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December 15, 2009 05:32 AM EST (featured date: December 15, 2009) — A Plan for a Sustainable Future is the theme of the November 2009 issue of Scientific American. It contains A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables , by Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, . . . more
December 14, 2009 05:43 PM EST (featured date: December 15, 2009) — By James Hansen — December 2009 - originally published at giss.nasa.gov Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, sometimes called Earth's "third pole", hold the largest ice mass outside the polar . . . more
December 08, 2009 07:20 AM EST (featured date: December 15, 2009) — On December 7, 2009, 56 newspapers in 45 countries took the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial . This because humanity faces a profound emergency. Unless . . . more
December 07, 2009 09:40 PM EST (featured date: December 07, 2009) — On December 7, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Greenhouse Gases (GHG) constitute a threat to public health and to the environment . The finding enables the EPA to set . . . more
December 07, 2009 03:16 PM EST (featured date: December 07, 2009) — Several outlets are sources of information on the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference running from December 7 to December 18, 2009 in Copenhagen.   The official COP15 web site has continuous . . . more
November 17, 2009 03:31 PM EST (featured date: November 17, 2009) — Today in Beijing, US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao announced a package of measures "to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy." According . . . more
November 17, 2009 06:09 AM EST (featured date: November 17, 2009) — 1. High Speed Rail High speed rail can move large amounts of people and freight fast, conveniently and economically. High speed rail systems have been operating successfully in Europe and Japan . . . more
November 13, 2009 03:10 PM EST (featured date: November 17, 2009) — Climate change is here...and there is hell to pay.  Hell and High Water is a must-read book for everyone interested in global warming and climate science. Joseph Romm holds a PhD in Physics from . . . more
November 03, 2009 04:07 PM EST (featured date: November 17, 2009) — "We all know, we have no time to lose."   These are the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel today in an address to a joint session of the US Congress. And she didn't stop there.  . . . more
October 15, 2009 02:46 PM EDT (featured date: November 17, 2009) — "U.S. EPA released a long-sequestered document on global warming today showing the George W. Bush administration had concluded in December 2007 that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles were . . . more
October 01, 2009 02:59 PM EDT (featured date: November 17, 2009) — In anticipation of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the International Alliance of Research Universities has issued a report presenting an update of a broad range of research relating . . . more
September 26, 2009 05:18 AM EDT (featured date: November 17, 2009) — As I discussed in What will power your next car? , solar/PV energy represented a meager 0.081% of the energy produced in the US in 2007, barely more than the 0.066% it produced back in 2000. Renewables' . . . more
September 22, 2009 03:23 AM EDT (featured date: November 17, 2009) — Large-scale afforestation, in the form of bringing vegetation into the desert by means of desalinated water, is proposed by a team of scientists. A study by Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount . . . more
September 22, 2009 12:18 AM EDT (featured date: November 17, 2009) — Canberra group wants laws to change for electric vehicles A CANBERRA group of Electric Vehicle (EV) enthusiasts is proposing a set of policies, in the lead-up to the National Electric Vehicle . . . more
October 06, 2009 01:42 AM EDT (featured date: October 06, 2009) — Two Detroit Electric vintage cars were parked in front of Old Parliament House in Canberra, last Sunday, making the visual statement that the cars are ready - they have been since 1915 and 1917 . . . more
June 12, 2009 06:19 AM EDT (featured date: June 12, 2009) — The graph below shows the daily sea ice extent. The solid blue line indicates the 2009 data; the dashed green line shows the data for 2007; and the solid gray line indicates average extent from 1979 to . . . more
June 02, 2009 04:12 AM EDT (featured date: June 12, 2009) — UN Climate Change Talks (June 1 to 12) have started with first draft negotiating texts being tabled in Bonn, Germany. More than 4,000 participants are attending the gathering, including government delegates, . . . more
May 28, 2009 09:21 AM EDT (featured date: May 28, 2009) — What will power your next car? Will it be gasoline, diesel, perhaps mixed with biofuel? Or will it be electricity? In case electricity will power your next car, how will it be produced? From coal, natural . . . more
May 21, 2009 08:32 AM EDT (featured date: May 28, 2009) — Will America be a desert by 2100? Or Africa, India or China, for that matter? Chances are, according to MIT projections , that global median surface temperature will rise by 9.4 o F (5.2 o C) by 2100, . . . more
May 01, 2009 08:59 AM EDT (featured date: May 28, 2009) — Climate change, or global warming, is a popular topic of scientific debate on Gather.  Proponents on either side studiously present their factual evidence supporting their views and.... ...sorry, . . . more
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