Atmospheric

Coastal Regions Need To Worry About Non-Climate Change Sea Level Rise Now

Coastal regions under threat from sea-level rise need to tackle the immediate threats of human-led and other non-climatic changes, according to a new analysis. It's an even more pressing concern than possible climate change sea rises because those ch ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2014 - 9:18am

Ozone Pollution In India Kills Enough Crops To Feed 94 Million

The most compelling argument for genetic modification is not accepting science or progressive ideals, it is that it has caused food production to dematerialize in dramatic fashion. Scientific optimization of plants, superior to all genetic modification sc ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2014 - 12:30pm

Good News: The Ozone Hole Has Stabilized

The public has long suffered from green fatigue, where constant doomsday prophecies by environmental groups have become background noise, but there is good news too. It just has to come from the world of science instead. After the detection of the ozone-d ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 10:22am

Game Of Thrones Weather: Winter Is Coming Vs. You Know Nothing, Jon Snow

The seasons are about to change and that means a new round of projections, prognostications, sooth-saying and doomsday forecasts. If you think you know which of those are done by the civilized world and which of those are done by pagan Wildlings, you know ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 12 2014 - 10:00am

Mapping 15 Years Of Carbon Dioxide Emissions

There hasn't been a lot of progress made on greenhouse gas emissions policies- while America and the EU have made efforts to curb emissions, three countries that account for 3X the emissions of the US are exempt from treaties under an umbrella of dev ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 4:45pm

Asian Has Had Monsoon Season For 40 Million Years

The Asian monsoon was believed to have begun about 25 million years ago  as a result of the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalaya Mountains but a new study finds it existed 40 million years ago- a time when atmospheric carbon dioxide was 4X what ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 10:15am

Historical Global Carbon Cycle Needs A Rethink

A recent study of the global carbon cycle offers a new perspective of Earth's climate records through time. One of the current methods for interpreting ancient changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans may need to be ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2014 - 7:30pm

Hurricane Polo

Hurricane Polo still appears rounded in imagery from NOAA's GOES-West satellite today at 10:15 a.m. EDT  but forecasters expect that to change. The image showed thunderstorms wrapping tightly around the center of the storm while one broken band of th ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2014 - 12:52pm

30 Years Left To Reach The Limit: CO2 Emissions Will Reach New Record High In 2014

Carbon dioxide emissions, the greenhouse gas that has been most strongly implicated in global warming, will reach a record high of 40 billion tons. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2014 - 9:31pm

Global Carbon Report: Emissions Will Hit New Heights In 2014

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel and cement production. Source: CDIAC, Friedlingstein et al. 2014, Global Carbon Project 2014 By Pep Canadell, CSIRO and Michael Raupach, Australian National University ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 21 2014 - 9:12pm