Archive for October 2009

Sea level rises would flood Philly…and NYC and DC and Miami

Sea level rises would flood Philly…and NYC and DC and Miamiby Barbara Kessler,  Green Right Now, October 20, 2009By now you’ve heard the dire predictions for how sea level rise would affect Miami. Basically this city, already imperiled by worsening

Sea level rise: Current global average is 3.2 mm per year

Sea Level Change Data from the University of Colorada at BoulderLong-term mean sea level change is a variable of considerable interest in the studies of global climate change. The measurement of long-term changes in global mean sea level can provide

New Hampshire could lose entire coastline by 2100, according to Dr. Gordon Hamilton of the Hip-Boot Tour

New Hampshire could lose entire coastline by 2100, according to Dr. Gordon Hamilton of the Hip Boot Tourdocument.title = unescape("Scientists%3A%20State%20could%20lose%20entire%20coastline%20by%202100") + " - Fosters";by Robert M. Cook, October 30, 2009

Real Climate: An open letter to Steve Levitt by Raypierre

An open letter to Steve Levitt— raypierre @ 29 October 2009 Dear Mr. Levitt,The problem of global warming is so big that solving it will require creative thinking from many disciplines. Economists have much to contribute to this effort, particularly

Global warming is putting the East Coast cities at risk for severe flooding

Climate puts coast in dangerby Aubry Bracco, news@seacoastonline.com, October 30, 2009HAMPTON — Sea levels are rising faster than expected and coastal cities on the East Coast are at risk for severe flooding, according to arctic

Sharp Solar Cell

This will not be in a market very soon. I am sure, because of cost issues. However it means that for critical applications, it is possible to achieve 35% which is a far cry from what can be supplied to the domestic market which operates as yet between

ReVolt Zinc Air Battery

We have been writing up so much leading edge energy storage technology that it is almost a relief to find someone doing magic with a basic chemical design and getting it to perform like a thorough bred.What is been suggested here is a very safe battery

SunPower Panels

Don‘t you just love vigorous competition at work? Sharp may be breaking performance records for the exotics, but SunPower is breaking performance records for the domestics. Here they can lock in panels with an efficiency of around twenty percent. This

Andrew C. Kemp et al., Geology, 2009, Timing and magnitude of recent accelerated sea-level rise (North Carolina, United States)

Geology (November 2009), Vol. 37, No. 11, pp. 1035-1038; DOI: 10.1130/G30352A.1Timing and magnitude of recent accelerated sea-level rise (North Carolina, United States) Andrew C. Kemp1,*, Benjamin P. Horton1,*, Stephen J. Culver2, D. Reide Corbett2,

Andrew Kemp: North Carolina sea levels rising three times faster than in previous 500 years, Penn study says

North Carolina sea levels rising three times faster than in previous 500 years, Penn study saysOctober 28, 2009 PHILADELPHIA –- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level

J. Brigham-Grette, PNAS 106, Contemporary Arctic change: A paleoclimate déjà vu?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,Vol. 106, No. 44, pp. 18431–18432 (November 3, 2009); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910346106 Contemporary Arctic change:  A paleoclimate déjà vu?Julie Brigham-GretteDepartment of Geosciences, University of

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and glacier runoff from Greenland

Glaciers and the Atlanticby Graham Cogley, environmentalresearchweb.org, October 26, 2009 The Atlantic keeps cropping up when we try to understand why glaciers change. If you look at the right kind of map, you can see that the Atlantic, including the

Solar Variability

When I went and dug up information of the sun’s variability a couple of years ago, I came across figures that showed minuscule changes. This article shows us that that was misleading. I get the impression that the folks who care about these things are

Acidification and Shellfish Decline

As you might imagine, this is not going to happen any time soon, but it demonstrates a possible consequence of continuing to build up the CO2 content in the atmosphere. I am really not too sure about this because the ocean is sponge for CO2 and a major