Source: sciam.com
Global warming is a reality. Innovation in energy technology and policy are sorely needed if we are to cope.
Source: wired.com
In the infamous "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" episode of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns designs a giant sun-blocking disc to ensure the town's dependence on nuclear power. A Nobel laureate has proposed a similar strategy with a nobler purpose: stopping global warming.
Source: pubs.acs.org
One of the world's leading climate modelers, Ben SaSanter has long been a target for cocontrariansnd climate skeptics.
Note: I will be on vacation until the end of the month and I will not be able to publish weekly reviews. If someone would like to take on this task - please do it. The highlights this week
Source: nature.com
Antarctica weather 'hindcast' could spell bad news for sea-level rise as as snowfall levels are less than those predicted by climate models.
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
An ancient period of global warming spurred the world's first primates to spread from Asia to North America, new research shows. The animals may have taken as little as 20,000 years to disperse across the Northern Hemisphere from the moment they first appeared.
Source: realclimate.org
Guest writer Brian Soden of the Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science at Miami University (yeah, that's usually abbreviated) explains about what climate feedbacks are and how they are factored into what we …
Source: seedmagazine.com
A case scheduled to be argued in front of the nation's highest court could change the course of climate change policy.
Source: signonsandiego.com
The national heat wave that hit the U.S. over the past couple weeks has everyone thinking of global warming. Not so fast, says Don Whitlow, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego. "Natural cycles happen," he said.
Source: commondreams.org
An Op-Ed article in the Wall Street Journal a month ago claimed that a published study affirming the existence of a scientific consensus on the reality of global warming had been refuted.
Source: realclimate.org
There is much that could be said about the hearings (and no doubt will be) and many of the participants (Tom Karl, Tom Crowley, Hans von Storch, Gerry North) did a good job in articulating the big picture on climate change independently of the 'hockey stick' study as we've hig …
Source: blog.sciam.com
Scientific American's George Musser has an extended response to the oft repeated claim that The present warming could be a natural uptick.
Source: sciencenow.sciencemag.org
It's no secret that 2005 was a ferocious hurricane season. A record 28 tropical storms and hurricanes--including four category-5s--lashed through the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean, leaving an appalling toll of death, misery, and destruction in their wakes.
Source: sciam.com
The earth's four jet streams mark the boundaries of regional climates. In the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, these rivers of high-speed wind persist at the border of warm, tropical air and its cooler counterpart toward the poles.
Source: New York Times
Global warming is among many possible reasons for a decline in coral. From the article:There is no one answer to what is killing these coral. The greatest culprit seems to be disease, especially "white diseases," which fleck the coral with pox and bands of deathly white.
Source: News Bureau - University of Missouri-Columbia
Engineering Professor Curt Davis says that CEI TV Spots are Misrepresenting His Research. From the article: Davis said that three points in his study unequivocally demonstrate the misleading aspect of the CEI ads.
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
How sensitive is Earth's climate? Sufficient to warm by at least several degrees in response to greenhouse gas pollution but perhaps not as sensitive as some scientists have feared, according to a new study.
Source: blog.sciam.com
Climatologists who think global warming is serious and human-driven actually agree with skeptics who say that models have not been adequately tested. But whereas the skeptics think that the models overstate the threat, the mainstream researchers think they could understate it.
Source: csmonitor.com
Arctic temperatures near a prehistoric level when seas were 16 to 20 feet higher, studies say. Global warming appears to be pushing vast reservoirs of ice on Greenland and Antarctica toward a significant, long-term meltdown.
Source: Seed Magazine
A pair of scientists show findnigs of how two eras in the distant past create cause for concern over our environmental future.
Source: nsidc.org
All about glaciers, sea ice, snow, avalanches, blizzards, arctic climatology and meteorology, plus FAQ about cold stuff.
Source: brentrasmussen.com
Blogger Darksyde interviews 3 leading climatologists about global warming, at popular blog Unscrewing The Inscrutable.