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the energy [r]evolution
The climate change imperative demands nothing short of an Energy [R]evolution. The expert consensus is that this fundamental shift must begin immediately and be well underway within the next ten years in order to avert the worst impacts. What is needed is a complete transformation of the way we ... | <urn:uuid:b6cc700a-55c3-47a6-baaf-dbe7c04a4b04> | http://www.energyblueprint.info/1332.0.html?L=0 | 1 | fineweb |
What is Rainwater Harvesting?
Rainwater harvesting is an ancient practice of catching and holding rain for later use. In a rainwater harvesting system, rain is gathered from a building rooftop or other source and is held in large containers for future use, such as watering gardens or washing cars. This practice reduces... | <urn:uuid:14a860e9-8430-426b-8c1a-80c7f022fb96> | http://www.waterresourcesgroup.org/ | 0.8696 | fineweb |
Japan has been hit by the worst crisis since 1945, as an earthquake and tsunami have killed 10,000, destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, displaced hundreds of thousands, and left millions without power or water. As the nation braces for more aftershocks, people have resorted to using sea water in an attempt to pre... | <urn:uuid:f8f50eee-35e0-4fe2-8425-891ee98718b0> | http://yourheartsontheleft.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuclear-meltdown-is-not-alternative-to.html | 0.6281 | fineweb |
Barbara Heath Land Race – 2012
By the time Barbara Heath visited Horsham, the town and the surrounding Wimmera District of Western Victoria were in the process of recovering from a decade-long drought. To inform her work, which was initially to address issues of drought, Heath held a number of planned and fortuitous co... | <urn:uuid:c1e616f0-c628-4e79-8c4f-63212b07cee3> | http://viewersite.wordpress.com/2012/02/ | 0.986 | fineweb |
Participatory Video created by members of various indigenous communities in Itogon, Philippines, tracking the impacts of large-scale mining and now climate change on their environment and culture.
This film was created by members of various indigenous communities in the Cordillera region of the Philippines, during a Pa... | <urn:uuid:8e21dd22-c3b3-4956-ade9-66549e3c9812> | http://www.insightshare.org/watch/video/voices-experience | 1 | fineweb |
As the years tick by with most of the planet doing little in the way of reducing carbon emissions, researchers are getting increasingly serious about the possibility of carbon sequestration. If it looks like we're going to be burning coal for decades, carbon sequestration offers us the best chance of limiting its impac... | <urn:uuid:0f4b5328-483d-437b-b4b6-8cf4bfa3968b> | http://arstechnica.com/science/2010/01/pangea-era-rift-makes-east-coast-perfect-for-carbon-storage/ | 0.9988 | fineweb |
Bundelkhand’s ravine wastelands. Photo: Keya Acharya/IPS
BUNDELKHAND, India – Narrow, cobblestoned lanes separate the rows of mud houses with cool interiors and mud-smoothened patios, some with goats tethered to the wooden posts. This is Tajpura village, deep in this water-stressed, drought-prone region of northern Ind... | <urn:uuid:34eabe1a-7864-4b64-9b8b-dce88b0f492c> | http://climate-connections.org/2012/08/22/india-beating-the-weather-with-sustainable-crops/ | 0.8262 | fineweb |
Scientists have long projected that areas north and south of the tropics will grow drier in a warming world –- from the Middle East through the European Riviera to the American Southwest, from sub-Saharan Africa to parts of Australia.
These regions are too far from the equator to benefit from the moist columns of heate... | <urn:uuid:71855304-2f8a-4425-8945-02a9b90be1ae> | http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/deserts/ | 1 | fineweb |
The Seine, the scenic river running through Paris, has inspired artists, attracted tourists and served as the soul of the city, and now it will also be a source of renewable energy. Paris officials have announced a plan to place river turbines beneath four bridges on the Seine.
