Climate mitigation via Ergonomics ???

Two-Part Special Issue of Ergonomics in Design Highlights Climate Change Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) experts, like professionals in many other scientific domains, have joined the fight against…

Finding ET: 'worse than we thought'

From the University of Toronto: Search for life on exoplanets more difficult than thought A new study from the University of Toronto Scarborough suggests the search for life on planets…

Claim: 'health facilities are too vulnerable to weather and climate events'

From the American Meteorological Society A risk management framework improves health systems’ resilience to high-impact weather WASHINGTON — April 29, 2014 – According to a new study by the American…

Article: 'Wikipedia is worthless and damaging'

You only need to read a few climate entries on Wikipedia to know this Spiked Online article rings true We have watched how people like Wikipedia climate fiddler William Connolley…

One way adjustments: The Latest Alteration to the U.S. Climate Record

Guest essay by Dan Travers On Thursday, March 13, 2014, the U.S. National Climactic Data Center switched to gridded GHCN-D data sets it uses to report long term temperature trends…

Climate Craziness of the Week – UN: Climate change to affect computers, communications, prepare now

Rampant BSOD’s expected in a warmer future? Guest essay by Eric Worrall In a mind aching exercise in recursion, the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union has released a report based…

The best argument yet for draining wetlands

From the University of Guelph Wetlands Likely to Blame for Greenhouse Gas Increases A surprising recent rise in atmospheric methane likely stems from wetland emissions, suggesting that much more of…