Urban farming can be a source of fresh and sustainable food even in some of the world’s most polluted cities. EnerGaia, a Thai company that works with hotels, businesses and other building owners, is using previously unused rooftops to produce spirulina, an edible cyanobacteria which, if harvested on a large scale, could be used as…
The Vision Prize is an online survey of scientists about climate risk. It’s an impartial and independent research platform for incentivized polling of experts on important scientific issues that are relevant to policymakers. Some of theirprevious survey results have found that about 90 percent of participating scientists believe that humans are the primary cause of…
Examples of how abrupt climate change might apply to individual home owners and to business manufacturing sector provided by leading climate scientist. New report seeks early warning system of abrupt climate change events Boulder Daily Camera: A new National Research Council report calls for the development of an early warning system that could help better anticipate…
Published on Feb 5, 2014: A concise breakdown of ‘2012 US Biochar Conference’ along with corresponding visuals to illustrate the limitless potential of Biochar as a solution to climate change, drought, and the global food crisis. Our independent feature film is now focused on Biochar education: www.blueprint-film.net Original conference videos: vimeo.com/user12930533/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Hsn6dBevA SkyNews: Miliband Issues Climate Change Warning The Labour leader says climate change is to blame for the floods . . . You require a Full Access Pass to access this page.
Secretary of State John Kerry toured a factory in Beijing Saturday and announced a new joint partnership with China to work on curbing emissions and output of greenhouse gases that trap solar heat in the atmosphere. (Feb. 15) “We just don’t have time to let a few loud interest groups hijack the climate conversation” –…
The recent exceptional onslaught of extreme weather in the past months in the UK raise question regarding the response and how to deal with climate change. Lord Stern: Flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change http://t.co/tyV0qln7TU — Svein T veitdal (@tveitdal) February 14, 2014…
This meeting was held March 31-April 2, 2011 at the AAAS Auditorium, in Washington, D.C. and was organized by Rita Colwell, Christopher Field, Jeffrey Shaman, and Susan Solomon Meeting Overview Climate science is addressing issues that require an increasingly interdisciplinary perspective, posing new challenges to scientists and to the organization and support of this science.…
Published on Feb 13, 2014 Senior Scientists discuss the potential for sudden disruptions of human and natural systems as a consequence of climate change.
Published on Feb 9, 2014 Heat stored in the western Pacific Ocean caused by an unprecedented strengthening of the equatorial trade winds appears to be largely responsible for the hiatus in surface warming observed over the past 13 years. New research published in the journal Nature Climate Change indicates that the dramatic acceleration in winds…
UK’s former climate diplomacy chief on how a medieval scholar changed the way a continent thought about life By John Ashton via RTCC Fellow Europeans. We now find ourselves living in a lost continent. Our publics have lost confidence in our elites which, as Martin Wolf pointed out in the Financial Times last week, have failed us…
Climate change is the ultimate challenge but as a matter of fact most governments and the media are still sleepwalking and are in denial for the most part. In the video below “Influence of Arctic sea ice on European summer precipitation (2013)”, Dr James Screen explains the impacts of climate change on farming and flooding.…