Today is: 12 March, 2010
Join us in collecting important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering in your area through Project BudBurst! This national field campaign targets native tree and flower species across the country. With your help, we will be compiling valuable environmental and climate change information around the United States.
Has anyone ever calculated how much C02 is released into the atmosphere via carbonated drinks? There are very few places left where one cannot buy a can of soda, and we know that global production of fizzy drinks is considerable. Does that translate into significant amounts of C02 release, both in terms of the dissolved gas in the drink itself and the manufacture and transport of same?
The X-Prize Foundation is working on developing an automotive prize "To inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change."
Take training to become a presenter on climate change.
Here's a question related to the review of An Inconvenient Truth. The associated website www.climatechange.net says that a tree will absorb a ton of CO2 over it's lifetime. Is there anything that absorbs more or at a faster rate?
 | An Inconvenient Truth rating:  asin: B000ICL3KG binding: DVD list price: $19.99 USD amazon price: $14.99 USD |
I must admit I was planning on avoiding this film. We try to do everything we can to reduce, reuse and recycle at our house, and we're also very energy use conscious. We have two young children and we are deeply worried about their future. I didn't want to watch a film that I figured would further depress me and keep me up at night. The title also led me to believe that it would be quite political, perhaps even angry in tone.
I was wrong to avoid it. An Inconvenient Truth is a hopeful, cogent documentary on both climate change and Al Gore. The film focuses on Gore giving what he calls his "slide show" - a multimedia explanation of what climate change is, and how it is impacting us, what it could do if left unchecked and so on. Gore manages to hit all the right notes with his latest iteration - he doesn't stint on the science or the consequences. He respects his audience's intelligence without overwhelming them with technical jargon and explanations. He also does a very good job of dispelling the myths about climate change.
One of the key factors in climate prediction models is how plant life reacts to higher levels of CO2. Biologists at the University of California, San Diego think they have made significant advances toward understanding the mechanism plants use to regulate their carbon dioxide intake.
Scientists reconfigure the carbon atoms in natural gas, organic material and coal to create cleaner burning fuels.
A network of moving water channels appears to connect subsurface lakes in Antarctica, raising the possibility that drilling into one lake for ice core samples could contaminate the whole system. This also has implications for sampling techniques on other planets and moons.
The BBC and Oxford University want the computer power you're not using. An experiment developed for the BBC by climate scientists, led by Oxford, using the Met Office climate model. All you need to do is install their software, and your computer completes computations in the background while you work.