"The current climate for animal biotech is not very good, and therefore, we are nowhere near getting this to the consumer
and that the climate benefits of biofuels are modest at best. But the fall has been hardest in Brazil,
has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tonnes of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 Â million tonnes in 2008."
when climate and energy planning clash with economic decision-making. It began with the 2008 economic crisis,
%says Andrã Ferreira, head of the Institute for Energy and the Environment, a think-tank in S £o Paulo.
Obama rekindles climate hopesthroughout his reelection campaign, US President Barack Obama rarely said the words climate change.
But in his second inaugural address, on 21 Â January, Obama renewed a commitment to address global warming,
The 2010 demise of a climate bill that would have enacted a cap -and-trade system to limit greenhouse-gas emissions remains one of the key failures of Obama s first term.
once Obama has replaced the retiring heads of three agencies key to the climate agenda (see Climate team change).
Turnover at the topeven as US President Barack Obama vows action against climate change, he is expected to lose the leaders of three agencies with important stakes in environment issues.
Reicher, an attorney by training, previously headed Google s $1-billion initiative for investing in energy and climate, where he guided investments into solar technologies and electric transport.
Lisa Jackson On entering office in 2009, Jackson (pictured) laid the groundwork for climate regulations by formally declaring carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.
but pulled Washington out of the Western Climate Initiative, a regional emissions-trading programme led by California.
Perciasepe, currently deputy administrator at the environment agency, developed a watershed-protection programme while previously at the agency under Bill clinton.
and overhauled the way the agency disseminated environmental data. She encountered criticism for the handling of findings related to the Deepwater horizon oil spill,
and she was unable to sell the idea of a federal agency for climate services.
Her successor will face questions about catch limits in ocean fisheries, and will need to resolve cost overruns
and delays that have plagued weather-and climate-satellite programmes. Candidate: Donald Boesch A biological oceanographer, Boesch is currently president of the Center for Environmental science at the University of Maryland in Cambridge,
where he studies ecosystem management and climate change. He was a member of the White house commission that investigated the 2010 Deepwater horizon oil spill.
As proof of what is possible, Obama can point to a welcome, if unexpected, reduction in US greenhouse-gas emissions during his first term.
The decline is in part a result of the economic slowdown and a shift in electricity production from coal to natural gas,
and the introduction by more than half of the states of significant energy and climate initiatives that could deliver further reductions  perhaps even the 17%cut by 2020 that Obama promised at the United nations climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009.
They"should give Americans confidence that climate policies can be effective, says Paul Bledsoe, an environmental consultant in WASHINGTON DC and A white house climate-change official under former president Bill clinton.
As a next step, Obama s administration is expected to impose two greenhouse-gas regulations targeted at power plants
The first, proposed last year by the Environmental protection agency but not yet finalized, would limit emissions from new plants,
Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task force in Boston, Massachusetts, argues that Obama could attract conservative support for a strategic research programme focused on large-scale energy technologies such as carbon capture and storage
"that technology would have alleviated a lot of environmental concerns, says Holman. Approaches dependent on switching will take considerable research, however;
Jacob explained how feedback from the cell s environment changes the activity of the regulatory proteins.
and stabilize the climate, says a report from the International Energy Agency in Paris. In 2012,
global markets in solar photovoltaic technology and wind energy grew by 42%and 19%,respectively,
a salmon breeding and biotechnology company on the Queen Charlotte Islands in Canada, is disputing the legality of a search of its offices by the government agency Environment Canada last month.
Farmers dig into soil qualityefforts to bring chemical fertilizers to Sub-saharan africa are met often with concerns over harmful environmental and economic side effects.
but the ecological and health effects of fertilizer chemicals raise serious concerns. China in particular, is facing a major pollution problem from overuse of nitrogen fertilizer,
Field trials to assess the ecological efficiency of organic and chemical fertilizers in different geographic and climatic settings are under way in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania.
and most economical use of fertilizers a practice that would help to avoid the ecological and monetary costs of fertilizer overuse."
says Johannes  Kotschi, a soil scientist at the Association for Agriculture and Ecology in Marburg, Germany,
But an organic-only solution, favoured by environmental groups such as Greenpeace, will also fall short, says Sommer."
