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Climate change and related impacts are becoming increasingly relevant to environmental, economic and security issues. This raises convergent points of interest and thematic platforms for those interested in confronting this global challenge from a multidisciplinary perspective. The Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) was chartered in 2004 to create a world-class multidisciplinary research center focused on interrelated aspects of climate change, its impacts, and mitigation.
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Winters in the Great Lakes Region are now warmer than they were in the early years of the 20th Century.More >>
The north pole used to be 23°C (74°F). More >>
According to Sriver and Huber (Nature, 447, 2007), about 15% of peak ocean heat transport may be associated with tropical cyclone induced mixing. More >>
Every area of the world faces high exposure to future climate change in at least one way. More >>
We can measure CO2 concentrations from a light aircraft. More >>
Tropical forests are removing an unexpectedly high proportion of CO2 from the atomsphere. More >>
Students calculate Purdue's carbon footprint More >>
Kevin Gurney features his Vulcan and Hestia projects as a GoogleTechTalk.
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WISH TV8 Special Climate/Weather Report: The Year of Extremes
Ernest Agee and Noah Diffenbaugh of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center discuss weather extremes, La Niña, and global warming as manifested beginning fall of 2007 and through 2008. "The winter that we had in the United States in 2008 was very much like what some people hypothesized what the winter could look like, in terms of severe weather, if the atmosphere warmed sufficiently," says Diffenbaugh.
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New Book - Political Theory and Global Climate Change
Leigh Raymond has contributed the chapter on "Allocating the Global Commons" to a new book out by MIT Press, Steve Vanderheiden (Ed.), Paper / November 2008. It is summarized as follows: Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, critical legal studies, and neo-Marxism.
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PCCRC Distinguished Lecture - Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lettenmaier, Professor of hydrology at the University of Washington, Seattle, will present a lecture, "125 years of hydrologic change in the Puget Sound basin: the relative signatures of climate and land cover" on Monday, October 20, 2008. See the calendar for details.
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