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A recent report published UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation concludes that as the climate changes

as well as from other elements of President Obama climate change initiative. CONTACT: Ailis Wolf at (703) 276-3265, aawolf@hastingsgroup. com;

The New york Green Bank is launching at a time of mounting evidence of the direct negative impacts of climate change on the nation environment, economy, and energy infrastructure.

As our country faces the growing danger of extreme weather and climate change, it is all too clear that investment in state of the-art-the art clean energy infrastructure is essential for the continued strength of the U s. economy.

#Adapting to climate change Mediterranean style Climate change is global -but affects people locally. An EU-funded project is giving Mediterranean businesses

and local governments the information they need to plan ahead by taking the impact of local climate change into account.

The Mediterranean area is particularly sensitive and vulnerable to climate change. The Intergovernmental panel on climate change predicts that the region will experience rising sea levels,

and adapted climate change models to needs identified by local businesses and policymakers. Users then access the modelling results via CLIM-RUN web portal

and decade up to 2050, allowing them to plan for natural variations in weather as well as variations due to man-made climate change.

and adapt to the effects of climate change is therefore one of the challenges of our time.

#Developing high-efficiency lasers to manufacture solar panels As the world continues its efforts to combat climate change

and across the world to protect vulnerable cities from the imminent effects of climate change. Project details Project acronym:

However, urbanisation, extensive irrigation and variations in rainfall patterns due to global climate change have led to serious water scarcity in many areas of the world.

they also increase the impact on climate change. With the above in mind, a European research project has developed new environmentally friendly materials that can replace oil-based plastic films used in packaging for food

although climate change has made it more aggressive recently, Tóth says.""In Slovakia, in particular, many field plots are infested,

and water supplies and produce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, the paper says. Brighter Green, the organization behind the paper, wants policymakers to take notice of the consequences of dairy CAFOS

climate change poses real financial risks and substantial economic opportunities and we must act now. The letter was sent to the EPA, the Obama Administration,

a business-led call to action that urges federal and state policymakers to seize the economic opportunity of addressing climate change e

and climate policy for European union states a

#NYC's 10-Year Plan Sets New Standards for Other Cities Last week, the day after the eople Climate Marchand right before the United Nationsclimate Summit, New york city

in order to dramatically reduce the city contributions to climate change, while spurring major cost savings and creating thousands of new jobs for those who need them most.

or biochar to soil to both boost crop yields and counter global climate change the study offers the first detailed explanation for this mystery. nderstanding the controls on water movement through biochar-amended soils is critical

and a rising global temperature. lobal climate change suggests that it s going to get warmer and since plants cannot run away from the heat they re going to have to adapt to a changing environmentnagel says. his study suggests one mechanism for us to understand how this interaction works. oth plants

and is particularly significant as climate change brings more moderate winter temperatures. In the United states alone the disease costs the cattle and sheep industry an estimate $125 million annually. y conducting this epidemiological study on a commercial dairy farm in Northern California we were able to demonstrate that the virus overwinters

Principal funding came from by the Global climate and Energy project the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford and by the US Department of energy.

and the hardiness of African rice. frican rice is once more at the forefront of cultivation strategies that aim to confront climate change

and pesticides. ardy high-yield crops will become increasingly vital for human survival as the world faces the environmental effects of climate change and an ever-growing global population.

and other classes of materials that haven t been considered. tanford s Global climate and Energy project and the Department of energy s Light-Material Interactions in Energy conversion Center supported the work along with the National Science Foundation and the Research Triangle Solar fuels Institute.

The Nature commentary draws from a recent workshop cological and Genomic Exploration of Environmental Changethat occurred in March where scientists met to understand issues surrounding climate change adaptation.

Averting climate change altogether would be a preferableâ##albeit unlikelyâ##outcome. The scientists fear that implementing genetic solutions could potentially deter other climate change action. serious concern is that even the possibility of using genetic-engineering tools to rescue biodiversity will encourage inaction with regard to climate change.

