by faster | Feb 5, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Yale e360 DATE: February 5, 2020 SNIP: It is the most worrying development in the science of climate change for a long time. An apparently settled conclusion about how sensitive the climate is to adding more greenhouse gases has been thrown into doubt by a...
by faster | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Nature and Quanta Magazine DATE: February 25, 2019 SNIP: … A picture emerged of a brief, cataclysmic hot spell 56 million years ago, now known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). After heat-trapping carbon leaked into the sky from an unknown...
by faster | Jul 2, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Cosmos Magazine DATE: July 2, 2018 SNIP: Clouds are wispy evanescent things, beloved of poets and daydreamers. They may also determine whether civilisation as we know it survives the 21st century. Depending on how clouds react to global warming, they could...
by faster | Dec 18, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: December 18, 2017 SNIP: A new study published in Nature by Stanford scientists Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira found that so far, the global climate models that best simulate the Earth’s global energy imbalance tend to predict the most future...
by faster | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Climate Central DATE: June 28, 2017 SNIP: In the past two decades, the Greenland ice sheet has become the biggest single contributor to rising sea levels, mostly from melt across its vast surface. That surface melt is, in turn, driven mostly by an uptick in...