Environmental Technology What is Environmental Technology and How Can we Use it?
Environmental Technology Aspects
Currently we have wasteful energy policies, an overuse of natural resources, water supply shortages, man-made global climate change, and deforestation on massive scales are just some of the current issues experts say that we need to be address for humans as a species to achieve sustainable living on this planet. By the year 2025, an estimated addition of 2.9 billion people will strain already strained water supplies, and the world’s energy needs will go up by as much as 60 percent by 2030, according to the United Nations so environmental technology will play a crucial role in our maintaining a sustainable balance. Continue Reading Environmental Technology What is Environmental Technology and How Can we Use it? Here
Record Shattering March Heat Wave Surprises Scientists
Record shattering March heat wave sent people to the beaches in droves
Temperatures in the U.S. for the lower 48 states averaged 8.6 degrees above normal for March alone and an astonishing 6 degrees higher than average for the entire first three months of the year 2012, according to calculations made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That by far exceeds, or shatters in our opinion the existing records.
Some meteorologists who have warned about the effects of global warming have become alarmed at the magnitude of how unusual the year has been in the United States. One climate scientist said the record march heat wave is like the weather equivalent of a baseball player on steroids, with old records being obliterated, like the home run records during the big steroid era in major league baseball. Continue Reading Record Shattering March Heat Wave Surprises Scientists Here
Categories: Global Warming, Green Science, Man Made Disasters, Weather News Tags: climate, heat, it's, just, march, march heat wave, record, Records', said, weather, year
Mass Extinction Events Sixth Mass Extinction Event in Oceans from Human Carbon Emissions Likely
Mass Extinction Events Sixth Mass Extinction Event in Oceans from Human Carbon Emissions Likely And Not From A More Likely Source Like This Asteroid Pictured Here
The rate at which oceans are currently acidifying is faster than any rate over the last 300 million years. During that time span, there were four mass extinctions researchers discovered. During those four mass extinction events, the increase in CO₂ in the atmosphere not only warmed the planet but made the oceans more acidic as well. These changes are directly linked with major climate shifts and mass extinction events. Continue Reading Mass Extinction Events Sixth Mass Extinction Event in Oceans from Human Carbon Emissions Likely Here
Categories: Ethics of Climate Change, Global Warming, Green Science, World News Tags: change, climate, co₂, Events, extinction, fish, mass, mass extinction events, ocean, oceans, sixth mass extinction, study
Clean Energy Fuel What Are They?
Clean energy fuel definitions can greatly vary depending on who you ask
Methane (CH₄) is a primary component of natural gas and a highly potent greenhouse gas which can also be emitted into the air when the gas is not burned properly and completely. Similarly, methane can be emitted as the result of leaks and losses during transportation. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and mercury compounds from burning natural gas are negligible.
Methane remains in the atmosphere for approximately 9-15 years and is 25 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO₂) over a 100-year period and 72 times more potent over a 20 year period. It is emitted from a variety of natural and human-influenced sources. The human-influenced sources include landfills, natural gas and petroleum systems, agricultural activities, coal mining, stationary and mobile combustion, waste-water treatment, and certain industrial processes. Continue Reading Clean Energy Fuel What Are They? Here
Categories: Alternative Energy Sources, Clean Energy, Energy Conservation, Global Warming, Green Energy, Green Politics Special Reports, Green Science Tags: clean, clean energy fuel, coal, co₂, dioxide, emissions, energy, gas, natural, power, Renewable
Vast Pool of Arctic Fresh Water Could Cool Europe According to British Scientists
Vast Pool of Arctic Fresh Water Could Cool Europe According to British Scientists
In real life, the scientists have determined that the fresh water pool is expanding and could lower the temperature of Europe by causing the ocean current to slow down. In the movie, the Gulf Stream shuts down altogether, unleashing an abrupt climate shift and the onset of the next Ice Age. Continue Reading Vast Pool of Arctic Fresh Water Could Cool Europe According to British Scientists Here
Categories: Ethics of Climate Change, Green Science, Weather News, World News Tags: Arctic, does, Europe, fresh, gulf, gulf stream, ice, little ice age, ocean, sea, stream, water
List of Worst Storms – Natural Disasters 2011
List of Worst Storms - Natural Disasters 2011
List of Worst Storms – Natural Disasters 2011
Our list of worst natural disasters – storms of 2011 has grown in size since the 2010 list we did. 2011 was worse in terms of natural disasters. Regions from around the world were literally slammed with extreme weather events and catastrophes resulting in huge economic costs and devastation not to mention massive death tolls devastating populations. Does climate change play a role in all this, more than likely, as these once termed ‘storms of the century’ are now occurring nearly every year and getting worse every year for that matter as well.
The U.S. again broke its record for billion-dollar weather disasters. The Associated Press reported that in 2011, the U.S. saw more weather catastrophes costing at least $1 billion in damage each than it had experienced throughout all of the 1980s.
Devastating Tornadoes ripped through the U.S., devastating cities like as Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Joplin, Missouri.
One of the biggest stories of the year was the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March, killing thousands and wreaking havoc at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
Heat waves over the summer scorched the U.S. and Texas suffered from fires and its worst drought in decades. An earthquake rattled the East Coast in October, and Hurricane Irene followed shortly thereafter. Continue Reading List of Worst Storms – Natural Disasters 2011 Here
Categories: Green Science, Natural Disasters, Weather News, World News Tags: 2011, disasters, hurricane, list, natural, people, said, storm, Storms, worst
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