environment

Climate Variability and Climate Change: The New Climate Dice

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This peer-reviewed paper, which has been submitted to a leading scientific journal and made available to Time.com prior to publication, can be downloaded at the following website: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/05/10/global-warming-an-exclusive-look-at-james-hansens-scary-new-math/#ixzz1z1Yv5dJP

[Notice that the date on the New York Times article is May 10, 2012 and the date on the journal article is November 10, 2011.  Given humanity’s urgent need for scientific information, we need to speed up the scientific journal publication process, without compromising the quality of the publications.]

SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA

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SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA by Dra. Gladys M. González Martínez

This article by Dra. González (page 103) is excellent.  Although she speaks in general terms about food security, she provides a detailed analysis of the situation in Puerto Rico.  For years I have heard that we import around 85% of our food from outside the island, but I had never seen an official statement.  Dra. González provides it in this paper along with other critically important data about our agriculture and food security.


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Droughts in the US are widespread

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TALLER: TRANSICION FINCAS CONVENCIONALES A ORGANICAS

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CLICK ANUNCIO PARA MÁS INFORMACIÓN

meteosat-9: saharan air layer tracking product

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meteosat-9: saharan air layer tracking product

Animation: http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/sal/splitE/movies/splitE5.html

Fortuño presents agricultural platform

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Fortuño presents agricultural platform

Do you think it is a good plan?

Common bean production in  Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico

Solar market to heat up this summer in Puerto Rico

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Solar market to heat up this summer in Puerto Rico

 

 

New Climate research from last week 22/2012

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New Climate research from last week 22/2012

“This week we have really cool collection of new papers. We have special section for papers on Greenland ice sheet – past, present, and future. Another special section deals with Arctic affairs – cryosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. We also have other papers on diverse subjects, such as biomass burning, ENSO, Italian newspapers, Great Cormorants, black carbon, and diurnal temperature range.”  – Skeptical Science

Introducing a farm tech to reduce water and energy needs – hydrogel

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Introducing a farm tech to reduce water and energy needs

This is potentially interesting, but like most stuff from private companies, they don’t want people to know how it works.  So we have to trust them!  Seems to me to be a dying paradigm.

Boletín digital del Frente de Rescate Agrícola

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Boletín digital del Frente de Rescate Agrícola

El Frente de Rescate Agrícola ha elaborado un Boletín Informativo para continuar la difusión masiva y educación ciudadana en relación a la seguridad alimentaria, la pérdida acelerada de terrenos agrícolas y los efectos adversos de la construcción e instalación del parque industrial de 44 molinos de viento en el municipio de Santa Isabel. Exhortamos a darle [mas]