Oceanography

Sea Level Rise In Western Tropical Pacific Will Be Caused By Man

A new study indicates sea levels likely will continue to rise in the tropical Pacific Ocean off the coasts of the Philippines and northeastern Australia as humans continue to alter the climate. The study authors combined past sea level data gathered from ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2014 - 7:00pm

Has Antarctic Sea Ice Expansion Been Overestimated? Has Arctic Sea Ice Retreat?

It sounds like it should be easy enough to know if ice is growing or retreating, but it really isn't.  Antarctic sea ice has been expanding, we are told, while Arctic sea ice is retreating, both at dramatic rates. How accurate is satellite data? Proc ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 11:54am

Synchronization Of North Atlantic, North Pacific Led To Global Warming That Ended The Ice Age

There's a concern that global warming may push Earth's climate system past a "tipping point," where rapid melting of ice and further warming may become irreversible. It's a hotly debated conjecture because there is no picture of w ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2014 - 4:00am

Forget 20 Foot Sea Rise Hype, Nuisance Flooding Will Get Action Taken

8 of the top 10 U.S. cities that have seen an increase in nuisance flooding, which causes road closures, overwhelmed storm drains and compromised infrastructure, are on the East Coast, according to a new NOAA technical report. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2014 - 6:37pm

Virtual Water Shortage By 2040

Two new papers postulate that there will be a water crisis by 2040. Not because of population, but because of current energy and power solutions.  And they believe solar and wind power is the only answer.  In most countries, electricity is the biggest sou ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2014 - 12:01pm

In The Arctic Ocean, Researchers Measure Waves The Size Of Houses

As the climate warms and sea ice retreats, the North is changing. An ice-covered expanse now has a season of increasingly open water which is predicted to extend across the whole Arctic Ocean before the middle of this century. Storms thus have the potenti ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 8:17am

The Cooling Effect In Warming Arctic Lakes

Warming temperatures are causing Arctic lakes to release methane, a greenhouse gas that has 23X the short term warming effect of CO2, it has been said. A new paper in Nature found that Siberian lakes have actually pulled more greenhouse gases from the atm ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2014 - 1:30pm

How Much Mercury Is Floating In The Ocean?

Mercury is a naturally occurring element and a part of human enterprises like burning coal and making cement and compact fluorescent light bulbs. Knowing how much of both natural and unnatural mercury is bioavailable- uptaken by animals and humans— is imp ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2014 - 3:00pm

Low-Oxygen Waters Would Improve Under Climate Change

As the complex story of climate change unfolds, many of the forecasts are grim, but there are exceptions- the lowest-oxygen environments in the ocean would get now get worse, they may improve if climate change weakens the trade winds. Areas of extreme low ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2014 - 11:11pm

3X The Size Of The Empire State Building: When Megascale Icebergs Run Aground

Between Greenland and Spitsbergen, scientists have found the scours on the sea bed left behind by gigantic icebergs- about three times the height of the Empire State Building. The five lineaments, at a depth of 1,200 meters, are the lowest-lying iceberg s ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2014 - 10:12am