The hardcore climate geeks (and yes, you know who you are; let us not stoop to naming names) are familiar with NASA’s GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite mission, probably in connection with its monitoring of the hair-raising ice loss in Greenland. As it turns out, GRACE’s usefulness to climate issues extends well beyond . . . → Read More: Tracking water on the move
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The IDFC (Infrastructure Finance Company) has released their India Infrastructure Report 2011. From the Foreword (emphasis added): It may well be true that the most bitter conflicts in the next fifty years will not be over oil but water. Already, almost a billion people in the world live without access to clean water. h e sustainability of . . . → Read More: Doc alert: India Infrastructure Report Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants: Electricity’s Thirst for a Precious Resource: Take the average amount of water flowing over Niagara Falls in a minute. Now triple it. That’s almost how much water power plants in the United States take in for cooling each minute, on average. In 2005, the nation’s thermoelectric power plants—which boil water to create . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Freshwater Use by US Power Plants Water Energy Food Nexus, Bonn 2011 (emphasis added): A new report on the water-food-energy nexus from the World Resource Institute (WRI), the Coca-Cola Company and iSciences, compiles information the WRI gathered with help from its partners in the Aqueduct project, which includes General Electric, The Coca-Cola Company, Bloomberg, The Dow Chemical Company, Talisman Energy, United Technologies Corporation . . . → Read More: Energy, water, food. Any questions? “Understanding the Nexus”, Water Energy Food Nexus, Bonn 2011: Background paper for the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference is now available This paper for the Bonn 2011 Conference presents initial evidence for how a nexus approach can enhance water, energy and food security in a green economy by increasing efficiency, reducing trade-offs, and building synergies across sectors. It also underpins . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Understanding the Nexus It’s not what people don’t know that hurts them. It’s what they do know that just ain’t so. We’ve seen a relentless parade of “it’s worse than we thought” news in the last few years related to energy and climate. It’s . . . → Read More: Good news about water, for a change One of the great challenges of climate change is understanding all the knock-on effects of a “small” amount of warming, because not only are they not all immediately apparent, and not only don’t we understand each of them as fully as we’d prefer, but once you begin to consider the interactions between the effects and try . . . → Read More: Reaching the last dots Honestly, I sometimes wonder how you people do anything without my help. Take, for example, the alarming plunge in world corn stocks (emphasis added): Even a fifth consecutive year of record global corn harvests will fail to meet demand for food, fuel and livestock feed, reducing world stockpiles to the lowest in two generations. Consumption will rise 3 percent . . . → Read More: A simple little food problem From the Food and Agriculture Orangization of the United Nations, Climate change: major impacts on water for farming: Climate change will have major impacts on the availability of water for growing food and on crop productivity in the decades to come, warns a new FAO report. Climate Change, Water, and Food Security is a comprehensive survey of existing . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Climate change, water, and food Europe’s dry spring could lead to power blackouts, governments warn: One of the driest springs ever recorded in northern Europe could lead to power blackouts this summer, with nuclear reactors going offline because of low river levels. The exceptionally dry weather will also raise food prices and has already forced water restrictions on millions of people, say . . . → Read More: Europe 2011: Ground zero for the energy/water/food nexus |
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