Atmospheric

Sulfuryl Fluoride- Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Has 4800 Times The Warming Impact Of CO2

Sulfuryl fluoride, a gas used for fumigation, has the potential to contribute significantly to future greenhouse warming, but because its production has not yet reached high levels there is still time to nip this potential contributor in the bud, according ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2009 - 12:34pm

Nitrogen Trifluoride And Sulfuryl Fluoride- Two Growing Greenhouse Gases To Think About

Two new greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere, according to an international research team led by scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the US and CSIRO scientist, Dr Paul Fraser, from the Centre for Australian Weather a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2009 - 9:34am

Fish Oil- The Solution To The Livestock Methane Issue?

The benefits to animals of omega 3 fatty acids in fish oils have been well documented – helping the heart and circulatory system.   Can they also help in improving meat quality and reducing methane emissions? Perhaps.   Methane given off by farm animals is ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2009 - 7:07pm

Regulate Rocket Launches To Prevent Ozone Depletion- Study

It's not just American cars that are hurting the environment, researchers in California and Colorado have set their sights on... rocket launches? Future ozone losses from unregulated rocket launches will eventually exceed ozone losses due to chloroflu ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2009 - 7:12pm

George Will Flummoxed by Fluctuations

1998 was the warmest year on record, which George Will takes to mean that global warming is not happening: Reducing carbon emissions supposedly will reverse warming, which is allegedly occurring even though, according to statistics published by the World M ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Apr 3 2009 - 8:44am

Weather Control Discovery- Five Sided Chain Structure Is 'Pentagonal Ice'

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a five-sided ice chain structure that they say could be used to modify future weather patterns. Researchers, in collaboration with University College London and the Fritz-Haber Institut in Berlin, c ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2009 - 11:50am

The 'Great Oxidation Event'- Nickel Level In Seawater Gets A Study

The Earth's original atmosphere held very little oxygen. This began to change around 2.4 billion years ago when oxygen levels increased dramatically during what scientists call the "Great Oxidation Event." The cause of this event has puzzled ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2009 - 12:36pm

Aerosols A Neglected Factor In Arctic Global Warming, Says Study

The great thing about science is that we will converge on the correct answer eventually.  In something like climate change, there is rarely one correct answer and while greenhouse gases have long been center stage in discussions about global climate change ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2009 - 8:38pm

Missing Polar Ice Can Give Us More Energy-- And Not In A Good Way

The setup to the classic Melting Ice Cube problem goes something like this: “Fifty grams of ice are melting in a 100-mililiter cup of 35-degree water.” Using simple principles of energy transfer, we can estimate what the final temperature of the water will ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Apr 15 2009 - 4:40pm

Global Cooling- What Would Earth Be Like?

Global warming gets all the press today but there was a time when pollution-caused global cooling was the concern- and if you map the planet's recent history, 90,000 out of every 100,000 years were ice ages and it's been 12,000 years since the la ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2009 - 12:43pm