Atmospheric

Climate Code Foundation- Making Climate Science More Transparent

Climate science is in a difficult position.   On the one side, climate scientists like James Hansen say that the data behind IPCC media talking points is too easy to misinterpret so people shouldn't have it, but to hard science people, climate science ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 29 2010 - 4:19pm

Sun And Climate- Upside Down May Be Back And Forth

Obviously some things about the Sun's relationship to Earth are known- if we get too close or too far away all life disappears.  But other aspects, like the activity of the Sun related to heating and cooling, are less clear. It has long been known tha ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2010 - 4:33pm

Global Warming and Me

Global Warming and Me The NOAA reports that "we are currently tied with 1998 as the warmest January–September period on record." Having now experienced a near-record-breakingly warm summer and fall, I can now report what the effect of global warm ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 17 2010 - 12:02pm

Carbon Dioxide Is The 'Control Knob' Of Earth's Greenhouse Effect

It's known that water vapor and clouds are by far the major contributors to the 'greenhouse effect' on Earth but since those have had a predictable range the planet's temperature ultimately hinges on atmospheric levels of carbon dioxid ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2010 - 9:03am

Chiclones And Bombogenesis

Anyone in their late 20s who lived in Minnesota in 1991 remembers the record-setting Great Halloween Blizzard, which dropped several feet of snow across the state and bestowed upon children a few rare snow days. 1 For folks living in the upper Midwest toda ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 26 2010 - 4:48pm

Hurricane Forecasting Can Now Be Just As Inaccurate Years In Advance

Hurricane forecasts were way off again last year so if you're still wondering if a t rained chimp 'can predict hurricanes better than NOAA' (1) a Nature Geoscience article has good news for you; forecasts can still be wrong 75% of the time b ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 21 2010 - 8:09pm

Despite Economy In The West, Global CO2 Emissions Rise In 2010

Climatology might replace economics as the 'gloomy science'. Projections that the lousy economy might mean a slowdown in fossil fuels were cause for joy among activists, without realizing that people without jobs or food or houses aren't as ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2010 - 4:00am

GFAJ-1: Has This Microbe Redefined The Definition Of Life?

Astrobiology researchers say a new discovery may have expanded the definition of life.   Conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California, they have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2010 - 10:20pm

Pollution Increases Risk Of Obesity- Study

A new study says that e xposure to polluted air in young mice led to an accumulation of abdominal fat and insulin resistance even if they ate a normal diet.    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) says that nearly one out of every three people in ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2010 - 12:08pm

WASP-12b Is The First Carbon Rich Exoplanet Discovered

WASP-12b, a 'hot Jupiter' (Jupiter-sized, extremely hot exoplanet) about 1.4 times the mass of Jupiter and located about 1,200 light years away from Earth, has a carbon-to-oxygen ratio greater than one, according to new measurements. That makes W ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2010 - 2:13pm