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White House Might Ditch BlackBerry for Android
2014-03-21 20:34:21| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
BlackBerry may be losing one of its most high-profile clients, according to reports that the White House is testing Samsung and LG-manufactured smartphones.
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Climate Change Data Object of New White House Initiative
2014-03-20 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The White House Climate Data Initiative aims to gather data related to climate change and assemble everything in one location. The beta version of the site will display data on flooding and coastal flooding. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the White House are working with technology companies to create the site and the database behind it. Google and Microsoft are two of the biggest partners. The site will expand to offer...
White House to Unveil New Methane Strategy This Month
2014-03-20 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The White House plans to press ahead with more executive actions to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the coming weeks, including a government-wide strategy aimed at cutting methane emissions, according to top Obama advisers. Methane, the main component of natural gas, is about 25 times more powerful as a heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide, the largest human contributor to climate change. While it largely dissipates in a few decades and there is far less of it in the atmosphere than CO2, it...
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White House unveils one-stop website for climate change data
2014-03-20 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As part of its campaign to address climate change, the White House on Wednesday unveiled a website to serve as a one-stop location for the enormous amount of climate data housed at different federal agencies. The initiative to make the information easily accessible to communities, researchers and industries trying to adapt to global warming is the White House's latest move to deliver on a pledge President Obama made in June: to use his executive authority to confront climate change in light of...
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White House Announces New Online Climate Data Initiative
2014-03-19 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The White House announced Wednesday an effort to make federal climate data more accessible on data.gov - the central site for US government data resources. Known as the Climate Data Initiative, the new allocation of information will make it easier for the public to find climate data obtained by various federal agencies including NASA, NOAA, the US Geological Survey, the Department of Defense and other federal organizations. The new initiative is currently in its pilot stage and can be accessed...
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