Before genetic engineering can be entertained seriously as a tool for preserving biodiversity conservationists need to agree on the types of scenario for which facilitated adaptation managed relocation

which in turn affects the Earth s climate and the size of marine fisheries. Researchers report that during the past 160000 years nitrogen fixation rose

or storm##a key selling point as climate change spawns increasingly powerful hurricanes and tornadoes. While energy storage systems would cut utilities revenues they would also help them balance supply

Use of cover crops can also help farms survive the droughts expected to become more common in the era of climate change.

and carbon dioxide are driving climate change. Natural carbon sinks like forests and oceans are critical for helping soak up some of these gases.

After long focusing on fuel economy and energy production environmentalists and scientists are now promoting a diet of more plants and less meat to slow climate change but why?

The scope of animal agriculture s impact on climate change has for decades been underestimated. The raising and slaughtering of farm animals is just one component.

As a result of animal agriculture's impact on climate change organizations like the Natural resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club support eating more plant-based meals.

and corporate policy work to be done to address global climate change it's heartening to see leaders

and thus help regulate Earth's climate and combat global warming. Deforested land could potentially be offset with buildings

as researchers can use Summit to model everything from climate change and weather behavior to materials science and nuclear-weapons performance.

Natural systems, such as Earth's climate, are extremely difficult to model because of their immense complexity.""There is a real importance of having the larger systems,

This subtle trend correlates with climate change in the region, which has warmed by between 0. 3 and 0. 4 degrees Celsius every decade since the 1970s.

or brightening, how this affects the amount of sunlight reaching the planet's surface and what that means for climate change.

"Significant questions remain about what these results means for climate change, because soot and different kinds of aerosols can affect cloud formation in very different ways.

I wanted to found a prize to reflect the new challenges faced by humanity#such as climate change, energy shortages, emerging diseases, clashes of cultures and ideas,

Bawa speculates that other factors may also be contributing to the decline of the fungus#in particular, rising temperatures and less snow in the eastern Himalayas as a result of climate change.

He adds that he believes South korea should spend its resources on technologies that have the potential to provide a nearer-term impact on carbon emissions and climate change.

#Tagged seals help find missing piece in global climate puzzle By tracking the voyages of elephant seals off Antarctica,

and with the help of satellite imaging and undersea sensors, researchers have discovered a long-elusive source for the deep ocean streams of cold water that help to regulate the Earth's climate.

The new finding fills a gap in researchers understanding of the Southern ocean s role in global climate,

the resulting changes in cold-water circulation could have important effects on global climate, letting the ocean depths warm

#In surprise, Dutch court orders government to do more to fight climate change In a ruling that came as a surprise to many legal experts,

a court in The netherlands today ordered the Dutch government to dramatically intensify its fight against climate change.

The Dutch government did not dispute the international scientific consensus on climate change. The verdict (in Dutch) relies heavily on quotes, tables,

a lawyer, argued that the legal community should become much more active in the fight against climate change,

but began viewing climate change and energy as the real challenges of my generation. After graduating he co-founded the consulting

#Study finds piece-by-piece approach to emissions policies can be effective Discussions on curbing climate change tend to focus on comprehensive, emissions-focused measures:

A global agreement on carbon emissions would be most effective at reducing the risks of climate change

As a result they ve found themselves in the hot seat of climate change. The midwinter air temperature along the West Antarctic Peninsula where Palmer is located has increased by 11 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years five times the global average.

#How Scott Collis Is Harnessing New Data To Improve Climate models Each year Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten.

--The Editorsargonne National Laboratoryharnessing new data to improve climate modelsclouds are one of the great challenges for climate scientists.

They play a complex role in the atmosphere and in any potential climate change scenario. But rudimentary data has simplified their role in simulations leading to variability among climate models.

Scott Collis discovered a way to add accuracy to forecasts of future climate by tapping new sources of cloud data.

