Climate and Atmospheric Circulation

Debris in relief well sets back work on gusher (AP)

AP - Tropical Storm Bonnie left crews working to plug the Gulf oil gusher a little memento that is expected to push their work back about a day.


Jeffrey D. Sachs: Making sense of the climate impasse

NEW YORK All signs suggest that the planet is still hurtling headlong toward climatic disaster. The United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has issued its State of the Climate Report covering January-May. The first five months of this year were the warmest on record going back to 1880. May was the warmest month ever. Intense heat waves are currently hitting many ...

2010 Reith Lecture Series: Scientific Horizons

Part Two: Surviving The Century. Does science have the answers to help us save our planet? In the second of this year's Reith Lectures, Lord Martin Rees continues to explore the challenges facing science in the 21st century. Our planet is coming under increasing strain from climate change, population explosion and food shortages. How can we use science to help us solve the crisis that we are ...

Grassroots Communities Key to Addressing Climate Change Environmentalist

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Fri, 2010-07-30 22:18
While the debate on carbon emissions and credits rages, an alternative solution is being offered by a woman professor and environmentalist: Live well by emulating the practices and coping mechanisms of grassroots communities. By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY - Living well might can be one of the appropriate solutions to the climate crisis, [...]

Making sense of the impasse on U.S. climate change policy

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Fri, 2010-07-30 18:13
Evidence continues to mount about climate change and its possible consequences. Jeffrey Sachs marvels at the lack of progress as U.S. leaders seem paralyzed by special-interest groups. Real leadership is needed to break the logjam.

Making sense of the climate impasse

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Fri, 2010-07-30 11:24
NEW YORK - All signs suggest that the planet is still hurtling headlong toward climatic disaster. The United States' National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has issued its "State of the Climate Report" covering January-May.

Controlling Soot Might Quickly Reverse a Century of Global Warming

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Thu, 2010-07-29 15:03
A massive simulation of soot's climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century's temperature change.

The Earth is hotter than ever, global warming is real, researchers warn

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Thu, 2010-07-29 14:48
Scientists hope findings will debunk some growing skepticism about climate change

Climate Study Finds Evidence Of Continued Global Warming

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Thu, 2010-07-29 11:29
The Earth has been getting warmer over the past 50 years, and the past decade was the hottest in recorded history, according to the results of the 2009 State of the Climate report, which were released on Wednesday.The findings--the work of over 300 scientists from 160 different research organizations in 48 countries--analyzed "10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding ...

Study: Global warming not to blame for snowmageddon

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Thu, 2010-07-29 11:26
Memories of the record-breaking cold and snowstorms of last winter, including Snowpocalypse, Snowmaggedon and Snoverkill, have probably faded, as eventually will be true of memories of the record-breaking heat this summer. Unless, that is, the extreme winter and summer weather prove to be just a ... Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views - Climate Change Skeptics - Global warming

Climate Change: Plankton In Big Decline, Foundation Of Ocean's Food Web

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Thu, 2010-07-29 11:23
WASHINGTON Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the bountiful marine food web, produce half the world's oxygen and suck up harmful carbon dioxide.

Study: Climate change 'undeniable'

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Thu, 2010-07-29 10:36
( FT ) -- International scientists have injected fresh evidence into the debate over global warming, saying that climate change is "undeniable" and shows clear signs of "human fingerprints" in the first major piece of research since the "Climategate" controversy.

2010 temperatures hit record highs

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Thu, 2010-07-29 05:59
Scientists from two leading climate research centres publish 'best evidence yet' of rising long-term global temperatures Jeffrey Sachs: Obama must take a lead on climate change Global temperatures in the first half of the year were the hottest since records began more than a century ago, according to two of the world's leading climate research centres. Scientists have also released what they ...

The Earth is hotter than ever, global warming is real: Researchers

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Thu, 2010-07-29 00:18
Scientists hope findings will debunk some growing skepticism about climate change

Ten key indicators show global warming "undeniable"

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Wed, 2010-07-28 23:49
Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said on Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data.

Crews take step toward readying permanent well fix (AP)

AP - Crews took another step toward readying the relief well expected to finally kill the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, removing the plug they had popped in before clearing the area ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie last week, federal officials said Wednesday.


James Hoggan: International Scientists Confirm Climate Change is "Undeniable"

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Wed, 2010-07-28 19:28
An international team of climate scientists led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that climate change is "undeniable" and clearly driven...

Ten warming signs that climate change is unmistakeable fact

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Wed, 2010-07-28 19:11
THE scientific evidence for global warming is "unmistakeable", a major study by more than 300 researchers has concluded.

NOAA: Past decade warmest on record

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Wed, 2010-07-28 17:58
Score another one for the climate-change cassandras. Earlier in the month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared June 2010 to be the hottest June on earth since temperatures have been recorded. And today the agency has released a

Climate change 'undeniable'

Yahoo - Earth Climate & Atmosphere - Wed, 2010-07-28 17:55
Every decade on Earth since the 1980s has been hotter than the last - and that fact cannot be ignored or denied, according to scientists.