Tag: Global Warming Science - Page 14
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Melting Arctic Sea Ice Won't Expand Ocean's Carbon Storage Potential
Knock off one natural counterbalance to global warming: A new study in the Science shows that any hope that as Arctic sea ice melts and opens up new areas of open water potentially increasing its ability to store
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Black Carbon Pollution From Fossil Fuels Causes Twice the Warming As Burning Biomass
More on the important role that black carbon soot plays in increasing global warming and what can be done about it: A new study published in Nature Geoscience found that the amount of solar radiation absorbed increased
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Let's Shut Down Lord Monckton's Latest Nonsense - Support Prof. John Abraham & Sign This Letter
In case you missed it, back in May Professor John Abraham of the University of St Thomas, Minnesota gave prominent climate change skeptic Lord Monckton a point-by-point debunking. Abraham found
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Ignoring Soot Pollution Means We're 8 More Years Behind Schedule in Tackling Climate Change
TreeHugger has written about the growing acknowledgement that soot pollution is a major component of global warming--contributing a shocking amount to melting of glaciers in the Himalayas is just
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United Kingdom Launches Projects to Study Ocean Acidification
Image: NOAA Ocean Explorer, Flickr The Evil Twin of Global Warming Ocean acidification naturally results from elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. The oceans absorb CO2, which becomes carbonic acid as it dissolves into the sea
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Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Detached From Underwater Ridge & Melting Faster
Some new research on the rapidly melting Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica offers some more detail on why it is losing ice
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CO2 Linked To Ice Ages & Past Global Climate Changes
Taking a look back to past global climate changes, researchers led by Timothy Herbert of Brown University have determined that for at least the past 2.7 million years tropical temperatures have "changed in lockstep" with
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2010 So Far Has Been Hottest Year on Record: NOAA
Continuing the trend from the previous month, NOAA reports that May, the period from March to May, and from January to May all have had the hottest combined global land and ocean surface temperatures since records
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Scientists Hope BP Oil Spill Offers Clues About Global Warming
While everyone else worries about the toxicity of the oil, the physics of plume dispersion, and the costs to wildlife and workers across the gulf, one crew of scientists see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The
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NASA Taking First Trek to Arctic for Ocean Research
NASA researchers are getting ready for a voyage to the Arctic to study how climate change is impacting the ecosystems and chemistry of icy north. The 5-week long mission, appropriately named Impacts of
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Climate Change Skeptic Lord Monckton Gets a Point-by-Point Debunking
This is too awesome and frankly admirably obsessive: John Abraham, a professor of mechanical engineering specializing in in heat transfer and fluid mechanics at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, has taken the time to do a point-by-point analysis
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Warmest April, Ever - NOAA Releases New Global Temperature Data
Oh, and the warmest January-April on record too. That's the word from NOAA and refers to the combined global land and ocean surface temperatures, which at 14.5°C (58.1°F) was 0.76°C (1.37°F)
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Is Pandora Possible? James Cameron's Home Tree Initiative
CalTech scientists discuss Pandora with James Cameron. Avatar's director James Cameron is busy following up his monstrously successful film with an environmental campaign, from visiting the Amazon with Al Gore to CalTech last week to join a panel of
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Lovelock Tells BBC That Mankind Cannot Save Gaia
James Lovelock, the scientist who put forth the Gaia Theory, has told the BBC it is too late for us to save the planet. According to Gaia Theory, the entire earth is a single organism, connected and interactive. Only just
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Arctic Sea Ice Loss Confirmed As Main Cause of Faster Polar Warming
Comparison of Arctic summer sea ice image: EPA It's long been known that melting Arctic ice could help speed global warming. As the ice melts, surface reflectivity changes, more heat is absorbed than reflected, more warming. But now a new study in
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Soils May Release Less Carbon Than Thought As World Warms - Yes, That's A Good Thing
In some tentative (as in, more research is needed) global warming science good news, scientists from UC Irvine, and Colorado State and Yale universities have discovered that microbes in soil begin emitting less CO2 as
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What's it Like Living on a Sea of Ice? Arctic Surveyors Speak (Slideshow)
"Today I was caught out on the thin ice with my feet between two ice islands. I started to lose my balance, but as quick as a flash Charlie grabbed my harness and pulled me back."
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Climategate Closed! Climatic Research Unit Cleared of Malpractice by Independent Review
An independent review panel in the UK examining whether there was any scientific malpractice by the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has concluded that there was none. The panel, headed by former
