Atmospheric

Plants Getting Too Much Blame For Climate Change

Plants are getting too much blame for global warming, according to a study by scientists at the University of Ediburgh and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The research, published in New Phytologist, suggests that plant leaves account for less ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2010 - 12:29pm

Temperatures Could Exceed Livable Limits By Century's End

If human CO2 emissions continue unabated, the earth could become a difficult place to live before the end of the century, according to a new study in PNAS. Researchers from Purdue University and the University of New South Wales, Australia calculated the h ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2010 - 10:07am

British Summers Arriving Earlier Since 1950s, Study Claims

University of Sheffield geographers studying flowering plants say summers in England have been arriving earlier since the 1950s. Researchers examined records of the first blooming date of early summer flowering plants (phenology) and the timing of first oc ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2010 - 3:05pm

Eyjafjallajoekull Spews More Ash Over Atlantic

Eyjafjallajoekull is erupting again and has sent another ash cloud, 1600 km wide, into the atmosphere. The brownish plume, traveling east and then south, is clearly visible in stark contrast to white clouds framing this Envisat image from 6 May. The volcan ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2010 - 11:34am

Interview With A Global Warming Skeptic: Dr. Roy Spencer

It is no secret that a majority of the peer-reviewed climate change literature lays blame for global warming on human greenhouse gas emissions. But despite the abundance of research supporting anthropogenic global warming, there is a sizable community of q ...

Article - Cameron J English - May 13 2010 - 1:20pm

April 2010 Global Temperature Report

The global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978 is +0.14 C per decade, according to scientists from the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville April temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: +0.50 C (about 0.9 d ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2010 - 1:04pm

Researchers Unveil New Global Thermometer System

Scientists from the University of Alabama, Huntsille have developed a new way to use satellite instruments to measure surface temperatures over most of the world's land area.  The new technique developed by Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. Danny Braswell, both ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2010 - 1:41pm

Are Clouds The Main Cause Of Climate Change?

Two weeks ago, I interviewed Dr. Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Spencer is a trained atmospheric scientist and actively publishes in peer-reviewed journals –  he is also a global warming skeptic. Given his background and contrarian ...

Blog Post - Cameron J English - May 27 2010 - 12:07am

Carbon "Burp" Helped End Last Ice Age- Study

Researchers writing in Science have found the possible source of a huge carbon dioxide 'burp' that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice age. The results provide the first concrete evidence that carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2010 - 5:10pm

Desperately Denying Arctic Warming

Desperately Denying Arctic Warming This is the age of rapid public access to satellite images.  If you want to know what is happening to the Arctic ice you can see for yourself. There are some people who don't want you to look.  They want you to read ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 30 2010 - 2:39pm