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Human-caused and natural climate change are different, study shows
Are human-caused and natural global warming different? Study says yes. Human-triggered climate warming appears to leave a unique fingerprint on global rainfall rates compared with natural warming, according to a new study. While rainfall rates increase whether the long-term warming trend is natural or not, the rate of increase appears…
Climate scientists predict future with lower average rainfall
Climate scientists said Wednesday they found evidence to back predictions for a future with lower average rainfall, even though Earth’s past warming episodes had led to more precipitation, not less. Writing in the journal Nature, researchers said they had found proof that global warming caused by Man’s greenhouse-gas emissions has…
Plan to stop climate change by dissolving large quantities of rock in oceans is badly flawed: study
Claims that global warming can be braked by dissolving huge quantities of rock in the sea to absorb carbon emissions are laden with flaws, a study published on Tuesday says. The analysis is the latest scientific appraisal into geo-engineering, or techniques that are being promoted as quick fixes to the…
Soot is number two cause of global warming
Soot is the second-biggest human contributor to global warming behind carbon dioxide, and its impact on climate change has until now been sharply underestimated, a new study has revealed. In the study published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, researchers admit that the uncertainties on the impact of…
Physics professor: Past decade ‘hottest ten years ever recorded’
This past year’s seemingly endless stream of catastrophic storms wasn’t just a media narrative, according to Michio Kaku, a physics professor at the City University of New York. On CBS This Morning on Thursday, Kaku discussed 2012′s “wacky weather” and how global warming, which creates more energy circulating on the…
Many Americans see hint of Apocalypse in extreme weather
A third of Americans believe the intensity of recent natural disasters is linked to the Apocalypse described in the New Testament, according to a poll released Thursday. Many more blame global warming, the survey added. Seeking to explain floods and heat or cold waves, 36 percent of those surveyed, and…
Music Fridays: After the Hurricane Edition
Well, Hurricane Sandy was pretty terrible, but because of state, local and yes—federal—efforts, it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been. This storm has caused more discourse about the importance of accepting global warming, instead of simply denying it like Republicans clearly intend to do basically forever. Accepting…
Bill Moyers examines global warming’s effects with documentarian
Though a majority of Americans believe in global warming, Bill Moyers said — 74% percent, according to a new study by Yale University and George Mason University — the topic has been curiously absent from the U.S. presidential elections. But on this week’s Moyers & Company, he discussed some of…
Scientists: Global warming will make fish smaller
PARIS — A hearty fillet of fish, already a rare treat because of over-trawled oceans, will become even more infrequent in the future when global warming starts to reduce fish size, scientists said on Sunday. Researchers looked at computer models to see how warmer, and thus less oxygenated, seas affected…
Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years
One of the world’s leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years. In what he calls a “global disaster” now unfolding in northern latitudes as the sea area that freezes and melts each year shrinks to its lowest extent ever…
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