Today 14 institutes from Europe, North Africa, the Middle East kicked off a three year research initiative dedicated to analyzing the effects drought, flooding, and rise of sea-levels will have on the intensification of social tension and conflicts in Europe and Africa. The project, entitled Climate Change, Water Conflict, and Human Security (CLICO), aims to [...]
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Europe begins three year climate change project
- 02.25.2010
The problem with foreign oil is
- 02.23.2010
Check out this excellent blog post by Carla Alonso over at The Daily Loaf discussing the dangers our foreign oil dependency poses to our national security. Specifically she highlights the testimony Retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn gave to Public Works Committee in a hearing on Climate Change and National Security and the report [...]
Taiwan joins climate change fight
- 02.23.2010
For a long time, no one paid attention to climate change’s effect on Taiwan, until now. According to an article in yesterday’s Taiwan News, Sisy Chen, a well known Taiwanese political commentator and TV host is set to release a Documentary “Plus or Minus 2 Degrees Celsius” that highlights climate change’s impact on the island [...]
US must lead on clean technology
- 02.17.2010
In the midst of new developments in the climate-science debate, Tom Friedman’s column rightly highlights the real issue of who will gain the monopoly on clean technology – because its clear that if the US doesn’t, other countries like Russia and China will. He writes:
Even if climate change proves less catastrophic than some fear, in [...]
