Posts treating: "Copenhagen"
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
I don’t believe for a second that we are on the brink of global destruction. We are on the brink of a global re-distribution and whole scale re-balancing of global goods and bads. But we have been there before and
As we head to Paris, the expectations are profoundly lower. The national commitments that countries are putting on the table do not add up to nearly enough to keep us within 2 degrees; instead the plan is to come back every five years and hopefully do better. ... It is still mathematically possible to stay within 2 degrees, but the odds of actually doing so seem to be receding by the
All of the pledges made in Paris will be voluntary. However, countries have not always fulfilled their pledges in the past, and it isn't obvious that this agreement is going to cause countries to behave very differently in the
The climate issue seems to generate a high level of ideologically based politics, emotional rhetoric and political symbolism. It is time to move past symbols to pragmatism and political
As recently noted, it was my pleasure and privilege on 25 June to give a talk at the ESOF2014 conference in Copenhagen (the EuroScience Open Forum). My talk was one of four, followed by a panel discussion, in a session on the subject “Should science always be open?“. I had just ten minutes to
In a couple of weeks (in the early afternoon of 25 June), I’ll be speaking at ESOF 2014 (the EuroScience Open Forum) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The session I’m part of is entitled “Should science always be open?“, and the irony is not lost on me that, as that page says, “You must be registered and
Oxygen appeared in the atmosphere up to 700 million years earlier than we previously thought, according to research published today in the journal Nature, raising new questions about the evolution of early life.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and University of British Columbia examined the chemical composition of three-billion-year-old soils from South Africa – the oldest
We kindly invite PhD students to attend an ELITE course in Tectonics.
A team of geologists from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) in Copenhagen, Cardiff University in Wales, Lund University in Sweden and the Institute of Planetary Science in Moscow has found the remains of a giant asteroid impact crater in Western Greenland that is over 3 billion years old! Preliminary size estimates of the impacting meteorite at Maniitsoq suggest it may have had a diameter of approximately 30 km resulting in an impact crater of somewhere around 500-600 km. If [...]
It is nothing short of a world record in DNA research that scientists at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (University of Copenhagen) have hit. They have sequenced the so far oldest genome from a prehistoric creature. They have done so by sequencing and analyzing short pieces of DNA molecules preserved in bone-remnants from a horse that had been kept frozen
Volcanoes are well known for cooling the climate. But just how much and when has been a bone of contention among historians, glaciologists and archeologists. Now a team of atmosphere chemists, from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Copenhagen, has come up with a way to say for sure which historic episodes of global cooling were caused by volcanic eruptions.
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Southampton recently formed part of a contingent representing UK spatial analysts from Leeds, UCL, Southampton and Sheffield at the Colloquium on Spatial Analysis, Institute of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen. Presentations were given by both senior researchers and postgraduates from the UK and the institute. Over two days of presentations and debates
Our version above of the bivalve Inoceramus is actually rather small compared to how big it can get. The record holder is a specimen 187 centimeters in diameter (over six feet) in the Geological Museum of Copenhagen. This Wooster Inoceramus is from the Pierre Shale of South Dakota, a unit my colleague Paul Taylor and
After the intensity and optimism of last year's Copenhagen climate meetings, the U.N. climate talks have returned to a less highly charged, lower key set of diplomatic exchanges. Last week Lisa Friedman, Evan Lehmann and Jean Chemnick of Climatewire reported on the lack of attention being paid to the conference by the United States Congress, and concluded
Guest post by Jeff Taylor, postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and project manager of AGU’s Climate Q&A Service . More than 700 AGU scientists have volunteered to take part in this year’s Climate Q&A Service which was created to quickly provide answers to questions about climate change that journalists might have. It was launched last year just before the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15),
O Idesam e TNC, com o apoio da GTZ lançam a publicação “Guia de Projetos de REDD+ na América Latina” na versão em português, uma atualização da primeira edição em inglês publicada durante a COPD15 em Copenhagen. O guia traça um panorama da situação atual dos projetos de REDD+ (Redução de Emissões do Desmatamento e Degradação Florestal) desenvolvidos na América Latina.O guia apresenta de maneira detalhada e acessível os projetos em estágios avançados de desenvolvimento [...]
Last December, while thousands of reporters were heading to Copenhagen to cover the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Stacy Jackson was leading an ambitious outreach project: rallying and organizing several hundred PhD climate scientists to answer journalists’ questions throughout the 12-day meeting, 24/7. A PhD candidate in near-term climate change at UC Berkeley,
[EDITOR’s NOTE] In 1999, an earthquake along the North Anatolian fault killed ~30,000 people in western Turkey. There is some evidence that another segment closer to the densely populated city of Istanbul could be next to rupture, which could create worse devastation. A team of Turkish, American and French scientists are on a Turkish research
In only three consecutive days while driving around the clusters that constitute roughly the 44,000 people of Mbola in Tanzania, anyone could measure in many ways the return on investments of specifically targeted social interventions.
HEALTH CLINICS – SOLAR ENERGY
As narrated by locals, before the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) started, women traditionally gave birth at home
Today, saturday 22 May 2010 is the International Day for Biological Diversity. The United Nations proclaimed 22 May The International Day for Biological Diversity to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. When first created by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in late 1993, 29 December (the date of entry into force of the Convention of Biological Diversity), was designated The International Day for Biological Diversity. In December 2000, the UN General [...]