While the moon is a harsh environment (like the arctic) it is also the first base ground for expanding human civilization due to the increased number of humans in existence (we all eventually will not be able to fit on this one world.
Might end up with annoying neighbors who don't stop talking.@@Jupiter1987 I see your point clearly sir.
but that too is seen as the tip of the iceberg. Wayne Gerdes the father of hypermiling can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
The EPA has a new mileage mandate for car manufacturers: They must achieve a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025;
Take it to some place where it can control the environment. What they should do is buy
when the lidar is being blinded pretty much by the snow?).I would think that the best way to proceed would be to allow these vehicles to be driverless only in certain areas.
when exiting the store with a boat-load of groceries in the pouring rain. Automated Carsthis is a good project
The Kenyan government is also giving away the first batch of seeds six metric tons of it to seed producers in hopes their fields will serve as visual persuasion to their neighbors to try the new stuff.
but might it have a more negative effect on the environment? After all won't this encourage people who would normally buy relatively environmentally-friendly digital books to spend a couple extra bucks for a physical copy they don't need even?
The move to ebooks in the past few years has been a victory overall for the environment. Printed books are surprisingly awful in this respect;
we all sort of assume that that much paper can't be great for the environment but the actual amount of carbon dioxide emissions is shocking.
The EPA estimates that regular use of a car results in about 5. 1 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year so using some very tricky math that means that over that same four-year period a car will let loose with 20.4 metric tons
and screen and factory emissions from production--but after that's done the environmental cost of each book you read on a Kindle is near zero.
Slate estimated back in 2010 that by the time you've read your 23rd book on the Kindle you've gotten yourself equal to the environmental cost of reading physical books--so everything after that is gravy.
The environmental cost of disposal is something else entirely but let's leave that alone for now.)
which has a minimal environmental impact. This is great news. Book publishing is progressing environmentally (we're making no claims about the feel of a printed book in the hand here.
Someone who usually buys digital books may now opt for the physical+digital bundle meaning that their environmental impact goes way up.
The environmental impact is incredibly difficult to calculate. Off hand one very major component has been ignored in this article:
Today according to the Global Footprint Network more than 80 percent of the world's population lives in countries that use more than their ecosystems can renew.
and Egypt 2. 4. China's ecological footprint is the largest (they would need 2. 5 Chinas to accommodate their population)--though the per capita footprint is smaller than many European or North american countries.
To calculate the date the Global Footprint Network figures out how many days of a particular year the Earth's biocapacity can provide for the total ecological footprint.
So world biocapacity divided by world ecological footprint times 365 equals Earth Overshoot Day. The think tank calculates biocapacity by looking at the amount of productive area (both land
A country has an ecological reserve if its footprint is smaller than its biocapacity and likewise if its footprint exceeds biocapacity it is an ecological debtor.
The Global Footprint Network notes that the date is an approximation. The precision of the exact date is limited by aggregated country datasets
To read about more environmental holidays go here. Setting aside the arguments of human induced global warming is happening which
Depletion of forests and associated erosion and environmental damage in developing countries is a concern.
Frostty Global Footprint Network bases their conclusions on what they call ecological footprint and biocapacity.
Ecological footprint is what GFN decides the population should be to fit the biocapacity of a given country.
And GFN doesn't need to worry about Japan's ecological-footpring-to-biocapacity ratio much longer
You get all in a huff that the scientific community overwhelmingly agrees that humans are causing global warming and the resultant climate change.
Those who accept the fact that the climates are changing are focused on not making things worse
A limestone ridge thick with vegetation juts into the cloudless blue sky behind him. His quick-dry clothing coupled with a red bandanna knotted around his neck befits Scannon's role as an amateur archaeologist.
Bentprop could find planes in a tricky marine environment with steep terrain fast currents and coral heads while Scripps tested circulation models and advanced imaging systems.
