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The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s National Measurement Institute, has just released a report that calls for a new earth observation satellite to better calibrate our climate models. The report draws attention to the estimated rise in temperature that span from a broad range of ~2-10?C. Dr. Nigel Fox, head of Earth Observation and [...]
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The Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., will open a new exhibit titled, “Earth Lab: Degrees of Change,” next Thursday, Sept. 16. The exhibit focuses on the visualization of climate change, along with its impacts. The exhibit has at its center a simulation game where visitors take on the [...]
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The editor of the journal Remote Sensing has resigned, admitting that a paper by U.S. scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell that cast doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published. The paper received a great deal of exposure from climate skeptics, but was widely dismissed by mainstream scientists. The editor Wolfgang Wagner [...]
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Alex Steffen, co-founder of Worldchanging.com, gave a recent TED talk in Scotland about the possibilities to rethink our cities with the rapid urbanisation that is taking place. Rather than looking at removing fossil fuels with clean energy, Steffen suggests that we need to dramatically improve the energy efficiency of our infrastructure by altering our density. [...]
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This map just released by the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory illustrates the 2,755 daytime and 6,171 nighttime heat records broken across the United States in July of 2011. Each heat record point reveals a map that almost reveals the complete outline of the contiguous United States, showing how widespread the high heat was across the [...]
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Researchers from MIT, the University of Maryland, and the Santa Fe Institute have come up with a new model that predicts the maximum tree height in different environments across the United States. The model has inputs on temperature, precipitation, humidity and solar radiation, and uses these measurements to compute how tall a tree is likely [...]
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Former Vice President Gore today launched The Climate Reality Project to raise awareness of the climate crisis. The project is building toward the “24 Hours of Reality,” a worldwide day of activism slated for September 14. The link between extreme weather and global warming is a major focus of this effort. View the video below [...]
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The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) led the project to map the British landscape vegetation and land cover at an unprecedented scale. The latest UK Land Cover Map (LCM) shows the distribution of different habitats throughout the country at a 25-metre resolution. The impetus for the project is the decline in insect pollinators, with [...]
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Last week the Australian Space and Research program awarded a $2.3 million grant to the Greenhouse Gas Monitor (GGM) research project that is working to develop a mobile sensor to analyze greenhouse gases. The award is an extension to other funding that began in 2007 for baseline mapping of soil, groundwater and atmospheric monitoring. The [...]
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) launched an online mapping site today that documents and tracks the impacts of climate change. The Climate Hot Map contains details of five subject areas: people (public health, food supplies and the economy), lakes and rivers, the oceans, ecosystems and temperatures. The site allows users to zoom into areas [...]
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