Atmospheric

Aerosols And Climate: How To Know More About A Known Unknown

The influence of aerosols and clouds represent one of the largest known uncertainties in the scientific understanding of trends in our past global climate- and also hinder predictions of future climate change. Researchers have now shown that the rate of co ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2012 - 6:30pm

Aerosols From Even Small Volcanic Eruptions Impact Climate

Aerosols from relatively small volcanic eruptions can be boosted into the high atmosphere by weather systems such as monsoons and affect global temperatures, according to a new study.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2012 - 2:30pm

Methane Levels In California Get Some Respect

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, has been underrated in the quest to discuss carbon dioxide, but it shouldn't be- it has about 23 times the warming effect of CO2.  And methane levels  are at least one-and-a-half times higher in California than previo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2012 - 1:40am

World CO2 Emissions Up, Despite Declines In OECD Countries

Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2), considered the main cause of global warming, increased by 3% last year, reaching an all-time high of 34 billion tons in 2011. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2012 - 10:07am

Forest Dilemma- Clear Trees Or Boost Global Warming From Wildfires

In the 1990s, life was simpler for environmentalists.  Crippling the logging industry was all that was needed to protect trees and birds.   But, as in abortion or gun control, you have to sue everyone or you can sue no one and even responsible logging and ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2012 - 10:54am

Pyrite: Fools’ Gold And The Sulfur Cycle Get Some Atmospheric Respect

Sulfur has been portrayed as a secondary factor in regulating atmospheric oxygen- carbon gets all the press- but new findings suggest that sulfur’s role may have been underestimated. As sulfur cycles through the land, the atmosphere and the oceans, it unde ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2012 - 4:31pm

It Worked! US Energy Emissions Back At 1992 Levels

See? America did not need any stinking Kyoto agreement, we just needed for three areas to work in tandem to get greenhouse gas emissions back close to the magic number picked by the Germans and French a decade and a half ago.(1) The Department of Energy re ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 1 2012 - 3:28pm

Vapor Recovery Mandate For New Gas Stations Starts To Evaporate

In the 'we must do something even if it does not work' department, it isn't always permanent; vapor recovery mandates for new gas stations in Pennsylvania are quietly dying. The Department of Environmental Protection today announced it will ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2012 - 5:30am

Quest Project: World's First Oil Sands Carbon Capture And Storage Project

The Quest project, the first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project for an oil sands operation in Canada, has gotten support from the Governments of Canada and Alberta and will soon be underway, Shell announced. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2012 - 1:55am

Climate: Some Caution About Aerosols

Thanks to science journalism that primarily exists to be cheerleaders and rehash IPCC press releases, the public thinks if we just banned carbon dioxide our climate issues would go away.  ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2012 - 6:00pm