Atmospheric

More Pollution From An “ecological” Law

In Europe and worldwide the public attention to environmental protection is growing, together with research of new technologies and new solutions to reduce pollution sources, also in the field of energy and mobility. However governments and public authorit ...

Article - Enrico Dorigo - Aug 6 2011 - 4:40pm

Cloud Feedback Effect On Climate- A 10-Year Analysis

The atmosphere is a complex system and therefore the exact amount of warming due to greenhouse gases is the subject of scientific debate but it is proven science that clouds amplify the warming effect and a new model provides more insight into specifics, t ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2010 - 11:00am

Pliocene Warm Period Takes Us Back To The Future

The Bering Sea, northward extension of the Pacific Ocean between Siberia and Alaska, was ice-free and full of life during the last major warm period, a new study has shown. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2010 - 11:50am

Piers Corbyn: There's a Mini Ice Age Coming

Oh no, not again.  When I was young the buzz was about the coming Ice Age- and it was common sense.  Since 90,000 out of every 100,000 years of human history have been Ice Ages and it's been 12,000 years since the last one, logically we have been over ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 21 2010 - 11:43am

Thunderstorms- Terrestrial Particle Accelerators Create Antimatter

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms, which act like enormous particle accelerators and can emit gamma-ray flashes called TGFs- and also high-energy electrons and positrons.   TGFs are produced insi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2011 - 10:48am

Cirrus Clouds On...Titan?

Sure, Los Angeles has a terrible smog issue but it could be worse; movie stars could live on Titan.  Titan, Saturn's largest moon, looks like a dirty orange ball but the actual composition is more like crude oil without the sulfur.  Titan's haze ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2011 - 10:50pm

If Climate Models Are Correct, Even If Emissions Stopped Today We Would Get Warmer

There are varying levels of acceptance for various climate models, especially those that predict short-term escalation of warming due to man-made emissions. Given that, no one is going to like new University of Washington claims that it's already too ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2011 - 7:58pm

What Is A Geomagnetic Storm?

Concerns about geomagnetic storms are all the rage this week, so what are they? A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance in the magnetosphere due to near-Earth space weather that happens when the interplanetary magnetic field turns southward and remains that w ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2011 - 5:46pm

Meteorologists More Skeptical Of Global Warming After 'ClimateGate'

Meteorologists know weather but do they know anything about climate?    Climate scientists may disagree but a new analysis by sociologists shows meteorologists don't think climate scientists know anything either; and they disagree more than ever after ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2011 - 2:56pm

Russian Heatwave Of 2010 Attributed To Natural Variability

The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes, according to a new study accepted for publication  in Geophysical Research Letters.  ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2011 - 1:18pm