Atmospheric

Climate Change May Shape Languages Too

Researchers have determined that languages with a wide range of tone pitches are more prevalent in regions with high humidity levels while languages with simpler tone pitches are mainly found in drier regions. They explain this by noting that the vocal fol ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2015 - 1:11pm

Asian Peat Fire Impact On Climate Change

Wildfires send hot flames and smoke high into the air, including black carbon emissions associated with climate change and risk to human health. Unless the United States adapts sensible forest management policies, which means fewer instances of the Departm ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2015 - 12:19pm

Wiggles: Inconsistencies Undermine Model Reliability For Projecting Decade-To-Decade Warming

A new study finds that most climate models may have wiggles that undermine accuracy- but they are likely underestimating the degree of decade-to-decade variability occurring in mean surface temperatures as Earth's atmosphere warms. The models also pro ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2015 - 10:45pm

Global Warming Hiatus: Random Variation, Not Systematic Errors In Climate Models

The rate of global warming that had been predicted in the 1990s did not come to pass. In the 21st century, warming has been significantly slower than all the models had predicted, leading to claims that the models contained systematic errors. Not so, accor ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2015 - 10:47am

The Hurricanes Of The Medieval Warming Period Were Doozies

The folks in Boston might feel like they are having a run of bad weather now, but it's nothing like the intense hurricanes, fueled by warmer oceans, that frequently pounded the region during the first millennium, from the peak of the Roman Empire into ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2015 - 4:12pm

Arctic Air Outbreak In The U.S.- Frigid Cloud Top Temperatures Get Measured

Some of the coldest air of the 2014-2015 winter season is settling over the eastern two-thirds of the U.S., an Arctic air mass that brought wind chills from below zero to the single numbers from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic. It is certainly cold on the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2015 - 6:12pm

'Fiddling' With Temperature Data Doesn't Change The Global Warming Trend

Attacks on institutions that keep records of global temperatures, such as NASA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the UK Met Office, and Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology, continue to appear in the press. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 17 2015 - 4:54pm

Melting Arctic And Weird Weather: Is Climate Change At Work Here?

Everyone loves to talk about the weather, and this winter Mother Nature has served up a feast to chew on. Few parts of the US have been spared her wrath. Severe drought and abnormally warm conditions continue in the west, with the first-ever rain-free Jan ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 18 2015 - 7:00pm

Global Warming Pause Caused By Interaction Of Atlantic And Pacific Oscillations

The recent slowdown in climate warming is due to natural oscillations in the climate, according to a team of climate scientists, who add that these oscillations represent variability internal to the climate system. They do not signal any slowdown in human- ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2015 - 9:30am

Sun's Impact On Climate Is Greater In Cool Periods

The activity of the Sun is an important factor in the complex interactions that control our climate. We don't really even understand the impacr of the sun- it is not constant over time, but has greater significance when the Earth is cooler, according ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2015 - 8:30am