Editor’s Note: Haley Smith Kingsland is an Earth systems master’s student at Stanford University specializing in science communication. For five weeks she’s in the land of no sunsets participating in ICESCAPE , a NASA-sponsored research cruise to in… [...]
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Washington, DC, April 22, 2010 – Carbon dioxide may be the primary culprit when it comes to climate change, but it’s still only half of the problem: black carbon soot, ground-level ozone, and HFCs (a group of super greenhouse gases with hundreds to thousands the global warming potential of CO2), are some of the non-CO2 gases and pollutants that make up the other half of climate change. [...] Sydney, Australia: Earth Hour’s founding city of Sydney, Australia has helped launch the 2010 event with another resounding participation in the now-global call for a more harmonious relationship between humans and nature. The event in Sydney was heralded – as usual – with the lights going out on the Sydney Harbor Bridge and Opera House with other major landmarks in State capitals and nearly 150 other communities joining in. [...] Nobody lives in the global average climate. Nor are the massive grid cells favored by climate models run on today’s supercomputers as useful as they could be for planning purposes, given that they can encompass 10,000 square kilometers. Now the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with the U.S. Energy and Agriculture departments are teaming up to financially support the development of new computer models aimed at revealing the anticipated effects of climate change at the regional level. [More] The UK needs to commit to 40% emissions reductions (based on 1990 levels) to avoid global temperature rises exceeding the danger level of 2°C. Use Friends of the Earth’s action to write to Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, to demand the UK commits to 40% reductions and puts up more money to help those people who will be hit first & worst by the effects of climate change. [...] Liberia on Africa’s west coast is in desperate need of help as it suffers from the effects of climate change. The country, which has been devastated by years of civil war, is now facing a second major threat – the ocean. The Liberian government estimates that in one coastal city, Buchanan, the sea has eroded the coastline’s depth by 250 metres in almost 40 years. [...] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil this week agreed to consider implementing voluntary measures to encourage producers and buyers of palm oil to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Doctors warn on climate failure [...] Arctic Ecosystems Changing, May be Irreversible [...] Millennium Project Report Issued on the Future of the World [...] |
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