Tag: Global Warming Solutions - Page 13
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Don't Just Simmer, Get Busy Getting to 350
The dog days of summer are over. For many, it was one of the hottest summers in recent memory. Arctic ice is thinning at an alarming rate. Environmental catastrophes from dirty energy continue to happen.
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Mass Mobilization, Direct Action Needed Locally & Nationally to Stop Climate Change
Bill McKibben and friends are in a biodiesel van making the symbolic journey to the White House from the Maine college where Jimmy Carter's solar water heating panel has been residing for the past three decades, ultimately
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IPCC Did Good Work But Needs Fundamental Reforms, Review Concludes
Though the Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC has done good work in its past assessments of climate change science, an independent review of the way the organization operates says "fundamental reforms" are needed-- among those are shorter terms
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Only Public Grassroots Activism Will Force Governments to Act on Climate: Dr James Hansen
In case you haven't seen it yet, world renowned climatologist Dr James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has an excellent new piece in The Guardian wherein he talks at length about his journey from straight science to self-imposed
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If We Can Attribute Natural Disasters to Climate Change, Who Could Victims Sue For Damages?
Though it's de rigueur to say that any single weather event can't be directly linked to climate change, and it's true, what if we could determine how much of say massive flooding or a 1000-year heat wave
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REDD to Offer No Net Emission Reductions in Indonesia - Too Many Forested Areas Omitted by Government
Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation's emissions from
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Geoengineering Unable to Fully Stop 21st Century Sea Level Rise: Report
Simulating a colossal volcanic eruption every 18 months would just delay sea level rise. Space Shuttle (Mission STS 43) photograph of the Earth over South America taken on August 8, 1991, showing double layer of Pinatubo aerosol cloud (dark streaks)
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CDM Moves Against Chinese Polluters, Carbon Credit Prices Rise
The UN backed Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has suspended carbon credits for shady chemical manufacturers in China that were producing
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Can 'Environmentalism' Ever Really Hope to Tackle Climate Change?
The environmental movement, as most people long understood it, was a broad coalition of individuals, advocacy groups, activists, and others who continually work to address conservation issues and to
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Humans Must Leave Earth to Survive, Says Hawking
We've had a pretty good run with this old planet of ours, haven't we? Sure, she's a tad crowded and a little polluted. Okay, so she might be running a little hotter than she did before too, but we're getting by. One day, however, we may have to upgrade
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Biochar Alone Could Offset 12% of All Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Study
More new info on the potential of biochar to help combat climate change: A study in the journal
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Planted or Un-Planted, Manmade Wetlands Make Good Carbon Sinks - New Research Shows How
photo: Dean Forbes via flickr Restoring wetlands is great way to reestablish natural carbon sinks--a low-risk geoengineering method--and reap the benefits of the ecosystem services they provide. Now researchers from Ohio State University have
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Why Does Digg Hate Global Warming?
Any respectable blogger working today is at least aware of the many social media websites that contribute to our articles reaching a wider audience: Reddit, Yahoo Buzz, Stumble Upon, and, of course, the
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How Can President Obama Cut Carbon Emissions Without a Climate Bill?
With Congress still not able to get out of its own way and actually move forward any legislation with the word 'climate' in it, what options does President Obama have to make good on his oft-stated commitments to make
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Is It August 2010 or 2009? The State of International Climate Negotiations Offer Little Clue
Maybe the summer heat is going to my head, because a quick review of the state of global climate talks prior to COP16, now about four and half months away, just evokes a feeling deja vu: From island nations worried
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The Global Cooling Myth Debunked (Video)
Why do some climate skeptics continue to claim that the earth is in the middle of a 'global cooling trend' despite the fact that every reliable source -- NASA, NCAR, NOAA, etc -- has shown temperature records proving otherwise? Why
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Biochar Reduces Nitrous Oxide Emissions From Soil by Three Quarters: Study
photo: Stefano Mortellaro via flickr Biochar proponents now have an additional benefit to tout, in addition to increasing crop yields and carbon storage of soil: According to a long-term study in Australia, biochar both reduces nitrous oxide emissions
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Reforestation Projects Better Than Monoculture Tree Plantations for Capturing & Storing Carbon
Australian scientists studying the amount of carbon stored in monoculture tree plantations and reforested areas of damaged rainforests have found that, though reforestation is more expensive than establishing a
