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The MEER team in India
The MEER team in India has set up an experiment on the rooftop of their office building in Hanuman Nagar, Pune. The experiment aims to check the calibration of the sensors in extreme conditions of solar radiation, humidity, and wind flow.
May 11, 2024
Blog
Blog
MEERTALK May 2024
Global Tipping Points: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Learn about the negative tipping points, positive tipping points and the race for which tipping points we should dominate.
May 5, 2024
MEERTALK
MEERTALKS
Newsletter April 2024
Promising Results in Tanzania
Our project in Tanzania has been yielding great results so far. The latest analysis shows that the inside roof cavity is up to 12°C cooler with the MEER adaptation sheeting installed.
April 30, 2024
Newsletter
Newsletters
Courting Controversy
Dr. Ye Tao discusses the ongoing heat waves in West Africa, as well as the issues they are having with power cuts in Sierra Leone. In addition, we revisit one of Dr. Tao's early symposium presentations and delve into the controversial topics he discussed and information he shared in 2020. He provides more detailed explanation on topics including the aerosol masking paradox that our civilization currently faces.
April 20, 2024
Podcasts
Podcasts
MEERTALK April 2024
Climatic Architecture
Philippe Rahm speaks about how architecture can help fight against climate change.
April 7, 2024
MEERTALK
MEERTALKS
Newsletter March 2024
India Sensor Deployment
The MEER team based in India has been working diligently over the past week to conduct a survey of the project site and install the first set of sensors.
March 30, 2024
Newsletter
Newsletters
Crab Town Training day
The communications team provided atraining session for some of the local women in Crab Town, where our communityproject is taking place. The training session aims to equip the participantswith the necessary skills to conduct an in-person survey in Crab Town.
March 24, 2024
Blog
Blog
Freetown Heat Action Plan - March 14th
The Freetown Heat Action Plan has set out several objectives to make Freetown residents aware of the risks of heat, establish high-resolution heat monitoring and personalized warning systems, and increase the ability of vulnerable groups to respond to extreme heat. By 2030, the plan aims to have 80% of Freetown's population fully aware of the risks of heat and effective responses.
March 16, 2024
Blog
Blog
Coming to Africa
In this episode, Dr. Tao discusses the challenges of finding the right community to conduct cooling experiments and the overall economic and housing situation in Crab Town and Aberdeen. We also delve into the impact of humidity as a crucial environmental factor, with potentially serious consequences, particularly for the elderly. We explore how a massive dust storm affected the mirrors in the short and long run. Finally, we discuss the latest heat adaptation plans in Freetown. We hope you find the conversation enlightening.
March 16, 2024
Podcasts
Podcasts
MEERTALK March 2024
Are Clouds a Dial We Can Control to Mitigate Climate Change?
Clouds play a controlling role in the atmosphere, in large part because they cool it during daytime by reflecting sunlight to space
March 3, 2024
MEERTALK
MEERTALKS
Newsletter February 2024
MEER’s Sensor Poles Implementation in Crab Town
The Urban Cooling Project is gaining momentum with the installation of 700 sensors on poles in the centre of Crab Town, a district in Freetown.
February 29, 2024
Newsletter
Newsletters
Origins of MEER
In this episode, Dr. Tao explains the origins of MEER and the framework he worked on with hundreds of students across the United States. He also talks about the framework's above other mitigation schemes. Additionally, he explains CROI (Cooling Return on Investment) and why it is so vital to factor in what is feasible in terms of mitigation. We hope you find this episode helpful and enlightening.
February 17, 2024
Podcasts
Podcasts
Arctic Sea Ice Loss – A World of Trouble
What if Arctic sea ice melts? All of it… during the summer! According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), over the past three decades the oldest, thickest ice (13-20 feet thick) has declined by a stunning 95 percent and 70 percent of Arctic sea ice is now thin “seasonal ice” that quickly melts in the Arctic summer.
February 11, 2024
Articles
Articles
Let's Restore a Healthy Climate
The world continues to experience a relentless increase in average and extreme temperatures every year - much beyond what scientists and scientific models projected or expected. We now have to use previously unfamiliar terms to describe today’s new world - atmospheric rivers, sunny day flooding, rain bombs, derechos, flash droughts and many more. No place, no time of year and no person is immune from the severe direct and indirect impacts of a scorching planet.
February 6, 2024
Articles
Articles
Fighting Extreme Heat: Eleni Myrivili / Global Chief Heat Officer
Stressing the need for awareness, Global Chief Heat Officer Eleni Myrivili leads the response to extreme heat that threatens lives and livelihoods worldwide. She outlines ideal countermeasures.
