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Cause of global warming hiatus found deep in the Atlantic Ocean

By Guest PostNovember 25, 2014Environmentatlantic ocean, cause, China, deutsch tuerke, digital bank, digital transformation roadmap, global warming, ibm services relationship, krungsri, noriaki goto, thai bank, university of washington

Following rapid warming in the late 20^th century, this century has so far seen surprisingly little increase in the average temperature at the Earth’s surface. At first this was a blip, then a trend, then a puzzle for the climate science community.

More than a dozen theories have now been proposed for the so-called global warming hiatus, ranging from air pollution to volcanoes to sunspots. New research from the University of Washington shows that the heat absent from the surface is plunging deep in the north and south Atlantic Ocean, and is part of a naturally occurring cycle. The study is published Aug. 22 in Science. (more…)

Ancient shark teeth give clues to future of Arctic climate change

By Guest PostJuly 29, 2014Sciencearctic waters, crocodiles, deltaic estuary, eocene epoch, ernst seidl, future, global warming, greenhouse effect, hoehlen, hongqing wang, isotopes, jaelyn eberle, knochenfloete, mississippi river diversions, oxygen atom, rebuilding wetlands, schwaebischen alb, subatomic variations, testosterone therapy, testosterone treatment, thomas gill, ttrials, university of chicago, zekirija sejdini

A new study of sharks that lived in warm Arctic waters millions of years ago suggests that some shark species could handle the falling Arctic salinity that may come with rising temperatures.

The Arctic today is best known for its tundra and polar bear population, but roughly 38 to 53 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, the Arctic was like a huge temperate forest with brackish water, home to a variety of animal life, including ancestors of tapirs, hippo-like creatures, crocodiles and giant tortoises. Much of what is known about the region during this period comes from well-documented terrestrial deposits. Marine records have been harder to come by. (more…)

No way around it: Reducing emissions will be the primary way to fight climate change, UCLA-led study finds

By Guest PostJuly 14, 2014Environmentamount of carbon, atmosphere, carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, CCS, climate change, corn plants, deforestation, eiweiss quelle, fight, fleischersatz, global warming, greenhouse gases, mikroklima, nahrung, NASA, pet imaging, release, richard ferrieri, robert hafner, soja agrobusiness, sojaanbau in Salta, sojaproduzent, ucla

Climate engineering won’t sufficiently stem global warming

orget about positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in the earth’s atmosphere or seeding clouds to reduce the amount of light entering earth’s atmosphere. Those approaches to climate engineering aren’t likely to be effective or practical in slowing global warming. (more…)

If global warming is real, why was it so cold and snowy last winter?

By Guest PostJuly 6, 2014Environmentclimate change, global warming, public opinion, scientific evidence, survey

ANN ARBOR — More Americans view global warming by what they see outside their windows and not scientific evidence, according to a University of Michigan survey. (more…)

Greenland melting due equally to global warming, natural variations

By Guest PostJune 17, 2014Environmentbausteine adenin, canadian arctic, CO2, global warming, greenland, leticia gonzalez, most favorite celebrity, qinghua ding, thiocytosin molekuel, tropical pacific ocean, uv licht

The rapid melting of Greenland glaciers is captured in the documentary “Chasing Ice.” The retreat of the ice edge from one year to the next sends more water into the sea.

Now University of Washington atmospheric scientists have estimated that up to half of the recent warming in Greenland and surrounding areas may be due to climate variations that originate in the tropical Pacific and are not connected with the overall warming of the planet. Still, at least half the warming remains attributable to global warming caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions. The paper is published May 8 in Nature. (more…)

UCLA study yields more accurate data on thousands of years of climate change

By Guest PostApril 8, 2014Environmentaradhna tripati, atmosphere, borneo, business world, change, climate change, data, data science, david ediger, diamond eye, Environment, global warming, greenhouse gas levels, last ice age, models, papua new guinea, robert eagle, sustainability, tropical pacific ocean, ucla study

Research also helps unravel the mystery of retreating glaciers in the Pacific Ocean’s western tropics

Using a cutting-edge research technique, UCLA researchers have reconstructed the temperature history of a region that plays a major role in determining climate around the world.

The findings, published online Feb. 27 in the journal Nature Geoscience, will help inform scientists about the processes influencing global warming in the western tropical Pacific Ocean. (more…)

Deforestation of sandy soils a greater threat to climate change

By Guest PostApril 3, 2014Environmentclimate change, CO2, deforestation, erdwaerme, fruehwarnsystem, global warming, hawaii, microbial community, northern alaska, nutzung der geothermie, prinzip, scientists, soil ph, threat, yale university

Deforestation may have far greater consequences for climate change in some soils than in others, according to new research led by Yale University scientists — a finding that could provide critical insights into which ecosystems must be managed with extra care because they are vulnerable to biodiversity loss and which ecosystems are more resilient to widespread tree removal.

In a comprehensive analysis of soil collected from 11 distinct U.S. regions, from Hawaii to northern Alaska, researchers found that the extent to which deforestation disturbs underground microbial communities that regulate the loss of carbon into the atmosphere depends almost exclusively on the texture of the soil. The results were published in the journal Global Change Biology. (more…)

Amazon Inhales More Carbon than It Emits, NASA Finds

By Guest PostMarch 20, 2014EnvironmentAmazon, amazon basin, amazon carbon absorption, blowdowns, carbon, carbon balance, carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, emanuel gloor, global warming, inhale, michael keller, NASA, oliver phillips

A new NASA-led study seven years in the making has confirmed that natural forests in the Amazon remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit, therefore reducing global warming. This finding resolves a long-standing debate about a key component of the overall carbon balance of the Amazon basin.

The Amazon’s carbon balance is a matter of life and death: living trees take carbon dioxide out of the air as they grow, and dead trees put the greenhouse gas back into the air as they decompose. The new study, published in Nature Communications on March 18, is the first to measure tree deaths caused by natural processes throughout the Amazon forest, even in remote areas where no data have been collected at ground level. (more…)

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