Today is Earth Day and it seems appropriate to include an article about climate change. Last week a study was published in Nature Geoscience showing that some areas of the Himalayas were gaining ice steadily. The study compared data collected on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2000 with the French SPOT5 satellite data collected in
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With regular recurrence the Earth has endured 100,000 year cycles of continental glaciation throughout the Pleistocene Epoch starting approximately 2 million years ago give or take 500,000 years. What caused this disruptive climate change? Climatologists, geologists, oceanographers and astronomers believe that something happened to Earth’s axial inclination or tilt, or something happened to our orbit
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In our last blog we talked about the challenge of dealing with solid urban waste in cities in both the Developed and Developing World. With urban growth in the 21st century expected in cities of the Developing World, add managing the air to the litany of challenges to be faced and overcome. Developed World cities
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What will be the impact on agricultural production of increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases? The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America recently issued a position statement on climate change. In that statement the three societies stated “a comprehensive body of scientific evidence indicates
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When I was a younger man I wrote a short story about a girl who lived on Mars. Her father, a scientist, was in the business of changing the Martian atmosphere and his gift to his daughter was to give her a living tree outside the protected air envelope that was home to his family
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In a blog devoted to 21st century technology why are we discussing climate change? Because if climate is changing, and the evidence strongly suggests that, it will impact the planet in this century and beyond. Our response to climate change will play a critical role in determining new technologies that we apply to counter changing
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