Atmospheric

Natural Gas May Have Little Effect On CO2 Emissions, Finds Simulation

While it is well-known that Americans conserve electricity more than, for example, Canadians, and that CO2 emissions from energy productions have plummeted to 20 year lows without raising prices, an environmental group and scholars from UC Irvine and Stan ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2014 - 10:00am

Pacific Ocean: Cold Cloud Tops In Tropical Storm Rachel

NASA's Aqua satellite captured strong thunderstorms with colder cloud tops that have grown within Tropical Storm Rachel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Aqua passed over the large Tropical Storm Rachel on Sept. 25 at 4:41 p.m. EDT and the Atmospheric In ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2014 - 3:00pm

Triple R: California Drought Linked To Global Warming

Though the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has asked climate scientists not to attribute weather conditions to climate change, a new paper is doing just that.  A team writing in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society says tha ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2014 - 1:32pm

Before Life, Where Did Abiotic Oxygen Come From?

Almost 20 percent of the Earth's atmosphere is oxygen. Green plants produce it as a byproduct of photosynthesis and it, in turn, is used by most living things on the planet to keep our metabolisms running. Yet before those photosynthesizing organisms ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2014 - 4:20pm

Climate Change: Boy Babies Impacted Most?

Image: Genetic Literacy Project By Tabitha M. Powledge, Genetic Literacy Project ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Oct 8 2014 - 12:31pm

Northwestern Pacific: Category 5 Super Typhoon Vongfong

The NASA satellites, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Terra, have provided data on clouds, rainfall and the diameter of the eye of Super Typhoon Vongfong as it turned north in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Typhoon Vongfong formed on Octobe ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 6:01pm

Tropical Cyclone Hudhud Becoming A Typhoon: Warnings For East-Central India

Tropical Cyclone Hudhud formed on Oct. 8th and began moving from east to west across the Bay of Bengal in the Northern Indian Ocean.  NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Hudhud today and took a picture of the storm that showed it was still somewhat elong ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 11:39am

Hurricane Simon's Remnants Moving Through Mexico And The US

Tropical Storm Simon, once a hurricane, is expected to bring heavy rain to portions of the central Plains and Midwest on today and tomorrow. Since it is not hitting New York City during presidential election season, it won't be called a SuperStorm an ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 1:01pm

Four Corners: US Southwest Has High Methane Emissions

A high amount of methane, the main component of natural gas, is escaping from the Four Corners region in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new study. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 4:18pm

Global Warming In 17 Million B.C.

The Miocene climatic optimum, was a period from about 15 to 17 million years ago and it had wild swings in temperature, the amount of continental ice on the planet and CO2 levels. Historically, CO2 had inconsistent relationships to temperature. When level ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 4:00pm