Climate Changer

That new energy concept named a solar tower is able to generate enough electricity for 200,000 homes.In fact, this looking like a giant smokestack appurtenance would release no noxious fumes — just sun-heated air.

Some of these days was told that the demonstrated more than 20 years ago project has the basic design calls for solar collectors to warm the air near Earth’s surface in order to channel it up the tall central tower then. Turbines placed at the bottom make electricity from the updraft.

“It’s a combination chimney, windmill, greenhouse,” said Kim Forté of EnviroMission Limited in South Melbourne, Australia.
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“It really does look like microbes are sensitive to global changes. We are just not quite sure how they will respond,”

Breaking news from the world of global warm and climate change dated to the new day. The scientists warns on the forced biological diversity that comes with the global problem. Global warming and climate change may also impact the microscopic organisms, fungi and other microbial populations that support our life on Earth.

“Microbes perform a number of critical functions for ecosystems … we are only starting to understand the impact that global climate change is having on them,” were the words of Kathleen Treseder of the University of California.
Kathleen Treseder studied the effect of rising temperatures and fungi on carbon stores in Alaskan boreal forests, one area of the globe that is experiencing greater warming than others.

“There is a lot of frozen dead material under the snow pack. There is as much carbon trapped in the soil of northern ecosystems as there is carbon in the atmosphere. It is a big unknown what is going to happen if these environments heat up,” said Treseder.

Her research has been started with the hypothesis that an increase in temperatures would lead to increased decomposition by fungi and micro organisms and since one by-product of decomposition is carbon dioxide, rising temperatures should result in its greater release from the soil. What she found was that nitrogen levels in the soil increased as temperatures rose, which tends to suppress fungal decomposition rates.
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The UK government and Google are starting a new online project that may help more and more people learning about climate change.

Known as “Climate Change in Our World”, this tool uses information from the Met Office’s Hadley Centre and the BAS (British Antarctic Survey). It may provide two new layers, or animated information to all users of Google Earth.
The tool was launched at the Google Zeitgeist conference.
“I think this will be a huge tool for making everybody aware of the huge climate change of our time,” prime minister Gordon Brown has told.
As it’s known for now one animation must use world-leading climate-science capabilities from the Hadley Centre to show global temperatures throughout the next 100 years under projections of greenhouse-gas emissions, along with reports of how people are already being affected by changing weather patterns or soon might be.

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ERC Broadband announced today that it has signed an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) to provide broadband services to NCDC. NCDC, based in Asheville, provides NOAA’s climate data to millions of people. ERC Broadband is a vital partner in NCDC’s mission to acquire and deliver these data. The new agreement formalizes the partnership between NOAA/NCDC and ERC Broadband and underscores how ERC Broadband is helping Asheville build its role and reputation in the national climate services community.
Working with public, private and non-profit concerns, ERC Broadband’s goals are to grow the regional technical infrastructure and bring next generation Internet and advanced technology to the region. By accomplishing its goals, ERC Broadband is improving the overall quality of life in the area. ERC Broadband is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month.

“The new agreement stems from recognition that ERC Broadband is enhancing the national presence of NOAA’s NCDC, and that of the National Weather Service as well,” said Hunter Goosmann, General Manager of ERC Broadband. “ERC Broadband is creating awareness of and interest in climate data, and we are working with NCDC to establish and support the growth of its programs throughout the United States.”
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