DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science:
I'll admit, as someone who spends most days looking for leaked documents, the package of stolen emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University is pretty juicy. Anything that provides insight into the inner-workings of your opponents is pretty much manna from heaven in this line of work.I have (Read More)
Climate Progress:
FACTBOX-Climate negotiating positions of top emittersRussia toughened on Wednesday its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, saying it would target a 25 percent reduction from 1990 levels by 2020 compared with a 10-15 percent pledge previously.Following are the negotiating positions of the top greenhouse gas emitters be (Read More)
Scientific American - Environment:
Dear EarthTalk: I recently saw a reference to “Enertia houses” that require little in the way of external sources for heating or cooling. Do you have any information on this housing design? --Alan Marshfield, via e-mail [More]
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Knight Science Journalism Tracker:
Peter Gleick (rhymes with click) is a water and resource specialist at an outfit in California called the Pacific Institute where for many years he’s been a solid source for reporters wanting new detail about how mankind is messing things up – particularly via a changed climate’s impact on natural hydrology. (He is also, by (Read More)
PLoS ONE Alerts: Ecology:
Niche theory is central to understanding how species respond geographically to climate change. It defines a species' realized niche in a biological community, its fundamental niche as determined by physiology, and its potential niche—the fundamental niche in a given environment or geographic space. However, most predictions (Read More)
Eureka! Science News - Earth & Climate:
A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.
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cop15.dk News:
We already knew that respiratory diseases like asthma and illnesses linked to pests like malaria are increasing due to climate change. US research has added new health problems to the list. (Read More)
cop15.dk News:
While Vestas, Siemens, Suzlon and other leading brands in wind energy develop ever larger turbines, UK manufacturers have spotted a niche in small mills supplying just a few houses. (Read More)
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science:
monbiot.jpg Regular DeSmog readers know we are big fans of Guardian columist George Monbiot, and we're very proud to be co-sponsoring a big event next weekend in Toronto with Monbiot as our special event.Here's the details, hope to see you all there!----Join George Monbiot, (Read More)
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science:
pharma_pills.jpg While our focus here at DeSmogBlog is to expose the public relations and lobbying antics that hinder effective responses to climate change, we are always on the lookout for other examples of how lobbying and PR impede progress on critical legislative effort (Read More)
Climate Progress:
As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution).So begins the RealClimate post on this hack-he (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea and determine the spatial variation of sediment contributi (Read More)
Yale Environment 360:
Britain’s Prince Charles has struck an agreement with 35 nations to contribute $22 billion to $36 billion to reduce the destruction of tropical forests by 25 percent by 2015. The Prince of Wales said the U.S. has agreed to contribute $275 million to the rainforest protection fund, which will pay countries such as Indonesia (Read More)