Atmospheric

Extreme Temperatures, Not Averages, Determine Distribution Of Insects

The body temperature of cold-blooded (ectothermic) animals, including insects, is ultimately determined by ambient temperature, and that impacts the speed and efficiency of their vital biological processes also. But is it changes in average temperature or ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2014 - 6:00am

Climate Change Doesn't Lead To More Deaths In Winter- But It Won't Reduce Them Either

The upside to global warming might be milder winters. This would naturally lead to fewer deaths to due cold but an analysis of data from the past 60 years shows that is not likely. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2014 - 11:05pm

Optimized Livestock Diets May Reduce Emissions 23 Percent By 2030

Methane has 23X the impact of carbon dioxide on warming and livestock produces methane- burping cows burp. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2014 - 4:33pm

Wind Turbines Change The Weather, So They May Make Hurricanes Weaker

The criticism of wind farms is that they are expensive, don't product enough electricity to be meaningful and change the weather patterns even a thousand miles away. That may have a benefit; they may weaken hurricanes before landfall. Imagine a 2012 ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2014 - 5:30am

The Microbial Soil Process That Controls Atmospheric Hydrogen

There are many enduring mysteries regarding the composition of the Earth's atmosphere but one may be a little closer to being solved. Researchers have discovered a microbial soil process that helps ensure that the explosive gas hydrogen remains at tr ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2014 - 12:07pm

Stop Linking Storms To Climate Change

There was a time when advocates knew that linking weather events to climate change was a bad idea; it left the science open to criticism if Al Gore was giving a talk on global warming during a blizzard. Yet since 2012, when SuperStorm Sandy was linked to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2014 - 2:18pm

Ancient Indonesian Climate Change Linked To Nature

A 60,000-year record of rainfall in central Indonesia used sediments from a remote lake reveals important new details about the climate history of a region that wields a substantial influence on the global climate as a whole. The Indonesian archipelago si ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2014 - 4:58pm

Computer Model Quantifies Health Costs Of Air Pollution From Agriculture

Ammonia pollution from agricultural sources poses larger health costs than previously estimated, according to a numerical model by Harvard University researchers Fabien Paulot and Daniel Jacob, who estimated chemical reactions in the atmosphere to better ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2014 - 1:01am

Not Just Rainfall: Evaporative Drying May Spread To A Third Of Earth

Increasing heat is estimated to extend dry conditions to far more farmland and cities by the end of the century, according to a new paper. Much of the concern about future drought under a global warming scenario has focused on rainfall projections but hig ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 6:43pm

Natural Variation In North Atlantic Ocean Caused Extreme Winters In US And Europe

The extreme cold weather observed across Europe and the east coast of the US in recent winters is due to to natural, long-term variations in sea surface temperatures, according to a new study published in Environmental Research Letters. The researchers fr ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 9:03pm