News tagged with climate trends
Climate-related changes on the Antarctic peninsula
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Scientists have long established that the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming spots on Earth. Now, new research using detailed satellite data indicates that the changing climate is affecting ...
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Marine ecosystems get a climate form guide
Nov 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first-ever Australian benchmark of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and options for adaptation is being released in Brisbane today.
Methods for monitoring CO2 emissions have limitations, inadequate for international climate treaty
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Current methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions have limitations that make it difficult to monitor CO2 emissions and verify an international climate treaty, says a new National Research Council letter report to the ...
Human activities contribute to California's global warming
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Over the past 85 years, humans have helped shape California climate during certain seasons. But that’s not necessarily good.
Models look good when predicting climate change
Apr 02, 2008 |
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The accuracy of computer models that predict climate change over the coming decades has been the subject of debate among politicians, environmentalists and even scientists. A new study by meteorologists at the University ...
New study increases concerns about climate model reliability
Dec 11, 2007 |
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A new study comparing the composite output of 22 leading global climate models with actual climate data finds that the models do an unsatisfactory job of mimicking climate change in key portions of the atmosphere.
Green is cool, but US land changes generally are not
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Most land use changes occurring in the continental U.S result in raised regional surface temperatures, says a new study by scientists at the University of Maryland, Purdue University and the University of ...
Climate change in Kuwait Bay
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Nov 30, 2009 |
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Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6°C per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate reported by the Intergovernmental ...
Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's ...
Scientists resolve long-standing puzzle in climate science
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Livermore scientists has helped reconcile the differences between simulated and observed temperature trends in the tropics.
Seeing the tree from the forest: Predicting the future of plant communities
Aug 21, 2009 |
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The ability to envisage the future may be closer than you would think. A recent paper by Sean Hammond and Karl Niklas in the August 2009 issue of the American Journal of Botany presents an algorithm that m ...
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