sduford on Aug 28 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Technology, The Science
NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) cost over $100 million and was designed to measure the energy budget of our warming planet. Yet the spacecraft has remained in its box for the last five years and it looks like it is not going anywhere anytime soon.
New DeSmogBlog contributor Mitchell Anderson will write a multi-part investigative [...]
sduford on Aug 17 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON - There was less sea ice in the Arctic on Friday than ever before on record, and the melting is continuing, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.
“Today is a historic day,” said Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist at the center. “This is the least sea [...]
sduford on Jul 31 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
Here`s an excellent essay by James Hansen, one of the worlds pre-eminent climate scientists and the head of NASA`s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
The essay was published by New Scientist.
Here`s his conclusion:
The broader picture strongly indicates that ice sheets will respond in a non-linear fashion to global warming - and are already [...]
sduford on May 22 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
The excellent RealClimate website has just published an excellent compilation of resources for those who want to educate themselves on the science of climate change. You can find the post here, and it is well worth exploring those resources.
sduford on May 18 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
17 May 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Catherine Brahic
One of the world’s largest carbon sinks has stopped soaking up the carbon dioxide that humans are pumping into the atmosphere, according to a new study.
Global warming has caused the Southern Ocean to become windier, churning up the waters so that they are unable to absorb CO2 at the rate [...]
sduford on May 15 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
By WALTER GIBBS, The New York Times.
Published: May 15, 2007
OSLO — Mainstream climatologists who have feared that global warming could have the paradoxical effect of cooling northwestern Europe or even plunging it into a small ice age have stopped worrying about that particular disaster, although it retains a vivid hold on the public imagination.
Read the [...]
sduford on May 01 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
The effects of global warming are already being felt worldwide, but the Earth’s poles are suffering the worst of it. Climate researchers have built a series of models to predict what impact rising temperatures will have on the amount of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and it appears they didn’t make these models conservative [...]
sduford on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
The complete Work Group 1 IPCC 4th Assessment report (AR4) is now available online.
sduford on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Scientists, The Science
Many of those who try to deny the reality of anthropogenic climate change say that scientists are talking up climate change to get grant money. Well, here is America’s top climate researcher and head of the NASA Goddard Institute, a man who needs no grants to earn a living, and a man who  is putting his job at [...]
sduford on Apr 23 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Scientists, The Denial Machine, The Science
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