Head in a Cloud

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• 1 NPQueen // Sep 7, 2008 at 1:43 am

  I just read a new article : Climate is right for emissions law where New Zealand’s first major piece of climate change legislation becomes law this week causing businesses and consumers to change their thinking about energy, technology and their economy. “Some businesses, though, genuinely can’t change quickly. They have no technology options or they face too much overseas competition. Rightly, the climate change legislation has mechanisms to help them in the medium term.” With many big challenges still ahead, New Zealand is taking steps to reduce it’s emissions and it’s carbon footprint. This is good news, and a good article.

• 2 Tanya Phillips // Sep 8, 2008 at 12:06 pm

  Thanks for all the positive comments on my June post, I glad people find it useful. Also, I appreciate the information about New Zealand and their first major piece of climate change legislation. I happy to see the effort, but still question effectiveness. Like most countries, there is plenty of politics to muddle through. This is also stated in the given link, but it sounds like a new and promising system. I will wait and see what happens. I just hope the mud doesn’t get so thick that the effort is stopped altogether.

• 3 yutcmri // Sep 15, 2008 at 6:54 pm

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• 4 Tanya Phillips // Oct 16, 2008 at 10:29 am

  I think a large part (so not all) of the recent climate change on Earth has to due with human activity, including the exponential rate of increase that has occurred since the industrial revolution. Yes, Earth has it’s own cycles, but I think humans are accelerating that process at an alarming rate. In reality, most of our problems can be traced to population growth. Things are not balanced in the Earth system equation of input and output. Anyway, I could go on forever. Basically I think the large global human population is tipping the natural balance of Earth. Solutions, well there are many options that can be argued for centuries, hopefully something happens.

• 5 Rendy Wong // Nov 24, 2008 at 6:41 am

  Thank you so much tanya for that http://www.eoearth.org/ website, please let me check the site, thank you!

• 6 voicesplus // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:03 pm

  thanks to all the positive feedback I think it’s easy to be happy people. In addition, New Zealand, the first big piece of legislation on climate change, and thank you for the information. I find that efforts to satisfy this effect is still questionable. As with most of the country for a variety of politics is to stay in any way. This can not find a particular link, but it sounds like a system with a new hope. I’m waiting to see what happens when. I tried to stop the mud is not expected to have the interval.

• 7 Nina-ger // Jan 27, 2009 at 1:15 am

  thank you for the great relevancy article!

  greetings from germany!

  nina
  (Subwoofer Endstufe)

• 8 Tanya Phillips // Jan 27, 2009 at 7:56 pm

  Hallo, guten Tag!
  Wo wohnen Sie? (In Germany)

  I have German roommates (one from Konstanz and one from Hanover), so I know a little bit of German, but not fluent, maybe one day.
  It’s great to see people reading this blog from all over the world. Thanks, as always, for all of the wonderful comments.

  Tanya

• 9 Membaca // Feb 24, 2009 at 11:12 pm

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• 10 Ronald // Mar 21, 2009 at 1:38 am

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• 11 Dennis // Mar 21, 2009 at 1:41 am

  Just checked out the site, Thanks for showing it to us.

• 12 Tanya Phillips // Mar 23, 2009 at 1:51 pm

  To Membaca – sorry for note responding sooner. Here’s the website for this blog: http://atoc.colorado.edu/~seand/headinacloud/

  To everyone else – As always, thanks for the comments, love, love that people are enjoy the blog and what I post. Haven’t posted for a while, I hope to post soon. COMPS II, graduate school stuff, is keeping me busy.

• 13 whirlandmayer // Jun 19, 2009 at 5:07 am

  Climate changes come in all sorts and sizes. Over the last few billion years our planet has ranged from being a global snowball to a world so warm that reptiles bathed in the sun in Antarctica, according to the geologic evidence. Life has always played a pivotal role in Earth’s climate, having been both driven to evolve by climate changes and an actual driver of climate change. Among the most important climate players have been those organisms that suck up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the air, deposit its carbon into the ground, and release oxygen into the atmosphere – a.k.a., plants, algae and other photosynthesizers. Over millions of years they enriched the atmosphere with oxygen, making animal life and a cooler world possible. Surprisingly, clay may have also played a big role. According to recent research, special clay minerals — made by soil microbes on land and washed into the seas – acted like “kitty litter” in the seas and absorbed vast quantities of oxygen-consuming organic carbon compounds. The minerals sank to the seafloor with their carbon loads and were buried.

• 14 IXMATCH // Jul 1, 2009 at 11:14 pm

  About this Collection
  The last two decades of the 20th century produced mounting evidence that climate change posed significant risks to society. At the beginning of the 21st century, climate change has become a defining issue of our time. The importance of this issue is underscored by its magnitude and complexity: it is a global problem with wide geographic and economic disparity between the largest sources of the problem and those who will experience the greatest impacts. Many solutions often run counter to powerful entrenched interests and long-held patterns of individual behavior. All of this is happening amidst a global community that is increasingly connected by flows of information, people, commerce and environmental change. This collection brings together some of the world’s leading scientists and organizations and presents the essential knowledge underlying the issue of climate change. — Cutler J. Cleveland, Editor-in-Chief

• 15 My New Blog // Aug 5, 2009 at 7:15 pm

  2009
  Many experts warn that global warming is arriving at a faster and more dangerous pace than anticipated just a few years earlier. =>International

  Level of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches 385 ppm.

