Atmospheric

Global Warming Could Lead To Global Beer Shortages By 2100

Beer, the most popular alcoholic drink in the world, consumes around 17% of global barley production, but this share varies across major beer-producing countries; 83% in Brazil to 9% in Australia. What if global warming hits and temperatures rise more than ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2018 - 10:00am

Space Weather Has A Bigger Impact Than Many Realize, Better Forecasting Will Help

Space weather and its changes to earth's magnetic fields has an outsized impact in Arctic regions through effects on electricity networks, mining operations and shipping. A new technique called Fractional Derivative Rate (FDR) published in Space Weath ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2019 - 10:41am

European Air Is Clean, But Diesel Black Carbon Could Be An Issue For Respiratory Issue Sufferers On These Streets

Air in England, the United States and most of Europe is now cleaner than it's been in over a century, but you wouldn't know that if you read populist epidemiology claims, which have redefined pollution from PM 10, dangerous soot like black carbon ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2019 - 1:37pm

Upside To Climate Change? It Might Make Siberia Habitable

To many in the west, Siberia is synonymous with remote winter gulags where dissidents go to die. A new simulation estimates that if climate change occurs according to more aggressive models, the end of the century might see it as a pretty nice place to lov ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2019 - 5:36pm

Environmental Defense Fund Tortures Bayes To Claim EPA Scientists Are Wrong About Methane From Fertilizer

Industrial processes in the United States produce 8 gigagrams of methane emissions per year, according to experts. But Environmental Defense Fund, using a sensor on a Google street view car, is claiming otherwise in a recent article they paid to publish in ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 14 2019 - 4:33pm

Fracking Correlated To Radon In Ohio- Here Is Why No One Is Actually At Risk

A study has taken a look at the radii of homes with measured data near natural gas wells and statistically linked that to higher radon. While some in media will use that to sound this week's 'science is killing us' alarm, the reality is that ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 16 2019 - 9:47am

Even With China Emitting 5X As Much Energy CO2 As The US, Climate Goals Are Still Attainable

Though numerical models don't always correlate with reality, a new paper states that the world can achieve a 2 degree Celsius climate-stabilizing goal and reach net-zero emissions by mid-century, without closing newer plants that, let's be hones ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2019 - 5:00am

How Volcanoes Shaped Climate

In the early part of the 19th century, volcanoes had such a dramatic impact people worried the climate was irrevocably changed. The "year without a summer" saw cooler temperatures and there was concern Tambora in Indonesia and four other large er ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2019 - 9:01am

Nitrogen Dioxide In Air Statistically Linked To Asthma- But The Methods Are Unclean

In developed countries, air quality is now great. So great that true smog (PM 10- particulate matter 10 microns in diameter) is basically going extinct in countries like America so epidemiologists and demographers have taken to promoting concern about par ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 6 2019 - 9:49am

Anti-Fracking Ecologist Robert Howarth Is Back With A New Cosmic Claim About Methane

If you are worried about climate change and don't embrace natural gas as a bridge to whatever energy wins the future- solar, hydrogen, nuclear- you don't understand energy density and emissions. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 14 2019 - 11:30am