How Well Prepared is the UK for Climate Change?

Climate Change Committee, Adaptation Sub-Committee http://tinyurl.com/26cxjqt [From Report Press Release] Climate change is already having an impact in the UK. Since the 1970s, average annual temperatures have risen by 1 degree Celsius, and Spring arrives 11 days earlier. These impacts are likely to increase as a result of future climate change, with the incidence of … Continue reading »

ACRE Program Payments and Risk Reduction: An Analysis Based on Simulations of Crop Revenue Variability

USDA / Robert Dismukes, Christine Arriola, and Keith Coble http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR101/#2010-9-17 [Abstract] Crop revenue variability, which differs across crops and their growing regions and the geographic levels at which revenue is measured, is the focus of the Average Crop Revenue Election, an agricultural commodity program that was first available to producers in 2009. Using an empirically-based … Continue reading »

The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle : an Interdisciplinary Study

Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/mitei/docs/spotlights/nuclear-fuel-cycle.pdf (summary report) [From executive summary] This study on The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle has been carried out because of the continuing importance of nuclear power as a low-carbon option that could be deployed at a scale that is material for mitigating climate change risk, namely, global deployment at … Continue reading »