Atmospheric

Winds Will Take Out The Larsen C Ice Shelf Before Climate Change Can

Antarctica’s fourth largest ice shelf, the Larsen C Ice Shelf located on the Antarctic Peninsula, risks collapse due to mountain winds, according to a recent presentation at annual meeting of the European Geophysical Union. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2021 - 5:01pm

Cows Are Not Killing The Climate

As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment. Some activists have called for taxing meat to reduce consumption of it. A key ...

Article - The Conversation - May 3 2021 - 12:45pm

Centralized Energy Will Be Better For Emissions And Health In Poor Countries- Even If It's Coal

In countries that have embraced centralized energy and migrated away from individual cooking with dung or wood, both public health and the emissions have improved. So why not pay for all developed countries to switch? The World Bank wanted to do that half ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2021 - 2:14pm

The Naturalistic Fallacy That Holds Back Some In The West From Progress Keeps India From Lowering Emissions Too

A billion people still use wood for cooking and heating- and western countries are to blame. In the last decade, centralized energy production for developing countries was derailed unless they used solar or wind- neither of which are viable on their own. T ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2021 - 2:19pm

Tree Farts And Ghost Forests A New Target For Climate Change

A new paper finds that greenhouse gas emissions from standing dead trees in coastal wetland forests are not properly accounted for when assessing the environmental impact of so-called "ghost forests." Ghost forests are what is left of former for ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2021 - 12:12pm

During The Last Ice Age, Global Cooling Dropped The Temperature On Land 11 Degrees

An analysis of noble gases dissolved in groundwater finds that the low-to-mid latitude land surfaces at low elevation cooled on average by 11 degrees Fahrenheit during the Last Glacial Maximum- the ice age. Prior to modern times, ice ages were about 90,000 ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2021 - 2:53pm

Urban Emissions Decreased In High-Income Countries And It Would Be More If 'Virtual' Pollution Was Not Included

Starting in 1975, in defiance of Population Bomb claims of mass famine about to happen, agricultural science hit an inflection point and more people began to be fed on less land, using less water and energy, with less environmental strain than ever before. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 7 2021 - 11:52am

Weather: Where Science And Supernatural Beliefs Meet

On July 15 971, the bones of St Swithin were removed from their resting place on the order of Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and placed in a shrine inside the cathedral. The saint, it seemed, did not approve. A violent storm followed, and rain fell for ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 14 2021 - 6:13pm

California Fires: Where There's Smoke There's PM 2.5 Junk Science

As I write this, our local school is closed due to concern about smoke inhalation. Other parts of the nation may not realize it but two severe wildfires broke out recently, in northern and southern California. If this had happened anywhere near New York Ci ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 24 2021 - 2:53pm

Exposure To Wildfire Smoke May Increase Preterm Birth Risk- But It Would Be The PM10, Not PM2.5

A new study statistically correlates wildfire smoke to pre-term birth risk. There are a number of confounders in that, of course, like that exposure to wildfires creates a great deal of stress and often hurried actions and those are huge factors, but they ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 25 2021 - 4:37pm