The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Africa was drier than today and was followed by rapid step-wise climate changes during the last deglacial period.
Nov. 2, 5 36 p.m. | Updated below | I was happy this afternoon to see New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg choose what I consider very wise language on climate and catastrophic storms in his Bloomberg View piece endorsing President Obama: Our climate is changing.
This paper examines the impact of participation in the Climate Wise program, one of the largest voluntary programs enacted in the US, on innovative activity by firms.
In operation from 1993 to 2000, the Climate Wise program was designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting innovation in energy efficiency and energy related activities.
We find some evidence that participation in the Climate Wise leads to a change in environmental patenting but only among less R&D intensive firms.
We find that the Climate Wise program was attractive to large firms, more R&D intensive firms, and firms with more financial resources.
To consider the impact of Climate Wise participation on the innovative behavior of firms, we investigate whether participants and non-participants differed in the number of successful environmental and non-environmental patent applications between 1993 and 2003.
27, 6 00 p.m.: Jason Box has posted a piece explaining why Greenland matters to sea level projections.] But first here's more on this ice-core study and the broader context, including some great input from the wise and deeply experienced climate and ice researcher Richard Alley of Penn State.
And because these are uncertain times, climate-wise, "it would be smart to select plants that can take both periods of wet as well as a certain amount of drought," said Tony Avent, the owner of Plant Delights (919-772-4794, planurseryhts.com), a nursery in Raleigh, N.C., known for its adventurous inventory.
The International Energy Agency today released a helpful report that charts four climate-wise (if fairly familiar) actions countries can pursue to make a difference in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020.
Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous, landlocked, and strongly continental, climate-wise, country in Central Asia.
