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Soot and CO2 In The Arctic
Posted by Forbes: None Given on October 1st, 2011
Forbes: The latest candidates are “short-term climate forcings”. These are pollutants, particularly ozone and soot, that do not hang around in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide does, but have to be renewed continually if they are to have a lasting effect. If they are so renewed, though, their impact may be as big as CO2’s.
At the moment, most eyes are on soot (or “black carbon”, as jargon-loving researchers refer to it). In the Arctic, soot is a double whammy. First, when released into the air as a result...
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Great Green African Wall Planned for Sahara
Posted by Forbes: None Given on March 10th, 2011
Forbes: Environmentalists endorsed a wildly ambitious plan to build a "green wall" measuring roughly 10 miles wide and 5,000 miles long across Africa while meeting in Bonn, Germany recently. The groups committed to investing more than $3 billion in the plan.
The pan-African Great Green African Wall (GGW), a lush strips of vegetation capable of supporting birds and other animals, would stretch from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in the east to Dakar, Senegal in the west on the southern edge of the Sahara....
Climate Scientists Deepening Skepticism of Democracy
Posted by Forbes: None Given on January 7th, 2011
Forbes: Does a liberal democracy have sufficient resolve to stomach the economic and political sacrifices required to stabilize global warming?
A growing number of climate scientists believe the answer is "no." In their view, democratic institutions are perpetuating climate change by precluding implementation of the politically unpalatable actions needed to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
For example, in The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy, David...