Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Today’s physics news: Tuesday, 22 September 2009
US student sends balloon into space A student from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has used a second-hand camera, a GPS-enabled phone and a balloon to gain pictures from the edge of space and capture glimpses of the Earth’s curvature. The ease with which the student has obtained the images has led to comparisons with costly [...]
Study of 16 developing countries shows climate change could deepen poverty
A new study supported by the World Bank has for the first time tried to combine, understand and predict the effects of climate change on food prices and wages in developing countries to assess how badly different socio-economic strata in sixteen vulnerable countries will be hit by extreme weather conditions, associated with climate change such [...]
Climate change poker: the barriers which are preventing a global agreement
As the world’s environment ministers, government officials, diplomats and campaigners prepare to attend the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 to unite in the battle against climate change in one of the most complicated political deals the world has ever seen, the increasingly complex territory of climate negotiations is being revealed in an article [...]
Who will pick up the bill? Possible job cuts and revenue loss as a result of ocean acidification
Ocean acidification, a direct result of increased CO2 emission, is set to change the Earth’s marine ecosystems forever and may have a direct impact on our economy, resulting in substantial revenue declines and job losses. Intensive fossil-fuel burning and deforestation over the last two centuries have increased atmospheric CO2 levels by almost 40%, which has [...]
