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Renewable Energy

Process without a simple proportional relation between cause and effect. The climate system contains many non-linear processes, resulting in a system with very complex behavior.

Note: Complex systematic behavior does not imply dramatic chaotic behavior; multiple cause and effect processes 'overlap' in their effect - much like waves in a sea, often canceling each other out and creating relative 'calm'. Although every once in a while you will get effects that mutually enhance each other and cause dramatic short or long term lived events or features in the climate (i.e. tornadoes, gulf streams, etc).

EcoWho Articles where 'renewable energy' used:EcoWho blog posts where 'renewable energy' used:
  • Climate Change Policy in Australia
    With an election just around the corner the politically sensitive issue of how Labour is to deal with Climate Change has been presented as policy today.
  • GE Ecomagination Challenge $200m for good ideas
    GE Ecomagination contest hopes to gather ideas for improving electrical grid technology.
  • Call for tighter review of IPCC data
    Prof Jean Palutikof, who spent 5 years at the British Met Office preparing the UN report, Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, admitted the existing system was flawed because "quite a lot" of information had not been peer-reviewed by independent scientists before publication.

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