Environmental Science
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Raynaud, Dominique, Lorius, Claude, Jouzel, Jean

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: Weather April 3,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Archibald [Archibald, David]

IRAN Iran, as is well known, is in the process of building its own nuclear weapons capability. It already has the missile delivery systems to mate with those weapons. It ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 3,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Noam Chomsky

There are indications that the cables WikiLeaks exposed about the dictatorship of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia had a big influence on the revolt there. It’s questionable. The leaks ...
( Category: Asian March 28,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-03 | Author:Naomi Oreskes [Oreskes, Naomi]

Today, as we experience 101°[F] temperatures in Washington, DC, and the soil moisture across the midwest is ruining the soybean crops, the corn crops, the cotton crops, when we’re having ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Craig Childs [Childs, Craig]

Two days later, Koni threw me a GPS and said, “We need a hand at JAR 1.” JAR. Jakobshavn Ablation Region. A remote weather station. Koni had Frankensteined the snow ...
( Category: Ecotourism March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Flannery [Tim Flannery ]

TWENTY BOILING THE ABYSS Let us think of them that sleep Full many a fathom deep… THOMAS CAMPBELL, ‘The Battle of the Baltic’ When marine biologists trawl the ocean’s depths ...
( Category: Climatology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Doug Macdougall

Figure 14.The graph that Milutin Milankovitch sent to Wladimir Köppen shows the “equivalent latitude” for 65° N in summer, based on the amount of solar energy received, for the past ...
( Category: Oceanography March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:Rachel Carson & Linda Lear & Edward O. Wilson [Carson, Rachel & Lear, Linda & Wilson, Edward O.]

12. The Human Price AS THE TIDE of chemicals born of the Industrial Age has arisen to engulf our environment, a drastic change has come about in the nature of ...
( Category: Conservation March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-20 | Author:James Rodger Fleming

Commercial Cloud Seeding While researchers were struggling for verifiable results, an uncritical, determined, and enthusiastic band of private meteorological entrepreneurs, operating primarily in the West and Midwest, had appropriated the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:James Hoggan, Richard Littlemore

[ eleven ] SLAPP SCIENCE Using courts and cash to silence critics of climate confusion A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SL APP) is a lawsuit intended to intimidate and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Mark Denny

It’s a Gas Across the globe, we currently consume about 31 billion barrels of oil each year. Given the estimated reserves of unconventional oil, the Athabasca tar sands can supply ...
( Category: Energy Production & Extraction March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-18 | Author:James R. Holton & Gregory J. Hakim

(8.28) Integrating with respect to z yields the logarithmic wind profile: (8.29) where z0, the roughness length, is a constant of integration chosen so that at z = z0. The ...
( Category: Weather March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Craig Holdrege & Steve Talbott

Chapter 12 What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth? One more defect and they could not have existed. —George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Hence we conceive of the ...
( Category: Bioengineering March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Frances Moore Lappe

thought trap 7: IT’S TOO LATE! It’s too late! Human beings have so far overshot what nature can handle that we’re beyond the point of no return. Democracy has failed—it’s ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Catastrophes! [Catastrophes!]

( Category: Geology March 26,2014 )