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Bering Strait may be global temperature stabilizer

(Phys.org) -- A diverse group of climate researchers has found after running computer simulations that the strait that separates North America and Russia might be serving as a global temperature stabilizer. ...

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created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 61 | with audio podcast report

Methane gas likely spewing into the oceans through vents in sea floor (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists worry that rising global temperatures accompanied by melting permafrost in arctic regions will initiate the release of underground methane into the atmosphere. Once released, that ...

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 8

Increasing Antarctic sea ice extent linked to the ozone hole

Increased growth in Antarctic sea ice during the past 30 years is a result of changing weather patterns caused by the ozone hole according to new research published this week (Thurs 23 April 2009).

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created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (70) | comments 12

Avoiding the hothouse and the icehouse

By controlling emissions of fossil fuels we may be able to greatly delay the start of the next ice age, new research from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen concludes. The results have been ...

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created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (15) | comments 10

Pollution teams with thunderclouds to warm atmosphere

Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that o ...

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Climate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These predictions ...

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

A 100-gigbit highway for science

Climate researchers are producing some of the fastest growing datasets in science. Five years ago, the amount of information generated for the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Evolution in the oceans: Long-term study indicates phytoplankton can adapt to ocean acidification

Fossil fuel derived carbon dioxide has a serious impact on global climate but also a disturbing effect on the oceans, know as the other CO2 problem. When CO2 dissolves in seawater it forms carbonic acid and ...

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created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

CO2 was hidden in the ocean during the Ice Age: study

Why did the atmosphere contain so little carbon dioxide (CO2) during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago? Why did it rise when the Earth's climate became warmer? Processes in the ocean are responsible for this, says a new study ...

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 50 | with audio podcast

ENASA satellite finds Earth's clouds are getting lower

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth's clouds got a little lower -- about one percent on average -- during the first decade of this century, finds a new NASA-funded university study based on NASA satellite data. The results ...

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created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 93 | with audio podcast

Tree rings may underestimate climate response to volcanic eruptions: study

Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, ...

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created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Removing sulfur from jet fuel cools climate: study

A Yale study examining the impact of aviation on climate change found that removing sulfur from jet fuel cools the atmosphere. The study was published in the October 22 issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Ice sheets can expand in a geologic instant, Arctic study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- A fast-moving glacier on the Greenland Ice Sheet expanded in a geologic instant several millennia ago, growing in response to cooling periods that lasted not much longer than a century, according ...

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created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

NASA launches weather-climate satellite

The US space agency on Friday launched a first-of-its kind satellite that will send back data on weather and climate to help forecasters predict major storms and other changes in the environment.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Climate skeptic admits he was wrong to doubt global-warming data

Remember when scientists who had cast doubt on global temperature studies boldly embarked on an effort to "reconsider" the evidence?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (36) | comments 108