Climate Changer

The International Symposium: “ICTs and Climate Change” Organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Supported and hosted by BT plc has started today and may continue tomorrow also. Some of the public global warming topic are as goes: Session 1: Climate change: ICTs to the rescue? , Corporate responsibility:Towards a climate-neutral ICT Sector
, ICTs for monitoring climate change, ICTs as a green technology, Towards a high-bandwidth, low carbon future, Adapting to climate change and Review and Wrap-up. Here you can download some pdf and word format documents around this initiative. Contact tsbtechwatch@itu.int for more information

How about having a garden and some percent of the plants in it collect solar power? Tech-Temple is reporting that Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Mitsubishi Corp. and Tokki Corp. have developed a prototype solar cell module that realistically takes on the look of a common houseplant / Read here. The idea behind this invention is very cool infact. Flowers, artificial or not are incorporated in our world widely. With this kind of technology possible at normal price i think much people will rearrange their homes, garden or whatever with this kind of stuff

“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.
Continue reading Climate change May Cause The Micro Organisms

Today may finish the celebration of the world maritime university, which was started at July 2nd at Malmö Börshus, Malmö, Sweden. As regular party of the global initiative for sustainable growth and climate fight, their quoter century anniversary must be noted with the ICCMI Conference 2008, where experts from around the globe are discussing how climate change might affect various maritime and coastal activities, tips and tricks of evaluating measures to ensure the sustainability of maritime industries. Here we got attached some useful documents in order to this public event, check the full information at pdf format and Symposium Programme.

Continue reading Impacts Of Climate Change On The Maritime Industry 2008

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.