The Definition of El Niño
A review is given of the meaning of the term "El Niño" and how it has changed in time, so there is no universal single definition. This needs to be recognized for scientific uses, and precision can only be achieved if the particular definition is identified in each use to reduce the possibility of misunderstanding. For quantitative purposes, possible definitions are explored that match the El Niñ ... read more >>
Cost of Environmental Degradation in China Is Growing - NYTimes.com
The article discuss the growing cost of environmental degradation in china. In 2010, the cost of environmental degradation was $230 billion, equivalent to 3.5 of the GDP. ... read more >>
Cost of Environmental Degradation in China Is Growing
The cost of environmental degradation in China was about $230 billion in 2010, or 3.5 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product — three times that in 2004, in local currency terms, an official Chinese news report said this week. The statistic came from a study by the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, which is part of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The figure of $230 billi ... read more >>
The governments floods policy is in shambles
The focus for now may be on the surprise freezing spell still gripping the UK, but many in Britain are already enduring the devastating impacts of flooding. As the snow melts, one certainty is that many more are going to suffer, having their homes, businesses and livelihoods threatened. It's likely to stay that way for many weeks, if not months. For in much of the country, the land is soaked, the ... read more >>
UK rewards polluters and locks up people who want to save the planet
What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur was imprisoned like Napoleon on Elba? It would be perverse to return the favour of great, public works by deprivin ... read more >>
Global Pollution and Prevention News: U.S. CO2 emissions falls to lowest level since 1994
The US carbon emissions fell to the lowest level since1994 according to the US Eneegy Information aadministration. ... read more >>
McDonough may be key to climate change
A short piece by USA Today sheds light on President Obama's chief of staff and his connection with climate change. ... read more >>
Texas High Plains Prepare for Agriculture Without Irrigation
Southern farmers are making changes now to wean themselves from the Ogallala Aquifer, a water source that gave rise to industrial agriculture and modern life on America’s plains. ... read more >>
On the Role of Atmospheric Teleconnections in Climate
In a recent application of networks to 500-hPa data, it was found that supernodes in the network correspond to major teleconnection. More specifically, in the Northern Hemisphere a set of supernodes coincides with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and another set is located in the area where the Pacific�North American (PNA) and the tropical Northern Hemisphere (TNH) patterns are found. It was ... read more >>
Fixing the Worlds Infrastructure Problems - - Harvard Business Review
A budget of $57 trillion is needed to upgrade the world's infrastructure over the next 18 years to keep up with the anticipated growth of the global gross domestic product, write Jimmy Hexter, a director at McKinsey & Company, and Jan Mischke, a senior fellow at McKinsey Global Institute. However, this amount could be reduced if the focus was on increasing the productivity of infrastructure, they ... read more >>
