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Statistics experts reject global cooling claims (AP)

Statistics experts reject global cooling claims

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (92) | comments 23

(AP) -- Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.


Greenlandic fisherman Johannes Heilmann poses for a photo in front of the shipping harbor of Nuuk fjord

Global warming impacting Greenlanders' daily lives

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (76) | comments 21

From his trawler that motors along the Nuuk fjord, fisherman Johannes Heilmann has watched helplessly in recent years as climate change takes its toll on Greenland.


Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Technology / Internet

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (74) | comments 45

(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 ...


In hot water: World sets ocean temperature record (AP)

In hot water: World sets ocean temperature record (Update)

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (53) | comments 13

(AP) -- Steve Kramer spent an hour and a half swimming in the ocean this week - in Maine.


Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong

Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (49) | comments 54

No one knows exactly how much Earth's climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study this week suggests scientists' best predictions about global warming might be incorrect.


Is global warming unstoppable?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (56) | comments 81

In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions - the major cause of global warming - cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the ...


Science not faked, but not pretty (AP)

Science not faked, but not pretty

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (54) | comments 85

(AP) -- E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data - but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an ...


Study: Earth more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought

Study: Earth more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (50) | comments 85

In the long term, the Earth's temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study published in Nature Geoscience this week.


'Rosetta Stone' of supervolcanoes discovered in Italian Alps

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 6

Scientists have found the "Rosetta Stone" of supervolcanoes, those giant pockmarks in the Earth's surface produced by rare and massive explosive eruptions that rank among nature's most violent events. The eruptions produce ...


A runaway spurt of global warming 55 million years ago turned Earth into a hothouse, scientists said

Mystery mechanism drove global warming 55 million years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (25) | comments 24

A runaway spurt of global warming 55 million years ago turned Earth into a hothouse but how this happened remains worryingly unclear, scientists said on Monday.


International scientists set boundaries for survival

International scientists set boundaries for survival

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (28) | comments 16

Human activities have already pushed the Earth system beyond three of the planet's biophysical thresholds, with consequences that are detrimental or even catastrophic for large parts of the world; six others ...


Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing

Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (25) | comments 10

The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial ...


Forests of Artificial Trees Could Slow Global Warming

Forests of Artificial Trees Could Slow Global Warming

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (23) | comments 33

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study on how technology could help to regulate climate change has studied hundreds of ideas, and selected three considered practical and able to be implemented quickly. The report's ...


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GSM system about to be compromised

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in California and elsewhere are deliberately setting out to compromise the mobile phone system used by around three billion people. The system uses Global System for Mobile ...


Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 35

(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 ...