The Pont du Garigliano, Pont de la Tourne... | <urn:uuid:e338e7ab-37e4-40ee-98f0-254c81baa630> | http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3207-paris-putting-turbines-in-the-seine | 0.9792 | fineweb |
of lakes dot the marshy Arctic tundra regions. Now, in the latest addition to
the growing body of evidence that global warming is significantly affecting
the Arctic, two recent studies suggest that thawing permafrost is the cause
of two seemingly contradictory observations both rapidly growing and
rapidly shrinking lak... | <urn:uuid:5fdf99e1-ac10-4897-aae4-baeb9600a36e> | http://www.geotimes.org/sept05/NN_arcticlakes.html | 0.9633 | fineweb |
A new world record wind gust: 253 mph in Australia's Tropical Cyclone Olivia
The 6,288-foot peak of New Hampshire's Mount Washington is a forbidding landscape of wind-swept barren rock, home to some of planet Earth's fiercest winds. As a 5-year old boy, I remember being blown over by a terrific gust of wind on the summ... | <urn:uuid:3cf8391c-7628-4b73-b23d-af8d16292401> | http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1420&page=7 | 0.9948 | fineweb |
July 18, 2012
Since the Industrial Revolution, ocean acidity has risen by 30 percent as a direct result of fossil-fuel burning and deforestation. And within the last 50 years, human industry has caused the world’s oceans to experience a sharp increase in acidity that rivals levels seen when ancient carbon cycles trigge... | <urn:uuid:d5fc8f97-1ffe-4404-b9ee-d359c5162435> | http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/07/ocean-acidity-rivals-climate-change-as-environmental-threat/ | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Hot Weather Gets Scientists' Attention
Originally published on Wed July 11, 2012 5:30 am
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
Across America people are sweltering through extreme heat this year, continuing a long-term trend of rising temperatures. Inevitably, many are wondering if the scorching heat is due to global warming. Scientis... | <urn:uuid:e8e46237-1e26-4326-b62c-a25477bd0d59> | http://kacu.org/post/hot-weather-gets-scientists-attention | 1 | fineweb |
Climate change has already pushed the nation's wildlife into crisis, according to a report released Wednesday from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and further catastrophe, including widespread extinction, can only be curbed with swift action to curb the carbon pollution that has the planet sweltering.
Entitled ... | <urn:uuid:8f73ff6f-28d6-4d1c-b460-f3a592885a8d> | http://www.scoop.it/t/why-has-putin-closed-the-archives-relating-to-the-holocaust-and-why-has-russian-joined-the-wto/p/3371169705/israel-shells-syria-and-gaza-sabbah-report | 1 | fineweb |
Pricing Carbon Emissions
A bill before Congress may prove a costly way to reduce greenhouse gases.
- Friday, June 5, 2009
- By Kevin Bullis
Experts are applauding a sweeping energy bill currently before the United States Congress, saying that it could lead to significant cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and improve the... | <urn:uuid:ecbdee27-d586-4d08-a03d-036829352851> | http://www.technologyreview.in/energy/22755/page1/ | 1 | fineweb |
Green building facts
- Buildings consume 32% of the world’s resources including 12% of fresh water and 40% of the world’s energy (7).
- In Australia commercial buildings produce almost 9% of our national Greenhouse gas emissions (8).
- To make way for the new Law School the Edgeworth David building and the Stephen Robe... | <urn:uuid:354e6914-456e-4541-8c57-6410f91b48cd> | http://sydney.edu.au/facilities/sustainable_campus/buildings/index.shtml | 0.947 | fineweb |
The drought in Texas, during March, was the worst since 1895.
That is about the time my parents were born 120 years ago.
I never thought it could be worse than the drought of the 1950s, but it is. Drive out into grazing country where mesquite aren't too thick and all you can see is dry, cracked soil with an occasional ... | <urn:uuid:2ea6b2e4-22cb-4c80-8462-ec4f7a51e6d6> | http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2011/may/01/drought-worst-since-1895/ | 0.9997 | fineweb |
Forest Ecosystems: Current Research
Regional Fire/Climate Relationships in the Pacific Northwest and Beyond
Fire exerts a strong influence on the structure and function of many terrestrial ecosystems. In forested ecosystems, the factors controlling the frequency, intensity, and size of fires are complex and operate at ... | <urn:uuid:e4092633-013e-4995-97f5-6212c2dac106> | http://cses.washington.edu/cig/res/fe/fireclimate.shtml | 1 | fineweb |
“A remote Indian village is responding to global warming-induced water shortages by creating large masses of ice, or “artificial glaciers,” to get through the dry spring months. (See a map of the region.)
Located on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, the village of Skara in the Ladakh region of India is not a com... | <urn:uuid:5050ac83-4770-4e9c-9b44-38ba46d2466e> | http://peakwater.org/2012/02/artificial-glaciers-water-crops-in-indian-highlands/ | 0.9923 | fineweb |
Will the US Face Blackouts as Electricity Generation Suffers in Drought?
