Atmospheric

The Tsunami That Changed The Caribbean

Some 3,300 years ago a tsunami must have hit the the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean, though no historical records of tsunamis exist. Sediments don't lie and the sediments studied by scientists writing in Naturwissenschaften – The Science of Natur ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2012 - 5:43pm

Climate Modelers Project Milder Northeast Winters By 2070

The oncoming train wreck of climate change has an upside if you live in the Northeast part of America: fewer Snowmageddons brought on by cold weather. A new high-resolution climate projection applied regional climate models to examine likely near-term cha ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2012 - 12:19pm

Arctic Hurricanes? Yes, There Are

If you did not know Arctic hurricanes happen, you are not alone. They even come with a central "eye", extreme low barometric pressure and towering 30-foot waves that can sink ships and cover metal platforms with thick ice, threatening oil and ga ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2012 - 5:40pm

Hypoiodous Acid Triggers Ozone Destruction Over Oceans

Scientists have established that the majority of ozone-depleting iodine oxide observed over the remote ocean comes from a previously unknown marine source- the principal source of iodine oxide can be explained by emissions of hypoiodous acid (HOI), a gas ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2013 - 4:00pm

Soot Finally Gets Some Respect In Climate Change

For two decades, carbon dioxide was touted as the silver bullet for halting climate change.  What about methane, what about NO2, and what about soot? Soot, that black carbon that causes smoggy skies (and has sent Beijing's Pollution Index right off t ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2013 - 9:30pm

Major Progress In CO2 And Global Warming Reduction

At least in America, CO2 emissions have dropped dramatically. The energy sector, the largest producer of CO2, is already back at early 1990s levels of emissions and the traditionally worst offender, coal, is at early 1980s levels. CO2 is the primary green ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2013 - 6:08pm

An Early Spring For The Next Century

The upcoming century could see trees in the continental US producing spring leaves an average of 17 days earlier than in the past century, according to a new study by Princeton University researchers. The good news: These changes could lead to changes in ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2013 - 5:52pm

Nemo Controversy: Should We Name Every Big Storm?

Does naming every large storm something new and distinct help? When all those media companies in midtown Manhattan wanted to put on their election push and remind America global warming would only happen if they voted for the wrong guy, they were disappoin ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2013 - 9:02pm

Climate Controversy Solved By Chemistry? Which Volcanic Eruptions Caused Global Cooling

In the ongoing culture war among climate scientists, climate scientologists and climate deniers, few things stands out like the effect of volcanoes.  Volcanoes are well-known for cooling the climate but how much has been unclear, leading to radically diff ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2013 - 4:39pm

Ozone Layer Is On The Road To Recovery

New satellite images show that the ozone hole over Antarctica in 2012 was the smallest seen in the past decade. Long-term observations show that Earth’s ozone has been strengthening. The ozone sensor on Europe’s MetOp weather satellite continues the long-t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2013 - 1:05am