Ask any person on the street and they will likely tell you that CO2 and global warming is a bad thing that needs urgent attention and mitigation. The second conventional wisdom is that the invention of the steam engine and the advent of the coal-f...
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The model was developed for the supercomputer Earth Simulator at JAMSTEC. Given the atmospheric conditions that were present 1-2 weeks before the observed cyclones formed, the model successfully reproduced the birth of two real tropical cyclones t...
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A new report by the U.S. Geological Survey outlines the risks of abrupt climate change that could dramatically -- and quickly -- cause expensive hardships that would be difficult to recover from without equally dramatic adaptation.
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The Crunchies, our sometimes kitschy and irreverent awards ceremony, is back for v2. Join GigaOm, VentureBeat and Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch as co-hosts and masters in ceremonies on Friday January 9, 2009 at 7:30 pm the Herbst Theater i...
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Construction has already begun on this 75Mw solar thermal plant and is expected to finish in 2010. Although there are bigger projects out there, the new Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center near Indiantown, Florida, promises to be first in a...
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There are signs that China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is "warming" up to the idea of seriously taking on climate change, according to a report by the Associated Press. It seems that Chinese negotiators at the inter...
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The US manufacturing base appears to be more than capable of expanding production of a very promising form of solar technology that can be integrated into building materials like rooftops.
Thin film solar (right side of roof image) based on plast...
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The two bio-geoengineering proposals discussed in this paper are attempts
to address one of the greatest threats humankind has ever faced –
catastrophic climate change. We attempt to answer the question: Will such
global bio-geoengineering ‘sol...
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