Well, its official – the U.S. government has acknowledged that the U.S. is in the worst drought in over 50 years, since December 1956, when about 58 percent of the contiguous U.S. was in moderate to extreme drought.
According to the National Ocean... | <urn:uuid:86e28879-f223-4422-a14b-5d61114c348e> | http://www.solarthermalmagazine.com/2012/10/05/will-the-us-face-blackouts-as-electricity-generation-suffers-in-drought/ | 0.999 | fineweb |
Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. Blanketing millions of square kilometers, sea ice forms and melts with the polar seasons, affecting both human activity and biological habitat. In the Arctic, some sea ice persists year after year, whereas almost all Southern Ocean or Antarctic sea ice is "se... | <urn:uuid:b5246854-fe77-4d8a-96ae-2c3df064ab3d> | http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_change_and_sea_ice | 0.9999 | fineweb |
Unfortunately, the modern buildings we live and work in rival cars and factories as sources of harm to the environment, contributing to deforestation, global warming, overuse of water and energy and carbon dioxide emissions.
Sustainable building refers to those buildings that are built to have the least impact on the n... | <urn:uuid:180acaf8-94ec-4f00-abe3-803c9ec9f24d> | http://www.zurn.com/Pages/SustainabilityProcess.aspx | 0.9744 | fineweb |
There are nearly two million known species on the planet. But many of those won't be around much longer; one out of every eight known bird species, one in four mammal species, and one in three amphibian species are at risk for extinction, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN), which maintains the Red List, a... | <urn:uuid:246be445-3dd9-4c3d-a6e4-a6d193647b45> | http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/zen-photo/e/endangered-species | 0.9908 | fineweb |
Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-an-Acre program (PAA) has distributed more than one million dollars in grants to more than 150 frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world.
Rainforest Acti... | <urn:uuid:995ec683-d967-4f36-82d9-547c9ea3d646> | http://ran.org/protect-an-acre | 0.9993 | fineweb |
Walking and cycling have long been considered the most environmentally sound methods of getting around. They still are but some environmentalists have argued that food production has become so fossil-fuel intensive that driving could be considered greener than walking (though the analysis has been debunked as flawed).
... | <urn:uuid:66d0a330-4520-4e4a-8b95-75da2b16d190> | http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/carbon-emissions-per-transport-type | 0.9984 | fineweb |
But Keller and her colleagues say their research proves otherwise.
Keller has studied the Chicxulub site and other impact-crater sites around the world for the past decade. She believes that the asteroid impact behind Chicxulub coincided with a "time of massive volcanism, which led to greenhouse warming."
Keller says t... | <urn:uuid:4d9d2441-762a-4bf0-bbc6-64a734349fda> | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0309_040309_chicxulubdinos_2.html | 0.5263 | fineweb |
1. Reduce our personal carbon footprint by 20 percent in the next year.
2. Stop subsidizing fossil fuels.
3. Mitigate politics and polarization.+
4. Shift towards more vegetarian diets.
5. Scientists better communicate the scientific facts underlying climate change.+
6. Scientists and engineers develop cheap alternativ... | <urn:uuid:ecdaa893-6065-4c28-8ac3-88c4ac418547> | http://www.topix.net/forum/news/drought/TUGBRVERP7JUKITNE | 1 | fineweb |
This page lists climate science and climate impact claims that have either not been proven, or have had the claim modified, moved, or expanded to protect the claimant from having to admit the original claim was wrong.
This will always be a work in progress. New items will be added as they are examined and will include:... | <urn:uuid:7a0bb173-9e03-4fcc-9bcf-ccc3aaa3e68a> | http://wattsupwiththat.com/climate-fail-files/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=8ef4095fcf | 1 | fineweb |
The Coca-Cola System Announces New Global Targets for Water Conservation and Climate Protection in Partnership With WWF
The Coca-Cola Company, in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), today announced ambitious new targets to improve water efficiency and reduce carbon emissions within its system-wide operations, w... | <urn:uuid:0a04b507-9ee2-4a9e-8102-aa69f8f44e4e> | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1595040/the_cocacola_system_announces_new_global_targets_for_water_conservation/ | 1 | fineweb |
The factors behind the calving process were not well understood
US researchers have come up with a way to predict the rate at which ice shelves break apart into icebergs.
