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Showing posts with label urban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban. Show all posts
Monday, December 7, 2015

Paris City Summit of Mayors commits to 100 per cent #renewables by 2050

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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo at Cities Climate Summit Photo: ©Mairie de Paris A meeting of nearly a 1,000 city mayors from around the world m...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Green roof vistas can improve attention and office work productivity

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Green roofs can substantially improve attention response and productivity of nearby people, according to new research published in the Jour...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Seventy Five percent of heatwaves now attributed to climate change

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The original of this article was published at nofibs.com.au The latest study of extreme weather events has concluded that 3 out of 4 hea...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Climate change and heatwaves in Melbourne - a Review

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Abstract: The impacts of Climate change are now being felt at a regional level in cities like Melbourne. The impact of rising temperatures ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The challenge of adapting to climate change and heatwaves in Melbourne

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Originally published at Mpress at Melbourne Polytechnic The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II in its lates...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Urbanization amplifies global warming temperatures for Sydney

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A new scientific study finds that Sydney faces hotter temperatures due to the interaction of expanding urbanization, climate change and the ...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Cities to get much hotter as heatwaves amplify Urban Heat Island Effect

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A new study just published looked at the way Urban Heat Island effect interacts with heatwaves. It is not a simple addition of the heatwave...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Temperature Study funded by climate sceptics confirms rate of Global Warming

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'Global Warming is real' declares new scientific work from an independent group of researchers called the Berkeley Earth Surface Te...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Engineering Professor: Install solar panels to combat Global Warming rather than paint roofs white

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A Stanfoord University Professor of civil and environmental engineering has suggested that installing solar photo-voltaic panels on your hou...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Winter ramble - Exploring Galada Tamboore grasslands in Campbellfield

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Sunny winter day...to good to spend inside. Stop reading the latest scientific reports on accelerating climate change, or arguments over t...