A favorite object of ridicule is any claim that the climate is changing significantly due to human activity. Within that general area of denial, climate models are especially favored targets.
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A favorite object of ridicule is any claim that the climate is changing significantly due to human activity. Within that general area of denial, climate models are especially favored targets.
An article on Alter.Net provides a useful overview of how shifts in precipitation and other climate patterns will continue to have major disruptive effects on the availability of fresh water in the United States. The short version is that the gradual movement of the jet stream farther north will make the southern states — both [...]
The Economist reports that Norwegian and Dutch companies are pursuing new designs for floating deep-sea wind turbines that potentially can produce multiples of the amount of electricity possible with turbines that must be firmly anchored into the sea-bed. Farther out to sea, winds blow at least twice as fast as they do closer to shore. [...]