Posted on March 30th, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns
Last week, 175 experts from a wide array of disciplines convened at the Asilomar conference center in Pacific Grove, California for the International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies. I attended the meeting also and was impressed by the passion of the participants and the common resolve to approach climate geoengineering with the levels of humility [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns
Contact: Laura Udakis l.udakis@sgm.ac.uk 44-118-988-1843 Society for General Microbiology Ecosystems under threat from ocean acidification Acidification of the oceans as a result of increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide could have significant effects on marine ecosystems, according to Michael Maguire presenting at the Society for General Microbiology’s spring meeting in Edinburgh this week. Postgraduate researcher [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns
The Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD Journal) is a peer-reviewed academic publication based in New Delhi and London and jointly managed by the School of Law of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) – University of London and the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC). LEAD is published biannually at www.lead-journal.org. I [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns
In a paper to be submitted for peer review, NASA scientists say that the planet has not experienced a cooling trend in the last decade, as some have claimed. http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2333 <http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2333> 22 Mar 2010: NASA Study Concludes That No Cooling Evident in Past Decade A comprehensive analysis of global air and sea temperatures by NASA [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2010 by Andrew Long
The Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Law and Economics is ongoing. This year’s conference is hosted by Emory Law School and includes several papers/presentations on climate change. Details are available here.
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Posted on March 25th, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns
UNDP recently commissioned The Outcomes of Copenhagen — The Negotiations & The Accord to evaluate the substantive results of the Copenhagen climate talks, including the status of the negotiations on key issues under the formal negotiating tracks and the provisions of the Copenhagen Accord. The document has been authored by Alina Averchenkova, a senior analyst [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns
While the outcome of the 15th COP in Copenhagen was clearly disappointing on a number of levels, one of the most propitious developments was the commitment by developing countries in the Copenhagen Accord to provide $30 billion in short-term (2010-2013) funding, and $100 billion annually in long-term funding by 2020 to meet the adaptation/mitigation needs [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2010 by Estelle Mandigout
Conventionally policy solutions to the global problem of Climate Change have been dominated by the concept of mitigation, unfortunately this approach contains the seeds of its own doom, critics say. A mitigation approach is an intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases (IPCC. 2001b), whereas the adaptation strategy; the second [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns
For those of you interested in climate geoengineering issues, or who may have students who are, I prepared an audio lecture (including a video Power Point) for Mercer Law Schools Environmental Law Guest Speakers series. We will be conducting a virtual discussion of the issue all week, and I hope some of you will join [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Dr. Wil Burns
A new study in the journal Biodiversity Conservation, Bickford, et al., Impacts of Climate Change on Amphibians and Reptiles of Southeast Asia, 19 Biodiversity Conservation 1043-1062 (2010) (subscription required), Among the take-aways from the article: Temperatures in the region could rise 6C; this would make migrations for species involving latitude or elevation extremely difficult; Most [...]
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