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Energizing Sustainable Cities: Assessing Urban Energy - book review
2013-01-28 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Energizing Sustainable Cities: Assessing Urban Energy, edited by Arnulf Grubler and David Fisk, is a very well written book describing challenges and opportunities to define, analyze, and implement sustainable energy development for 21st Century urban centers. Urban populations, while roughly 50% of the global population, consume over 75% of the globe's energy. Therefore, developing frameworks to assess, analyze and implement sustainable energy systems that meet the criteria for these urban populations...
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Cities alter weather for thousands of miles downwind, study finds
2013-01-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Had a slushy ski trip to the mountains this winter? The nearest big city might be to blame. A region's weather can be swayed by the nearest big city, even if it's 1,000 miles away, according to new research. Scientists found that the heat streaming from major metropolitan areas can widen the jet stream and tweak other workings of the atmosphere, according to the study, published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Many of the northern hemisphere's cities lie directly under major atmospheric...
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Big Cities Could Alter Weather Of Areas Over 1,000 Miles Away
2013-01-28 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Large metropolitan areas could be drastically impacting the weather where you live, even if theyre hundreds of miles away, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO); the University of California, San Diego (UCSD); Florida State University (FSU); and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) claim in a new study. The researchers, who report their findings in the journal Nature Climate Change, discovered that the heat generated by day-to-day human activities in large...
Study finds energy use in cities has global climate effects
2013-01-28 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Ming Cai mcai@fsu.edu 850-645-1551 Florida State University Researchers find that heat given off by metropolitan areas can lead to continental-scale winter warming in high latitudes TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ⎯ The heat generated by everyday energy consumption in metropolitan areas is significant enough to influence the ch…
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VIDEO: Will cities copy Newcastle cuts?
2013-01-28 02:50:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Steph McGovern investigates arts funding cuts in Newcastle and asks if they will provide a model for other British cities.
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