Collis has extensive experience watching clouds first as a ski bum during grad school in Australia and then as a professional meteorologist.

and Climate research he realized there was an immense source of cloud data that climate modelers weren't using:

There is more than enough energy in high-altitude winds to power all of civilization says Ken Caldeira a Stanford university climate scientist who co-authored a 2012 study that ballparked the potential at 1800 terawatts--more than four times the estimate near the surface.

if climate change news couldn't get much worse along comes proof that it's affected one of the fundamental forces of nature:

Climate change is having other measurable impacts on the southern continent. Data from the ESA's Cryosat satellite shows that West Antarctica's seasonal ice melt has sped up by a factor of three

So if you're into environmental conservation--particularly curbing climate change--these agreements are worthy of some renewed optimism.

since 2009 that the U n. secretary general Ban Ki-moon had nestled a day full of climate change-centric programming into the yearly schedule of the U n. General assembly.

In 2009 official climate treaty talks were scheduled with the intention of producing a strong global climate treaty later that year--one featuring defined and legally binding commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions by the U s. and other industrialized nations.

Five years later many negative impacts of climate change have become even more visible worldwide as Popular Science often reports.

They marched to demand climate change action and even the march's organizers claimed to be surprised by the heavy turnout.

Hundreds appeared again the next day September 22 for Flood Wall street using the tactics of the Occupy Wall street protests to keep media attention on climate change.

The science behind climate change is accepted well in most nations and the urgent need for action has been explained well to heads of state by the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (the U n.'s own climate science body).

He said that the two nations are putting forth ur ambitious visionon climate change so that both the U s. and China can lead the way for other nations to come to a climate agreement in Paris in December.

Finally, China announced that it will use $3. 1 billion to help developing countries combat climate change. oday

president of the World Resources Institute, a global natural resources think tank, said in a statement that Friday announcement lays a cornerstone for a global climate agreement in Paris in December. hese two countries have found common ground

-and-trade program for carbon emissions will not begin to solve our climate crisis, Food and Water Watch Executive director Wenonah Hauter said in a statement. hrough a system of reditsand dubious and unverifiable offsets,

#Sucking carbon from the sky may not slow climate change As U s. President Barack Obama finalizes plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions today,

"You hear CDR mentioned as an option to maybe avoid dangerous climate change, but when we did the simulations you see the effect of this technique is quite small,

"says lead author Sabine Mathesius, a climate modeler at the Potsdam Institute for Climate impact Research in Germany.

CDR technologies belong to a class of climate change-fighting techniques known as geoengineering. They include enhancing forests to make them absorb more CO2,

Yet the scientists found the environmental benefits of such a massive technological campaign were surprisingly small, especially in terms of protecting the ocean from the impacts of climate change.

with CDR the acidification was reduced 0. 7 units, the team reports online today in Nature climate change.

whose business models were deemed no longer tenable because of climate change or environmental costs. The white book also proposed an increase in the share of earmarked"green"investments

#New software analyses the effect of climate change on buildings from the cloud Large Spanish construction companies have begun to use a simulation software package,

will react to a warming climate, said JPL glaciologist Eric Rignot, a coauthor of the paper.

which faces extreme weather blowouts, climate change, and increasing demand for renewable energy sources. Today, more than 1. 3 billion people worldwide have no access to an electric grid,

This decision of a majority of European countries to apparently ignore their own experts may undermine any claim to the moral high ground at the coming Paris talks on climate change.

#Global Population Wants Political Action On Climate change A recent survey of over 10,000 citizens in 76 countries across five continents concluded that the global public want their leaders to act to prevent further climate change.

in an effort to give voice to the opinions of the millions of citizens who are concerned with the environment and climate change,

WWVIEWS on Climate change and Energy initiated 97 debates around the world, inviting thousands of citizens to participate.

How concerned are you about the impacts of climate change? How urgently should the world react to tackle climate change?

