Atmospheric

Time For Geoengineering Is Now, Climate Scientists Argue

Along with drastic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, a team of climate scientists says internationally coordinated research and field-testing on geoengineering the planet's atmosphere need to begin immediately in order to limit risk of climate c ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2010 - 2:10pm

White Roofs Could Reduce Urban Heat Island Effect By 33 Percent

Painting the roofs of buildings white may reduce the impact of the urban heat island effect by as much as 33 percent, significantly cooling off cities and helping society adjust to the changing climate, suggests a new study soon to be published in Geophysi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2010 - 12:15pm

Why Isn't Earth Warming As Expected? Stratospheric Water Vapor Provides Clues

In recent years, climate change hasn't proceeded as most scientists expected. Global surface temperatures have not risen as fast in the last decade as they did in the 1980s and 1990s, and researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2010 - 2:44pm

Ocean Acidification Reveals Further Impacts Of Climate Change

 Data collected since the pre-industrial age indicates that the mean surface pH of the world's oceans has declined from 8.2 to 8.1 units with another 0.4 unit decline possible by century's end, according to a new study in Oceanography. A single w ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2010 - 6:04pm

Study Introduces New Process For Modeling Climate Change

An international team of climate scientists say they have developed a new approach to modeling the earth's climate that will improve the accuracy of future models utilized by the IPCC and provide the framework for thousands of individual scientific st ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 10 2010 - 2:47pm

Before Geoengineering, Understand The Carbon Cycle, Studies Say

the Earth's natural biogeochemical cycles must be better understood before Geoengineering efforts are undertaken as a means to help mitigate climate change, according to two studies in Nature Geoscience which discuss what drove large-scale changes to ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2010 - 5:02pm

Ship Steam Helps Researchers Model Effects Of Geoengineering

Ships blowing off steam are aiding researchers who are studying how manmade particles might help mitigate climate change. New results from modeling clouds like those seen in shipping lanes reveal the complex interplay between aerosols, the prevailing weath ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2010 - 1:05pm

How Will Global Warming Affect Regional Climates?

While much attention has been given to the potential global impact of climate change, less has been paid to how a warmer planet would affect regional climates. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that the global average temperatur ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:03pm

Destabilizing Arctic Methane Stores Could Intensify Climate Change

An international research team writing in Science says that a section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the powerful greenhouse gas. The results show that the per ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2010 - 6:39pm

Developed Countries 'Outsource' Their Carbon Emissions

Wealthy consumers in the United States and Europe need to take the lead in efforts to prevent devastating climate change because they outsource their weather breaking carbon emissions to developing nations, according a new study in PNAS. Researchers at the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:04pm