Adelaide is the hot place to be right now. We’re in the middle of an extreme, enduring heatwave, and the city’s residents are suffering. Indeed, we’ve had rolling blackouts as the power system fails to meet peaking loads, and more people are suspected to have died from heat stress over the last week than were […]
Category: Hot News
Discussion of the latest hot finding in the multidisciplinary field that is climate science.
I recently came upon this interesting mini-review in Nature Geoscience which looked at the cost-effectiveness of different geo-engineering options for mitigating climate change impacts (for an earlier discussion on BNC, see here). The paper is entitled “Ranking geo-engineering schemes“, by New Zealander Philip Boyd. A full-text PDF version of the article is available here for […]
There is a great overview now available in Nature Reports Climate Change, which discusses how far our scientific understanding of climate change has come in the last 12 months. It is available free online or for PDF download. Written for the non-specialist, it is readily intelligible (much in the New Scientist style), but goes into […]
Brave New Climate 