Atmospheric

Cirrus Clouds And The Mineral Dust And Metallic Aerosols That Seed Them

Cirrus clouds, the thin wisps of vapor that coalesce in the upper layers of the troposphere and trail across the sky, often more than 10 miles above the Earth's surface, influence our global climate, cooling the planet by reflecting incoming solar ra ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2013 - 5:00pm

400 ppm – what else is new?

We, the people, have understood. We've got it. Too much CO2 is spewed out in the atmosphere!  The problem is that we, the people, understood this like 'a million' years ago. I wish those who scream '400 ppm, 400 ppm, 400 ppm!'   no ...

Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - May 11 2013 - 9:38pm

Warming In Central China- Clumped Isotope Thermometry Shows Previous Climate Models Were Off By A Lot

Temperatures in central China are 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit hotter today than they were 20,000 years ago- an increase two to four times greater than many scientists previously thought.   ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2013 - 10:56am

Lightning

I recently read an article about an individual that had been struck by lightning, while it was interesting to read about the experience it was disturbing to read some of the comments that followed and their gross misunderstanding of lightning. In particula ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - May 24 2013 - 8:00pm

Global Warming Temperature Increase Range Gets Narrowed

Researchers say their more reliable projections of global warming estimates at 2100 have narrowed the predicted range of global warming. ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2013 - 10:00am

CFCs, Not Carbon Dioxide, Caused Global Warming- Paper

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), known to deplete ozone, are also to blame for global warming since the 1970s, according to a paper in the International Journal of Modern Physics B. The statistical analysis found that CFCs are the key driver in global climate ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2013 - 2:02pm

How China Meets Its Copehagen Targets While Boosting CO2 Emissions

By outsourcing manufacturing to China- sending jobs Americans don't want, according to immigration experts- America is also outsourcing carbon dioxide emissions. China is now doing the same thing, but to themselves. Coastal provinces are outsourcing ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2013 - 7:00pm

How Did We Get A Third Van Allen Radiation Belt In 2012?

The Van Allen radiation belts in in the Earth's upper atmosphere, two doughnut-shaped rings of highly charged particles, were discovered in 1958. The Van Allen radiation belts consist of an inner ring of high-energy electrons and energetic positive i ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2013 - 5:00am

Guest comments on GCMs and Global Warming from Prof Robert G Brown Of Duke University

Professor  Robert G Brown of Duke University makes a number of significant points at WUWT that I feel needed to be reposted here, with his permission. Let me set the stage. ...

Blog Post - Mi Cro - Jun 26 2013 - 11:16am

An Analysis Of Night Time Cooling Based On NCDC Station Record Data

Since posting this I have discovered that the difference signal I was looking at was not daily minimum temp, but daily maximum temp. A new analysis of minimum temps will be found here. ...

Article - Mi Cro - Oct 11 2013 - 12:08pm