News tagged with gas temperature

Scientists warn of climate catastrophe

The world faces a growing risk of "abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts" as fallout from global warming hits faster than expected, according to research by international scientists released Thursday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (91) | comments 58

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.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (78) | comments 27

Mathematicians Solve 140-Year-Old Boltzmann Equation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two University of Pennsylvania mathematicians have found solutions to a 140-year-old, 7-dimensional equation that were not known to exist for more than a century despite its widespread use in modeling the ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (69) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

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

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (64) | comments 25

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 ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (75) | comments 45

Fahrenheit -459: Neutron stars and string theory in a lab

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using lasers to contain some ultra-chilled atoms, a team of scientists has measured the viscosity or stickiness of a gas often considered to be the sixth state of matter. The measurements ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

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

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 31

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

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 63

Why Hasn't Earth Warmed as Much as Expected?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Planet Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth's "climate sensitivity" -- the amount of global temperature increase expected ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (31) | comments 97 | with audio podcast

Arctic climate may be more sensitive to warming than thought, says new study

A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (27) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

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

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 1

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

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (30) | comments 7

Earth's climate future may be etched in Greenland bedrock

Scientists hit Greenland bedrock this week after five years of drilling through 2.5 kilometres (1.6-mile) of solid ice, a 14-nation consortium announced Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (24) | comments 50

Astronomers find evidence of cosmic climate change

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence of an intense warming period in the Universe’s early history, described as a form of "cosmic climate change", has been found by an international team of astronomers.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Earth's hot past could be prologue to future climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- The magnitude of climate change during Earth's deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society continues its pace of emitting greenhouse ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (23) | comments 30 | with audio podcast