These sometimes spectacular occurrences, called calving events, are a key step in the process by which climate change drives sea level rise.
Computer... | <urn:uuid:345a4045-6f1f-4b6d-b5c0-385afebb5719> | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7753228.stm | 0.9977 | fineweb |
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Facing an uncertain future
How forest and people can adapt to climate changeCenter for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)Bogor, Indonesia
The most prominent international responses to climate change focus on mitigation (reducing the accumulation... | <urn:uuid:57106d23-5399-4426-a853-4136284a3a19> | http://www.cifor.org/online-library/browse/view-publication/publication/2600.html | 1 | fineweb |
Karuk Tribe: Learning from the First Californians for the Next California
Editor's Note: This is part of series, Facing the Climate Gap, which looks at grassroots efforts in California low-income communities of color to address climate change and promote climate justice.
This article was published in collaboration with... | <urn:uuid:003baaf4-69c7-4ee7-b37f-468bf9b55842> | http://www.resilience.org/stories/2012-10-19/karuk-tribe-learning-from-the-first-californians-for-the-next-california | 1 | fineweb |
The Geological Perspective On Global Warming: A Debate
Dr Colin P. Summerhayes, Vice-President of the Geological Society of London
Dear Dr Peiser,
In the interest of contributing to the evidence-based debate on climate change I thought it would be constructive to draw to your attention the geological evidence regarding... | <urn:uuid:f0965eb8-455d-443b-9cf9-720d790d4628> | http://www.thegwpf.org/geological-perspective-global-warming-debate/ | 1 | fineweb |
The name of the island is Lohachara not that many of us are going to remember it for long. We'll probably recall it as that little island off India, the first once inhabited island to disappear from the surface of the earth due to rising sea levels attributed to global warming.
Lohachara was a small island that support... | <urn:uuid:803bd8f9-4427-468e-ab37-eada95ff6dd4> | http://the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.com/2006/12/global-warming-milestone.html | 0.9997 | fineweb |
PAO: Policy Activities » Briefing (November 2, 2011)
Using Science to Improve Flood Management
On November 2, 2011, ESA sponsored a congressional briefing: “Using Science to Improve Flood Management.” Emily Stanley (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Jeff Opperman (The Nature Conservancy, Ohio Field Office) addresse... | <urn:uuid:33f7423f-3d75-4ed6-a025-a3e344c8d8f3> | http://www.esa.org/pao/policyActivities/briefing11072011.php | 0.9955 | fineweb |
Almost all of the 33 developed and developing countries surveyed in a new study had introduced or progressed with significant climate-related legislation within their own borders in the past year.
In 2012, 18 countries made significant progress, according to the report by the Grantham Research Institute at LSE and Glob... | <urn:uuid:0a8af8f1-6eb4-4528-91d2-0dbf9e717b05> | http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/global-climate-change-progress.19909473 | 1 | fineweb |
Plants flower faster than climate change models predict
Scientific models are failing to accurately predict the impact of global warming on plants, says a new report.
Researchers found in long-term studies that some are flowering up to eight times faster than models anticipate.
The authors say that poor study design an... | <urn:uuid:2b0a717c-2162-468d-9a68-767e517dc557> | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17924653 | 0.9733 | fineweb |
"Many environmentalists believe that wind and solar power can be scaled to meet the rising demand [of billions emerging from poverty], especially if coupled with aggressive efforts to cut waste," reports Justin Gillis. "But a lot of energy analysts have crunched the numbers and concluded that today’s renewables, import... | <urn:uuid:11349972-17b0-4f34-b408-cfc39341347b> | http://www.planetizen.com/node/61170 | 0.9002 | fineweb |
What Is Air Pollution?
in its great magnitude has existed in the 20th century from the
coal burning industries of the early century to the fossil burning technology in
the new century. The problems of
air pollution are a major problem for highly developed nations whose large
industrial bases and highly developed infras... | <urn:uuid:ea6c54fe-1f6e-4a4c-bcb5-4f4c9e0fb6de> | http://everything2.com/user/KS/writeups/air+pollution | 0.705 | fineweb |
Forest governance and climate policies
Fred Stolle of the World Resources Institute looks at the need for REDD to address forest governance issues as well as creating market incentives.
