Isaac Held, Ph.D., a senior research scientist with the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., will receive the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his contributions to improved understanding of climate change and atmospheric circulation systems. He will accept the award at a ceremony in Madrid, Spain, in June. In his [...]
Jan 26 2012 | Posted in
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In partnership with state, tribal, and federal agency partners, the ObamaAdministration today released the first draft national strategy to help decision makers andresource managers prepare for and help reduce the impacts of climate change on species, ecosystems, and the people and economies that depend on them. The draft National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, available [...]
Jan 20 2012 | Posted in
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In its largest marketing campaign to date, Vestas, the global leader in wind energy, is using LinkedIn and Bloomberg Businessweek to reach out to corporate decision makers, informing them about the brand building and financial benefits of investing in wind energy. Vestas believes that corporations are part of the solution for climate change and they [...]
NOAA’s updated Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), which measures the direct climate influence of many greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, shows a continued steady upward trend that began with the Industrial Revolution of the 1880s. Started in 2004, the AGGI reached 1.29 in 2010. That means the combined heating effect of long-lived [...]
Nov 14 2011 | Posted in
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What could be worse than a storm that packs the punch of a category 3 hurricane coming ashore, the same storm when temperatures are low enough to make it a blizzard! Â Â The western coast of Alaska has been battered with an epic storm from the Bering Sea the likes of which has not been [...]
Direct effects of climate warming on biodiversity pose a serious conservation challenge for marine life, according to new research published today in Science. Marine life may need to relocate faster than land species as well as speed up alterations in the timing of major life cycle events. This challenges previous thinking that marine life in [...]
Nov 4 2011 | Posted in
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“Greedy Lying Bastards” is a new feature length documentary, scheduled to be released in 2012, investigating the role the oil industry plays the world over  in all facets of people’s lives  from politics and economics to the environment. Filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh traveled the globe including Tuvalu, Peru, England, Uganda,Kenya, Belgium, Denmark , Germany and the [...]
The history and future of ice will be explored at The Australian National University tonight in a public lecture that will cover science, humanities and climate change. In his inaugural lecture as the WK Hancock Professor of History, Tom Griffiths from the School of History in the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU will [...]
Oil company Royal Dutch Shell is facing heavy criticism as a result of their handling of the biggest oil spill in British waters in a decade. Thirteen hundred barrels of oil have leaked so far from a pipeline connecting a well to the Gannet Alpha platform, situated about 122 miles east of the renewable energy hub [...]
Today, The Climate Reality Project (formerly the Alliance for Climate Protection) announced a new global campaign to broadcast the reality of the climate crisis and mobilize citizens to help solve it. Â The campaign kicks off with 24 Hours of Reality, a worldwide, live streamed event on September 14-15. During the 24 Hours of Reality event, [...]
Jul 13 2011 | Posted in
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An international panel of marine experts warns in a report released today that the world’s ocean is at high risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history. The preliminary report arises from the first ever interdisciplinary international workshop to consider the cumulative impact of all stressors affecting the ocean. [...]
The findings are being  published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), was conducted by Andrew Kemp, Yale University; Benjamin Horton, University of Pennsylvania; Jeffrey Donnelly, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University; Martin Vermeer, Aalto University School [...]
When NASA’s Aquarius mission launched this week, its radiometer instruments will take a “skin” reading of the oceans’ salt content at the surface. From these data of salinity in the top 0.4 inch (1 centimeter) of the ocean surface, Aquarius will create weekly and monthly maps of ocean surface salinity all over the globe for [...]
Jun 12 2011 | Posted in
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Offshore wind will be the key driver for growth in renewable energy, but skills shortages and lack of investment threaten to stop the sector in its tracks, according to a panel of high-level energy sector experts including Shadow Energy Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies, and chairman of the Environment Agency, Lord Smith.
In 2008, the U.S. Congress called for NOAA to execute an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to establish a committee that would “investigate and study the serious and sweeping issues relating to global climate change and make recommendations regarding what steps must be taken and what strategies must be adopted in response to [...]
Cities worldwide are failing to take necessary steps to protect residents from the likely impacts of climate change, even though billions of urban dwellers are vulnerable to heat waves, sea level rise and other changes associated with warming temperatures.
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