Atmospheric

Climate Change Causes Local Weather Events- Yeah, We Said It

Donald Wuebbles, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is going to do the thing the IPCC wishes people would not do; attribute local weather events to climate change. The hurricanes and droughts like we had ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2013 - 1:00pm

Stop Conflating Weather And Climate: Consider Macroweather

Climate change causing every weather event enjoyed the kind of fallacious media coverage in late 2012 it hadn't gotten since 2006- it remains bad science. While short-term weather is notoriously volatile, climate is more of an average weather pattern ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2013 - 4:01pm

Why Didn't Global Warming Make The Globe Warmer? Volcanic Aerosols, Says Study

Why didn't the Earth warm as much as estimates and numerical models projected would happen between 2000 and 2010? A new paper says now thinks the culprits are hiding in plain sight; they are dozens of volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide.  ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2013 - 4:00pm

Like Earth's Atmosphere? Thank Carbon

An analysis of how carbon is trapped and released by iron-rich volcanic magma offers clues about our early atmospheric evolution and also that of other terrestrial bodies. The composition of a planet's atmosphere starts far beneath the surface. When ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2013 - 4:01pm

Global Warming Slowed Down While CO2 Emissions Rose- What's The Rumpus?

While the United States is now back at early 1990s levels of CO2 emissions, thanks to a switch to natural gas in the energy sector and a moribund economy, that doesn't apply to Asia. The middle class in China alone has a population that exceeds the en ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 18 2013 - 10:39am

Rivers Are 'Horizontal Cooling Towers' Says Study

Thermoelectric power plants interact with climate, hydrology, and aquatic ecosystems while rivers serve as "horizontal cooling towers"  — but at a cost to the environment, says a new analysis.   ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2013 - 12:16pm

Statistical Downscaling Says Hawaii Will Get Less Rain Due To Global Warming

Rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been declining since 1978. Is the drying trend due to global warming? Yes, says a team of researchers who found that climate models don't have enough resolution to capture the diverse rainfall pattern over Hawai ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2013 - 12:09pm

Will Hawaii Get More Hurricanes?

Hawaii does not get a lot of hurricanes, only two have made landfall in the last 30 years. But scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa predict that Hawaii could see a two-to-three-fold increase in tropical cy ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2013 - 1:01pm

Brighter Clouds: Organic Vapors Linked To Climate Cooling

Natural emissions and man-made pollutants have an unexpected effect; they make clouds brighter and have a cooling effect on the world's climate. A quick primer: Clouds are made of water droplets, condensed on to tiny particles suspended in the air. W ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2013 - 5:16am

The World Is Getting Cooler*

The World Is Getting Cooler * *  Not! This is something of a pre-emptive strike against the quote miners of this world.  I predict that they will use a new study of cloud seeding to sell ice damage insurance or something. If you sprinkle a cup of water on ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 6 2013 - 11:11am