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Action point
Jim Salinger describes his priority for action on global warming. You can play the low bandwidth or the high bandwidth version
Featured sites
The Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project provides access to documents, data, photos, maps and other resources concerning this critical issue.
The World Ocean Observatory provides a place of exchange for ocean information, education and public discourse about the future of the ocean and its implication for human survival.
AdaptNet is a community of adaptation specialists, sharing the latest information on adaptation strategies, measures, tools, research and analysis, and highlighting best practice and implementation. The network focuses on cities in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, but nested within the global network of cities.
In the Morning of a Day provides activists and event organizers with an opportunity to announce and promote their events and actions about global warming.
And finally,
Children from Uganda, Bangladesh and Mozambique have drawn pictures for Oxfam of their impression of climate change (video) and what it means to their lives.
About Newswatch
Tiempo Climate Newswatch is a weekly on-line magazine with news, features and comment on global warming, climate change, sea-level rise and development issues. It is edited by Mick Kelly and Sarah Granich and maintained by Mick Kelly and Mike Salmon. The cartoons are created by Lawrence Moore.
The news stories carried by Newswatch are updated weekly. Comment, features, interviews and other sections of the magazine are updated on a weekly to monthly basis.
Newswatch automatically scans a number of news sites once an hour, searching for a set of keyphrases. The raw news feed can be accessed in standard or PDA format.
Part of the Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, Tiempo Climate Newswatch is hosted by the Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.
The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is a co-production of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development, sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
While every effort is made to ensure that information on this site, and on other sites that are referenced here, is accurate, no liability for loss or damage resulting from use of this information can be accepted.
Mick Kelly
is a consultant with Tanelorn Associates, based in Whakapara,
Northland, New Zealand. He is an associate staff member of the
Stockholm Environment Institute (York, United Kingdom) and a
visiting fellow with the Climatic Research Unit at the University
of East Anglia (Norwich, United Kingdom).
Mick was born in England in May 1951. On graduating in Physics and Meteorology at Reading University in the United Kingdom, he joined the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia as a graduate student shortly after the Unit was established by Professor Hubert Lamb in 1972. He was awarded a doctorate in 1976. Developing a career as an interdisciplinary researcher and teacher in the Climatic Research Unit, he served as Director of Graduate Studies for the University of East Anglia before leaving the University in 2007.
A member of the team that developed the new, improved global temperature record some twenty years ago, Mick now specializes in climate data analysis, the causes of climate change and climate and development issues, including vulnerability, adaptation and other policy matters.
He enjoys combining his skills as a scientist and his interest in art in programming for the Web and developing the Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary.
Mick is the author of over 100 scientific journal articles as well as numerous pieces for popular magazines. With John Gribbin, he wrote a popular account of the global warming issue called Winds of Change, based on the award-winning television documentary Can Polar Bears Tread Water? He has written and presented a number of programmes for radio and television.
He spends his spare time running, listening to jazz and classical music and engaging with an area of regenerating native forest.
The Tiempo editorial staff can be contacted at tiempo.editorial@gmail.com.
Sarah
Granich is a consultant with Tanelorn Associates, based in
Whakapara, Northland, New Zealand.
Sarah was born in New Zealand in August, 1952. She left New Zealand in 1970 and spent the first ten years living in Australia. During these years she worked, amongst many activities, as a gardener, waitress, farm manager, freelance writer, published poet, and on a prawn trawler. From 1980, she lived variously in France, Thailand and Switzerland, working as a freelance travel writer and photographer. In late 1988, on moving to the United Kingdom, she met Mick Kelly. They married and have been working together since that time. Sarah and Mick moved to Whakapara, Northland, New Zealand in 2007.
Sarah's work on the Tiempo website includes design, research, commissioning of articles and maintaining the various databases as well as sub-editing and production. She has produced a number of fact sheets for what is now the Information Unit for Conventions and, with Mick, has written numerous articles for a wide variety of journals, magazines and other publications, all dealing with the issue of climate change. The other main area of interest she shares with Mick is their continuing involvement in research in Vietnam, which began in late 1991, and the development of broader work on environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
Otherwise, Sarah is happily occupied with never-ending activities on their 69 acres of land, developing an eco-friendly and self-sufficient lifestyle and supporting the regeneration of the native bush, with its kauri trees, tree ferns and kiwis, that occupies most of their property.
The Tiempo editorial staff can be contacted at tiempo.editorial@gmail.com.
Bright Ideas
Honda is leasing the hydrogen-powered fuel cell FCX Clarity to private individuals in southern California
TIDE, in southern India, markets energy-efficient stoves that reduce fuelwood use by as much as 30 per cent
Curitiba's BioCity Program (0.3Mb download) aims to halt the rapid rate at which cities develop and reduce biodiversity loss
The CooKit is an inexpensive, lightweight solar cooker that can save scarce fuel in poor communities and be swiftly deployed in emergencies (video)
Kungsbrohuset, a new building to be built by Jernhusen in Stockholm, will be heated partly by body heat from the people who pass through the nearby Central Station
Petrotec produces biodiesel from multiple feedstocks, including waste frying oils, animal fats and virgin vegetable fats and oils
Over 90 per cent of waste materials generated during construction of the eco-friendly Del Sur Ranch House were diverted from landfills
New Belgium's brew kettle is up to 70 per cent more efficient than standard brew kettles because it only heats thin sheets of wort
The Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan presents a community-based strategy for coming down from the oil peak
The Efficiencity virtual world shows how decentralized energy production leads to lower emissions, more secure supply and reduced bills
Climate Savers corporations are partnering with WWF to establish ambitious targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily
Energy collected from an asphalt road and parking lot heats an apartment building in Avenhorn, The Netherlands (further information from Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV, 0.3Mb download)
Tiempo Climate Newswatch
Updated: July 20th 2008