Climatology
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Hertsgaard, Mark [Hertsgaard, Mark]

"The Character of Our Wines Was Changing" Perhaps the leading exception to the trend is Alois Lageder, whose family has made wine in Alto Adige, the northernmost province in Italy, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 11,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:Wagner, Gernot & Weitzman, Martin L. [Wagner, Gernot]

None of that yet includes the truly frightening low-probability events. There’s a huge difference between a likely sea-level rise of 0.3 to 1 meters (1 to 3 feet) by the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Brian Fagan

LIFE ALONG CHINA’S long, low-lying coastline has involved constant adjustment to changing sea levels ever since the end of the Ice Age. Many people call this a “muddy coast,” a ...
( Category: Oceanography May 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Gillen D'Arcy Wood

A CATASTROPHE, BUT NOT CATASTROPHISM Now largely forgotten outside Switzerland, the 1818 Val de Bagnes disaster was nevertheless widely reported in the European press and became a major talking point ...
( Category: Rivers April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Jean Jouzel & Claude Lorius & Dominique Raynaud

Volcanism and Solar Activity: Natural Climatic Forcings As we get closer to the current period, our knowledge of the evolution of the climate becomes increasingly detailed, both in time and ...
( Category: Climatology April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:James Delingpole

Forgive me if I sound slightly cynical about the ‘s’ word. Problem is, I do know what it means and how it entered the language, and I’m afraid it embodies ...
( Category: Environmental Policy April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gabrielle Walker [Walker, Gabrielle]

In 1947, three years after Midgley's death, his former boss Charles Kettering made a similar point during an address to the National Academy of Sciences. Kettering recalled the words of ...
( Category: Rivers March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Howard Lee [Lee, Howard]

Dating humans Carbon-dating with 14C In the most recent past, the time of modern humans, dates are measured using isotopes with relatively short half-lives, like carbon-14 (14C). Carbon dating is ...
( Category: Climatology March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Climate Central [Central, Climate]

37 Arctic Sea Ice Has Been on a Mostly Downward Spiral for the Past Thirty Years. Every summer above the Arctic Circle, the sun rises relatively high in the sky ...
( Category: Climatology January 19,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Klein, Naomi [Klein, Naomi]

* The retreat took place under the Chatham House Rule, which allows those attending to report on what was said in sessions, but not on who said what. (Any interviews ...
( Category: Environmental Policy January 8,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Gabrielle Walker

In the next few months, Lovelock’s results wafted over the Atlantic to America, where they triggered a question in the mind of Sherwood (“Sherry”) Rowland, a chemistry professor at the ...
( Category: Rivers December 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Naomi Oreskes

Epilogue The former state of Florida (part of the former United States) In one of the many paradoxes of history, the inhabitants of late-twentieth-century Florida were engaged in a grand ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Brian Tokar [Tokar, Brian]

Trading Pollution The notion that new commodity markets can become a tool for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases is perhaps the most brazen expression of capitalist ideology in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 8,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-05-18 | Author:Ian Wishart

There are thousands of volcanoes, and millions of vents, under the ocean. All of them piping emissions at temperatures of 300°C (576°F) or higher into the oceans around them. It’s ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Diane Ackerman

WEIGHING IN THE NANOSCALE We’re not just seeing invisibles; we’re engineering things on a minute, invisible-to-the-eye scale. “Nano,” which means “dwarf” in Greek, applies to things one-billionth of a meter ...
( Category: Climatology November 23,2014 )