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Google Earth: Wilkins ice shelf collapse

Posted in current events, science, technology, tagged , , , , , , , , on 17 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The various stages of collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctica has been in the news over the past couple of weeks.  Now you can watch an animation of the process in Google Earth, as assembled by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). After downloading the file and opening it with [...]

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Melting glaciers mean redrawing border between Italy and Switzerland

Posted in current events, environment, tagged , , , , , on 25 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to global climate change and the resulting world-wide glacier meltdown, Switzerland and Italy now have to redraw their border. The draft law has already been endorsed by the Italian Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, and is expected to become law before the end of April; Switzewrland has already agreed to the new border. The current [...]

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Sinking the map, blurring the map

Posted in current events, environment, science, technology, tagged , , , , , , , on 12 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Sea level rising… Wednesday’s San Francisco Chronicle offered an article discussing the release of a new report by the Oakland-based Pacific Institute, evaluating the effects on the California coastline of a rise in sea level resulting from global climate change. A Huffington Post article also discussed the report, which was commissioned by the California Energy [...]

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Wild fires: Australia and California compared

Posted in current events, environment, tagged , , , , on 26 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »

An interesting article on Science Blog today entitled “Why California should consider Australia’s ‘prepare, stay and defend’ wildfire policy”. It compares and contrasts the Australian “Prepare, stay and defend, or leave early” policy with California’s policy of mandatory evacuations followed by fire suppression. There is no magic one-size-fits-all to fighting wild fires, but it’s useful [...]

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Cautiously optimistic: Science in 2009

Posted in current events, environment, science, technology, tagged , , , , on 22 December, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I’m crossing my fingers on appointments for the new Obama administration. While there are a number of appointments that would not be my first choices, I understand that a lot of compromises are needed in politics. A few choices make me look up and hope for, you know, change: John P. Holdren has apparently been [...]

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Book recommendation: Climate Crash

Posted in books, current events, nature, science, tagged , on 18 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

With all the severe weather some regions of North America have been experiencing,there has been a lot of discussion among my friends about “global warming”.  Many people are baffled and perhaps feeling a bit let down(!) that we’re getting snow storms from New Orleans to Houston to Las Vegas to Seattle.  How can there be [...]

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After the flood

Posted in current events, environment, technology, tagged , , , , on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Squint/Opera, a film and media production studio in London, recently created a series of five images called “2090: London After the Flood.” The series, which has been discussed in Dezeen online design magazine and the Environmental Graffiti news blog, is on show at Medcalf Gallery in Clerkenwell, London from June 20 to this Sunday during [...]

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