Saturday, March 27, 2010

Climate Change Quiz


Can Climate Models Predict Global Warming's Direct Effects in Your City?
The U.S. government is launching a $50-million effort to enable supercomputer-powered climate models to deliver regional impacts
Nobody lives in the global average climate. Nor are the massive grid cells favored by climate models run on today's supercomputers as useful as they could be for planning purposes, given that they can encompass 10,000 square kilometers. Now the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with the U.S. Energy and Agriculture departments are teaming up to financially support the development of new computer models aimed at revealing the anticipated effects of climate change at the regional level.


6 Green Gadgets Your Home Needs
My husband and I used to run around the house unplugging everything—TVs, computers, cell chargers. We had no idea how much energy we were using. We didn’t know if the house was leaking warm air in the winter or cool air in the summer, or where those energy vampires were hiding. But now that the rest of America wants to save money (and the earth), companies are stepping up with new advances that can help.


Climate Change Quiz

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