Environment

Understanding Climate: #1- Components Of Climate

Understanding Climate: #1- Components Of Climate The difference between weather and climate Weather is what you see every day: whatever the sky is doing, that is your local weather.  Sun, rain, hail, snow, thunder and lightning- all these are weather.  Fl ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 17 2010 - 7:06pm

Understanding Climate: #2- Earth Air Water Fire

Understanding Climate: #2- Earth Air Water Fire Climate science is a cross-disciplinary study.  I have listed some of the disciplines in Understanding Climate: #1- Components Of Climate and have hinted at others in Mother Earth Cycles To Work.  In this ar ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 21 2010 - 11:37am

Jatropha a myth or reality

"First of all, FACT agrees that many unsubstantiated claims have been made on jatropha, such as high yields on marginal soils, low water and nutrient requirements, and high resistance to pests and diseases. These claims have already been falsified so ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 15 2010 - 9:52pm

What To Do About The 'Livestock Revolution'?

Global meat production has tripled in the past three decades and could double its present level by 2050, according to a new report on the livestock industry by an international team of scientists and policy experts led by Standford University. If not addre ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2010 - 6:40pm

Understanding Climate: #3- Tilting At Seasons

Understanding Climate: #3- Tilting At Seasons The tilt of the earth's axis gives us our seasons. But not in an obvious way. Understanding climate science requires a cross-disciplinary approach.  This is the second part of the mainly astronomical sect ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 29 2010 - 7:02pm

Don't Blame Agriculture For Climate Change?

We can do a lot of things to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions often blamed for climate change, but cutting back on consumption of meat and dairy products isn't one of them, according to a report presented at the National Meeting of the American Che ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2010 - 9:59pm

Why Cattle-Driven Global Warming Is A Load Of Bull

Why Cow-Driven Global Warming Is A Load Of Bull All animals breathe in air and then breathe it out again.  This astounding fact, seemingly new to some web users, has nothing whatsoever to do with global warming. Some people are still seemingly astonished ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 13 2011 - 10:26am

Will it do or it will not to reduce global warming? Questions of what to plant and where to plant.

Many a times I feel sad that  questions are  being raised about plantation of trees and reducing the global warming. Other day people have pictures of their houses those houses which have plants in their surroundings having cooling effect in the environmen ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 23 2010 - 10:40am

Earth belongs to whom?

Some time ago there was tough fight for gases and fuels below the earth. People or companies take possession of natural resources and exploit them at will and Governments get pittance while the companies make billions from extracting natural resources in f ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 23 2010 - 10:15pm

Earth belongs to whom?

Some time ago there was tough fight for gases and fuels below the earth. People or companies take possession of natural resources and exploit them at will and Governments get pittance while the companies make billions from extracting natural resources in f ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 23 2010 - 10:15pm