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Climate change and related impacts are becoming increasingly relevant to environmental, economic and security issues. This raises convergent points of interest and thematic platforms for those interested in confronting this global challenge from a multidisciplinary perspective. The Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) was chartered in 2004 to create a world-class multidisciplinary research center focused on interrelated aspects of climate change, its impacts, and mitigation.
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Winters in the Great Lakes Region are now warmer than they were in the early years of the 20th Century.More >>
The north pole used to be 23°C (74°F). More >>
According to Sriver and Huber (Nature, 447, 2007), about 15% of peak ocean heat transport may be associated with tropical cyclone induced mixing. More >>
Every area of the world faces high exposure to future climate change in at least one way. More >>
We can measure CO2 concentrations from a light aircraft. More >>
Tropical forests are removing an unexpectedly high proportion of CO2 from the atomsphere. More >>
Students calculate Purdue's carbon footprint More >>
Purdue University researchers could improve tornado warnings and unveil trends in their occurrences as part of the largest tornado and storm field study in history.
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Hot times ahead for the Wild West
Extreme temperatures are expected to become more common in the western United States by 2040 if greenhouse gases continue to rise, researchers say.
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Vulcan Project featured on PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer featured Kevin Gurney's Vulcan Project in a program about coal ("Burning Issue"). The Vulcan fossil fuel CO2 emissions inventory was used to create a map and video of the CO2 emissions from coal-fired electric power generating plants in the US.
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New Book - Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy
Tom Hertel has a new book in the series "Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics". A brief summary: Land has long been neglected in economics. That is now changing. Recently, seven teams from Australia, the European Union, and the USA have, for the first time, included land use in their computable general equilibrium models, the work horses of economic policy analysis. This book describes and critically assesses the underlying data, the methodologies used, and the first applications.
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