This post is by Lisa Moore, Ph.D., a scientist in the Climate and Air program at Environmental Defense.
Here’s an interesting way to look at greenhouse gas emissions. The WorldMapper project has assembled hundreds of global maps in which nations are resized according to different variables – for example, total population and carbon emissions:
From WorldMapper. Reproduced with permission.
From WorldMapper. Reproduced with permission.
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
Sex and the Socket – Hilarious video on why CFLs are better. View below, or click link for hi-res version.
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
Here are some links to interesting articles I ran across recently:
Six Degrees – Review from RealClimate of a new book that soberly assesses what will happen to the world at one degree increase in temperature, two degrees, etc. It’s alarming – but not alarmist.
The People We Have Been Waiting For – New York Times Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman that will make you laugh and cry. It ends on a wonderfully optimistic note (in case you’re feeling depressed about climate change).*
*There’s one small inaccuracy in Friedman’s piece. He says climate change will lead to “colder cold spells”. Actually, as the IPCC states, there are “warmer and fewer cold days and nights over most land areas.” The idea that weather will swing to colder as well as warmer extremes is a common misunderstanding.
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
In Sunday’s New York Times, there was an editorial by Thomas Friedman that (among other things) talked about how the role of the Weather Channel has evolved over time. Weather used to be about "acts of God" – nobody’s fault. But more and more lately we are wondering if extreme weather events are acts of man, not God – our fault. And so, Friedman says, the Weather Channel, formerly a politics-free zone, is "slowly morphing into the news channel."
Towards this end, the Weather Channel has recently launched a new Web site called Forecast Earth. It’s a great resource.
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
Here are some interesting articles I came across recently:
Inconvenient Youths – Wall Street Journal
Amusing article about how 4- and 8-year-olds are educating their parents about climate change and pestering them to take action.
America’s Greenest States – Forbes Magazine
A ranking of the states based on six equally-weighted categories: carbon footprint, air quality, water quality, hazardous waste management, policy initiatives and energy consumption. See how your state fared.
The author of today’s post, Lisa Moore, Ph.D., is a scientist in the Climate and Air program.
Here’s something to complement the climate change reading list and list of links that Bill posted a while back.
The folks who publish the journal Nature have just launched Nature Reports: Climate Change, an information hub that brings together research, news, analysis, and commentary. It also links to the blog Nature launched last April, Climate Feedback.
I’ve taken a quick tour, and it looks promising. What do you think?