Atmospheric

Global Warming In 17 Million B.C.

The Miocene climatic optimum, was a period from about 15 to 17 million years ago and it had wild swings in temperature, the amount of continental ice on the planet and CO2 levels. Historically, CO2 had inconsistent relationships to temperature. When level ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 4:00pm

Weather History Time Machine Tackles The Real Drought- Of The 1930s

During the 1930s, North America endured what came to be called the Dust Bowl, a prolonged era of dryness- the worst drought in America of the last 1,000 years- that withered crops and dramatically altered where the population settled. 80 years ago, in 193 ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 3:01pm

Fracking Boom Could Mean Up To 12% More Carbon Emissions

Better get our heads out of the sand and run. Credit: Peter Byrne/PA By Erik Bichard, University of Salford The consistent message from those who would seek to exploit shale gas is that it has three distinct advantages over existing forms of fossil fuel e ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 17 2014 - 2:00pm

Tropical Storm Ana Over Hawaii

At 2 AM local time in Hawaii, Tropical Storm Ana was just below hurricane strength with maximum sustained winds near 70 mph. NOAA's Central Pacific Hurricane Center expects it to weaken before it intensifies again. The center of tropical storm Ana wa ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2014 - 3:22pm

Limiting Global Warming To 2°C: The Philosophy And The Science

How much more glacial melting can the planet stand? NASA By Micheal Mann, Pennsylvania State University and Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 21 2014 - 3:00pm

Epidemiologists Link Air Pollution To Autism

Children with autism spectrum disorder, a range of conditions characterized by social deficits and communication difficulties, were more likely to have been exposed to higher levels of certain air toxics during their mothers' pregnancies and the firs ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 10:12am

Tropical Depression 9: Bay Of Campeche In The Gulf Of Mexico

NOAA's GOES-East Satellite captured the birth of Tropical Depression Nine formed over the western Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to make a quick landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The clouds associated with the depression s ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 3:57pm

Plants Absorb More CO2 Than We Thought, But...

A recent study shows plants may absorb more carbon than we thought. Jason Samfield /Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Pep Canadell, CSIRO Through burning fossil fuels, humans are rapidly driving up levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which in turn is raising ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 26 2014 - 8:00am

Cyclone Nilofar Looks More Like A Comet

Tropical Cyclone Nilofar is closing in on the border between Pakistan and northwestern India and NASA's Terra satellite caught it while it passed overhead from space. Wind shear continued to affect the storm and from their image it looks more like a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2014 - 1:41pm

Want To Feed The World? Tackle Pollution From Ozone And Soot

Air pollution is harming India's wheat farmers. EPA By Zongbo Shi, University of Birmingham Researchers have long known that man-made climate change will harm yields of important crops, possibly causing problems for the world’s food security. But new ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 4 2014 - 4:56pm