Probing the Role of the Sun In an Era of Global Warming.
Yale environement360 Opinion, Analysis, Reporting & Debate
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Source of photograph: Solar Feeds News and Commentary
How Climate Change Could Reshape the Internet Ecosystem, Too (by Alexis Madrigal of the Atlantic)
A Surprising Side-Effect of Climate Change: A Fog of Confusion
Climate change entails significant social impact not least of which is induced by changes in the global water cycle: more precipitation here, less there, more droughts in dry areas, more floods in wet areas, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, changes in cloud cover, etc… Another side-effect is also apparent: a thickening fog in the public discourse that obscures the significance of irrefutable environmental change to human society.
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By Jean-Louis Fellous and Catherine Gautier, posted on June 21st, 2010 in Climate, Earth Observation, Feature, Featured Person, OpEd, People, Weather
Rescued Meteorological Data for the Caribbean Region – Excellent Historical Resource
These data are stored in NOAA’s digital library under the heading: Data Rescue Caribbean. Many of the recorded measurements are from the first half of the 20th Century.
For other interesting historical NOAA documents, check out the following link: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/
CLIMATE IMPACT EQUITY LENS (CIEL) – CLIMATE CHANGE GETS PERSONAL
Spanish Version
The Climate Impact Equity Lens (CIEL) is a new tool for comparing the net climate impacts felt by diverse individuals around the world, and for tracking individual impacts over time. CIEL demonstrates that climate change will affect each person differently.
At present, very little is being done to prevent dangerous climate change. Some people are already experiencing damages from changing temperatures and weather patterns, and from sea-level rise – but everyone is enjoying the “benefit” of not paying for more ambitious emission reductions. Looking only at today’s impacts, most – but not all – of us are net winners (saving more from inaction than we lose from climate damages). Over the course of this century, net losers will become more common; in the next century, it will be hard to find people who still benefit from inaction.
CIEL provides a graphic display of changes over time in each individual’s net economic impact from climate change. You can download several CIEL publications and a tool that allows you to input individual characteristics to estimate the personal impact of climate change.
The Climate Impact Equity Lens (CIEL) is a new tool for comparing the net climate impacts felt by diverse individuals around the world, and for tracking individual impacts over time. CIEL demonstrates that climate change will affect each person differently.
(Excerpted from CIEL website, 2011, Stockholm Environment Institute, 11 Curtis Avenue, Somerville, MA 02145, USA. Phone: 1(617) 627-3786. Email: CIEL@sei-us.org)
Two weeks ago, pragwater.com started using a free online service called ClusterMaps. We were happy to learn that pragwater.com has received visits from people all over the world, 27 countries in all. Here is the breakdown:
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