With the objective of scaling up efforts to combat global warming and adapt to its effects, delegates from almost 200 countries have gathered for a two-week climate change summit in Madrid.
The project that has earned Mark Minie a Catalyst Grant worth of $100,000 can save the earth from climate change. Bionic Leaf project can convert excessive amounts of carbon dioxide in the air to produce fish foods and methane fuel.
Because of climate change, the US electrical grid could be unable to meet the peak energy need by century's end. The cost to upgrade the US electrical grid that could cope with the demands may be on the order of $180 billion. Increasing the use of solar energy to meet the demand could smooth off the peak demand.
A 1,000-foot thick ice block rift due to man-made global warming is set to break off anytime affecting sea levels and destroying Antartica's foreland. Experts are bound to investigate the extent it will produce when it happens.
Climate change has always been on the news due to its negative effects on nature. Severe flooding, drought, melting glacier ice, super typhoons and animals going extinct are the most common things we hear about the changing climate. But there is one thing that is unheard of when it comes to global warming issues -- that certain foods are disappearing because of it.
