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Tom Wigley (NCAR), Jae Edmonds (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Maryland) |
Jul. 08, 2008 |
The Energy Challenge of Climate Change: More Urgent Than We Thought
(32 minutes)
In this congressional briefing Wigley notes that the amount of carbon-free energy required to stabilize CO2 concentrations has been built into no-climate-policy scenarios. These assumed changes may be unrealistic in the face of rapid development in Asia. According to Edmonds, stabilizing CO2 concentrations at 550 ppm will require new science and technology to reduce the cost of such an effort.
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Eugene Cordero (San Jose State University) |
Jun. 27, 2008 |
The Global Warming Diet: Food Climate Connections
(60 minutes, ReadyTalk)
For this inaugural talk in Sustainable UCAR's Topics in Sustainability series, Cordero focuses on food, how it is grown, where it comes from, and how changing one's diet can reduce carbon emissions as effectively as buying a new fuel-efficient car. Sustainable UCAR is the resource for best practices in sustainability at NCAR & UCAR, coordinating efforts that support a healthy environment, social equity, and enhanced organizational productivity.
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NCAR & UCAR News Center |
May. 19, 2008 |
Bluefire Supercomputer - Multimedia Gallery
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NCAR has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. The supercomputer, a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, is the first in a highly energy-efficient class of machines to be shipped anywhere in the world.
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NCAR MOPITT team |
Apr. 30, 2008 |
MOPITT Instrument - Multimedia Gallery
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MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere) is an instrument flying on NASA's EOS Terra spacecraft. NCAR scientists and their international colleagues developed and run MOPITT to measure the global distributions of carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4) in the troposphere. CO also serves as a tracer for other kinds of air pollution.
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NCAR & UCAR News Center |
Apr. 30, 2008 |
Weather Modification - Multimedia Gallery
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Commercial operators, governments, and academic researchers worldwide are engaging in cloud seeding and other weather modification projects to try to influence local conditions. NCAR scientists and their colleagues are investigating efforts to build up wintertime snowpack in the western United States and bring more rain to drought-stricken regions around the world.
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Casey Thornbrugh (University of Arizona and Tohono O'odham Community College) |
Apr. 25, 2008 |
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Bret Harper (Black and Veatch) |
Apr. 25, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: The Perspective of the Next Generation - Bret Harper
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Talk 2 of 8 on Day 2 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. Harper, a former SOARS protégé, describes his research into ENSO's influence on the production of wind energy. He also discusses the state of the West Coast salmon fishery and his participation in a California tribal ecological knowledge program. The program's goal is restoration of tribal lands and of the tribe itself.
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Sherry Heck (University of Colorado) |
Apr. 25, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: The Perspective of the Next Generation - Sherri Heck
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Talk 3 of 8 on Day 2 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. A gap in CO2 measurements in the southwestern U.S. and the possibility of educational collaboration motivated a study designed to measure CO2 fluxes. Heck reviews the hurdles she needed to overcome in setting up the project and the lessons she learned in the process.
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Eron Brennan, UCAR Sherry Heck (University of Colorado)Casey Thornbrugh (University of Arizona and Tohono O'odham Community College)Bret Harper (Black and Veatch) |
Apr. 25, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: Panel on the Perspective of the Next Generation
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Talk 4 of 8 on Day 2 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. Eron Brennan speaks as one student to another on the issues underlying climate change and other global problems. Heck elaborates on initial data from her CO2 research and the involvement of Navaho students in the project. Panelists describe the benefits of attending the conference and ways of introducing students to both traditional and indigenous science. They discuss the conflict between being an indigenous person and being a scientist and how we might all collaborate on climate change.
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Oscar Kawagly (University of Alaska) |
Apr. 25, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: Shared Approaches to Research and Education - Oscar Kawagly
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Talk 5 of 8 on Day 2 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. Roberto Gonzalez-Plaza introduces the Indigenous Educational Institute and Kawagly. Kawagly says some technology may become outdated as critical materials are used up; some technology is being blocked from adoption. His grandmother told him never to forget his language or his heritage. Eco-literacy is part of this spiritual and linguistic heritage and needs to be encouraged.
