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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Pacific Islanders Sing and Dance on Climate Change Threat
“Water Is Rising,’’ is a show that is not coy about its purpose, reports Laura Bleiberg at the Boston Globe. It was created as a direct, personal appeal to America by people from Kiribati, Tokelau, and Tuvalu, atolls and coral … Continue reading
China to US on Solar Trade War – Mess With Us at Your Peril
China’s renewable energy industry responded this week to a U.S. push to slap tariffs on cheap Chinese solar cells by conveying a simple message: Mess with us, brace for the worst, reports Maria Gallucci at Inside Climate News. “If there … Continue reading
World Headed Towards Irreversible, Unsafe Climate Change by 2017 – Report
The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, reports Fione Harvey at the UK Guardian, … Continue reading
Summer in November — in England
Nature is being fooled into flowering in a ‘second spring’ in November, reports Juliette Jowit at the London Guardian. Fruit, frogs, birds, insects, plants: they are all enjoying a warm autumn as the seasons go topsy-turvy. Ecologists are observing a … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, climate change, ecosystems, environment, extreme weather, global warming, nature, pollinators, warm weather
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New India Policy Spurs Solar Power Development
Currently, there is little solar power production in India, a large sunny country, but that’s about to change. On average, the country has 300 sunny days per year and receives hourly radiation of 200 megawatts per square kilometer. By 2022, India’s … Continue reading
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Tagged clean renewable energy, climate change, green policy, India, renewable energy, solar power
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Wind Power Advance: Utility Stores Excess Wind Power With Consumers!
Although soaring demand on hot days have sometimes forced utilities to ask households to use less power, the rise of wind energy in the Pacific northwest sometimes creates moments when there is too much electricity for the grid to soak … Continue reading
Acting on Climate Change: #Occupy Congress
Hi all, Just a short post to let you know that our latest essay in our HuffingtonPost series, “Addressing Climate Change”, entitled #Occupy Congress, has just been published. (My husband, John Harte, an award-winning environmental scientist and ecologist at the … Continue reading
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Tagged #occupy, #occupy movement, carbon emissions, climate change, Congress, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases
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Major Ecosystem Changes in Pacific Northwest Predicted – Studies
Two recent peer-reviewed studies, one about forests and the other about oceans, predict that existing ecosystems will rearrange themselves over the next 70-plus years in response to global warming, reports Felicity Barringer at the New York Times. One study predicts … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, ecosystems, environment, forests, global warming, marine, studies
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Beautiful, Compelling Film Short on Why Forests Should Be Preserved….
Just got this the other day, and it’s worth the few minutes of your life to view it — an important message wrapped in a beautiful little film, highlighting the sublime beauty of forests all over the globe. Check it … Continue reading
Giant Antarctic Iceberg About to Break Off
Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier is preparing to shed a 300-square-mile chunk of its ice to the ocean in a process of ice loss that has been accelerating in recent years, reports Pette Spotts at the Christian Science Monitor. Although modest … Continue reading
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Tagged Antarctic, climate change, environment, fossil fuels, global warming, icebergs, rising sea levels, warming oceans
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