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Solar Cycle Linked to Global Climate, Drives Events Similar to El Niño, La Niña - News Release
The Big Question | The Agonist
"If history has taught me anything, Stuart, it's this: life can be grim and history is inexorable," I held my finger up silencing an emergent query. I gathered my thoughts and finished up, "but humanity will muddle through."
I don't know if I want to bequeath a world of 'muddling through' to our children. But that's what they'll get.
Personal Responsibility - Toby's People
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Consider the modern environmental movement. We take personal responsibility; we accept the role we, individually, have played in destroying the environment, so we focus on the things we can do, individually, to at least not participate in it anymore. You know the litany as well as I do: eat organic, reduce, reuse, recycle, use incandescent light bulbs, take shorter showers, carpool, drive a hybrid, ride a bicycle, et cetera ad infinitum.
And yet, despite this, we know that even if everyone in the world heeded this advice, if we all achieved enlightenment tomorrow and a flowering of global consciousness put us all in tune with a higher frequency or whatever other spiritual or philosophical metaphor you’d prefer, it would not alter our present ecological course.
SpringerLink - Journal Article
Increasing urban albedo can reduce summertime temperatures, resulting in better air quality and savings from reduced air-conditioning costs. In addition, increasing urban albedo can result in less absorption of incoming solar radiation by the surface-troposphere system, countering to some extent the global scale effects of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. Pavements and roofs typically constitute over 60% of urban surfaces (roof 20–25%, pavements about 40%). Using reflective materials, both roof and pavement albedos can be increased by about 0.25 and 0.15, respectively, resulting in a net albedo increase for urban areas of about 0.1. On a global basis, we estimate that increasing the world-wide albedos of urban roofs and paved surfaces will induce a negative radiative forcing on the earth equivalent to offsetting about 44 Gt of CO2 emissions.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Yearly Temperature, Precipitation, and Snowfall
The following is a graphical climatology of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota temperatures, precipitation, and snowfall, from the start of 1820 (Fort Snelling) into the present year 2009. Presented are summary overview charts, a link to a year-by-year account of early (1820-1869) Minnesota weather history, followed by year-to-year graphs depicting daily temperatures, precipitation, and snowfall.
Geography Is Destiny - The Atlantic (December 2008)
Europe Between the Oceans, by Barry Cunliffe, Yale
Europe from 9000 B.C. to 1000 A.D.
Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting
Scientists and journalists have been known to talk past each other, both using language rooted in professional shorthand...
Thanks to a series of Metcalf Institute workshops funded by the National Science Foundation, journalists and climate scientists have been able to address these barriers and develop recommendations for effective communication.
Science News / Cooling Climate ‘consensus’ Of 1970s Never Was
When global warming skeptics draw misleading comparisons between scientists’ nascent understanding of climate processes in the 1970s and their level of knowledge today, “it’s absolute nonsense,” Schneider says. Back then, scientists were just beginning to study climate trends and their causes, and the probability of finding evidence to disprove a particular hypothesis was relatively high. Nowadays, he contends, “the likelihood of new evidence to overthrow the concept of global warming is small. Warming is virtually certain.”
Climate anomaly is an artefact : Nature News
A US–British team of climate scientists has now found a..explanation [for lower SST measurements during 1940s]. It turns out that the mysterious drop is due to differences in the way that British and US ships' crews measured the sea surface temperature
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