September 19, 2022
Aviation’s growing impact on the climate crisis requires radical solutions that may upend the industry, according to a new Nature commentary article from the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.
April 25, 2013
…protect forests and fight climate change. The clearing and burning of more than 10 million hectares of tropical forests per year spews almost 200 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per second into the atmosphere, causing an estimated 15 percent of global human greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol’s emissions–trading framework…
January 18, 2018
…2015 Hindu Declaration on Climate Change, which is a call to Hindus worldwide to “lead lives in harmony and balances with the natural world.” He is also the UC San Diego chapter lead for Student Physicians for Social Responsibility, which seeks to highlight the medical problems caused by environmental degradation,…
January 27, 2013
The heat generated by everyday activities in metropolitan areas has a significant enough warming effect to influence the character of the jet stream and other major atmospheric systems during winter months, according to a trio of climate researchers.
May 15, 2014
…Protect the Planet Scripps climate researcher gets a word in with Pope Francis after convening historic joint workshop of two Vatican science academies Image courtesy of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences A historic gathering of scientists, economists and philosophers who advise the Vatican produced a declaration last week that sustainable…
October 27, 2016
Less than two weeks before global leaders meet in Marrakech, Morocco at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, scientists from the University of California San Diego offer their expert advice: bring scientists and policy makers together now to help ensure success in combating climate change in the future.
June 15, 2017
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new electrolytes that enable lithium batteries to run at temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius with excellent performance—in comparison, today’s lithium-ion batteries stop working at -20 degrees Celsius. The new electrolytes also enable electrochemical capacitors to run as cold…
June 19, 2023
New legislation such as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) explicitly identifies the elimination of these historical environmental inequities as a goal the U.S. hopes to advance in the process of tackling climate change, but the study from researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scrip
January 24, 2012
…“The Global Impact of Climate Change: Balance through Universal Responsibility, Compassion and Human Consciousness” April 18, 1:30 p.m., USD, Public Talk: “Cultivating Peace and Justice” April 19, 9:30 a.m., SDSU, Public Talk: “Upholding Universal Ethics and Compassion in Challenging Times” “This will be a historic event for San Diego,” said…
February 21, 2018
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has added Dean Roemmich, a distinguished professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, as a member, making him one of 83 newly elected American scientists in its class of 2018