If we're able to use those techniques on natural environments there's nothing to say we can't apply it to the man-made objects on the seafloor Terrill says.
and factory floors and Terrill is evaluating how well it works in an aquatic environment where light is distorted.
and events like typhoons alter reefs over time. And of course Scannon hopes that one day AUVS will lead him to his biggest find the final B-24
FYI if a seed is blown onto your farm by the wind and it grows they sue you.
and FDA all acknowledge the risks involved with GMO's. Their adverse affects on environment have been shown
The Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans other mammals fish birds and the environment because of its selectivity.
Also contrary to popular belief organic food is in many ways worse for your health your wallet the environment and humanity at large.
The environmental enslavement prospects the New world Order envisions with genetically modified food is greater than that with radium
Environmental concerns remain to be tested more fully perhaps but so far so good. Also to address your misconception about chemical weapons in Iraq.
when his fields were contaminated by a neighbor's GMO crop? I'll wait. JRS ONE I didn't want to keep you waiting.
http://thinkprogress. org/health/2012/11/21/1224761/farmers-insurance-sued-by-corporations/Monsanto claims not to sue farmers who have been cross pollinated by their neighbor's crops
ÃÚ à The glyphosate-resistance of GMO corn has encouraged such an over-abundance of glyphosate-based herbicides to be dumped into the environment worldwide that nature has started to respond in kind with the evolution of âÂ#Âoesuperweeds.
So the pounding that's in their environment is actually very much a part of their growth.
Using a bioprinter Forgacs proved that aggregates containing different cell types also fuse without any human intervention or environmental cues.
The amount of livestock we have now has a large environmental impact. This could be a viable alternative to supplement our food supply cheers. yea sure say good bye to all those cows why raise em
Kevin your attack on the youth forgets some important things namely that as the requirements of an environment change old skills can become useless.
but only if our current environment falls backwards (always a possibility but improbable we'd fall too far back).
or props to bring down the rains perhaps? Your kind usually does. And let us best compare apples to apples
The gas lamp & electric lightning both serve useful similar function and to the pedestrian at night it would not matter nor care w c is the better no?
#The Odd Way Beavers Impact Climate Changewhen the industrious beaver scurries around being its toothy self cutting down trees
it's out there combating climate change a few carbon emissions at a time. When beavers build a dam impeding the natural flow of water the river begins to overflow more often creating a sediment-rich wetland area known as a beaver meadow.
This suggests that beavers play an important role in keeping the ecosystem resilient against climate change drought and wildfire the study notes.
As such wiping out most of the continent's beaver population during pre-Colonial times probably had quite an impact on the climate.
Considering the climate stabilizing properties of greenhouse gasses and the importance of CO2 to life On earth we need to do everything we can to prevent carbon sequestration
As a retired Department of Environmental Quality Employee and an owner of timber land this is a stupid article on environmentalism gone crazy in past history.
Another squirrely climate story brought to you by the crazies@poop science. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology.
While it would be exceptionally nice to be able to preserve some of the natural beauty of the earth growing pressure on the environment global food sources
aside from dams and environmental'landscaping'they also make great hats and jackets. On a side note of beavers beaver hat trivial...
Soon after we've gone dark massive tidal waves will hit because the oceans tides are managed no longer by the gravitational pull of the Moon.
There will also likely be massive tsunami's as a result of the earthquakes. Twitter would go nuts
The corona is seen seldom only during a total eclipse but it is there. To be more accurate the Earth wouldn't immediately fly out
and fall to earth like snow. Kinda tough to breath snow. All those troglodite Icelander survivalist-types living on geotherm would have to melt the snow just to breath.
Shutterpod: I don't see why our moon or satellites would suddenly stop being caught in our gravity well.
A satellite is orbiting earth and both are orbiting the Sun . If the Sun disappeared Earth's trajectory would immediately change.
No massive tidal waves. Sunã¢Â#Â#s tidal effect On earth is too weak to have an important effect.
It is compared minimum to moon tidal waves. No tsunamis at all. lol at the understanding of physics soem people have...
dissappearing sun is not impossible-imagine some unknown dimensional rift or alien tech that simply relocates sun in a blink of a eye.
We are evolved enough to survive in freezing climate. We can grow food withotu sunlight. Real issue is our direction..
