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Next year may be hottest yet, Met Office says
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
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The year 1998 broke all previous records for the globe, largely because of a very strong El Niño, the cyclical meteorological phenomenon involving a substantial warming of the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, which goes on to affect the rest of the...
Tags: Met Office, greenhouse gases, United Kingdom, London, Climate change, Global warming, Environment, El Niￃﾱo-Southern Oscillation, Weather, Carbon finance, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Tropical meteorology, Earth's atmosphere, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Physical oceanography, European heat wave, Atmosphere, Greenhouse gas, Kyoto Protocol, Heat wave, El Niￃﾱo, Meteorology, Carbon dioxide, Global warming controversy
Greenhouse gases reach highest levels, meteorologists warn
Greenhouse gases have reached their highest levels since pre-industrial times, meteorologists warned on Monday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced that 2008 saw the largest increase in greenhouse gases since 1998 during...
Tags: Carbon finance, WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, Climate change, Michel Jarraud, Global warming, meteorologists warn, Environment, highest levels, allnews, Switzerland, Geneva, Atmosphere, Gas, Montreal Protocol, Diplomatic conferences, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gases, World Meteorological Organization
Silva is chosen to be next St. Paul schools chief
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Paul School board selected Valeria Silva as its final superintendent candidate Monday night, ending a search that focused heavily on local candidates...She beat out two other finalists -- Charles Hopson, deputy superintendent of the Portland (Ore.) School...
Tags: Minneapolis, Environment, Saint Paul Public Schools, Air Quality Index, Chemical engineering, Environmental engineering, Particulate, Atmosphere, Air pollution, Education, School districts in New York, Air dispersion modeling, Pollution, Superintendent
US to present emission cut target at Copenhagen
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 days ago
Credibility The US will identify a "near-term" emission reduction target as part of efforts to arrrive at an agreement as long as other major greenhouse gas emitters do the same, senior administration officials said. "There will be a submission that takes cognizance...
Tags: Copenhagen, U.S, climate change, greenhouse gas, United States, reduction target, gas emissions, White House, emissions reduction, greenhouse gases, Denmark, Environment, Carbon finance, Global warming, Diplomatic conferences, Kyoto Protocol, Politics, Barack Obama, Action on climate change, Carbon dioxide, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Climate change in China, Atmosphere, Methane, Earth's atmosphere, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Danish literature, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Asia-Pacific Emissions Trading Forum, Environmental skepticism, 21st century
Oceans Said to Absorb Fewer Emissions
New York :: NY :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels began soaring in the 1950s, and oceans largely kept up, scientists say. But the growth in the intake rate has slowed since the 1980s, and markedly so since 2000, the authors of a study write in a report in Thursday’s...
Tags: Dr. Khatiwala, carbon dioxide, Dr. Sabine, industrial era, New York, Atmosphere, Carbon finance, Carbon sink, Carbon, Fossil fuel, Climate change, Global warming, Environment, Health Medical Pharma
New music on Wednesday
Bogotá :: Colombia | 7 days ago
Credibility Favela (from Discobelle ) Sinden-championed spot of aural slum tourism from Montreal. On your left you'll hear a kettle drum rattle along like a goods train, while on the right you can pick out police sirens and kids shouting down dirty alleyways. Is...
Tags: Colombia, Bogotá, MURS, Punkreas, Atmosphere, Favela, Pimienta, Rhymesayers Entertainment, Felt, The Grouch, Entertainment Culture
Molecular collisions kept Earth warm?
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Some 2.5 billion years ago, the sun was so faint that the oceans should've been ice. They weren't, and now a new study suggests the answer to the puzzle lies with greenhouse effect and an extra helping of nitrogen. Previous modelling efforts to resolve...
Tags: Los Angeles, Greenhouse gas, Greenhouse effect, Nitrogen, Earth science, Technology Internet, Climate change, Carbon finance, Atmosphere, Environment
A trip into space and glacier melt -- Make the mental connection by watching these videos
This link brings you to a ‘very cool’ story, about a private astronaut’s trip into space last year. This is a fun one – awe-inspiring and fascinating. Richard Garriott was interviewed by Orlando Science Policy Examiner...
Tags: Climate change, deforestation, extinction, space, atmosphere
Tiny Flares Responsible For Outsized Heat Of Sun's Atmosphere
"Why is the sun's corona so darned hot?" asks James Klimchuk, an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Solar Physics Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md. The mystery of why temperatures in the solar corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, soar to several...
Tags: Flares, Responsible, Heat, Sun, Atmosphere, Global warming, allnews, technology
Climate Models Confirm More Moisture In Atmosphere Attributed To Humans
When it comes to using climate models to assess the causes of the increased amount of moisture in the atmosphere, it doesn't much matter if one model is better than the other. They all come to the same conclusion: Humans are warming the planet, and this...
Tags: Climate, Confirm, Moisture, Atmosphere, Humans, allnews, technology, global warming
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