Impact of Continental Mass Change on Rate-of-Rise of Sea Level Reference Baur, O., Kuhn, M. and Featherstone, W.E. 2013. Continental mass change from GRACE over 2002-2011 and its impact on sea level. Journal of Geodesy 87: 117-125.Background The authors write that “present-day continental mass variation as observed by space gravimetry reveals secular mass decline and Continue Reading →
Female labour annual growth much higher than that of males during 2007-11 Myra Imran Wednesday, July 03, 2013 From Print Edition 12 0 1 0 Islamabad In Punjab, only 9.46 million females were in the labour force as compared to 24.9 million males during the year 2010-11 but the average annual growth rate of Continue Reading →
Moniz: CO2 could enhance US oil by millions of barrels a day (video) Posted on July 1, 2013 at 10:02 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Environment Comments(0) | E-mail | Print The future of coal-fired power may lie in still-developing technology to capture the carbon dioxide it produces and put it to work Continue Reading →
Greenhouse Gas Likely Altering Ocean Foodchain: Atmospheric CO2 Has Big Consequences for Tiny Bacteria July 2, 2013 — Climate change may be weeding out the bacteria that form the base of the ocean’s food chain, selecting certain strains for survival, according to a new study. Share This: 25 In climate change, as in everything, there Continue Reading →
Has the Republican Party stopped denying climate science, and will they begin participating in the solutions? Following President Obama’s climate plan, the answers appear to be yes and no, respectively Share 37 inShare1 Email President Barack Obama delivers his climate change speech. Photograph: Dennis Brack/Corbis Given that nearly 70 percent of Republicans in Congress and Continue Reading →
(It should also be remembered that the Franklin Dam was a factor in Fraser’s election loss in the 1970’s. ) Wednesday 3 July 2013 01.03 BST Asylum seekers: six things Kevin Rudd should learn from Malcolm Fraser When it comes to refugees, former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser looks leftwing compared to Labor’s current positioning. Continue Reading →