Being the largest body in the neighborhood it could potentially after untold millennia gather enough mass to form fusion reactions.
We are evolved enough to survive in freezing climate. We can grow food without sunlight. âÂ# This isnã¢Â#Â#t just more of that crazy optimism but contains several remarkable<b>epistemological fallacies.
<b>Second</b>humans are evolved NOT enough to survive in freezing climate. We are warm blooded this is anathema to existence in sub zero temps.<
>A species evolves to exist in its environment through natural selection not from finding âÂ#Âoelost knowledgeã¢Â# of species that lost the evolution game.
Pie-in-the-sky though the idea may seem it has secured the backing of billionaire Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs which funds innovative companies.
Higher up the wind speed of the tornado will spin the wheels of attached turbines generating energy.
if you create a storm you force it to be organized and I don't see any guarantee that the storm won't get disorganized he says.
Michaud argues that his method of energy generation is actually safer than most other electricity-generating methods like coal-fired power plants which are contributing to global warming
When Will You Stop Talking About Climate Change And Actually Do Something? Dear Mr. Presidenti was hoping to get a jump on this Earth Day letter during the weekend but
Torrential rains the past few days soaked the ground so much the water had nowhere else to go.
(and climate change-related) disaster last summer as wildfires consumed entire communities and choked the air for hundreds of miles.
Last fall 1000 miles to the east my family in New jersey bailed out their entire homes after Hurricane Sandy tore down the Jersey Shore.
The climate is changing and weird weather is just one manifestation of it. This is linked to carbon dioxide emissions as study after study has shown.
As the New yorker put it recently the phrase climate change appears 29 times in the new budget
The Supreme court has held several times that the Environmental protection agency can regulate greenhouse gases and that means you can control carbon dioxide emissions without passing any new laws.
Under the Clean Air Act the EPA can work with states to develop new standards for curbing emissions at existing power plants.
But the pipeline endangers the environment in many ways. It cuts through precious aquifers in the arid West
while safeguarding environmental resources as well as jobs. The New york times put it best: A president who has identified repeatedly climate change as one of humanity's most pressing dangers cannot in good conscience approve a project that--even by the State department's most cautious calculations--can only add to the problem.
Reducing carbon dioxide emissions through a cap and trade system--agreeing to limits on emissions and trading credits for exceeding themis not the only solution.
After your reelection we and many others exhorted you to beat the drum for climate change.
Storms are becoming more severe. Really Popsci???Can we just report science and not some Greeie Leftist propaganda??
and climate change is going to turn that on its head. But go ahead and continue with your denial so you can keep your republican agenda...
He needs to get right on to regulating the Sun Volcanic eruptions and the Electromagnetic Field. They have been causing far too much climate change
and need to be taxed! Get real. Once again...go read the evidence. We put out 100 times more than all of the volcanoes do combined annually in CO2 emissions.
Climatologists understand the effect the Sun has on our climate and it's minor compared to
Yes I understand that life has evolved over millenia under different climates but you glossed right over my point
I'll have less money in my pocket but a better environment. Boooohooooo Get real.
The first 20ppm gives us+3 degrees (Celsius) from their greenhouse effect. The next 260ppm (preindustrial levels) give us another 3 degrees.
so long as crazed environmental groups don't stop Fracking. Our CO2 emission levels are down to 1994 levels
and it's not thanks to the EPA it's thanks to market-driven technological development.
A climate era of 10x the natural variance of the Holocene (think global temperature changes of 1. 5 C per decade rather than per century.
A Picture of Hurricane Sandy? REALLY? We see a large storm like that hit the upper east coast just about every decade.
Wikipedia has an excellent list. And GLOBAL WARMING WOULD HAVE MADE HURRICANE SANDY WEAKER. Sandy was a tropical storm coming from the east that collided with a massive blizzard from Canada.
Global warming has a larger effect on the climate the further up in latitude. If global warming were more significant today it would have had a tranquilizing effect.
It would have meant a weaker cold front and a less severe Sandy. Try to understand your own science before writing prescriptions with it.
