From an article in the New York Times:
The United States could shave as much as 28 percent off the amount of greenhouse gases it emits at fairly modest cost and with only small technology innovations, according to a new report.
A large share of the reductions could come from steps that would more than pay for [...]
Yes, shopping bags.
More than 20 years ago we shopped at a grocery store that offered reusable canvas grocery bags for sale. I balked at the price - while paper bags were free the canvas bags cost a few dollars - but eventually picked up a half dozen or so. On balance it seemed like a [...]
From SFGate:
“We face a true planetary emergency,” Gore said. “The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.- Al Gore, winner of the Nobel Prize (and the 2000 presidential election vote…)
New York Times article:
The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia.
Arctic Study A Coast Guard work party in August deploying a buoy that helps scientists track the age of sea ice.
Over all, [...]
From the New York Times (but also reported widely elsewhere):
Scientists Report Severe Retreat of Arctic Ice. The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean this year shrank more than one million square miles below the average minimum area reached in recent decades. By ANDREW C. REVKIN. [NYT > Home Page]
From a New York Times article:
An effort by the Bush administration to improve federal climate research has answered some questions but lacks a focus on impacts of changing conditions and informing those who would be most affected, a panel of experts has found.
The Climate Change Science Program, created in 2002 by President Bush to improve [...]
New York Times:
Warming Is Seen as Wiping Out Most Polar Bears. Shrinking polar ice caps will cause at least two-thirds of the world’s polar bears to disappear by 2050, government scientists reported on Friday. By JOHN M. BRODER and ANDREW C. REVKIN. [NYT > Science]
Not everyone realizes that polar bears live in three environments, almost [...]
This post at Weather Underground caught my attention since I had just seen a National Geographic program on the mechanism and effects of global warming on polar and glacial ice.
You’ll have to scroll down a bit a the links since the portion of the story referring to this year’s astounding decrease in the polar [...]
Satellite photograph of Central California showing smoke plume over the San Francisco Bay Area. September 6, 2007.
You can see the plume over the Bay Area, and you can also see that a good part of it is coming from a fire in the Sierra - not just from our local fire. Weather forecasters say that [...]
Prescribed Burns in SF Bay Area
Yesterday I was surprised to see a large smoke cloud over the Diablo Range east of Santa Clara Valley, in the area of Mount Hamilton and Lick Observatory. It is unusual to see fires this late in the season, but I assumed that perhaps our less-than-typical rainfall might be playing a part.
Today the California Fire [...]