2006 was the warmest such period in the Northern Hemisphere for at …
Arctic Sea Ice
Attention Governor Palin: Arctic Sea Ice! Gone! Arctic sea ice has shrunk to the second smallest extent since satellite records …