Climate and Atmospheric Circulation
Earth Shown to Be Warming by `Unmistakable' Scientific Evidence, NOAA Says
Scientific evidence that the world is getting warmer is unmistakable, according to a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration drawing on research from 48 countries, including Russia and China.
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Artificially Controlling Water Condensation Leads To 'Room-Temperature Ice'
Earth's climate is strongly influenced by the presence of particles of different shapes and origins -- in the form of dust, ice and pollutants -- that find their way into the lowest portion of the atmosphere, the troposphere. There, water adsorbed on the surface of these particles can freeze at higher temperatures than pure water droplets, triggering rain and snow.Researchers at Spain's Centre d ...
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Climate change: 10 ideas to save the planet
What idea or technology holds the greatest promise for climate change? That is the question Channel 4 News posed to the scientific community. Here are their 10 climate-saving ideas.
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Hints of Earth Splash a Saturnian Moon Landscape
The lakes of southern Titan are shrinking.
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Want the Good News First?
The Gulf Coast doesnt look so bad on the surface. But its the unknowns that nobody is talking about.
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More than water key in other Earths search
by Staff Writers Potsdam, Germany (UPI) Jul 26, 2010 The hunt for Earth-like planets in the universe, which usually looks for where water might exist, should consider photosynthesis instead, German scientists say.
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How high are the forests? Ask NASA
The U.S. space agency NASA has produced the worlds first map of the height of all Earths forests. The map will help scientists learn more about the carbon cycle and its affect on our atmosphere.
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Artificially controlling water condensation leads to 'room-temperature ice'
Earth's climate is strongly influenced by the presence of particles of different shapes and origins -- in the form of dust, ice and pollutants -- that find their way into the lowest portion of the atmosphere, the troposphere. There, water adsorbed on the surface of these particles can freeze at higher temperatures than pure water droplets, triggering rain and snow.
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Tropical Cyclone Birth Predicted with Supercomputer (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - It's the heart of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of
Mexico, the ripest time for tropical cyclones to develop over these
waters. But predicting whether or not a storm system will grow into a
hurricane is difficult.
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'Giant leap'
We need an Apollo-sized mission to deliver a sustainable future
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3 to be arraigned in Katrina police shootings (AP)
AP - Three current or former New Orleans police officers will be arraigned on charges they conspired to cover up deadly shootings of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina.
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Humanity needs to take 'giant leap'
Humanity needs a project with the vision and budget of the Apollo space programme if it is going to make the necessary giant leap towards sustainability.
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EOS Climate Completes First Ozone Depleting Destruction Project On Climate Action Reserve Registry
Signaling a significant and early milestone, EOS Climate has developed the first Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) destruction project verified and listed under the Climate Action Reserve (CAR) registry's new U.S. Ozone Depleting Substances Project Protocol
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Hints of Earth Splash a Saturnian Moon Landscape
The discovery that Titans lakes are evaporating, at least in the Southern Hemisphere, suggests that there are active weather and geological cycles analogous to those on Earth.
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More than water key in other Earths search
POTSDAM, Germany, July 26 (UPI) -- The hunt for Earth-like planets in the universe, which usually looks for where water might exist, should consider photosynthesis instead, German scientists say. Germany - Earth - Photosynthesis - Water - Environment
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Post-Katrina Study Shows Strength of Salt Marshes (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Hurricanes Katrina and Rita sent devastating waves through Louisiana's
coastal plains in 2005, washing away hundreds of square miles of the
state's wetlands.
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Gas pump prices rise across the country (AP)
AP - Drivers across the country woke up to higher prices at the gas pump on Monday, as retail gasoline rose overnight.
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Marc Morano Manufacturing the Hype.... again
Marc Morano, spindoctor to the climate denial stars and former aid to Republican Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is breathlessly proclaiming in a large bold headline today that:
"Left-wing Env. Scientist Bails Out Of Global Warming Movement"Took about 3 minutes on Google searching the name Denis Rancourt, who Morano is referring to in his post, to find that this is nothing even remotely new for Rancourt.
Rancourt has been writing rants against the science of climate change for years.
Morano is trying to spindoctor this into a newsworthy story by making it seem like Rancourt is someone who was completely accepting of the scientific reality of climate change and then just woke up one morning last week and decided to jump ship.
What makes this all the more ridiculous is that Morano himself pushed the exact same story about Rancourt in 2009 when he worked for Senator James Inhofe.
Hopefully the mainstream media are smarter than that and take this story for what it is - pure hype.
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Why conservatives are fighting climate-change legislation
Cap-and-trade's backers are correct to point the finger of blame rightward, writes columnist Ross Douthat. Why? Because conservatives believe economic development is likely to do more for the wretched of the Earth than a growth-slowing regulatory regime.
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Unaccounted Feedbacks From Climate-Induced Ecosystem Changes May Increase Future Climate Warming
The terrestrial biosphere regulates atmospheric composition, and hence climate. Projections of future climate changes already account for "carbon-climate feedbacks", which means that more CO2 is released from soils in a warming climate than is taken up by plants due to photosynthesis. Climate changes will also lead to increases in the emission of CO2 and methane from wetlands, nitrous ...
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