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Braden Allenby gave a keynote at last week’s GeoDesign Summit, and I had the pleasure of sitting down with him for an interview. I’ve been an Allenby fan for some time, having read and re-read Reconstructing Earth and just recently having read The Techno-Human Condition. Allenby is a big-picture thinker, an engineer that trains students [...]
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Earth Networks, the company behind WeatherBug, is working with Berkeley Labs, UC San Diego, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for a statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions monitoring system for California. The network will collect data on concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in a large-scale sensing framework that builds on the [...]
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The UK-based risk analysis and mapping company Maplecroft has just released their fourth Climate Change Vulnerability Index that takes a look at climate impacts and a country’s ability to adapt. There are 193 countries profiles in the study, with a look at population concentration, development, natural resources, agricultural productivity, and conflict. There are 30 countries [...]
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The Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Knowledge Network has recently been launched as a map-based portal to share knowledge on climate change mitigation options for agricultural and food systems. The site aggregates environmental, climatic and social information to share and communicate research and tools to measure and adjust, with a focus on the resilience of [...]
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I had the pleasure to meet and interview Javier de la Torre at the recent FOSS4G event in Denver. de la Torre and his team at Vizzuality have been responsible for a wide array of interesting websites and crowdsourcing initiatives that are helping to gain understanding and perspective on issues of global environmental change. The [...]
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A new report by Canada’s National Round Table on Environment and Economy takes a close look at the economic impact of climate change in the country. The study estimates that costs of global warming may rise to $5 billion per year by 2020, and between $21 and $43 billion per year by 2050. The impacts [...]
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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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NASA researchers have just completed a satellite-imagery based map that shows both the speed and direction of ice flow for all of Antarctica. The map shows the flow of glaciers from the interior to the coast, and will prove useful for tracking changes due to climate change, and will help understand implications for sea-level rise. [...]
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