http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience. http://www.physorg.com/news179690790.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:07:39 EST news179690790 (AP) -- The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the University of East Anglia said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news178919012.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:43:49 EST news178919012 As global temperatures continue to rise scientists are presented with the complex challenge of understanding how species respond and adapt. In a paper published in Insect Conservation and Diversity, Dr Francisco Rodriguez-Trelles and Dr Miguel Rodriguez assess this challenge. http://www.physorg.com/news178801465.html Biology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:05:02 EST news178801465 (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 overstated the case for man-made climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news178046136.html Technology Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:16:08 EST news178046136 (PhysOrg.com) -- While politicians debate the best ways to cut global carbon dioxide emissions, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory's Center for Advanced Energy Studies are charging ahead on a strategy to defuse the CO2 the world already produces. They want to inject the greenhouse gas deep underground, where it would react with rocks and remain, entombed, for thousands of years. http://www.physorg.com/news177686379.html Space & Earth Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:40:02 EST news177686379 Not that long ago - the blink of a geologic eye - global temperatures were so warm that ice on Greenland could have been hard to come by. Today, the largest island in the world is covered with ice 1.6 miles thick. Even so, Greenland has become a hot spot for climate scientists. Why? Because tiny bubbles trapped in the ice layers may help resolve a fundamental question about global warming: how fast and how much will ice sheets melt? http://www.physorg.com/news175191286.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:30:13 EST news175191286 (PhysOrg.com) -- A leading climate scientist has presented new research findings on the increasing potential for a 4 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures if the current high emissions of greenhouse gases continue. http://www.physorg.com/news173368462.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:30:17 EST news173368462 (PhysOrg.com) -- The effects of climate change are so uncertain and potentially long-lasting that policymakers should begin examining options that include geoengineering, an area that has so far been off-limits, according to a former Harvard researcher who is now a professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. http://www.physorg.com/news172943655.html Space & Earth Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:10:02 EST news172943655 Even if global temperatures rise slowly, climate change could slash the yields of some of the world's most important crops almost in half, according to a new study co-authored by an N.C. State University scientist. http://www.physorg.com/news171551227.html Space & Earth Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:40:02 EST news171551227 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. http://www.physorg.com/news164528489.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:22:38 EST news164528489 Emergency plans to counteract global warming by artificially shading the Earth from incoming sunlight might lower the planet's temperature a few degrees, but such "geoengineering" solutions would do little to stop the acidification of the world oceans that threatens coral reefs and other marine life, report the authors of a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The culprit is atmospheric carbon dioxide, which even in a cooler globe will continue to be absorbed by seawater, creating acidic conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news164378973.html Biology Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:20:16 EST news164378973 The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, according to a new analysis. While global temperatures would rise, the most dangerous potential aspects of climate change, including massive losses of Arctic sea ice and permafrost and significant sea level rise, could be partially avoided. http://www.physorg.com/news158929344.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:03:30 EST news158929344 While the harsh winter pounding many areas of North America and Europe seemingly contradicts the fact that global warming continues unabated, a new survey finds consensus among scientists about the reality of climate change and its likely cause. http://www.physorg.com/news151609044.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:39:04 EST news151609044 Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics -but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global temperatures. Their paper, which shows that higher latitudes can be even more sensitive to volcanism, appears in the current issue of Nature Geoscience. http://www.physorg.com/news150397996.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:13:16 EST news150397996