Climate Adaptation Business Challenge 2013: MatchMaking Event in Amsterdam Today, Knowledge for Climate and Climate-KIC organize the Climate Adaptation Business Challenge to boost new climate business. This business challenge is the starting point for innovative products or services on climate adaption with business potential.
Knowledge for Climate, Tuesday 21 May 2013
Satellite data provide insight into melting Arctic ice In September 2012, the smallest ice spread to date in the Arctic was recorded. With data from satellites, scientists at SMHI have analysed changes in the atmosphere, and then compared the conditions for the ice melt in 2012 with 2007, the previous record low for ice spread.
SMHI, Wednesday 10 April 2013
A warming world will further intensify extreme precipitation events, research shows According to a newly-published NOAA-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, as the globe warms from rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, more moisture in a warmer atmosphere will make the most extreme precipitation events more intense
ScienceDaily.com, Monday 8 April 2013
Ancient pool of warm water questions current climate models A huge pool of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America four million years ago suggests climate models might be too conservative in forecasting tropical changes.
ScienceDaily.com, Wednesday 3 April 2013
Summer melt season getting longer on Antarctic Peninsula New research from the Antarctic Peninsula shows that the summer melt season has been getting longer over the last 60 years. Increased summer melting has been linked to the rapid break-up of ice shelves in the area and rising sea level.
ScienceDaily.com, Wednesday 27 March 2013
NASA's Analysis of 2012 Global Temperature NASA's analysis of Earth's surface temperature found that 2012 ranked as the ninth warmest year since 1880. NASA scientists compare the average global temperature each year to the average from 1951 to 1980. This 30-year period provides a baseline from which to measure the warming Earth has experienced due to increasing atmospheric levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Youtube / NASA, Tuesday 26 March 2013
New cloud computing network could cut GHG emissions from ICT The growing use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services is producing an increasing amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. New research has proposed a network model spanning Europe, USA and Canada that uses ‘cloud computing’ to supply renewable energy to IT data centres.
"Science for Environment Policy": European Commission DG Environment News Alert Service, Thursday 21 March 2013
Improving local conditions can improve ecosystem resilience to global changes Improving local water quality could mitigate the damaging effects of rising CO2 on marine ecosystems, new research suggests. Scientists in Australia found that nitrogen pollution in seawater, when acting in combination with heightened CO2 concentrations, had a significant effect on the growth of turfing algae, which displace kelp forest ecosystems.
"Science for Environment Policy": European Commission DG Environment News Alert Service, Thursday 21 March 2013
Adaptation Inspiration Book 22 Case studies of early adaptors in Europe have been collected and visualized in the Adaptation Inspiration Book. It is CIRCLE-2's hope that this book and its inspirational case studies will inspire and teach professionals, policy makers and researchers to initiate their own local adaptation projects or improve current strategies and plans for adapting to climate change.
CIRCLE-2, KfC, Friday 15 March 2013
Amplified greenhouse effect shifts North's growing seasons Vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of land surface and newly improved satellite data sets.