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James Rattling Leaf (Sicangu Policy Institute at Sinte Gleska University), |
Apr. 25, 2008 |
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Apr. 25, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: Shared Approaches to Research and Education - Denise Stephenson Hawk
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Talk 7 of 8 on Day 2 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. Less than 5% of Ph.D.s in the atmospheric sciences are awarded to people of diverse backgrounds. Institutions and educators do not understand unfamiliar cultures and do not provide the necessary environment for success. Stephenson Hawk argues that this must change because it will take all people on the planet working together to deal with climate change.
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Daniel Wildcat (Haskell Indian Nations University),Oscar Kawagly (University of Alaska),James Rattling Leaf (Sicangu Policy Institute at Sinte Gleska University), |
Apr. 25, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: Panel on Shared Approaches to Research and Education
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Talk 8 of 8 on Day 2 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. Wildcat talks about the need for communication among groups with different world views. He emhasizes four points: Hold next year's conference at a tribal college, use the archive of this conference to build a curriculum for indigenous students, work with the whole person, and get involved in designing the research. Participants suggest applying for grants to initiate collaboration, having NCAR scientists visit tribal lands to build scientific collaborations, and getting indigenous people involved in the IPCC and national climate organizations. Kawagly and Rattling-Leaf describe programs that address the disconnect between native youths and their language and land.
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Rajul Pandya (CBP) |
Apr. 09, 2008 |
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Rick Anthes (UCAR) |
Apr. 09, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: UCAR President's Welcome
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Talk 2 of 14 on Day 1 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. An important part of UCAR's mission, according to Anthes, is reaching out to the broader community to promote healthy, secure, prosperous, and sustainable life for all people on Earth. Anthes illustrates the challenges facing society with images of the melting ice cap and Hurricane Katrina and concludes with a brief description of UCAR and its work.
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Timothy Killeen (NCAR) |
Apr. 09, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: NCAR President's Welcome
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Talk 3 of 14 on Day 1 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. After a summary of NCAR's facilities and staffing, Killeen quotes the founding director of NCAR regarding the responsibility of science to serve humanity. NCAR's mission is to provide facilities for others to use as well as to study the Earth system. With Mount Kenya's disappearing glacier as am example, he highlights the role of science in predicting the challenges facing the Earth.
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Billy Frank, Jr. (Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission) |
Apr. 09, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: Opening Keynote
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Talk 4 of 14 on Day 1 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. Frank talks about managing salmon and other threatened species for 20 tribes in the Northwest U.S. Everyone's survival depends on acknowledeing the problem, working together, and developing the political will to take action.
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Elisabeth Holland (ACD) |
Apr. 09, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: Keynote Speaker II
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Talk 5 of 14 on Day 1 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. Holland describes the history and methodology of the IPCC. The most recent report (2007) states that warming is unequivocal and that most of the warming of the past 50 years is due to increases in greenhouse gases. In the short term, more warming is inevitable. Longer-term warning will depend on choices made now. We can expect more weather extremes and rising sea levels. A lively question and answer session follows Holland's talk.
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Leroy Little Bear (Blackfoot Confederacy) |
Apr. 09, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: Observations and Projections of a Changing Climate - Leroy Little Bear
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Talk 6 of 14 on Day 1 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. Daniel Wildcat introduces the panel members. Little Bear outlines the differences between the world view of native peoples and that of scientists. Native American Indians see the world as being in constant flux and based on energy waves. Everything is animate and everything is related. Learning comes through repetition and renewal. Western science has traditionally studied the material world in isolation; polarized thinking is typical. There is little regard for repetition in the education process. He concludes with his own observations of climate change.
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Caspar Ammann (CGD) |
Apr. 09, 2008 |
Planning for Seven Generations: Observations and Projections of a Changing Climate - Caspar Ammann
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Talk 7 of 14 on Day 1 of the Planning for Seven Generations Conference. According to Ammann, paleoclimatology has some similarities with the world view of native peoples. Climate is a continuum in which everything is interconnected. Scientists look for discontinuities in that continuum and are finding them in the extremes of precipitation, glacier collapse, and sea-level rise. Climate models are now partners to data in the study of climate change and the perspective is moving from global to local.
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