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WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of 20 ex-NASA scientists have concluded that the science used to support the man-made climate change hypothesis is not settled and no convincing physical evidence exists to support catastrophic climate change forecasts. Beginning in February 2012, the group of scientists calling themselves The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) team received presentations by scientists representing all sides of the climate change debate and...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online One of the fastest warming regions on the planet – and the fastest warming part of the Southern Hemisphere – is the western Antarctic Peninsula. This warming has been the subject of scientific debate, especially in light of recent instrumental records of both atmospheric and oceanic warming from the region. Holding an equivalent of 5 meters of global sea level rise locked in ice, the Antarctic ice sheet is becoming increasingly...
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- What does a 300-cow dairy farm in Central Michigan have to do with the festivities surrounding Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans? The answer: The farm is one of three carbon offset projects providing carbon credits aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with the big game. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120913/MM74349LOGO) The carbon credits are part of a larger "Geaux Green" initiative launched by the Super Bowl...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Geoengineering is a controversial and illegal practice that attempts to mitigate the forces of climate change on a grand scale. Many see this attempt to alter global climate via artificial means as a ‘quick fix’ with potential long-term negative effects. However, despite the contentious nature of geoengineering, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany decided to analyze a ‘rock dissolving’...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Climate change could cause soil to grow warmer and release additional carbon dioxide into the air, enhancing the effects of global warming, a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has discovered. The study, which was completed by scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH), the University of California-Davis (UC Davis), and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), provides new insight into how...
[ Watch the Video: What is Global Warming ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Because of global warming, heat waves will become harsher and intense rainstorms will become more common in the US Midwest over the next couple of decades, claims a new report released by the federal government last week. The Midwest chapter of the over 1,100 page National Climate Assessment also revealed that the region would be subject to degrading air and water quality, an...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Melt ponds, a favorite phenomenon among arctic photographers, are turquoise or dark blue pools of water that appear on ice floes during the Arctic summer. According to a new report in Geophysical Research Letters, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have been observing more and more melt ponds atop one-year ice floes, instead of meter-thick, multi-year ice that used to dominate, even during the warmest months in the...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Resource Energy Inc. (OTCQB-GBEN) is pleased to announce the pre-purchase of 66,000 Certified Emission Reduction Credits from BluForest Inc. (BLUF). Total purchase price of $660,000.00 is to be paid to BluForest in the form of 3,000,000 restricted shares of Global Resource Energy Inc. Robert Baker, President & CEO of Global Resource Energy Inc. (OTCQB-GBEN) is excited about the potential this opportunity provides to both GBEN and...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists from three universities have found that record temperatures in 2010 and 2012 resulted in the earliest spring flowering season in the eastern United States in more than 160 years. Using the phenological records of two iconic American naturalists, Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, scientists have shown that some springtime bloomers have appeared as much as a month earlier in response to the warming climate. This study...
NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Don't miss the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs, the peer-reviewed journal of Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, published by Cambridge University Press. This edition features an essay on the Arctic (free online), a special section on global climate governance, and book reviews (free online). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130116/DC43017 ) ESSAY--AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE Arctic...
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The sea levels all around the world are rising. Current sea-level rise has the potential to affect human populations and the natural environment. Two key factors have contributed to the observed sea level rise. The first is thermal expansion: as the ocean water warms, it expands. The second is from the influence of land-based ice because of increased melting. The major store of water on land is found in the glaciers and the ice sheets. The rising of sea levels is one of several lines of...
The above image looks at the month of March for the three cycles known as Normal Phase, El-Nino, and La-Nina. The data was recorded for the city of Honolulu Hawaii, during the month of March. Remember this is just data for one month during these cycles. Normal: During this cycle incoming solar activity was upwards to 48% efficient for the month, producing less than 50% of the month which is due to the large amount of daily cloud cover that is seen on the island during the early morning and...
Being a meteorologist for over thirteen years you start to take note of many things in the atmosphere and how they repeat themselves. Our Climate is no different. The definition of climate is stated as: the collective weather data in regards to moisture and temperature for over 30 years for the same location. So to better understand our climate we need to look at this. First, we have average temperatures for given places based on the 30 year average. Some years the temps are warmer or...
The above image looks at the month of March for the three cycles known as Normal Phase, El-Nino, and La-Nina. The data was recorded for the city of Austin Texas. Remember this is just data for one month during these cycles. Normal: During this cycle incoming solar activity was upwards to 60% efficient for the month, producing enough solar energy that only 40% of the month would have not had strong incoming radiation. EL-Nino: This phase provided the area with an extended number of...
The month of March provided a huge absence of winter with record breaking temperatures from the Canada border all the way south and eastward across the United States. Half of the United States shattered records which made the month of March, 2012 the warmest ever on record. There are a few states that did not share in the record warmth along the west coast. They actually had cooler weather. What lead to the extreme warm temperatures during the month of March was a weather pattern built...
