Environment

Carbon Fudgeprints

Carbon Fudgeprints It seems that everyone has a carbon footprint.  The idea is that everything you do puts CO2 into the atmosphere or if it doesn't then it jolly well ought to so let's work out the carbon equivalent by just making stuff up. No c ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 12 2010 - 3:49pm

Economics And Climate Change

Economics And Climate Change I am confident that global climate change is real. I am also confident that over-complicated knee-jerk legislation and taxation will make matters worse.  Problems get solved by rational actions, not panic attacks. Either econo ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 14 2010 - 5:35pm

A Global Warming Skeptic Clouds The Issues

A global Warming Skeptic Clouds The Issues This article is written in response to Dr. Roy Spencer's claims about cloud albedo effects in an article by Cameron J English: Interview With A Global Warming Skeptic: Dr. Roy Spencer. One of the most common ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 13 2010 - 6:23pm

Lake Tanganyika Warming- Proof Of Climate Change?

Geologists led by Brown University say Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and the second-deepest lake in the world, has experienced unprecedented warming during the last century, and its surface waters are the warmest on record. The finding is important be ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2010 - 10:57am

Grazing Lands Are Sinks For Greenhouse Gases

Grazinglands represent one of the largest land resources in the world, and they also serve as greenhouse gas sinks, taking gases like methane and nitrous oxide out of the atmosphere. A team of scientists lead by Mark Liebig at the USDA-ARS Northern Great P ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2010 - 10:58am

North Korea Logging In United Nations Forest Preserve

Using NASA satellite data and Google Earth, a Purdue University researcher has found evidence that North Korea is logging in the Mount Paekdu Biosphere Reserve, a 326,000-acre forest designated by the United Nations as a protected forest preserve. Mount Pa ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2010 - 6:47pm

India is paying price of cutting trees and destroying forests Highest temperature record in 100 years

In India mass scale cutting of trees along the roadside, increasing urbanisation, rampant destruction of trees on private land, forest land, panchayat land. has taken place. Cutting trees and selling them at high costs is the only alternative left to land ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - May 18 2010 - 11:33pm

Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Enters Loop Current

Data from the ESA's Envisat radar satellite shows that the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill has entered the Loop Current, a powerful conveyor belt that flows clockwise around the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida. "With these images from space, we have visi ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2010 - 11:05am

Arctic Ice May 2010- Update

Arctic Ice May 2010- Update In a recent article- Arctic Ice May 2010- I predicted that Arctic sea ice would be lower by the end of the month than at the same time in 2007.  The extent as shown by the NSIDC is now touching the 2007 extent line on the graph ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 20 2010 - 1:42pm

Northwest Africa Driest It's Been In Nine Centuries, Study Finds

The 20th Century was one of the driest for Northwest Africa in Nine Centuries, according to a new study from Arizona State University. Droughts in the late 20th century rivaled some of North Africa's major droughts of centuries past. The first multi-c ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2010 - 6:23pm