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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...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Only four months ago and a continent away, researchers were looking into the varying degrees of ice accumulation and ablation within the Himalayan glacial system. In that report, published by the National Research Council (NRC), the team concluded that glacial melt could pose significant issues for the native populations that depend on the water runoff from these glaciers for their day-to-day lives. An international team of...
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...
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...
[ Watch the Video: NASA's Analysis of 2012 Global Temperature ] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists at NASA report that 2012 was the ninth warmest year on record since 1880. This continues a long-term global trend of rising temperatures. With one exception, 1998, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record have all occurred since 2000. The hottest years on record were 2010 and 2005. An updated analysis released this past Tuesday by NASA's Goddard...
United States Geological Survey While the iconic Haleakalā silversword plant made a strong recovery from early 20th-century threats, it has now entered a period of substantial climate-related decline. New research published this week warns that global warming may have severe consequences for the silversword in its native habitat. Known for its striking rosette, the silversword grows for 20-90 years before the single reproductive event at the end of its life, at which time it produces a...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1988, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the hottest years on record. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors...
[ Watch the Video: What Is Global Warming ] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Measurements around the world indicate that monthly temperature extremes have become more frequent. A new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Compluntense University reveals that on average, there are five times more record-breaking hot months globally than would be expected without long-term global warming. The study, published in Climate...
Latest Climate history Reference Libraries
Climate change is a substantial and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods of time ranging from decades to millions of years. It might be a change in the average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions. Climate change is a result of factors that include oceanic processes, biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received buy Earth, volcanic eruptions, and plate tectonics, and human induced alterations...
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...
