Atmospheric

Early Palaeozoic Icehouse- Climate Earth And Global Warming 440 Million Years Ago

An ancient Ice Age, once regarded as a brief 'blip', in fact lasted for 30 million years according to geologists at the University of Leicester who will discuss their findings during a public lecture at the University on Wednesday June 17. Their ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2009 - 9:40am

Can Cell Phone Towers Predict The Next 'Hurricane Katrina'?

Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation that would follow.  Researchers from Tel Aviv University say they may be ableto make just such a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2009 - 2:45pm

Shipping Industry Emissions Projected In Increased Respiratory Illness

Rising levels of smokestack emissions from oceangoing ships will cause an estimated 87,000 deaths worldwide each year by 2012 — so more than heat wave deaths in French elderly people in 2003 while French young people protested much fewer deaths in the Amer ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2009 - 10:39am

Inside the Mind of a Climate Scientist

A good video laying out how climate scientists think: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jul 13 2009 - 5:06pm

The Solar Cycle Global Climate Link Is Tough To Deny

In the early days of global warming concern, prior to 1994, there was doubt because some researchers used data that skewed results during predictable events,  like El Niño, from locations in the tropical Pacific Ocean and that lack of scientific impartiali ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2009 - 12:24pm

Methane On Mars Means More Mysteries

Methane was discovered on Mars in 2004, meaning volcanic activity continues to generate heat below the martian surface or, if you are exceptionally kooky, that life there is generating it. When Mars Express arrived in orbit around the red planet, Vittorio ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2009 - 9:45am

Dihydroxyepoxides: Cloud Formation's Missing Link?

A previously unknown chemical compound in the atmosphere may help explain how and when clouds are formed, say a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Copenhagen. The discovery of so-called dihydroxy ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2009 - 9:42am

'Cash For Clunkers' Program Is 10X As Expensive For CO2 Emissions As Alternatives

The knock on drastic global warming mitigation solutions by detractors is that it may end up being expensive and not accomplish much- the classic government scenario. 'Cash for Clunkers' is an example of that, according to new UC Davis estimates ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2009 - 11:40am

Australian Rainfall Changes Blamed On Northern Hemisphere Pollution

Australian scientists believe northern hemisphere pollution in Asia, Europe and North America  is to blame for southern hemisphere rainfall changes.   The new research announced at the international Water in a Changing Climate conference in Melbourne, 24-2 ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2009 - 9:49pm

Methane A Growing Concern In Global Warming

There were a number of reasons carbon dioxide got singled out as a primary contributor to global warming and a key one was that it was the easiest problem to fix in Europe- more nuclear power and closing Soviet-era factories made goals achievable.  The US ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2009 - 12:17pm