News tagged with gas temperature
List of 'unsung' wildlife affected by climate change released
The Wildlife Conservation Society today released a list of animals facing new impacts by climate change, some in strange and unexpected ways.
Dec 07, 2009 |
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From Greenhouse to Icehouse
A new study that reconstructed ocean temperatures from millions of years ago could provide new insight into how the Earth responds to climate change.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...
Nov 21, 2009 |
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Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. The latest analysis ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Fighting climate change by turning CO2 to stone
(PhysOrg.com) -- While politicians debate the best ways to cut global carbon dioxide emissions, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory's Center for Advanced Energy Studies are charging ahead on a strategy ...
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Advanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record
(PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs).
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US (w/ Video)
Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Climate models don't tell the full story
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate models that predict heavy rainfall don’t give the whole picture, according to the results of a study by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) scientist Martin Ziegler. He examined ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Arctic sea ice recovers slightly in 2009, remains on downward trend (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite a slight recovery in summer Arctic sea ice in 2009 from record-setting low years in 2007 and 2008, the sea ice extent remains significantly below previous years and remains on a trend ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 06, 2009 |
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What could 4 degree warming mean for the world?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A leading climate scientist has presented new research findings on the increasing potential for a 4 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures if the current high emissions of greenhouse ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Arctic at warmest levels in 2,000 years or more
Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years, new research indicates. The study, which incorporates geologic records and computer simulations, provides ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Climate trouble may be bubbling up in far north
(AP) -- Only a squawk from a sandhill crane broke the Arctic silence - and a low gurgle of bubbles, a watery whisper of trouble repeated in countless spots around the polar world.
Aug 30, 2009 |
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Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat
(AP) -- The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometers) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible ...
Aug 09, 2009 |
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Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict future
Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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3.2-Million-Year Temperature History from Tiny Fossils
(PhysOrg.com) -- People often talk about greenhouse gases and their effect on the earth's climate as if those effects were new. But greenhouse gases have been around for hundreds of millennia, playing a key ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 05, 2009 |
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