Video game designers battle to depict climate impacts
Game designer Sam Alfred is keenly aware of the challenge he faces in trying to build a video game with climate change at its heart.
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Game designer Sam Alfred is keenly aware of the challenge he faces in trying to build a video game with climate change at its heart.
Jun 28, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
It seems like energy policies are constantly making headlines these days. Should Canada "axe the tax?" Is it time to end the tax breaks to Canadian fossil fuel companies and invest in renewable energy? Are electric vehicles ...
Jun 22, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
There is public support for introducing traffic-light labeling and levies for the advertising of high-carbon products and services like petrol and diesel cars, meat and air travel, new research shows.
Jun 19, 2024
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Business
This week's announcement of the government's plans to reopen New Zealand's territorial waters to oil drilling comes as no surprise. All three coalition parties campaigned on reversing the 2018 ban on offshore oil exploration.
Jun 13, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed free data sets to estimate how much energy any building in the contiguous U.S. will use in 2100. These data sets provide planners with a way to anticipate future ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Engineering
In a bid to tackle the enduring problem of infrastructure durability in the face of relentless freeze–thaw (F–T) cycles, a team of researchers have published a study in Engineering. The study, titled "Analysis and Zonation ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Achieving the United States' ambitious emissions reduction goals depends in large part on the rapid adoption of wind and solar energy and the electrification of consumer vehicles. However, misinformation and coordinated disinformation ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Swiss voters were expected to approve in a referendum Sunday a law aimed at accelerating the development of renewable energy as the country aims for carbon neutrality by 2050.
Jun 9, 2024
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Engineering
The EOLO group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) presents a new method for analyzing the long-term mechanical fatigue of floating offshore wind turbines.
Jun 6, 2024
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Across the African continent, more than 300 new hydropower projects are planned to meet the growing demand for electricity. Some of these will require big dams, which can have major negative environmental impacts. Another ...
Jun 6, 2024
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Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time. Climate can be contrasted to weather, which is the present condition of these same elements over periods up to two weeks.
The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, terrain, altitude, ice or snow cover, as well as nearby water bodies and their currents. Climates can be classified according to the average and typical ranges of different variables, most commonly temperature and rainfall. The most commonly used classification scheme is the one originally developed by Wladimir Köppen. The Thornthwaite system, in use since 1948, incorporates evapotranspiration in addition to temperature and precipitation information and is used in studying animal species diversity and potential impacts of climate changes. The Bergeron and Spatial Synoptic Classification systems focus on the origin of air masses defining the climate for certain areas.
Paleoclimatology is the study and description of ancient climates. Since direct observations of climate are not available before the 19th century, paleoclimates are inferred from proxy variables that include non-biotic evidence such as sediments found in lake beds and ice cores, and biotic evidence such as tree rings and coral. Climate models are mathematical models of past, present and future climates.
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