Posts Tagged ‘research’
Rockies snow loss unrivaled in 800 years
Snowpack losses across the West since the 1980s may signal a fundamental shift from precipitation to temperature as the dominant influence on snowpack in the principal mountain ranges in North America. (Credit: iStockphoto) U. WASHINGTON (US) — A do...
New Map Reveals Giant Fjords Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Press Release 11-111New Map Reveals Giant Fjords Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet View video Duncan Young discusses research in the Aurora Subglacial Basin.Credit and Larger Version June 2, 2011 View a video with Duncan Young, research scientist at...
“Earth itself is telling us there’s nothing to worry about in doubled, or even quadrupled, atmospheric CO2″
Readers may recall Pat Franks’s excellent essay on unceratinty in the temperature record. He emailed me about this new essay he posted on the Air Vent, with suggestions I cover it at WUWT, I regret it got lost in my firehose of daily email. Here i...
Climate played big role in Vikings’ disappearance from Greenland
Published: Monday, May 30, 2011 - 15:50 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) William D'Andrea, Brown University The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written ...
“May snow depths are deeper than anything we have seen in the last 45 years”
That’s from the avalanche center in the Tetons, and here is a current web-cam view up Yosemite Valley towards still-closed Tioga Pass (in the left background): AP has a nice roundup of late snow and snowpack news (including the Teton quote). Just w...
Tornadoes and global warming – still no linkage
Posted on May 27, 2011 by Anthony Watts While Joe Romm, Bill McKibben, and others follow the fear card script to do everything and anything they can to link severe weather to global warming, they are clearly fighting a losing battle for public opini...
Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling
Press Release 11-105Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling Evidence that early Antarctic Circumpolar Current development affected global climate Aerial view of the drillship JOIDES Resolution.Credit and Larger Version May 26,...
2 Greenland glaciers lose enough ice to fill Lake Erie
Published: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 11:04 in Earth & Climate A new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a "high-definition picture" of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pre...
Seaports need a plan for weathering climate change, Stanford researchers say
Published: Monday, May 16, 2011 - 11:32 in Earth & Climate The majority of seaports around the world are unprepared for the potentially damaging impacts of climate change in the coming century, according to a new Stanford University study. In a s...
Methane levels 17 times higher in water wells near hydrofracking sites
Published: Monday, May 9, 2011 - 14:33 in Earth & Climate A study by Duke University researchers has found high levels of leaked methane in well water collected near shale-gas drilling and hydrofracking sites. The scientists collected and analyze...
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...
Sugarcane: Climate’s double-edged sword
Biofuel crops, like sugarcane, are best located on land that is already used for agriculture because less carbon is released into the atmosphere by converting land where existing vegetation contains low amounts of carbon, such as pasture or crops, tha...
Researchers Tap Virus to Improve Solar Cell Efficiency By 32%
Researchers are usually figuring out how to get rid of viruses, but in an interesting twist they have figured out how to harness viruses to boost the efficiency of solar cells. Scientists at MIT have figured out how to make a genetically engineered vir...
Conservation of coastal dunes is threatened by poorly designed infrastructure
Published: Monday, April 25, 2011 - 10:03 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Sara Muñoz Vallés et al. Although the dune ecosystem is unusual, fragile and is protected by the "habitats" directive of the network Natura 2000, ...
Fossil Sirenians Give Scientists New Look at Ancient Climate
Press Release 11-084Fossil Sirenians Give Scientists New Look at Ancient Climate Change view of water temperature during time when first modern mammals emerged Geologist Mark Clementz samples tooth enamel from molars in the lower jaw of a Florida ma...
Melting ice on Arctic islands a major player in sea level rise
Published: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 12:37 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Alex Gardner Angus Duncan Angus Duncan Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea level rise th...
Oxygenation at a depth of 120 meters can save the Baltic Sea
Published: Monday, April 18, 2011 - 13:33 in Earth & Climate Oxygenation brings dead sea bottoms to life. This creates the necessary conditions for the establishment of new ecosystems that enable nature itself to deal with eutrophication. By cond...
Data catches up with theory: Ocean front is energetic contributor to mixing
Published: Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 13:34 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) UW Applied Physics Laboratory UW Applied Physics Laboratory UW Applied Physics Laboratory Wind blowing on the ocean is a crucial factor mixing...
New York City May Get 20% More Sea Level Rise Than Global Average
Multi-meter sea level rise is now pretty much a certainty, even if the timescale is still very much up for debate and influenced by how much and how quickly we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Another wrinkle in the scenario is how some places at s...
Electric Yellowstone
Published: Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 22:30 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) University of Utah. University of Utah. University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the ...
As Goes Iowa, So Goes The Future Of US Wind Power
/>Terraces, buffers, and conservation tillage at work on a farm in Iowa. Image credit: Wikimedia CommonsThe Fifteen Percent Factor: Who knew that Iowa led the nation in percent of electrical generation capacity from wind? The State's 15% reliance on...
Number of days of rain in Iberian Peninsula has increased since 1903
Published: Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 09:38 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) SINC A research team, led by the University of Extremadura, has for the first time analysed the frequency of rainfall over the whole of the Iberian...
Research into batteries will give electric cars the same range as petrol cars
Published: Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 09:09 in Earth & Climate Li-air batteries are a promising opportunity for electric cars. "If we succeed in developing this technology, we are facing the ultimate breakthrough for electric cars, because in pra...
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