http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification by Eli Kintisch Scientists and policy experts will meet in March next year for a 5 day meeting to hash out rules for conducting field experiments on the controversial topic of geoengineering, ScienceInsider has learned. Styled after the landmark 1975... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/march-geoengine.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/march-geoengine.html Environment/Climate Top Story geoengineering Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 -0500 by Eli Kintisch At an otherwise fairly pedestrian House of Representatives hearing on geoengineering today—the first of its kind in the United States—science committee chair Representative Bart Gordon (D–TN) announced a new partnership with the U.K. House of Commons to... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/house-science-p.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/house-science-p.html Environment/Climate Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:24:06 -0500 by Eli Kintisch One wonders if it's unlikely that a comprehensive climate deal will happen in Copenhagen—as U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon said yesterday—how much china the Democrats are willing to break as they push the Senate to act on climate... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/senate-lurches.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/senate-lurches.html Environment/Climate climate bill Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:47:32 -0500 Less than 2 years ago, Princeton agriculture expert Tim Searchinger published a paper in Science that sought to quantify how growing biofuels on cropland in the United States could lead to deforestation abroad. He estimated in some cases that... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sheehan-searchi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sheehan-searchi.html Energy Environment/Climate Top Story Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:57:23 -0500 by Erik Stokstad Congress wants the Department of Interior to figure out what it doesn't know about Arctic ecosystems in order to better plan for oil and gas exploration. Tucked into a House-Senate conference report (pdf) for the fiscal year... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/interior-depart.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/interior-depart.html Budget Environment/Climate Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:30:41 -0500 by Antonio Regalado Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc this week floated an ambitious proposal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Reuters reports. The plan calls for Brazil to cut emissions by 2020 to 40% below a business-as-usual scenario. Under Minc's plan,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/brazil-weighs-c.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/brazil-weighs-c.html Environment/Climate Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:45:31 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Not many surprises this morning at the first of three mega climate hearings at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Barbara Boxer (D–CA) though some early confirmations of suspected fault lines between Democrats on... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/boxer-low-2009.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/boxer-low-2009.html Environment/Climate Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:22:30 -0500 by Eli KintischThe BBC on the urgent plight of the corals:The prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future.A meeting in Denmark took... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/thats-cold-free.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/thats-cold-free.html Environment/Climate Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:02:42 -0500 by Erik Stokstad President Barack Obama didn't launch any new initiatives in his visit today to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he highlighted clean energy technology and the need for climate change legislation. But he did wonder if... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1023-th.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1023-th.html Biomedicine Energy Environment/Climate Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:07:28 -0500 by Eli KintischWriter Bill McKibben has built an international climate activism movement around a concentration: 350 ppm. Two years ago he launched 350.org after NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen told him that was the carbon dioxide concentration needed to... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/mckibben-of-350.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/mckibben-of-350.html Environment/Climate #350 350.org Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:37:30 -0500 http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/lost-in-transla.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/lost-in-transla.html Environment/Climate Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:05:04 -0500 by Eli KintischHearings begin 27 October on the Senate version of the climate bill. The American Geophysical Union, the American Chemical Society, and 16 other major science groups groups are urging Congress this morning to take action on carbon emissions:For... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/18-top-science.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/18-top-science.html Environment/Climate climate research Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:13:31 -0500 by Eli Kintisch The U.S. Congress will explore deliberate tinkering with the climate in its first ever hearing on geoengineering early next month, ScienceInsider has learned.Congressional committees have shied away from focusing hearings on the controversial topic until now. One... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/exclusive-house.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/exclusive-house.html Environment/Climate Top Story climate research geoengineering Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:37:22 -0500 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced two new agricultural policy grants; the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa gets $15 million to aid African nations in developing policies to boost yield and sustainability. Michigan State University and the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1015-ed.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1015-ed.html Environment/Climate Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:43:43 -0500 The Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board will meet 9–10 November to discuss the agency's research strategy and its plans for FY 2010. Tomorrow morning at the National Academies in Washington, D.C., China and the United States will celebrate 30... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1014-fl.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1014-fl.html Environment/Climate Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:50:08 -0500