Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated Good evening. How are we for signal, very good, I am Stewart Brand from the Long Now Foundation. You maybe wonder what this Twitter thing is about. This data, it turns out is helpful helpful for funders of Long Now and of these talks. They could find out what the sort of watershed of people that feeds into this of event is. How many people have been the one of these before? World Meteorology Weathering the Storm: Building Business Resilience to Climate Change Businesses face growing threats from extreme weather and climate change: damage to facilities, loss of water or power supplies, higher costs, and disruption of supply and distribution chains. In a major report, Weathering the Storm: Building Business Resilience to Climate Change, C2ES provides a detailed snapshot of the state of resilience planning among a cross-section of global companies and outlines steps companies can take to better assess and manage their growing climate risks. The report includes a comprehensive review of resilience practices among S&P Global 100 Index companies and detailed case studies of six companies in diverse sectors: American Water, Bayer, The Hartford Group, National Grid, Rio Tinto and Weyerhaeuser. It also draws on input from a technical workshop with representatives of a wide range of industries. Key Findings: Recommendations: Create a clearinghouse for reliable, up-to-date data and analytical tools. Additional Resources: Opening Remarks
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Technology Deployment - Climate Action Planning Tool NREL's Climate Action Planning Tool provides a quick, basic estimate of how various technology options can contribute to an overall climate action plan for your research campus. Use the tool to identify which options will lead to the most significant reductions in consumption of fossil fuels and in turn meet greenhouse gas reduction goals. Gather baseline energy consumption dataEnter baseline data into the calculatorSet and adjust emissions and technology options goalsGenerate a report
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media | Connecting scientists, journalists, and communicators Effects of Global Warming Climate change: A patchwork of emissions cuts The last thing that most people recall about United Nations climate-change talks was the meltdown four years ago in Copenhagen, when presidents and prime ministers at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) failed to deliver the strong, binding treaty that the world had been led to expect. Negotiations have, in fact, continued, and governments have set another deadline: a new global climate agreement in 2015. With this latest round of talks nearing its midpoint, hints of a way forward are beginning to emerge. The path that they suggest is at once encouraging and underwhelming. Governments are yet to formally agree on anything. In the emerging model, which has been advanced by the United States among others, the efforts of countries would be tracked under agreed rules. Having learned hard lessons in Copenhagen, governments are tempering their expectations this time around. Twists and turns Building ambition Leading emitters China.
ZOOM: Home US Navy Pushes Solar Energy Storage Solution Batteries Published on December 1st, 2014 | by Tina Casey December 1st, 2014 by Tina Casey We just got wind of a major new oil industry campaign to tear down California’s clean energy rules, but we’re thinking these guys are going to be outflanked by the shockingly rapid growth of the energy storage sector. If you’re new to the topic, it may come as somewhat of a shock to see Navy and solar energy in the same sentence. Courtesy of Imergy Power Systems (image enhanced). Advanced Energy Storage And Vanadium Flow Batteries We’ll go over that anti-renewables campaign later this week, but for now let’s zero in on that energy storage angle. Like the name says, flow batteries generate a charge by the interaction of two liquids flowing next to each other. One challenge has been to compress the energy density of the system into a useful size. Vanadium flow battery (courtesy of Imergy Power Systems). The problem in terms of US energy independence is that we have no functioning vanadium mine.
Carbon Visuals: Home Global Warming First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change The humble Bramble Cay melomys has disappeared from its island in the Great Barrier Reef. Climate Change Making Calendars Run Amok People in Central Asia are recalibrating their system of time to adapt to a changing ecosystem. The Great Energy Challenge The National Geographic initiative is a call to action to become actively involved, to learn more and do more—to change how we think about and consume energy so that we can all help tackle the big energy questions. U.S.'s First Official Climate Refugees Race Against Time A Native American tribe struggles to hold on to their culture while their land slips into the Gulf of Mexico. The Arctic Is Melting.