A total of 69.5%of respondents from developed countries were ery concernedand 28.87%oderately concerned,

considering they are made up of countries facing the most immediate threat of climate change ie, global sea level rise. e are excited very that World Wide Views on Climate

World Wide Views on Climate and Energy is initiated co by the United nations Framework Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC) secretariat, the Danish Board of Technology Foundation (DBT), Missions Publiques (MP),

Sunspot theory of climate change is the result of an ancient error in the data The theory that solar activity is linked to rising global temperatures has been cast into doubt after scientists corrected an ancient error in the calculations.

suggesting climate change cannot be plotted using this sunspots method. Scroll down for video In fact, solar activity appears to have remained relatively stable

#Making life more resistant to stress A recent paper in Current Biology suggests that plants can be engineered against climate change, even drought.

modifying them for climate change is not something we should claim (at least at this early point in the game) to be able to do any better than the plant itself might do h

#Drought, Climate change and California's Multibillion-Dollar Problem Two weeks before California Governor Jerry brown announcement on Wednesday that residents and businesses in the Golden state which is withering amid one of its worst droughts in modern history

and the governor stopped short of attributing California woes to human-driven climate change a point of ongoing scientific debate.

former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson and hedge-fund manager and environmental advocate Tom Steyer suggests that California will likely face ultiple and significant economic risks from climate change, over the 21st century.

we are already seeing the devastating toll that climate change is taking on our economy and way of life.

me even more hope that humankind will be able to work together to combat climate change, the most important threat facing us today, the IEA lead economist,

who will meet in Paris later this year in an attempt to hammer out a global climate agreement p

such as HCFC-22, said Shinya Okada, Daikin senior executive officer. iven the urgent need to address climate change,

which needs $6 billion to $14 billion to help it adapt to climate change impacts, such as unusually heavy rains, droughts and melting glaciers, through to 2050, according to a 2011 study funded by the U n. climate secretariat.

and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere. Being able to detect such emissions is needed a critically measure.

and also aggravate climate change up in the atmosphere. Being able to detect such emissions is needed a critically measure.

in order to slow the pace of climate change caused by fossil-fuel burning. If the planet's CO2 levels rise much higher than they are today,

and policy-makers in many countries hope to reduce this below 350 ppm to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, from increasingly severe weather events and sea level rise to global average temperature increases of 10 degrees Fahrenheit.'

The chemical industry is undergoing a major transformation as a consequence of unstable energy costs, limited natural resources and climate change.

The study that arrived at this conclusion is due to be published By nature Climate change("Greenhouse gas payback times for crop-based biofuels".

This could reduce emissions of a principal greenhouse gas that fosters climate change, and transform it into a useful, renewable fuel.

Climatologists predict that persistent"megadroughts"are going to be a feature of climate change in the American West.

Once theye there, they can do serious science, from climate modelling to exoplanet hunting. But they are stuck also in that orbit for their entire working lives.

Unfortunately, a study published today in Nature climate change does just that. And the news is ominous.

Unfortunately, climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of these types of droughts, and the Sierra Nevadassnowpack is expected to drop a further 25 percent by 2050.

and as climate change continues, many other states will feel the squeeze s

#DARPA Taps Into the Brain To Give Patients Robo-Touch and Better Memory ST LOUIS By hardwiring into the brains of people with traumatic injuries,

and making China the largest contributor to modern climate change. However the United states still exceeds China by more than double in per capita emissions,

which Chinese officials have argued are a better yardstick for contributions to global climate change. China has yet to announce specifics about its cap-and-trade plan, leaving some concerned about the political and technical challenges that lie ahead."

. and China to lead discussions at the UN climate change conference that will take place in Paris in December.'

when it comes to climate change

#The Future Of The DNA Hard drive Back in August at a chemistry conference, the worlds of science fiction and fact merged with the announcement of a technological advancement in data storage.

impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change. Food loss and waste is single largest component of disposed U s. municipal solid waste,

By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources,

an important element of mitigating climate change, and displayed reduced productivity and pollination. o matter the place,

and more suited to climate change in order to feed Earth's increasing population. Currently European union GMO regulations don't allow for food with added DNA.

diseases and higher temperatures and droughts expected to accompany climate change. Cotton growers have experienced a plateau in yields since the early 1990s

and breeders in the years ahead develop cotton varieties with improved fiber qualities, higher yields and more tolerance to heat, drought and diseases anticipated due to climate change.

an essential step to understanding the future of the world largest glaciers as climate changes. The brown water that can be seen at the top of the picture is the subglacial discharge,

heat waves Droughts and heat waves are happening simultaneously with much greater frequency than in the past, according to research by climate experts at the University of California, Irvine.

