Climate change clues buried in ice 1.2m years old

Global Warming and Climate Change: Why Current Theory Fails

By: firesisle

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a body associated with the United Nations which is responsible for providing advice to governments concerning climate issues.  It has been very strongly influenced by the work of three scientists, S. Arrhenius, G.S. Callender, and C.D. Keeling who, between 1903 and 1978,...

19 days ago

Target practice

By: azhar12

THE Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports that American negotiators will bring an emissions reduction target with them to the Copenhagen climate-change talks, even though Congress won't yet have passed the cap-and-trade legislation that turns such a target into law. With luck, that'll be good. It enables America to look a bit less recalcitrant,...

6 days ago

Are The Alps Growing OR Shrinking?

By: kyren852

Due to glaciers and rivers, about exactly the same amount of material is eroded from the slopes of the Alps as is regenerated from the deep Earth's crust. The climatic cycles of the glacial period in Europe over the past 2.5 million years have accelerated this erosion process. In the latest volume of the science magazine Tectonophysics ( No. 474,...

24 days ago

The giant iceberg that went walkabout... towards the coast of ...

By: TauseefAhmed

Australia is known for sunny beaches, surfers, and blistering Outback heat.So scientists were a bit taken aback when they spotted this giant iceberg floating near an island Down Under.Australian Antarctic Division researchers were working on Macquarie Island when they first saw the iceberg last Thursday about about five miles off the island. It is ...

17 days ago