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'Perspectives on Energy Policy' report now available

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The United States should create a high-level independent council to analyze and communicate critical issues to energy policymakers and the public, a group of 27 leaders in academia, government, and the private sector recommends ...


UN: Fight climate change with free condoms (AP)

UN: Fight climate change with free condoms

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (11) | comments 32

(AP) -- The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.


3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation

3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Sergey Paltsev, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, was the lead author of a recent report that analyzed the costs of climate legislation currently ...


New study predicts future consequences of a global biofuels program

New study predicts future consequences of a global biofuels program

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

A report examining the impact of a global biofuels program on greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century has found that carbon loss stemming from the displacement of food crops and pastures for biofuels ...


Controversial new climate change results

Controversial new climate change results

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (48) | comments 131

(PhysOrg.com) -- New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion ...


Clinton: No binding climate deal at Denmark talks (AP)

Clinton: No binding climate deal at Denmark talks

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- Next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen is not likely to produce a legally binding treaty to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are widely blamed for global warming, U.S. Secretary of ...


The politics of climate fixes

The politics of climate fixes

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (13) | comments 7

In the middle of a day filled with a stream of information-packed PowerPoint displays and alarming projections of what the future holds for our planet and our civilization, Judith Layzer’s talk was something ...


How much is nature worth?

How much is nature worth?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 1

How much is nature worth? £1 billion? £100 billion? £1 trillion? The loss of our forests and biodiversity in general could cost us between £1.2-2.8 trillion a year, according to Pavan Sukhdev, who is giving ...


Growing online sales could lower prices, but also trim choices

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Shoppers could see lower prices but less variety to choose from as more manufacturers sell directly to consumers through the Internet, according to new research led by a University of Illinois business professor.


Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases

Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, climate scientists have worked to identify and measure key substances -- notably greenhouse gases and aerosol particles -- that affect Earth’s climate. And they’ve been aided ...



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