Archive for June, 2008
Funny Weather
If you can only understand things through comic books, check out www.funnyweather.org, a comic book guide to global warming.
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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The Rain in Spain is Somewhere Else Now.
As we wrote in a recent blog, global warming is less scary perhaps than the combination of environmental degradation and global warming. The New York Times recently came out with an interesting article on how the combination of poor natural resources management and climate change are causing desertification in Spain (see Water Is a New [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under Climate Changes, Climate Science.
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Adaptation and Organic Development: Part I
A Guest Blog by Mohammad A. Chakaki
Standing amidst Dubai’s tall buildings and immaculate landscaping or gazing out at the sandy desert beyond all the construction, one could be forgiven for not realizing that this emirate’s dominant ecology is coastal and marine. I certainly wasn’t looking there when I first got to Dubai, and I imagine this [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2008 under Adaptation, Climate Changes, Guest Blogs.
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Fly Derrie-Air
With the tremendous increases in the price of fuel (the price of light sweet crude, the benchmark indicator for crude oil prices, went up over $10 in a single day on the New York Mercantile Exchange for July delivery - almost 10%), including setting up a new record high of $139.12. There are many reasons [...]
Posted: June 8th, 2008 under Adaptation, Climate Economics.
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