February 6, 2024
Articles
Articles
MEERTALK February 2024
The Emperor's New Climate Scenarios
Sandy Trust explains why commonly used models in financial services are underestimating climate risk, presenting the findings of a collaborative research paper between actuaries and leading climate scientists ‘The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios’, in a talk that will be in turns absurd, scary and hopeful.
February 4, 2024
MEERTALK
MEERTALKS
Newsletter January 2024
MEER at Gaia Festival at Fergusson College in India
The MEER project in India has been making significant progress lately. The project's preliminary testing is now complete, and the data collected so far has shown some excellent results.
January 31, 2024
Newsletter
Newsletters
Introduction to Dr. Ye Tao and MEER
In this introductory episode, we introduce Dr. Ye Tao, formerly of Harvard's Rowland Institute, who shares his scientific background and how he unexpectedly found his way into the field of climate science. Dr. Tao explains the breadth of what is at stake in the climate crisis and discusses his motivations for changing career paths and founding the non-profit MEER (Mirrors for Earth's Energy Rebalancing). Additionally, he describes the term climate and addresses some of the criticism and skepticism people encounter when trying to make a difference.
January 20, 2024
Podcasts
Podcasts
MEER at the Project 1808 7th National Science and Leadership Festival
The recently concluded Project 1808 annual festival, which took place in Kabala, Sierra Leone, provided a significant platform for MEER to showcase its innovative projects and engage in meaningful collaborations
January 13, 2024
Blog
Blog
MEERTALK January 2024
A New Climate Vocabulary Herb Simmens speaks about how a new climate vocabulary can bring to life a hopeful vision of a healthy and restored climate. This narrative vision will be presented using some of the 1,000 terms - 400 original - included In his newly published book A Climate Vocabulary of the Future.
January 7, 2024
MEERTALK
MEERTALKS
Newsletter December 2023
Dr. Tao attends COP28
At this year's COP28 event held in Dubai, Dr. YeTao once again represented MEER, informingscientists and policymakers about the ongoingscientific experiments related to surfacereflection technology in the Global South.
December 31, 2023
Newsletter
Newsletters
FERGUSSON COLLEGE PUNE, INDIA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT FEATURED MEER IN THEIR COLLEGE FESTIVAL
At the GAIA festival, the environmental science department showcased MEER's unique approach to sustainability. The festival featured a comprehensive model that demonstrated MEER's core concept of 'cooling earth by reflecting sunlight'. MEER volunteers prepared a prototype that compared MEER sheets to ordinary steel sheets, revealing a significant temperature difference of 6-7 degrees Celsius. This unique feature of MEER sheets effectively addresses the crisis of increasing global temperatures.
December 29, 2023
Blog
Blog
MEER’s Solar Desalinator
Harnessing the Sun’s Energy for the Future of Water Security
December 20, 2023
Blog
Blog
MEERTALK December 2023
In the near-term, billions of the most vulnerable to climate chaos and socioeconomic stressors will be forced to migrate due to intolerable heat, loss of food production, and severe water stress; with collapse of public services and food aid, most will die. MEER is a must to get up and running fast.
December 3, 2023
MEERTALK
MEERTALKS
Newsletter November 2023
Dr. Tao meets with International Humanitarian Response Agency GOAL in Freetown, Sierra Leone and shares MEER's future projects, including a prototype Desalinator, Solar Water Heater, and Solar Concentrator.
November 30, 2023
Newsletter
Newsletters
Press November
Elizabeth Wathuti and Eugenia Kargbo Highlight the Need for Environmental Conservation
November 22, 2023
Press
Press
MEERTALK November 2023
Climate change used to be a science challenge until recently when it has also become a developmental and moral challenge. We have witnessed the impact of climate change on every aspect of our lives. The recent IPCC 6th assessment report is red coded for humanity making it imperative for actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and to slow down global warming. The presentation will explain the progress in our understanding of the climate system, the impact of climate change and actions we all have to take. Professor Nana Klutse is Vice Chair of the Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She is Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Ghana and the Head of Department.
November 5, 2023
MEERTALK
MEERTALKS
Newsletter October 2023
Project Starting in Pune, India and Dr. Tao Co-authors Paper
October 30, 2023
Newsletter
Newsletters
Press October 2023
Africa's first heat officer is helping women keep cool in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.
October 11, 2023
Press
Press