{"id":1027,"date":"2014-12-08T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2014-12-08T23:02:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T23:02:41","slug":"heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This\u00a0Atlantic article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/08\/The-Island-Nation-That-Bought-a-Back-Up-Property\/378617\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/08\/The-Island-Nation-That-Bought-a-Back-Up-Property\/378617\/', '\u201cThe Island Nation that Bought a Backup Property\u201d']);\" >\u201cThe Island Nation that Bought a Backup Property\u201d<\/a>) points out that reefs may rise with the seas and that waves will continue to erode reefs and create new land.\u00a0 There is a link to a journal article (<a href=\"http:\/\/christopherpala.weebly.com\/uploads\/2\/0\/3\/2\/20323627\/kiri_woodroffe_biribo_2013_paper.pdf\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','download','http:\/\/christopherpala.weebly.com\/uploads\/2\/0\/3\/2\/20323627\/kiri_woodroffe_biribo_2013_paper.pdf']);\" >Historical area and shoreline change of reef islands around Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati<\/a>, Sustainability Science) that shares evidence of a net increase in the area of atolls in the Central Pacific over the last several decades in spite of rising seas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un-igrac.org\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.un-igrac.org\/', 'This data source (UN-IGRAC)']);\" >This data source (UN-IGRAC)<\/a> has a wide range of transboundary groundwater information and summarizes many different sources of information.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/asiapacific\/2014\/12\/poisoning-small-animals-china-may-increase-flood-risks?utm_campaign=email-news-weekly&amp;utm_source=eloqua\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/asiapacific\/2014\/12\/poisoning-small-animals-china-may-increase-flood-risks?utm_campaign=email-news-weekly&amp;utm_source=eloqua', 'Poisoning of small animals in China may increase flood risks (AAAS Science)']);\" >Poisoning of small animals in China may increase flood risks (AAAS Science)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>DeepMind seeks to build artificial intelligence software that can learn when faced with almost any problem \u2013 to address the world\u2019s most intractable problems. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/532876\/googles-intelligence-designer\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/532876\/googles-intelligence-designer\/', 'Google\u2019s Intelligence Designer']);\" >Google\u2019s Intelligence Designer<\/a>, MIT Technology Review).<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.circleofblue.org\/waternews\/2014\/world\/world-food-supplies-recover-droughts-reach-15-year-high\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.circleofblue.org\/waternews\/2014\/world\/world-food-supplies-recover-droughts-reach-15-year-high\/', 'World Food Supplies Recover From Drought and Reach 15-Year High']);\" >World Food Supplies Recover From Drought and Reach 15-Year High<\/a> (Circle of Blue).<\/li>\n<li>Forecasts of natural gas may overestimate future production (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/natural-gas-the-fracking-fallacy-1.16430\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/natural-gas-the-fracking-fallacy-1.16430', 'Natural Gas: the Fracking Fallacy']);\" >Natural Gas: the Fracking Fallacy<\/a>, Nature).<\/li>\n<li>Artifacts, values and assumptions at the core of understanding the culture of an organization. (<a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/2014\/12\/how-to-tell-if-your-company-has-a-creative-culture\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/hbr.org\/2014\/12\/how-to-tell-if-your-company-has-a-creative-culture', 'How to Tell if Your Company Has a Creative Culture']);\" >How to Tell if Your Company Has a Creative Culture<\/a>, Harvard Business Review).<\/li>\n<li>Survey by Munich Re America finds that most Americans believe that the climate is changing, 60% believe it is due to human causes and 63% are concerned about changes and frequency in natural disasters like flood, drought, hurricanes and tornadoes (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2014\/12\/02\/climate-change-survey-munich-re-america\/19743975\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2014\/12\/02\/climate-change-survey-munich-re-america\/19743975\/', 'Poll: 83% of Americans say climate is changing,']);\" >Poll: 83% of Americans say climate is changing,<\/a> USA Today).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Contributed by Agustin Botteron, Margaret Garcia, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam', 'Shafik Islam']);\" >Shafik Islam<\/a>, Jory Hecht and Kyle Monahan.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week&#8230; This\u00a0Atlantic article (\u201cThe Island Nation that Bought a Backup Property\u201d) points out that reefs may rise with the seas and that waves will continue to erode reefs and create new land.\u00a0 There is a link to a journal article (Historical area [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heard-read-seen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}