
NanotechEnergy, MYSTERY CLIMATE MECHANISM, SCIENTISTS URGED ...
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 @ 19:57:59 UTC Topic: General
NANOTECHNOLOGY'S MINIATURE ANSWERS TO DEVELOPING WORLD'S BIGGEST PROBLEMS, April 12
In a study by the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, a panel of international experts ranks the 10 nanotechnology applications in development worldwide with the greatest potential to aid the poor. With a high degree of unanimity, the 63 panelists selected energy production, conversion and storage, along with creation of alternative fuels, as the area where nanotechnology applications are most likely to benefit developing countries.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3681.html
MYSTERY CLIMATE MECHANISM MAY COUNTERACT GLOBAL WARMING, April 12
A new study by two physicists at the University of Rochester suggests there is a mechanism at work in the Earth's atmosphere that may blunt the influence of global warming, and that this mechanism is not accounted for in the computer models scientists currently use to predict the future of the world's temperature. The researchers, David H. Douglass and Robert S. Knox, professors of physics, plotted data from satellite measurements of the Earth's atmosphere in the months and years following the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. The results, published in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters (and now online), show that global temperatures dropped more and rebounded to normal significantly faster than conventional climate models could have predicted.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3694.html
SCIENTISTS URGED TO SPREAD WORD ON GLOBAL WARMING, April 12
Global warming is real, dangerous and ignored at great risk to the planet, a leading environmentalist told an audience of about 250 at last week's inaugural MIT Environmental Fellows Invitational Lecture.
Professor James Gustave Speth, Dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, urged the scientific community to make its case to the public, which remains unconvinced of the crisis despite decades of first-rate science and policy analysis, he said.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3675.html
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