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The beauty of the Arctic, its precious and fragile nature, its critical role in maintaining a stable climate for the planet, and the rapid rate of change that is occurring there must all be conveyed to the general public. Here, through digital story telling, we put a human face on science, life, societies, and the natural world in the Arctic.
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Study gives clearer picture of how land-use changes affect U.S. climate
Researchers say regional surface temperatures can be affected by land use, suggesting that local and regional strategies, such as creating green spaces and buffer zones in and around urban areas, could be a tool in addressing climate change.
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Otto Doering named interim director of Purdue Climate Change Research Center
Otto Doering, professor of agricultural economics, has been named the interim director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center. His appointment became effective October 2009.
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Climate change could deepen poverty in developing countries, study finds
Urban workers could suffer most from climate change as the cost of food drives them into poverty, according to a new study that quantifies the effects of climate on the world's poor populations.
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Purdue swept up in largest tornado field study in history
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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Study: Climate change to affect monsoon in South Asia
The South Asian summer monsoon - critical to agriculture in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan - could be weakened and delayed due to rising temperatures in the future, according to a recent climate modeling study.
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Prehistoric global cooling caused by CO2, research finds
Ice in Antarctica suddenly appeared - in geologic terms - about 35 million years ago. For the previous 100 million years the continent had been essentially ice-free. The question for science has been, why? What triggered glaciers to form at the South Pole?
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Carbon dioxide emissions map released on Google Earth
A new high-resolution, interactive map of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels is now available on Google Earth. With a few clicks on Google Earth, anyone can now view pollution from factories, power plants, roadways, and residential and commercial areas for their state, county or per capita
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New Book - Political Theory and Global Climate Change
Leigh Raymond has contributed the chapter on "Allocating the Global Commons" to a new book out by MIT Press, Steve Vanderheiden (Ed.), Paper / November 2008. It is summarized as follows: Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, critical legal studies, and neo-Marxism.
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WISH TV8 Special Climate/Weather Report: The Year of Extremes
Ernest Agee and Noah Diffenbaugh of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center discuss weather extremes, La Niña, and global warming as manifested beginning fall of 2007 and through 2008. "The winter that we had in the United States in 2008 was very much like what some people hypothesized what the winter could look like, in terms of severe weather, if the atmosphere warmed sufficiently," says Diffenbaugh.
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Snakes Tell a Torrid Tale
February 2009 - The discovery in Colombia of a giant species of fossil snake is news in itself. But a wider, more controversial inference to be drawn is that tropical climate in the past was not buffered from global warming.
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YouTube Presentation: How to Count ALL Human Carbon Emissions in the US
Kevin Gurney features his Vulcan and Hestia projects as a GoogleTechTalk.
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PCCRC Distinguished Lecture - Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lettenmaier, Professor of hydrology at the University of Washington, Seattle, will present a lecture, "125 years of hydrologic change in the Puget Sound basin: the relative signatures of climate and land cover" on Monday, October 20, 2008. See the calendar for details.
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Climate Center Begins Search for New Director
Purdue University seeks an internationally recognized scholar to serve as Director for the Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC). The Director will lead the Center in its mission and will be responsible for all internal and external affairs of the Center.
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Earth & Sky Radio Series: Research identifies US climate change hot spots
By the end of this century, experts expect Earth s climate to have changed. Here in the U.S., the climate in the southwestern states might change most, according to Noah Diffenbaugh of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center.
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PCCRC Distinguished Lecture - Dr. James Hurrell
We are pleased to announce that Dr. James Hurrell, Senior Scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at NCAR, will present this year s first PCCRC Distinguished Lecture.
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Future snowmelt in West twice as early as expected; threatens ecosystems and water reserves
According to a new study, global warming could lead to larger changes in snowmelt in the western United States than was previously thought, possibly increasing wildfire risk and creating new water management challenges for agriculture, ecosystems and urban populations.
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American Carbon
Kevin Gurney and several colleagues from Purdue, Colorado State University, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory published the first detailed inventory of carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels across the United States.
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Researchers propose new way to incorporate deforestation into climate change treaty
PCCRC Associate Directors Kevin Gurney and Leigh Raymond have proposed a new option for incorporating deforestation into the international climate change treaty.
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Research forecasts increased chances for stormy weather
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers who study severe weather and climate change joined forces to study the effects of global warming on the number of severe storms in the future and discovered a dramatic increase in potential storm conditions for some parts of the United States.
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Paul Shepson on his work and Climate Change
Stories from the CFL (Circumpolar Flaw Lead System Study) at the top of the world...
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PCCRC Graduate Fellowships
Purdue University invites applications for PCCRC Graduate Fellowships, in support of graduate study leading to the Ph.D. degree in any area related to climate change science, impacts, and policy.
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Scientists develop new measure of " socioclimatic " risk
As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia, researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the " socioclimatic " exposure of different countries to future climate change.
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