Climate Change

A team of researchers are asking the public to help them locate and count all the sources of CO2 coming from power plants on the planet. Called Ventus: Global Citizens Powering Solutions in Climate Change, the team of scientists from Arizona State University are crowdsourcing the info

It’s official. The observatory atop Mauna Loa in Hawaii recorded on Thursday this week that we had reached 400.08 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. It was barely a week ago that I wrote about following the Keeling Curve on Twitter. And if you subscribed this week then

Another interesting week of technology and science announcements has led me to pick the following five stories:   World’s Biggest Companies Tackling Climate Change; Idaho Potato Gets Better by Mixing Genes from Five Spud Varieties; Google Timelapse Shows Decades of Planetar

Back in the 1970s “experts” unequivocally stated that the world would run out of oil early in the 21st century. Of course they were looking at recoverable oil from traditional exploratory technology at the time. Today, however, it seems we are awash with the stuff. This is

The Earth inhales and exhales cyclically. In the northern winter when plants are dormant CO2 spikes while the opposite occurs on the southern half of the planet. We have been measuring Earth’s breaths at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii since 1958. Today our world is exhaling

As a Canadian I live in a country that has abundant resources, lots of freshwater, lots of energy, lots of food, a reasonable but aging infrastructure, and government and political leadership that is generally out to lunch when it comes to understanding the global issue of climate cha

Last week I finished reading Al Gore’s latest tome, a follow up to his well publicized “An Inconvenient Truth,” probably his most significant contribution to the global climate change debate, although I would think “debate” is an over statement at this st

What technology and science stories caught my eye this week? Several in biomedicine. And two involving 3D printing, one for making liver, the other for mass customized manufacturing. A forecast of changes to climate zones as our atmosphere continues to heat. And a new commercial rocke

Technology played a critical role in the news events of this week beginning with the crudely-fashioned, low tech, pressure-cooker bombs planted at the finish line of the Boston Marathon and the mayhem and death they wrought, followed by the technology of our communication age uncoveri