| @mospheric Post | Jan 7 2011 |
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Atmospheric CO2 data in this publication was released January 7, 2011 by NOAA-ESRL.
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Solutions in the Atmosphere SolveClimate | Qantas Nears £200m Biojet Fuel Joint Venture The Australian airline Qantas will this month announce a deal to build the world's second commercial-scale plant to produce green biojet fuel made from waste for its fleet of aircraft. Economics
The Economics Of Happiness | Website The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization. Yale Environment 360 | Calculating the true cost of global climate change Regardless of the role played by economists in the global warming debate, the view that climate change is not to be feared has contributed to the delay in the world’s response. Temperature Climate Wire | A super-cold winter amid global warming Unusual cold in places like Florida actually could be a sign of global warming, rather than an argument against it. Disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic influences atmospheric pressure that in turn controls jet streams of cold air. Food & Agriculture NY Times | Extreme weather drives up food prices The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announced this week that food prices hit a record high last month. Its Food Price Index was 214.7 for December, the highest level since the organization created the index to measure the price of a standard basket of goods in 1990. Science | To fight global warming, eat bugs Meat consumption presents a big environmental problem: Cows and pigs are good sources of protein, but they also belch carbon dioxide and methane. One way to reduce such emissions while maintaining a nutritious diet may be to get people to eat more cricket burgers and mealworm patties. Business Week | Study: No-till farming reduces greenhouse gas No-till farming, in which farmers don't plow under their fields between crops, releases far smaller amounts of a potent greenhouse gas into the air than conventional farming, according to a new study that suggests no-till may help combat global warming. Climate Communications Climate Progress | Media coverage of climate change “fell off the map” in 2010 The danger posed to the nation and the world by unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases is truly the greatest story never told. We had jaw-dropping science in 2010. We had gripping climatic disasters. And we even had major political theater. But, as we’ll see, the one-time paper of record didn’t have climate change in a single one of its largest lead headlines. LA Times | Scientist on the compatibility of conservatism and belief in climate change MIT professor Kerry Emanuel is among a rare breed of conservative scientists who are sounding the alarm for climate change and criticizing Republicans' 'agenda of denial' and 'anti-science stance.' Nature | Why dire climate warnings boost scepticism The use of dire predictions to encourage action on climate change may be backfiring and increasing doubt that greenhouse gases from human activities are causing global warming. Climate Research Tool Skeptical Science | An online tool for the IPCC 4th Assessment Report Miloslav Nic, an organic chemist, introduces the searchable database he created for almost every peer-reviewed paper referenced in the Fourth Assessment Report (2007) of the International Panel on Climate Change. Read the post, or go directly to the tool at Nic’s website, Zvon.org. Oceans Science Daily | Ocean Acidification Changes Nitrogen Cycling in World Seas Increasing acidity in the sea's waters may fundamentally change how nitrogen is cycled in them, say marine scientists who published their findings in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Agence France-Presse | Scientists find 'drastic' weather-related Atlantic shifts Scientists have found evidence of a "drastic" shift since the 1970s in north Atlantic Ocean currents that usually influence weather in the northern hemisphere, Swiss researchers said on Tuesday. CO2 Pathways The Wonk Room | US Energy Information Administration Projects Climate Catastrophe The US Energy Information Administration has projected that the United States will lead the world into catastrophic global warming over the next twenty five years. In its 2011 Annual Energy Outlook, the EIA predicts that energy-related CO2 emissions will “grow by 16 percent from 2009 to 2035,” reaching 6.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (or 1.7 GtC) Fossil Fuels Climate Progress | Deutsche Bank calls coal “a dead man walking” Deutsche Bank predicts coal’s share of electric power generation will tumble further, from 47 percent in 2009 to 34 percent in 2020 and 22 percent in 2030. Industry Mother Jones | The oil industry's New Year's resolution The American Petroleum Institute, which last year called congressional efforts to curb climate changing emissions, among other things, "a giant tax," a "job killer," and "fundamentally flawed," is now begging for Congress to take action—to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating those emissions. 2010 In Review The Age | The deadly decade The past 10 years have been the hottest since measurements began, and climate scientists have long warned of the extreme weather still to come.
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