Anesthetic Gases Heat Climate as Much as One Million Cars Do, New Research Shows

From the ScienceDaily.com website: "When doctors want their patients asleep during surgery, they gently turn the gas tap. But anesthetic gasses have a global warming potential as high as a refrigerant that is on its way to be banned in the European Union. Yet there is no obligation to report anesthetic gasses along with other greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide, refrigerants and laughing gas."

Read the full article here:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101203081644.htm

Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic Time Machine

Also from the ted.com website: "Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate."

Watch the video here:

lee_hotz_inside_an_antarctic_time_machine

David Keith's Unusual Climate Change Idea

From the Ted.com website, "Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?"

Watch his lecture here:

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_keith_s_surprising_ideas_on_climate_change.html

Residents Blame City For Constant Floods

www.weather.com reports that, "Historic floods in March actually changed the course of the Woonasquatucket river in Cranston, Rhode Island. Now, homeowners say the city hasn't done enough to solve the problem."

Watch it here: http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/caught-on-cam-dramatic-water-rescue-19034#19037