2011 | SimCenter

Weather disasters seen costly sign of things to come

Molly O'Toole

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and the trend is expected to worsen as climate change continues, officials and scientists said on Thursday.

Wally's World -- Thirty-five years ago this week, Wallace Broecker predicted decades of dangerous climate change caused by humans. Unfortunately, he was all too prescient.

BRAD JOHNSON

On Aug.

Subsidies for Renewables, Biofuels Dwarfed by Supports for Fossil Fuels -- Bloomberg New Energy Finance Preliminary Analysis Highlights Wide Gap Between Government Help for Clean, Dirty Power Sources

Sarah Feinberg

NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--New research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance reveals that despite many platitudes and pledges, governments of the world are spending substantially more on subsidizing dirty forms of energy than on renewables and b

Experts roll out malaria map, urge mosquito study

Tan Ee Lyn

(Reuters) - Nearly 3 billion people, or two-fifths of the world's population, were at risk of contracting malaria in 2009 and closer study of the mosquito's life cycle is needed to combat the disease, researchers said in two reports.

Small fish said vital to seas; lower catches urged

Reuters // Reuters

OSLO, July 21 (Reuters) - Small fish play a big role in the oceans and catches should be cut sharply to safeguard marine food chains from plankton to blue whales, an international team of experts said on Thursday.

Melting Arctic ice releasing banned toxins, warn scientists -- Unknown amount of trapped persistent organic pollutants poses threat to marine life and humans as temperatures rise

Damian Carrington

The warming of the Arctic is releasing a new wave of banned toxic chemicals that had been trapped in the ice and cold water, scientists have discovered.

UN official warns climate change could lead to conflicts over resources -- 'There can be little doubt today that climate change has potentially far-reaching implications for global stability and security,' he says

Climate change could result in "sudden and abrupt" shocks to countries around the world and have "far-reaching implications for global stability and security," a senior United Nations' official has warned.

Map of Air Quality in China

Source

http://www.18show.cn/bbs/showtopic-8986.html

Here are the Scales, From top to bottom:

No Basis

Excellent Air Quality

Okay Air quality

Slightly Polluted

Lightly-Moderately Polluted

Moderately Polluted

Moderately-Heavily Polluted

Heavilily Polluted

Electricity Income Throughout the Years in China

Source

www.hzresearch.com

This graph shows the recent increase in the electricity consumption from 2009-2011

China's development progress and potential based on the number of publically accessible cities and amount of nonrenewable resources

Source

http://hlx0210.blog.163.com/blog/static/12676504320101127101934700/

Like my other maps, I did not make editions directly on the map because it is difficult to make adjustments on the already created images that have already been so beautifully created and I can explain the symbols and all just as well on here. So here it goes...the legends:

The solid dot represents the publically accessible cities

the striped box represents publically accessible regions

the dark box represents the storage of coal

the tall dark box placed vertically represent the storage of fossil fuel

the dotted line means the railroad