  Mean global temperature (five-year average) is 14.5°C, the warmest in hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.

• 16 Seminyak Villas // Aug 5, 2009 at 7:26 pm

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• 17 Kitty 1980 // Aug 28, 2009 at 2:21 am

  Climate change is already happening and represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats facing the planet. The European Union is committed to working constructively for a global agreement to control climate change, and is leading the way by taking ambitious action of its own.

  The warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level. The Earth’s average surface temperature has risen by 0.76° C since 1850. Most of the warming that has occurred over the last 50 years is very likely to have been caused by human activities.

• 18 Tanya Phillips // Sep 8, 2009 at 8:39 am

  Kitty 1980, thank you for you comment and information. I am also concerned for the global implications of climate change and hope the new Administration in the US emulates what the EU is doing to mitigate the environmental consequences. Also, I hope the US, in general, looks at what other countries are doing to see what works and what doesn’t work.

  Thanks,
  Tanya

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• 21 Bingoyoyo // Sep 18, 2009 at 12:20 am

  The climate change timeline is a visual exploration of some key events in the history of climate science, from 1824 and projections of climate impacts in the future, to 2100. Individual items are illustrated

• 22 aclusa // Sep 18, 2009 at 8:03 pm

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• 26 Free Calendars // Oct 7, 2009 at 5:21 am

  The Climate action and renewable energy package, Europe’s climate change opportunity
  On 23 January 2008 the European Commission put forward a far-reaching package of proposals that will deliver on the European Union’s ambitious commitments to fight climate change and promote renewable energy up to 2020 and beyond. In December 2008 the European Parliament and Council reached an agreement on the package that will help transform Europe into a low-carbon economy and increase its energy security.

  The EU is committed to reducing its overall emissions to at least 20% below 1990 levels by 2020, and is ready to scale up this reduction to as much as 30% under a new global climate change agreement when other developed countries make comparable efforts. It has also set itself the target of increasing the share of renewables in energy use to 20% by 2020.

  The “Climate action and renewable energy package” sets out the contribution expected from each Member State to meeting these targets and proposes a series of measures to help achieve them.

• 27 pier caps // Oct 11, 2009 at 4:00 am

  Tanya, it’s refreshing to hear someone for once tackling the ‘taboo’ subject of population growth.
  As you say, most of the upcoming problems the world faces are down to massive population gowth.
  Politicians are scared to face up to this but if we only replace ourselves, i.e. 2 kids per couple on average, there would be no global food crisis, no need to chase gm methods of increasing output etc.

• 28 Furniture Blog // Oct 16, 2009 at 12:10 am

  The Climate TimeLine uses a “powers of ten” exponential approach (see CTL Overview) to frame 1) meteorological and climatic processes (Climate Science) and 2) specific climate events of the past (Climate History) at varying timescales.

• 29 Reverse Phone Number // Oct 21, 2009 at 7:10 am

  Many experts warn that global warming is arriving at a faster and more dangerous pace than anticipated just a few years earlier. =>International

  Level of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches 385 ppm.

  Mean global temperature (five-year average) is 14.5°C, the warmest in hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.

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• 32 David Grill // Oct 31, 2009 at 6:55 pm

  An old saying expresses the thought that “climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.” But what can we expect from the climate of the United States, and the whole world, in the coming decade — or even in the next millennium? As all life on Earth depends on a favorable climate to survive, that’s an important question, a question that researchers at NOAA are trying to answer.

  NOAA’s research laboratories, Climate Program Office, and research partners conduct a wide range of research into complex climate systems and how they work. These scientists want to improve their ability to predict climate variation in both the shorter term, like cold spells or periods of drought, and over longer terms like centuries and beyond.

  NOAA researchers will continue their consistent and uninterrupted monitoring of the Earth’s atmosphere that can give us clues about long-term changes in the global climate. The data collected worldwide by NOAA researchers aids our understanding of, and ability to forecast changes in, complex climatic systems.

  Using ever more powerful and sophisticated computer systems, NOAA researchers are working

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• 34 Yellow ribbon // Nov 3, 2009 at 7:52 pm

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• 35 Vally // Nov 8, 2009 at 7:47 pm

  Climate change is already happening and represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats facing the planet…….

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  http://www.epa.gov/climatechange

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• 36 Good Time // Nov 21, 2009 at 11:17 pm

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• 37 Bill // Nov 22, 2009 at 5:28 pm

  I just had my air Quality checked, I’m mold free, Its time to get a Mold Inspection don’t you think?

• 38 Bart // Nov 22, 2009 at 5:30 pm

  Thats a good thing, but what does a Mold Inspection have to do with climate change?

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