Science news articles about 'ken caldeira'

  • Acidifying oceans add urgency to CO2 cuts

    ... steeper cuts in carbon emissions than those currently proposed to curb climate change. Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, writing with lead author Richard Zeebe ...
  • Modest CO2 cutbacks may be too little, too late for coral reefs

    ... that of many climate change forecasts, report chemical oceanographers Long Cao and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. ...
  • World needs climate emergency backup plan, says expert

    In submitted testimony to the British Parliament, climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution said that while steep cuts in carbon emissions are essential to stabilizing global climate, ...
  • Climate change alters ocean chemistry

    ... , the chemical composition of our rivers will change, and this will affect the oceans," says co-author Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology. "This will change the ...
  • Coral reefs may start dissolving when atmospheric CO2 doubles

    ... dioxide is going into the oceans," said co-author Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global ... lifestyle is killing off coral reefs," says Caldeira. "If we don't change our ways soon ...
  • AGU journal highlights -- March 25, 2009

    ... .S.A.; Boaz Lazar, and Jonathan Erez: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; Long Cao, Ken Caldeira: Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, ...
  • Is the sky the limit for wind power?

    ... 28 years of data from the National Center for Environmental Prediction and the Department of Energy, Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and Cristina Archer of ...
  • Global sunscreen won't save corals

    ... would be expected to be able to grow more vigorously in a high CO2, but cool world," says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, a co-author of the study with lead ...
  • Kites flying in high-altitude winds could provide clean electricity

    ... jet streams hold roughly 100 times more energy than all the electricity being consumed on Earth, according to a study by Stanford environmental and climate scientists Cristina Archer and Ken Caldeira.
  • Plants save the earth from an icy doom

    ... and other sources can supply it." "Ultimately, we owe another large debt to plants" said co-author Ken Caldeira from the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford University. " ...
  • Plants put limit on ice ages

    ... over the last 20 or 25 million years despite other changes in the environment," says co-author Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology. "We can look to land plants as ...
  • Scientists study possible responses to climate emergencies

    ... technologies. "Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions is more important than ever," said coauthor Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, "but even with our best ...

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