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Climate Central wrote a new blog post: SimCity Reboot Includes Climate Change 2 months, 1 week ago · View
By Andrew Freedman of Climate Central SimCity, the iconic strategy game that gave rise to a generation of “Sims” games, is getting a 21st century makeover . With the real cities of the world increasingly on the front lines of climate change, SimCity will include a climate change component. The new version of the game, developed by Maxis in conjunction [...] -
Climate Central wrote a new blog post: The Latest Breakthrough in Biofuels: Low-Cost Seaweed? 3 months, 4 weeks ago · View
By Katrina Schwartz, KQED Climate Watch The newest biofuel making a splash is seaweed. Researchers at Berkeley-based Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) have discovered a way to genetically manufacture a microbe that can break down the sugars in seaweed, so that it can be used as a fuel source. Biofuels from sources other than corn have generated a lot of hype but so [...] -
Climate Central wrote a new blog post: Low-carbon Cement Paves a Development Path 4 months ago · View
By Miranda C. Spencer, The Daily Climate Cross-posted from Climate Central . PHILADELPHIA — The source of 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions is hiding in plain sight, in the sidewalk beneath our feet. It is cement, a key ingredient of concrete, the most widely used building material on the planet. And manufacturing conventional “Portland” cement releases [...] -
Climate Central wrote a new blog post: Exploring the New EPA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Database 4 months ago · View
By Andrew Freedman via Climate Central Yesterday I told you about an informative new U.S. EPA greenhouse gas emissions database detailing the nation’s larger sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In total, the database contains information on facilities that account for about 80 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. It excludes the agricultural sector and transportation.
My colleague Alyson [...]
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Climate Central wrote a new blog post: Thailand Floods Give High-Tech Sector an Intro to Climate Adaptation 5 months ago · View
By Andrew Freedman If a new PC or hard drive is on your holiday wish list, you may be in for a rude surprise: supplies are running low and prices have skyrocketed, all because of an extreme weather event that took place halfway around the world. One wouldn’t normally think of the weather as a key [...]
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Climate Central wrote a new blog post: Hotter, Drier, Meaner: Trends Show Planet More Hostile to Agriculture 5 months, 1 week ago · View
Cross-posted from Climate Central By Douglas Fischer A host of data — from sediment cores to ongoing drought in East Africa to computer models — point to one conclusion: Our increasingly hotter, drier planet is going to be a tough place to farm. To get a glimpse of the future, look to East Africa today. The Horn of Africa is in [...] -
Climate Central wrote a new blog post: Global Warming Has Pushed the Arctic into a “New Normal” 5 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Cross-posted from Climate Central By Andrew Freedman
Since 2006, the Arctic has been less arctic — warmer, and with less snow and ice than the region used to have — according to the latest comprehensive analysis of the Arctic environment released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This doesn’t come as a huge surprise. Scientists have long expected [...] -
Climate Central wrote a new blog post: The Next 500 Years of Sea Level Rise 7 months ago · View
Cross posted from Climate Central By Michael D. Lemonick Climate change is raising global sea levels. This is not a good thing, but at least it’s all going to stop by the end of this century, right? Every news report about the topic talks about what will happen by 2100, or during the 21st century, or over [...]
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