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Climate change: enhanced tree cover can save B'luru

Edit Deccan Herald 13 May 2016
Highest ever temperature of 39.2 degree Celsius was recorded on April 24 ... A report on climate change projections and impacts for Karnataka prepared by the BCCI-K (Bengaluru Climate Change Initiative – Karnataka) in collaboration with GGGI (Global Green Growth Institute) projects warming by less than 2 degree Celsius by 2030s and more than 4 degree Celsius by 2080s under high greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenario for Bengaluru....

Does More Carbon Dioxide Mean Increased Crop Water Productivity?

Edit Slashdot 25 Apr 2016
An anonymous reader points us to an Ars Technica report ... By combining data from a massive network of field experiments and global crop models, the scientists claimed that depending on the crop type, global crop water productivity will increase by 10 to 27 percent by the 2080s ... ....

Congressional and Navy Leaders Break Ground for Vital 'Next Era' SLBM Facility (NAVSEA - Naval Sea Systems Command)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Mar 2016
(Source. NAVSEA - Naval Sea Systems Command). By NSWCDD Corporate Communications Division . March 23, 2016. DAHLGREN, Va. - Congressional and military leaders broke ground for a new facility considered vital to the Navy's Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) Program, March 18 ... The speakers emphasized that the NSWCDD facility will help ensure that the Ohio Replacement Submarine remains a strategic deterrent into the 2080s ... (noodl....

Congressional, Navy Leaders Break Ground for Vital 'Next Era' SLBM Facility (The United States Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Mar 2016
(Source. The United States Navy). By John Joyce, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Corporate Communications. DAHLGREN, Va ... Four speakers - Capt. Brian Durant, Vice Adm. Terry Benedict, Rep. Rob Wittman, and Sen ... 'Our facilities are part of generating readiness,' said Wittman ... The speakers emphasized that the NSWCDD facility will help ensure that the Ohio Replacement Submarine remains a strategic deterrent into the 2080s ... (noodl....

Bureau of Reclamation Publishes Columbia River Basin Climate Impact Assessment (Bureau of Reclamation)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Mar 2016
(Source. Bureau of Reclamation). Bureau of Reclamation Publishes Columbia River Basin Climate Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment finds warming temperatures will continue and precipitation timing will change significantly. Media Contact. Peter Soeth, 303-445-3615. For Release. March 22, 2016 ... They were separated into four future periods and were centered on the 2020s, 2040s, 2060s and 2080s ... # # # ... Relevant Link. ... Original Document ... (noodl....

One of America's most notorious jails is literally sinking into the ground

Edit Business Insider 21 Mar 2016
There’s a known stench on Rikers Island in the New York summertime. Neither the people incarcerated there, nor the correction officers working there, can escape it. “The smell alone would torture you,” says Candie Hailey-Means, who was incarcerated at Rikers until May 2015 ... ]. 1 ... A 2013 study published in Nature Climate Change projected a 20 percent increase in heat deaths by the 2020s, with that percentage further doubling by the 2080s ... ....

The environmental disaster that is Rikers Island

Edit Grist 15 Mar 2016
There’s a known stench on Rikers Island in the New York summertime. Neither the people incarcerated there, nor the correction officers working there, can escape it ... “It smells like sewer, mixed with fertilizer, mixed with death.”. Hailey-Means was sent to Rikers on Feb ... 1 ... 2 ... A 2013 study published in Nature Climate Change projected a 20 percent increase in heat deaths by the 2020s, with that percentage further doubling by the 2080s....

Up to 70 Percent of Northeast U.S. Coast May Adapt to Rising Seas (USGS - US Geological Survey)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Mar 2016
The USGS model is the first to factor in natural forces and make detailed predictions from the 2020s through the 2080s over a large coastal area, some 38,000 square kilometers (about 9.4 million acres) ... to the atmosphere through the 21 century, the team projected global sea level rise for the 2020s through the 2080s, and applied that to the coast....

Flood risk assessments: climate change allowances (The Environment Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Feb 2016
Table 1 peak river flow allowances by river basin district (use 1961 to 1990 baseline) River basin district Allowance category Total potential change anticipated for '2020s' (2015 to 39) Total potential change anticipated for '2050s' (2040 to 2069) Total potential change anticipated for '2080s' (2070 to 2115)....

Is the Zika outbreak connected to climate change?

Edit Grist 02 Feb 2016
The U.S ... Zika is bad, and it’s on its way here ... Recent research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research shows that by the 2080s, global warming alone may increase the number of people globally exposed Aedes aegypti by about 8 to 12 percent, but when factoring in trends in migration and population growth, that number balloons to a 59- to 134-percent rise, with North America one of the regions showing the fastest growth ... Again....

Could Climate Change Amplify the Zika Outbreak?

Edit Slate 29 Jan 2016
Advertisement ... The U.S ... Recent research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research shows that by the 2080s, global warming alone may increase the number of people globally exposed Aedes aegypti by about 8 to 12 percent, but when factoring in trends in migration and population growth, that number balloons to a 59- to 134-percent rise, with North America one of the regions showing the fastest growth ... ....

Researcher’s Work Shows History Doesn’t Indicate the Future of Climate Change (University of California, Merced) ...

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jan 2016
(Source. University of California, Merced) ... precipitation and temperature data over the past century to answer two questions ... 'However, that is very far from what scientists have predicted we will actually experience - more than 3 degrees by the 2080s. 'By the 2080s, the snowfall likelihoods are projected to be worse than the worst we've seen in the past century.' ... By the 2080s, that could increase to a 65 percent reduction, Safeeq said....

Power Plants Threatened as Global Warming Affects Water Supplies

Edit Bloomberg 04 Jan 2016
More than two-thirds of the world’s power plants may have trouble running at full capacity as the warming climate affects water supplies, according to a new study ... Global hydropower capacity is expected to drop by as much as 3.6 percent in the 2050s and almost double that amount by the 2080s ... Still, the worldwide trend is negative ... ....
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