Climate Asia Resource and Toolkit survey. Voix De La Foret - The Voices of the Forest. The world's top 10 corporate carbon reporters - 12 Sep 2012. Armstrong & Miller - Climate Change. Artist seeks to shine light on global energy issues. By Venetia Rainey LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) - An ambitious new project encompassing art, design and developmental aid aims to provide a sustainable light source to replace kerosene lamps in impoverished countries, London's Tate Modern art gallery announced on Thursday.
Scandinavian artist Olafur Eliasson's "Little Sun", a bright yellow, solar-powered lamp the size and shape of a sunflower, is the centre of a Tate-funded initiative developed for the London 2012 Festival, a cultural extravaganza taking place across Britain this summer in conjunction with the Olympic Games. Food and nutrition. Issue There is enough food in the world to go around but almost a billion people go hungry every day and a further billion people are undernourished – not getting enough of the vitamins and minerals they need to live healthy and productive lives.
By 2050 the world will have another 2 billion mouths to feed. Wind power overtakes nuclear in China. The Chinese government has made major investments in renewable energy technology over the last few years.
Now, one group reports that wind power generates more electricity than nuclear. More from OilPrice.com: "According to data from the China Wind Energy Association (CWEA), wind energy capacity has now surpassed nuclear power to become the third largest source of electricity in China, after coal, and large-scale hydro-electric plants. " "In 2012 wind power generation totalled 100.4 billion kilowatt hours, an increase of 0.5% from the years before, and enough to send it past nuclear power generation. " "Wind energy capacity has grown rapidly over the years, fuelled by ambitious renewable energy targets, and strong government support of wind energy manufacturers. Climate change: forget heatwave fantasies and think about the drains - Mail Online - Michael Hanlon's Science blog: From The Cutting Edge.
What is causing our bad weather? Is it climate change? This is important because if we decide it is then we are going to have to take a lot of decisions very quickly that will be different to the decisions we make if we decide that the wind and endless rain have nothing to do with global warming. The picture is confused. Last week a report by Met Office scientists suggested that melting Arctic sea ice could weaken the summer jetstreams and push them south – the situation seen this year where depressions have come marching in across northwest Europe in rapid succession.
Record Heat Wave Pushes U.S. Belief in Climate Change to 70% A record heat wave, drought and catastrophic wildfires are accomplishing what climate scientists could not: convincing a wide swath of Americans that global temperatures are rising. In the four months since March there has been a jump in U.S. citizens’ belief that climate change is taking place, especially among independent voters and those in southern states such as Texas, which is now in its second year of record drought, according to nationwide polls by the University of Texas.
In a poll taken July 12-16, 70 percent of respondents said they think the climate is changing, compared with 65 percent in a similar poll in March. Those saying it’s not taking place fell to 15 percent from 22 percent, according to data set to be released this week by the UT Energy Poll. “There has been a rebound in belief” in global warming, Barry Rabe, a University of Michigan professor who published the research on the Brookings study. Temperatures Rising. Act Now, Save Later. Food security and climate change. The 2012 ACEEE International Energy Efficiency Scorecard. The 2012 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard ranks 12 of the world's largest economies, representing over 78 percent of global gross domestic product, 63 percent of global energy consumption, and 62 percent of the global carbon-dioxide-equivalent emissions.
The rankings include: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union. Over 25 different energy efficiency indicators or "metrics" have been analyzed for each economy ranked in the report. The rankings are determined by a total score out of 100 possible points. Points can be earned in four difference categories including buildings, industry, and transportation, as well as metrics that track cross-cutting aspects of energy use at the national level. The 2014 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard will be released in the summer of 2014 with more countries and more metrics. IPM Farmer Field Schools.
The Farmer Field School is a form of adult education, which evolved from the concept that farmers learn optimally from field observation and experimentation.
It was developed to help farmers tailor their Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices to diverse and dynamic ecological conditions. In regular sessions from planting till harvest, groups of neighboring farmers observe and discuss dynamics of the crop’s ecosystem. Simple experimentation helps farmers further improve their understanding of functional relationships (e.g. pests-natural enemy population dynamics and crop damage-yield relationships). In this cyclical learning process, farmers develop the expertise that enables them to make their own crop management decisions. Special group activities encourage learning from peers, and strengthen communicative skills and group building.
Damianwilson184 : @tancopsey @Lottie_Oram COP's... Everything you need to know about climate change - interactive. More Companies Are Reporting Water Related Climate Change Risks. Corporate disclosures of water-related climate change risks in financial filings have increased since 2009, a Ceres report found. The report specifically found that disclosures of water risks increased between 2009 and 2011. Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist. Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist.
Prof James Hansen, who first alerted the world to climate change in 1988, said on Friday: "It is not true that the temperature has not changed in the two decades. " Since 1998, when the Niño climate phenomenon caused global temperatures to soar, the rate of increase in warming has slowed, causing some sceptics to suggest climate change has stopped or that the effect of rising carbon dioxide levels on climate is not as great as previously thought.