Climatology
epub |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:Ball, Tim [Ball, Tim]

Strong and the IPCC exploited fear with threats of impending doom due to global warming/climate change, but they also exploited the lack of knowledge about science and especially climate science. ...
( Category: Climatology August 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony D. Barnosky

7 TOXINS Tony in Fes, Morocco, March 1996 I couldn’t quite figure out which of my senses was being most assailed. I was in the Fes el Bali medina, one ...
( Category: Human Geography July 17,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Orrin H. Pilkey

Recently the Army Corps of Engineers declared that Fire Island, New York, had been “damaged” by Hurricane Sandy, a clear misunderstanding of barrier-island evolution processes. Some islands are narrow and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Sernovitz

9. GUAR AND LEASE, OR ANOTHER SIDE OF DISRUPTION Tolstoy would smirk. When I get caught up with using The Innovator’s Dilemma as the uncanny explanation of the shale revolution ...
( Category: Oil & Energy April 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Brian Sussman

AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE Since 1960, we’ve elected federal leaders who have allowed us to be held hostage by a small cabal callous to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Peter Doherty

14 Blue bloods and chicken bugs TRADITIONALLY, ANY NOTION OF good breeding and inheritance was synonymous with the idea of blood lines. That was before the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s ...
( Category: Epidemiology February 21,2016 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:J. F. P. Galvin [Galvin, J. F. P.]

Figure 10.1 A sequence of water-vapour satellite images from Meteosat on 13–14 March 2006. An MCC can be seen developing and decaying over a period of 18 hours at 6-hourly ...
( Category: Weather February 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

On a more theoretical note, a recent study by Chris Thomas and colleagues (published in Nature in 2004) investigated the possible increase in the likely extinction rate over the next ...
( Category: Climatology January 12,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

The great salt crisis About 6 million years ago the gradual tectonic changes resulted in the closure of the Strait of Gibraltar. This led to the transient isolation of the ...
( Category: Climatology January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-26 | Author:Maslin, Mark [Maslin, Mark]

19. The 2003 European heat wave killed an estimated 35,000 people 20. Comparison of the 2003 heat wave with past and future summer temperatures ENSO is an oscillation between three ...
( Category: Climatology December 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:James Inhofe

THE APPEASERS When I think of all the backroom deals that took place during the Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Graham-Lieberman days, the maxim that comes to mind is: “No man survives when ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-26 | Author:Roy W. Spencer [Spencer, Roy W.]

Instead, I am claiming that our confidence in current climate models’ ability to predict the future is misplaced. This is partly due to the inherent complexity of the climate system. ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Elizabeth Kolbert [Kolbert, Elizabeth]

Chapter 6 Floating Houses In February 2003, a series of ads on the theme of inundation began appearing on Dutch TV. The ads were sponsored by the Netherlands’ Ministry of ...
( Category: Environmental Science June 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Brand, Stewart [Brand, Stewart]

• I think the main element that distinguishes Europe from America and other parts of the world in regard to GE crops is the seriousness with which Europeans take what ...
( Category: Conservation June 14,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:David Keys [Keys, David]

The East Asian region seems to have continued to endure climatic problems and famine for several years. Mainland sources cite problems in China between 535 and 538 (see Chapter 19), ...
( Category: Weather June 13,2015 )