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Lubchenco is helping to change that. The marine biologist is leading the U.S. delegation at this week's World Climate Conference in Geneva, where delegates from more than 150 nations are meeting to craft a better global alert system for climate change. That means disseminating information down to the local level - how global warming could impact fisheries, farming, human health, even tourism. "What we need is a formal system that all people can trust to access vital information that can save their lives and protect property and economies," said Michel Jarraud, secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization...
...idea is to make climate-change predictions a bit more like the weather report, in both accuracy and accessibility. Right now scientists' understanding of global warming is the opposite of the 6 p.m. forecast. While climatologists have a better and better picture of what will happen to the entire climate the further out they look, the same predictions get fuzzy over the near term, or regionally instead of globally. That can be remedied in part by spending more on climate science and building the kind of models that can drill down below the global level to the regional or even...
...This project is a model of what may happen on a larger scale: making better use of what we already have,” she added...
...freshman, you turn in your study card on Thursday, after experiencing all days of the week. Couldn't be simpler or make more sense. Let's not hear any complaining...we would hope you have a better conversation starter than that...
...saying that Christians are better off staying away from churches? No, no. As burned as I've been by local churches and by people who call themselves in God's name, Jesus gave us the church. It's supposed to be a community of like-minded people who encourage and strengthen each other. But that's not how it always works. Religious people, often within the organized church, have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God. (See pictures of John 3:16 in pop culture...