Topic: Environment
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. // David Attenborough
Design
Mar 6, 2010
Josselin Zaïgouche, freelance-designer from Paris, created 'switch me!'. It stands for our society's over-consumption and wasteful habits. You should think about whether or not you should turn on the light.
Every time you switch on your entropy accoun ...>>
Mertz Glacier
Feb 26, 2010
About half the length of the tongue broke off as iceberg B-9B touched the Mertz glacier. While moving north both icebergs may have an impact on ocean circulation and therefore weather pattern.
Australian Antarctic Division: Massive iceberg calves from the ...>>
Demolition
Feb 23, 2010
March 2000: Iceberg B15 - former part of the Ross Sea Shelf - started its counter-clock-wise journey around Antarctica. Earlier this month subpart B15-K, 54 km long and 5 km wide, collided with Ekstrom Ice Shelf. The german Neumayer Station located nearby reco ...>>
Olympics
Feb 11, 2010
Facing a 10°C weekend with isolated showers the Olympics in Vancouver develop a need of snow cannons and other methods of replacing snow. Even the IOC discusses Climate Change as an issue off future games.
“Global warming is definitely a factor that mus ...>>
Records
Feb 3, 2010
Info note No.58:
Geneva, 22 January 2010 (WMO) - According to a recent review conducted by a panel of experts in charge of global weather and climate extremes within the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl) the record of wind gusts not related to torn ...>>
History
Nov 27, 2009
completely frozen again.
time machine to 1900@nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com
via Ehrensenf
Update: some replies urge not to mix up a cold winter with climate. This winter intensified by a negative phase of the arctic oscillation and a snow albedo feedback ...>>
Industry
Nov 18, 2009
Earlier this month the European Environment Agency (EEA) gave access to information on emissions from European industrial facilities. Included are annual data for 91 substances and more than 24 000 facilities in 65 economic activities.
The around 3600 g ...>>
Future Flood
Nov 14, 2009
Some when in the future - maybe this century - a apocalyptic event flooded both megacities, water level is around 10m higher, fish is cheap and cellphone still operate. See the full set of pictures released by Studio Lindfors at flickr.
via: BLDGBLOG ...>>
Kilimanjaro
Nov 4, 2009
1938 Ernest Hemingway eternalised Africa's white peak with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". Now researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson estimate the thousands years old glaciers will disappear this century.
PNAS: Glacier loss on Kilimanjaro co ...>>
Spam counted in Miles
Jul 13, 2009
The average GHG emission associated with a single spam message is 0.3 grams of CO2. That’s like driving three feet (one meter) in equivalent emissions, but when multiplied by the annual volume of spam, it’s like driving around the Earth 1.6 million times.
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G8 Summit
Jul 13, 2009
We reaffirm the importance of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and notably of its Fourth Assessment Report, which constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of the science.
We recognise the broad scientific view that the ...>>
Resources
May 13, 2009
Available from Natural Resources Canada is this detailed geological map of the Arctic. The map was completed in November 2008 as part of a two-year, seven-nation collaboration. Resources as minerals, gas and oil could be very often found in similar geologi ...>>
The Melting Starts
May 10, 2009
The good news is sea level will not rise if Arctic melts. Your soft drink full of ice cubes does not overflow for same reason. Instead of the Northwest and Northeast Passages will become navigable by regular ships for part of the year very soon and feed ...>>
About Size
Nov 8, 2008
Ever wondered how something as little as a molecule of C02 can change the world? But more is different: CO2 turned Venus into a overheated hostile planet and without greenhouse gases Earth would be a snowball.
This post collects - without any special order ...>>
Poll & Opinions
Mar 21, 2008
Between the 9th of November and the 14th of December 2007, TNS Opinion & Social, carried out wave 68.2 of the EUROBAROMETER, on request of the EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Directorate-General for Communication, “Research and Political Analysis”.
Report: 127 ...>>
Rock 'n' Roll
Feb 16, 2008
A Beautiful Lie
via: Hug-Lies and A Beautiful Lie
Nice collection of tips from abeautifullie.org helpful to reduce energy consumption.
1. Slow down to cut costs and cut carbon! Slowing down from 75 mph to 65 mph will drop your highway gasoline con ...>>
Temperature Trends
Feb 9, 2008
Though the eleven year solor cycle as well as the Southern Oscillation hit their minimum 2007 is recorded as second warmth year in the period of instrumental data.
More:
Wikipedia: Solar Cycle
Marshall Space Flight Center: NASA Satellites Capture St ...>>