While the researchers did not look into human-caused global climate change in this study Agha Kouchak said, an overall increase in the mean temperature worldwide is raising the probability of heat waves.

Climate change/Environmental sciences: Modeling atmospheric aerosols, identified as influencing the chemical composition and radiative balance of the troposphere,

delegates to the UN climate change convention annual negotiations will gather in Paris to try to conclude an ambitious and effective agreement on preventing the global average temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions exceeding 2c above its preindustrial level.

a new study has shown that office climate control systems are giving women the cold shoulder. Many office air-conditioning systems are locked down to avoid arguments about how hot

according to a paper published in Nature climate change specifically it's male only. In general women like the temperature a little hotter than men 25°C (77°F) verses 22°C (72°F) respectively.

The inability of the president to produce coherent and strict policies on climate change at home contributed to a stalemate between the US and China on the issue,

China's new program makes it easier for the United states to enact its own climate change regulations.

Republicans and climate change deniers have used long China as the counterweight in their arguments, fighting against any restrictive US policies with the specter of a huge economic power unburdened by controls on emissions,

Hard sciencethe high degree of difficulty and expertise required means that relatively few climate scientists have been able to base their research on accurate models of historical precipitation.

New tool for climate change modelsfor example Shen referenced a region in the middle of the Pacific ocean that sometimes glows bright red on the computer model indicating extreme dryness

Shen hopes that its ease of use will encourage climate scientists to incorporate this historical data into their own models improving our future predictions of climate change.

Renne is continuing his collaboration with the Italian-French team to correlate the lake record with past climate change.

According to the research study published in Nature Communications today the Sun affects middle atmosphere ozone with potential implications on smaller scale to regional but not global climate.

This climate variability is not a trend like climate change but rather year-to-year fluctuations following solar activity.

and climate change remodel river ecosystems, it is no longer easy to define what is"natural"for river systems.

#Google unveils deforestation monitor to combat climate change The philanthropic arm of Google, Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.

Using a new platform, its"high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine, "the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,

The platform, unveiled at the International Climate change Conference in Copenhagen, could be used as a tool for nations to comply with the United nations-proposed REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation in Developing Countries) program

Based largely on data from the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate change report,

the REDD program plans to offer money in exchange for the prevention of the destruction of forests deemed significant to curbing global climate change.

help address climate change, increase energy security and improve the competitiveness of U k. businesses. The scheme, which came into force in July 2014,

according to the Department of energy and Climate change, could lead to on average a savings of £56, 400/$90, 240 per year, per business.

#Hardware Battlefield 2015 The majority of home climate control systems in the world just won work with Nest,

Sensibo is a startup that wants to make the approximately 1 billion climate control devices that aren smart to smart with a little more Nest-like.

but also automate your home climate control with intelligent features, including location-based activation, timer settings and a learning algorithm that the company claims can save you up to 40 percent on your home heating and cooling bills over time,

which is designed for houses that have multiple rooms in need of climate control. Remote sensors help it monitor temperature in multiple rooms at the same time,

The pact is ugely importantfor global climate change policy efforts because China has agreed finally to a target related to urning its emissions down in absolute value,

since the world top two emitters have circumvented effectively the reigning geopolitical gridlock over international climate policy l

and storing it underground could help address climate change, but some experts worry that the gas will leak back out.

Last week, a major U n. climate report called attention to the importance of carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) for dealing with climate change

At the same time, droughts caused by climate change are reducing supply in many regions of the world, including parts of the U s,

and help mitigate climate change. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

But now, a French design duo has come up with a way to turn the humble table into a means of climate control that doesn't use any electricity.

It a feat of engineering that makes the most sense in homes that don't have climate control.

The idea was floated first by Prime minister Modi himself at the first meeting of the council of ministers on climate change last month.

All countries are required to submit their plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of the run-up to the climate change summit at Paris at the end of the year.

and present it as a just contribution towards fighting climate change. The real motive of this association could be to lobby for a wider acceptance of such an exercise as part of the new climate change treaty.

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