In the Past it was Fast
2010-04-13
Scientists are trying to understand the impending changes in our climate by studying what happened in the past.
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Quickwatch Update
2010-04-07
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Whitley has updated Quickwatch to show you how our climate may be changing: During the past 2 years, Europe, Siberia and the US were having their coldest winters in years, while the warming trend remained in place at the poles. According to Whitley, “This is not consistent with global warming predictions, which anticipate continuous warming, but it is consistent with the climate change expectations that brought this section of Unknowncountry.com into being in the first place.”
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What Can Cities Can Do to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
2010-03-16
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Paint roofs white & install boom boxes – With all the emergencies hitting the world right now, thank goodness there are also some amazing new solutions, both high tech and low. In order to make skyscraper roofs reflect sunlight, rather than absorb it, so we don’t need so much air conditioning (or we can make sure they absorb sunlight in the right way), we can paint their roofs white. Or we could go high tech and use “boom boxes.”
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Why Trees Don’t Help
2010-03-15
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While governments around the world continue to explore strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a new study suggests policymakers should focus on what needs to be achieved in the next 40 years in order to keep long-term options viable for avoiding dangerous levels of warming. The trouble is, one of the most obvious things to do is to plant more trees, but this could make things WORSE! And lawns don’t help much either.
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