Archive for the 'Climate' Category
CO2 Emissions Are Not Changing the Ratio of Airborne CO2 to That Taken Up By the Oceans and Plants
Posted on November 12, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, environment | Leave a Comment
The University of Bristol in the UK has published a study based not on climate modeling, but on statistical analysis of data including historical data from Antarctic ice cores.
The study shows that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide [...]
Changing Arctic Affecting Air, Ocean, And Everything In Between
Posted on November 7, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
Despite the fact that summer 2009 had more sea ice than in 2007 or 2008, scientists are seeing drastic changes in the region from just five years ago and at rates faster than anticipated. The findings were presented October 22 in the annual update of the Arctic Report Card, a collaborative effort of 71 national [...]
Global Warming Cycles Threaten Endangered Primate Species
Posted on October 30, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
Two Penn State University researchers have carried out one of the first-ever analyses of the effects of global warming on endangered primates. This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and Associate Professor of Biology Eric Post examined how El Niño warming affected the abundance of four New World monkeys over decades.
Wiederholt and Post decided [...]
EU Urged to Raise Bar on Climate Financing
Posted on October 28, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
European Union leaders were told they have to find 15 billion euros a year to help developing countries fight global warming if this week’s summit is to be deemed successful.
Leaders from the EU’s 27 member countries are split into three camps going into a summit starting Thursday at which they will try to agree a [...]
Climate Change May Mean Slower Winds
Posted on October 16, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming, Renewable Energy, Wind Engergy | Leave a Comment
The wind power industry requires stiff gusts. Global warming may not deliver.
This summer scientists published the first study that comprehensively explored the effect of climate change on wind speeds in the U.S. The report was not encouraging. Three decades’ worth of data seemed to point to a future where global warminglowers wind speeds enough to handicap [...]
A Tree’s Response To Environmental Changes: What Can We Expect Over The Next 100 Years?
Posted on October 15, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Environmental Problem, Global Warming, environment, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
The many environmental issues facing our society are prevalent in the media lately. Global warming, rainforest devastation, and endangered species have taken center stage. Our ecosystem is composed of a very delicate network of interactions among all species and the non-living environment. Predicting how each component of this complex system will respond to the many [...]
Norway Plans Record 2010 Carbon Capture Spending
Posted on October 13, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, environment | 2 Comments
Norway plans to raise investments in capturing and storing greenhouse gases in 2010 to a record of almost 3.5 billion crowns ($621 million) to help fight climate change, Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen said.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg once said Norway wanted to lead international efforts to develop carbon capture, likening it to the 1960s U.S.-Soviet race [...]
Nitrogen Deposition Limits Climate Change Impacts On Carbon Sequestration
Posted on October 8, 2009 - Filed Under Climate | Leave a Comment
Forests are important in reducing the green house gas carbon dioxide (CO2). For the period 2000-2007, it has been estimated that from the 8.9 billion ton of carbon released by human activities, approximately 46% is found back in the atmosphere. The removed 54% is due to an estimated equal amount absorbed in oceans and taken [...]
Apple Resigns From Chamber Over Climate
Posted on October 6, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, environment | Leave a Comment
Apple has become the latest company to resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce over climate policy.
“We strongly object to the chamber’s recent comments opposing the E.P.A.’s effort to limit greenhouse gases,” wrote Catherine A. Novelli, the vice president of worldwide government affairs at Apple, in a letter dated today and addressed to Thomas [...]
Ancient Rainforests Resilient To Climate Change
Posted on October 3, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, environment | Leave a Comment
Climate change wreaked havoc on the Earth’s first rainforests but they quickly bounced back, scientists reveal. The findings of the research team, led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal Holloway, University of London, are based on spectacular discoveries of 300-million-year-old rainforests in coal mines in Illinois, USA.
Preserved over vast areas, these fossilized rainforests in Illinois [...]
