Ones that got away
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Anna Barnett, In the News
“There is significantly more risk [from inaction] than we previously estimated… There’s no way the world can or should take these risks.” … Read more
In the latest issue of Science, Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich, UK and a group of social scientists have a letter of complaint [subscription] regarding media coverage of the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, held March in Copenhagen, and point in particular to Science’s own coverage from the event. Read more
Real Climate blogger Gavin Schmidt has teamed up with photographer Joshua Wolfe to create a new book on climate science and its implications for the planet and policy. Climate Change: Picturing the Science is something of an illustrative adventure, but it’s the book’s essays that really get the message across. So says Bill Hewitt, of the Foreign Policy Association’s Climate Change blog, who has penned a review for us over on Nature Reports Climate Change. Check out the full review here. Read more
Climate change represents the biggest health threat of the twenty-first century, according to a new report published 16 May in The Lancet. Olive Heffernan talks to lead investigator Anthony Costello, director of the Institute for Global Health at University College London. Read more
The system of surface and deep currents which make up the Atlantic Ocean circulation, a powerful heat conveyor belt and a poster child for abrupt climate change, is a more complex affair than straightforward textbook diagrams suggest. Read more
Most of the biofuels debate as of late has been about the merits and trade-offs of various fuels, be they corn ethanol, sugarcane ethanol, biodiesel or more advanced second and third generation fuels. But a new study suggests we need to take a step back and consider an alternate pathway for biomass: Electricity. Read more
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