Tiempo Climate Newswatch
Week ending September 12th 2004
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Featured sites
The Blue Carbon Portal brings together the latest knowledge and resources on the role of oceans as carbon sinks.
WalkIt provides walking routes between user-defined points in selected British cities, with an estimate of the carbon savings.
Joto Afrika is a series of printed briefings and online resources about adapting to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.
And finally,
The CoolClimate Art Contest presents iconic images that address the impact of climate change.
About the Cyberlibrary
The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary was developed by Mick Kelly and Sarah Granich on behalf of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development, with sponsorship from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
While every effort is made to ensure that information on this site, and on other sites that are referenced here, is accurate, no liability for loss or damage resulting from use of this information can be accepted.
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Mount Everest is losing height as a result of global warming, according to a recent survey. The mountain shrank by 1.3 metres in the 33 years to 1999, it was reported at an international conference in Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region. |
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Yao Tandong, director of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, blamed consolidation of glaciers for the loss of height and warned that the change in climate is also affecting water availability at the oases of western China. It is estimated that close to 600 billion cubic metres of water have been lost since the 1950s. |
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Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, have reported a rapid warming of the waters of the Arctic Ocean this year. The sampling took place in the Fram Strait, which lies between Greenland and Spitzbergen. The warming has been accompanied by a retreat of the ice edge in this sector of the Arctic. |
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The West Spitzbergen Current, which carries warm water from the Atlantic Ocean into the Arctic, has been warming steadily since the 1990s, but this year's rise, with temperatures up to 0.6 degrees Celsius higher than in 1993, represented "an exceptionally strong signal by ocean standards". The strongest warming has been occurring in the upper 500m of the ocean, but the rise can be detected down to 2,000m. |
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Joke Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has congratulated the world's indigenous peoples on the substantial progress they have made in "creating a policy space" in the environmental treaty processes. |
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She noted that "the UNFCCC process has been enriched and informed through the participation of indigenous peoples organizations". Parties to the Convention have "acknowledged the importance of the on-going participation by indigenous peoples organization..., especially though discussions on relevant agenda items, participation in workshops and informal contacts". Joke Waller-Hunter issued the statement to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on August 9th 2004. |
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Bright Ideas
General Electric plans to cut solar installation costs by half
Project 90 by 2030 supports South African school children and managers reduce their carbon footprint through its Club programme
Bath & North East Somerset Council in the United Kingdom has installed smart LED carriageway lighting that automatically adjusts to light and traffic levels
The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the American Public Gardens Association are mounting an educational exhibit at Longwood Gardens showing the link between temperature and planting zones
The energy-efficient Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers hotel is powered by renewable and sustainable sources, including integrated solar photovoltaics and guest-powered bicycles
El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands, plans to generate 80 per cent of its energy from renewable sources
The green roof on the Remarkables Primary School in New Zealand reduces stormwater runoff, provides insulation and doubles as an outdoor classroom
The Weather Info for All project aims to roll out up to five thousand automatic weather observation stations throughout Africa
SolSource turns its own waste heat into electricity or stores it in thermal fabrics, harnessing the sun's energy for cooking and electricity for low-income families
The Wave House uses vegetation for its architectural and environmental qualities, and especially in terms of thermal insulation
The Mbale compost-processing plant in Uganda produces cheaper fertilizer and reduces greenhouse gas emissions
At Casa Grande, Frito-Lay has reduced energy consumption by nearly a fifth since 2006 by, amongst other things, installing a heat recovery system to preheat cooking oil
Tiempo Climate Newswatch
Updated: April 12th 2013