This speaks to the importance of planting trees in urban areas to lower ambient temperatures and reduce the need for air conditioning.
Category: climate
climate
The Methane Mystery
The popularity of natural gas as a fossil fuel and its increased use are attractive candidates to explain the potential for increased leakage to the atmosphere.
In Hot Water with COVID and Climate
Whether for an acute impact like COVID-19 or a long-term impact like climate change, policy decisions must be based on science
Shopping in Troubled Times
On-line shopping with local delivery, has 2 to 5 times lower environmental impact than e-commerce from a central warehouse.
William Schlesinger
carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, forests, renewable energy
carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, forests, renewable energy
The Woody Biomass Hoax
Since most of the wood pellets are derived from newly harvested trees, the immediate impact on Earth’s climate is worse than coal.
Winds of Change
Wind power is an important component of any program that insures future energy independence and avoidance of climate change.
The Planetary Toll of Your Morning Coffee
When you decide to have a cup of coffee, you have already made your largest contribution to the energy used to deliver coffee to your cup.
The Future of Biodiversity
All other policy actions that could be taken now won’t matter if we fail to curb climate change.
Sea-level rise revisited
Tide gages show rising seas along nearly all of the East Coast, despite the efforts of some politicians to ignore it
A Sea Change
Changes in the currents in the world’s oceans are known to have affected climate in the past, and are likely to affect climate in the future