Posts Tagged ‘climate models’
Researchers Release Longest Single-Satellite Aerosol Record to Date
With the help of measurements from a now defunct satellite called SeaWifs, researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, led by Christina Hsu, have developed the longest single-satellite global record of aerosols to date. (Not sure what an a...
Big Clue to Future Climate Change in Small Plants
Press Release 11-101Big Clue to Future Climate Change in Small Plants Scientists find surprising response to higher levels of carbon dioxide in 13 species of grassland plants A wild lupine blooms at NSF's Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research si...
Tree rings tell a 1,100-year history of El Niño
Published: Friday, May 6, 2011 - 09:05 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) International Pacific Research Center Image courtesy International Pacific Research Center Peter Craig, National Park Service. El Niño and its par...
Global warming won’t harm wind energy production, climate models predict
Published: Monday, May 2, 2011 - 14:33 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Sara Pryor Steve Scott The production of wind energy in the U.S. over the next 30-50 years will be largely unaffected by upward changes in global tem...
Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications
James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha, Karina von Schuckmann Improving observations of ocean temperature confirm that Earth is absorbing more energy from the sun than it is radiating to space as heat, even during the recent solar minimum. This ...
West Antarctic warming triggered by warmer sea surface in tropical Pacific
Published: Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 12:33 in Earth & Climate The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly for the last half-century or more, and recent studies have shown that an adjacent area, continental West Antarctica, has steadily warmed for a...
Is the U.S. climate getting more extreme?
Is the world's climate getting more extreme, with hotter heat waves, colder cold events, heavier rains, and more extreme droughts? After seeing the unprecedented weather events of 2010 and the equally impressive floods of 2011, it's an important questi...
Sir David Attenborough: The Truth About Climate Change (YouTube)
Sir David Attenborough: The Truth About Climate Change The legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough was long unsure about the causes of the observed climate warming. In his documentary, The Truth About Climate Change, he sheds dou...
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