Policy-makers are recognizing the essential role that the world’s remaining forests play in maintaining the global climate system. The... | <urn:uuid:1f534088-d817-4fe5-b528-87d4f831722f> | http://www.iucn.org/news_homepage/news_by_date/2009_news/october_2009/?3960/Forest-governance-and-climate-policies | 1 | fineweb |
Stopping Carbon Pollution
Whether you live in a city, on a farm, or anywhere in between, climate change is affecting your weather and damaging the natural world around you. In order to work towards a clean energy future, America needs carbon pollution controls on the largest industrial sources. The U.S. Environmental P... | <urn:uuid:5ca34e3e-8ae3-4073-898a-e4abb2d9d0ba> | http://www.nwf.org/What-We-Do/Energy-and-Climate/Reducing-Emissions/~/link.aspx?_id=9963E404A6C54F749ABA02164F76CF07&_z=z | 1 | fineweb |
What determines how much coverage a climate study gets?
It probably goes without saying that it isn’t strongly related to the quality of the actual science, nor to the clarity of the writing. Appearing in one of the top journals does help (Nature, Science, PNAS and occasionally GRL), though that in itself is no guarant... | <urn:uuid:0fe1fa4f-99f0-436d-ba48-6f2e07ec325e> | http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/01/warm-reception-to-antarctic-warming-story/langswitch_lang/de?wpmp_switcher=desktop | 0.5784 | fineweb |
DENVER – Put on your poodle skirts and tune in Elvis on the transistor radio, because it’s starting to look a lot like the 1950s.
Unfortunately, this won’t be the nostalgic ’50s of big cars and pop music.
The 1950s that could be on the way to Colorado is the decade of drought.
So says Brian Bledsoe, a Colorado Springs ... | <urn:uuid:6b5ff0a8-5351-4289-bb86-d7195a7837dc> | http://durangoherald.com/article/20130201/NEWS01/130209956/0/20120510/Drought-is-making-itself-at-home | 0.8756 | fineweb |
In an era when almost every energy technology is unpopular with somebody, the people who don’t want wind turbines, generating stations or new transmission lines installed in their neighborhoods often raise the idea of improving energy efficiency as an alternative.
That argument is particularly common in New York State ... | <urn:uuid:4cda4899-535c-49d1-ba21-2625b4bde643> | http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/can-efficiency-counter-a-loss-of-nuclear-power/?ref=sustainableliving | 0.856 | fineweb |
Greenland ice a benchmark for warming
Core data Greenland was about eight degrees warmer 130,000 years ago than it is today, an analysis of an almost three-kilometre-long ice core in Greenland has revealed.
The finding by an international team of 38 institutions from 14 nations provides an important benchmark for clima... | <urn:uuid:96cf8d51-9a89-4975-ae4f-fecfebf943e1> | http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/01/24/3675740.htm | 1 | fineweb |
Carbon With That Latte?
Sonia Narang 07.03.07, 6:00 AM ET
How Starbucks hopes to trim its emissions footprint.
In its shop in downtown San Mateo, Calif., for instance, baristas serve up about 40,000 cups of coffee drinks every month. Just based on utility bills alone, that means Starbucks is serving up about 4,900 poun... | <urn:uuid:f118693f-8e25-48c9-a4fa-ea787f1d53e7> | http://www.forbes.com/2007/07/02/starbucks-emissions-environment-biz-cz_sn_0703green_carbon.html | 1 | fineweb |
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FineWeb-Edu v2 - FastText Climate Filtered
A climate and environment-focused subset of sraj/finewebedu-climate-v2, further filtered using a trained FastText binary classifier.
Overview
This dataset applies a supervised FastText climate classifier to the FineWeb-Edu climate v2 dataset. Each record includes a climate probability score from the classifier, providing a confidence measure for climate relevance.
Pipeline
- Source: sraj/finewebedu-climate-v2 (pre-filtered FineWeb-Edu)
- Classifier: FastText supervised model trained on 10K GPT-labeled samples
- Threshold: Records with climate_prob >= 0.5 are included
Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| text | string | The document text |
| id | string | Original document ID |
| url | string | Source URL |
| climate_prob | float | FastText classifier probability (0-1) |
| source | string | Source dataset identifier |
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("Michaelyya/fineweb-edu-v2-FastT")
Model Details
- Architecture: FastText supervised classifier
- Training: 10,000 samples labeled via GPT weak supervision
- Labels: Binary classification (climate vs. other)
- Hyperparameters: lr=0.5, epochs=25, wordNgrams=2, dim=100
License
MIT
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