Atmospheric

Carbon Capture Candidates Clean Up Climate Change

Forget mitigation and rationing, it is not the way cultures and progress work.  The long-term solution is obviously to engage in basic research and come up with effective clean energy but also to create fewer emissions while development is in progress. Ame ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2012 - 3:31pm

Practical CO2 Solution- Store It Underground

Climate change is a polarizing science policy debate the likes of which humankind has never witnessed before. Even President Obama's science advisor John Holdren never dreamed up this kind of doomsday scenario when he was writing books with the king o ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 21 2012 - 2:44pm

Where The CO2 Hid During The Last Ice Age

The atmosphere contained little carbon dioxide (CO 2) during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago. Why did it rise when the Earth’s climate became warmer? Processes in the ocean are responsible for this, says a new study based on newly developed isotope measu ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2012 - 10:30pm

Science Not Settled: Pollutants Down But Ozone Up In B.C.

The key air pollutants that combine to cause smog have dropped due to emissions regulations but  baseline levels of ozone are continuing to creep up in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Scientists from the University of British Columbia, along with s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 10 2012 - 2:00pm

Cowering In The Uncertainty Basement

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Article - Holly Moeller - Apr 20 2012 - 5:34pm

Tropical Cooling Linked To Late Ordovician Mass Extinction

The second-largest mass extinction in Earth's history, the so-called Late Ordovician mass extinction, coincided with a short but intense ice age during which enormous glaciers grew and sea levels dropped. The Late Ordovician mass extinction occurred a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2012 - 12:14am

Global Warming From...Dinosaurs?

Anthropogenic climate change is so anthropomorphic.  While we think we have a mighty impact on the atmosphere, sauropod dinosaurs millions of years ago shouldn't be left out of the pollution hall of fame- they alone could have produced enough methane ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2012 - 1:02pm

Blowing Hot Air: The Methane Hydrate Delusion

Last week, word came from Prudhoe Bay that sent chills through me as surely as if I’d been standing in the Alaskan North Slope drilling outpost myself. The United States Department of Energy – in collaboration with energy giant ConocoPhillips and the Japa ...

Article - Holly Moeller - May 10 2012 - 12:51am

Reconciling Satellite Measurements And Global Climate Models

How can basically honest scientists using a rigorous methodology have different data?  Numerical models are tricky business and while climate scientists are rapidly becoming experts in statistics and creating better models, that was not always the case. On ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2012 - 3:30am

IPCC Gives Up On Science, Makes Grey Literature Official

'Grey' literature, which led to the "Glaciergate" scandal of 2010 when it was revealed that the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are losing ice (gone by 2035!) was stated as fact even though it was not based on evidence, will no longer ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 12 2013 - 4:28pm