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New USGS study shows heat retaining concrete and asphalt have encroached upon US Climate Stations

New USGS study shows heat retaining concrete and asphalt have encroached upon US Climate Stations http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/09/22/new-usgs-study-shows-heat-retaining-concrete-and-asphalt-have-encroached-upon-us-climate-stations A new study from USGS by Keven Gallo and George Xian verifies what we’ve already learned and published on via the Surface Stations project; that concrete and asphalt (aka impervious surfaces) have increased near weather stations that are used to […]

Want to Slow Climate Change? Stop Having Babies, Bioethicist Travis Rieder Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-23/want-to-slow-climate-change-stop-having-babies-bioethicist-travis-rieder-says Carbon dioxide doesn’t kill climates; people do. And the world would be better off with fewer of them. That’s a glib summary of a serious and seriously provocative book by Travis Rieder, a moral philosophy professor and bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University. When economists write about climate change, they’ll often bring up something called the Kaya identity—basically a multiplication problem […]