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...question is, Are biofuels really green? A pair of new studies in the Oct. 22 issue of Science damningly demonstrate that the answer is no, at least not the way we currently create and use them. In the first study, a team of researchers led by Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., projected the effects of a major biofuel expansion over the coming century and found that it could end up increasing global greenhouse-gas emissions instead of reducing them. In the second paper, another team of researchers led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University...
There are other side effects as well. Melillo's paper points out that if biofuels scale up rapidly, they could end up displacing cropland and pasture, which would impact global food supplies and increase land-based carbon emissions. Melillo found that if biofuels were linked to a global policy to stabilize carbon concentrations in the atmosphere at 550 parts per million - a modest goal - we would need more land for biofuel production by the end of the 21st century than is currently used for all food crops. Worse, all the fertilizer needed to grow those bioenergy crops would increase emissions...
...global warming in the U.S. by region and sector; it contains no new research, but it paints a detailed and worrying picture of what a warmer America will be like 10, 50 and 100 years from today. "It is clear that climate change is happening now," says Jerry Melillo, a lead author of the report and an ecologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. "The observed climate changes we report are not opinions to be debated. They are facts to be reported." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...NCAA ‘B’ cut time of 4:19.91 that broke the former pool record.The relays also continued to be strong events for Harvard this past weekend. The Crimson’s 200-meter medley relay team consisting of sophomore Jordan Diekema, junior Simone Melillo, senior Bill Jones and senior David Guernsey cruised to a first place finish in a time of 1:27.61. They notched Harvard’s first win of the meet, breaking the event record previously set by a Crimson quartet in 2006. The relay team also earned the event?...
...yard freestyle with a first-place time of 1:36.16. The Crimson’s medley relay teams picked up two victories for Harvard, with both recording NCAA “B” times. In the 200-yard medley relay, sophomore Jordan Diekema, junior Simone Melillo, senior Bill Jones and Guernsey touched the wall in 1:28.52. The foursome also competed together in the 400 yard medley relay, emerging victorious with a 3:14.18 time. Diekema shone in the individual events as well. Battling sickness all week, Diekema overcame this obstacle to finish first in the 200-yard backstroke...