It is unfortunate that so many people misunderstand the scientific method and are willing to espouse the climatologist models without even looking at the data Is the planet warming?
Of course it is. Been going steady at about 1. 5c per deacde. For the past 10000 years we've had a variance of+/-2. 5c per decade.
If it is caused by humans we cannot tell through the noise of the historic climate.
If the Earth were determined to have a robust climate with little need of human concern that ballooning field would have unemployed several thousand scientists.
and totally forget about the massive deforestation that has occurred over the last 150 years. If the human race is having any effect on the climate both halves of the problem must be analyzed properly
and done so by scientists who are aligned not with either politicians or business interests. Unfortunately I do not anticipate any of the above to happen any time soon.
When will you stop touting climate studies as a settled science and recognize that 20 years of failed predictions indicate that climate mechanisms are understood not sufficiently?
I'm getting ever closer to never reading Popsci content again. Heating has stopped yet CO2 levels continues to rise.
I want one in my neighborhood. Brian144 is spot on here. Chances are if you're a climatologist you're going to be spouting the same biased data that every other climatologist is worried about.
because their entire goal in life is to prove that Climate Change is a thing
Saying 99%of climatologists agree climate change is occurring is like saying 99%of priests agree that god is omnipotent.
Sure lets destroy the ecosystems of ridges and mountain tops because we never see it anyway.
In reality the actions taken by the GW Bush administration were so effective at combating global warming that we are now potentially facing a period of global climate cooling.@
Wind drag can be measured but will also fluctuate based on air density at different altitudes climates and across a distance.
There are others factors but you get the point. So with this it's hard for
me to take lots of these climate models seriously since I know their assumptions run quite deeper than the example
I got my data from on an earlier POPLIBERAL article about climate change. I know them to be correct and all of their data seems spot on from what I remember.
Man-made climate change is quite arrogant and convenient for climatologists. Even though I am not a climatologist as an computer scientist
or More Says Studyhttp://www. sciencedaily. com/releases/2013/04/130422101313. htmgeochemical Method Finds Links Between Terrestrial Climate
My point is this climate change is not accurately measure without a larger slice of data to view. 1400 years doesn't even fully account for humans occupying the earth as we have been here far longer.
The larger picture will show you that our planet continue to change it's climate with or without our help.
It's not that we believe that climate change itself is a hoax its that human made climate change seems to be more political than factual.
when human made climate change is divided deeply among scientists and only backed by people whose jobs are rested solely upon it existing.
/what/why climate change is happening. Lets instead look at how we are impacting the world around us.
1) I think it is very pleasant to fly into the SMOG in Los angeles...It just tickles my nose
For example trash in the ocean is not the same argument when addressing manmade climate change.
I want the our energy to be cleaner and safer for the environment however until technology catches up with fossil fuels it's prudent to scale back slowly and responsibly.
since 40 years ago on the first Earth day celebration when climatologists and various other climate experts claimed we were heading for the end of the world in the next 15 years.@
Here are some useful links with the first link being most tellingit is not only climate scientists who believe much of the earth's warming is caused by human activity http://www. ucsusa. org/ssi/climate-change/scientific
-consensus-on. htmlsimilar results shown from nasa http://climate. nasa. gov/scientific-consensussomething a little more recent http://www. guardian co uk/environment/2013/mar 27/climate-change-model
-global-warmingmembers of the IPCC the 2007 peace winner write on climate change http://www. scientificamerican. com/article. cfm?
id=science-behind-climate-changehttp://www. epa. gov/climatechange/science/overview. html#human-causeshttp://www. edf. org/climate/how-we-know-the-earth-is-warmingreally all it takes for
which mitigates the damage they do to our health and the environment. It is simple economics.
Climate change is a concern to our Pentagon and ranks as a national threat. Oh they're just trying to justify their climatologist jobs...
which academic societies or professional groups are dissenting on global warming or climate change. The petroleum folks were the last holdouts on that one.
-On a separate note the common misconception that volcanos don't have the capacity to kill all life on this planet just from one eruption of CO2 is silly.
They can however in one eruption change that. -Again pollution and greenhouse gas aren't always the same topic.
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