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TerraBlog from TerraPass (Free subscription) | yesterday
by TerraPass Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, recently returned from a trip to the Arctic with a group of environmental, political, and business leaders all concerned about global climate change. The Arctic Expedition for Climate Action was sponsored by the Aspen Institute, the National Geographic Society, and Lindblad Expeditions. In this guest...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
South Africa needs a much greater sense of urgency about climate change, and civil society must pressure the government if it wants less environmentally damaging energy policies, says former environment minister Valli Moosa.
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Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Gore claims that “the real solutions to the climate crisis are the very same measures needed to renew our economy and escape the trap of ever-rising energy prices.” Nothing, in fact, could be further from the truth, and lying about it to the American people is no way to advance the public’s understanding of this [...]
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RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al Gore continues to build a remarkably mixed legacy as the leader of the movement to combat global climate change. For many years, the climate debate focused primarily on the scientific questions; today, that controversy continues but it is increasingly marginal in political circles, where attention has turned to the far more difficult task of developing an effective policy...
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The Denver Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Global climate change is already having an impact on Colorado’s $2 billion ski industry and could shorten the ski season by as much as 30 days if current trends continue, according to a report released Wednesday by the Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures.
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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A comprehensive and up-to-date account of climate change science by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego climate scientist Richard Somerville is now available from the American Meteorological Society.
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MITPressLog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Eric Klopfer, director of MIT's Scheller Teacher Education Program and author of Augmented Learning describes TimeLab, the program's most recent Augmented Reality Game: TimeLab starts with a video that sets the players 100 years in the future when global climate...
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Bloggle: Coffee (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
What’s the impact of global climate change on coffee? I’ve had conversations with a number of coffee farmers — particularly folks in South and Central America — about what they’re experiencing on their farms. The stories they tell are of seasons off kilter: of too much rain at the wrong time of the year, not [...]
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The Future of Aging Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The EPA just released a report that highlights the health effects of global climate change. The report discusses how global climate change will dramatically effect the older populations. According to the report, “the elderly are identified in many health assessments as more vulnerable than younger age groups to a range of health outcomes associated with climate...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... whose nations were brutalized by Japan before and during World War II.He is not done yet.Thanks to global climate change and the Bush administration's refusal to join in the U.N. accord that is attempting to deal with it, Ishihara is just getting warmed up."America is the most selfish country," he said during an interview in an austere meeting room in the 48-story building...
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IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
Researchers from around the world have approved the final design of a new satellite, which they say can shed light on global warming.
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Source: Reuters By Juan Bustamante BUENOS AIRES, July 24 (Reuters) - Argentine and NASA scientists hope a new satellite will help them better track global climate change by measuring salt levels on the surface of ...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
BOCA RATON, Fla., July 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Officials from
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and FAU's Center for Ocean Energy
Technology (COET) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science
accompanied Florida Governor Charlie Crist on a recent visit to several
universities and organizations in the United Kingdom to continue
discussions, exchange information and formalize agreements...
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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to sea while a typhoon was happening at full force - will help scientists develop better models of global climate change.Anne Carey, associate professor of earth sciences at Ohio State, said that she and her colleagues have braved two typhoons since starting the project in 2004. The Geology paper details their findings from a study of Taiwan's Choshui River during Typhoon Mindulle...
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British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Climate change is coming fast and furious to the Tibetan plateau. Jane Qiu reports on the changes atop the roof of the world.
