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“Risparmiando energia salveremo il Pianeta”. Intervista a Robert Engle

“Risparmiando energia salveremo il Pianeta”. Intervista a Robert Engle

La Repubblica intervista Robert Engle, economista formatosi al Mit e oggi docente alla New York University, premio Nobel per l’economia nel 2003. Engle si dedica da tempo, con particolare attenzione, alle conseguenze del riscaldamento globale e lancia un allarme: “Su questo tema c’è un’attenzione molto minore rispetto a dieci anni fa. Forse questa è la dimostrazione che finché si impegnavano personaggi ad alta visibilità mediatica come Albert Gore, gli effetti erano positivi. In mancanza di celebrities, l’attenzione viene meno. E’ tempo di riprendere a impegnarsi. Tanto per cominciare, vanno studiate attentamente le interrelazioni fra la risorsa acqua e la risorsa energia”.

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Global warming continues and won’t be stopped by wishful thinking

Global warming continues and won’t be stopped by wishful thinking

Global warming has continued rapidly in recent years, mostly accumulating in the oceans. Yet there remains a pervasive myth that it has somehow magically stopped. Most recently displaying this confusion was Georgia Tech climate scientist Judith Curry, who testified about climate change before a US Senate committee. Curry’s testimony was riddled with mistakes and misleading arguments, in her testimony, the worst of which involved disputing that climate scientists are more confident in human-caused global warming than they were six years ago. 

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Leaked IPCC report links climate change to global food scarcity

Leaked IPCC report links climate change to global food scarcity

It’s a human-centric approach, but the prospect of a food scare should be one way to get people—believers and deniers alike—to seriously evaluate the effects of climate change. Last week, a source leaked a draft report, drawn up by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and due to be released next March. It’s the second of three reports, following the first that came out in September this year. Among other things, the text clearly outlines the threats climate change poses to the global food supply, citing a decrease of up to 2% each decade in yields of staple crops like maize, wheat, and rice.

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The dangerous effects of global warming

The dangerous effects of global warming

DID GLOBAL warming contribute to the punishing heat wave much of the country endured during the summer of 2012? How about Superstorm Sandy? A group of 78 scientists led by experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week gave their preliminary answers, releasing a series of peer-reviewed analyses on those and other major weather events from last year. The picture they offer is of a planet in which warming has boosted the chances, in some cases significantly, that certain unwelcome weather or weather-related disasters will occur.

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