2012 Year in Pictures: The Top 10 Most Striking Images
Call it our year in pictures as 2012 may be remembered for some of these top 10 images.… Read More
Will Sandy Be the Climate Change Wakeup Call We Need?
Calling Hurricane Sandy a disaster almost underplays the enormous devastation wrought by this freakish monster of a storm. Four days after Sandy came ashore just south of Atlantic City, NJ, millions are still without power, gas stations are running out of fuel, and the death toll continues to rise. But for those of us who worry about climate chan… Read More
Scientists Eat Crow on Geoengineering Test. Me, Too
Scientists (presumably including Keith) were outraged that such a thing could happen. It’s not that they have anything against algae, but rather that the project was a type of geoengineering — a suite of anti-climate-change strategies that are highly controversial because they have the potential for triggering significant unintended consequences.… Read More
Image of the Day: Bamboo, Nature’s Renewable Resource
A beautiful grove of bamboo in the Arashiyama bamboo forest outside Kyoto, Japan. Bamboo has been a huge part of Japanese culture and is an amazing green resource. As the Japanese have discovered, bamboo is incredibly versatile and is reported to be stronger than many steel alloys and does not fall victim to termites. Bamboo’s strength and flexibil… Read More
Wind Power Has its Limits, But It’s Not the Sky
Scientists have been thinking hard about the limits of wind power — and their thoughts have turned into a paper just published in Nature Climate Change. In principle, they argue, the very existence of wind turbines could slow the planet’s winds to the point where they couldn’t generate any more energy. In practice, fortunately, that… Read More
Image of the Day: Denmark’s Pioneer Perspective on Wind
Already Denmark holds the world record at 24 percent for amount of electricity consumed that is produced by wind power and still they have plans for more reports Spiegel Online. By 2020, Denmark hopes to turn their 24 percent into 50 percent and by 2050, be completely independent of fossil fuels. And not only does Denmark utilize wind power, but th… Read More
Image of the Day: Super Smart Car, a Breath of Fresh Air
Taking the Smart car a step further, India’s Tata Motors is fine tuning the Airpods, a vehicle producing zero pollution and zip around at 40 mph through the magic of compressed air. The engines come from MDI (Motor Development International) a Luxemburg firm that has been tooling around with the concept for 20 years. Tata Motors bought the rights t… Read More
Hold Your Rejoicing About Those Falling CO2 Emissions
Remember global warming? You know, that worldwide disaster we were all so worried about way back in 2011? It wasn’t an unreasonable fear, of course: the world has been pumping greenhouse gases (especially carbon dioxide, or CO2) into the atmosphere like there was no tomorrow. Greenhouse gases trap heat. Ergo, said both the theory and the evidence, … Read More
