| No new cars or power plants? Still locked into 1.3° of climate change |
| via Ars Technica | Posted September 9th, 2010 01:08 PM |
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There are a lot of ideas on how to limit emissions of CO2 in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and ocean acidification. But most of those focus on future infrastructure and equipment; in the meantime, we have a ... |
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Science, Tech-policy, carbonemissions, climatechange, energy |
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| Science academies hand climate change body a recipe for reform |
| via Ars Technica | Posted August 30th, 2010 05:28 PM |
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In the wake of a few high-profile errors found in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report, the organization asked the InterAcademy Council, a coalition of national science organizations, to e ... |
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Science, Tech-policy, climatechange, ipcc |
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| Geoengineering smackdown: how 5 methods might impact rising sea levels |
| via Ars Technica | Posted August 23rd, 2010 12:00 PM |
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The scientific community*s take on geoengineering might be described as resigned—many researchers that study climate change or evaluate solutions feel that reducing carbon emissions remains the easiest and safest option. ... |
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Science, biofuels, climatechange, earthsciences, geoengineering |
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| Migratory species get wanderlust mostly from social cues |
| via Ars Technica | Posted August 22nd, 2010 04:00 PM |
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Birds and other migrating species may be as dependent on social networks as we are, according to a study released by PNAS on Monday. By studying migration simulations of everything from bison to bacteria, a team of research ... |
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Science, animalbehavior, bison, climatechange, habitat, habitatfragmentation, migration, migratoryspecies |
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| Amazon, droughts driving drop in plants' ability to store carbon |
| via Ars Technica | Posted August 20th, 2010 12:54 PM |
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Most of the focus of climate policy has been on efforts to cut down on the carbon we*re dumping into the atmosphere, either by limiting emissions in the first place, or by capturing and storing it. But the Earth itself already ... |
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Science, climatechange, drought, earthsciences, plants |
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