Articles in the Category: Global Warming
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Marine Science, New Discoveries, Video, Weird Weather on 02 26th, 2010 | No Comments
Mammoth Icebergs Could Alter Ocean Currents, Weather
An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg, which struck a glacier off Antarctica dislodging another massive block of ice, could lower oxygen levels in the world’s oceans, affect ocean currents and even change global weather patterns.
With the equivalent of the world’s annual freshwater consumption...
Bloom Box May Rock Fuel Cell World
With California’s governor and a former Secretary of State on hand, Bloom Energy held its official launch. The clean-energy startup revealed some of its plans for making fuel-cell technology affordable enough for people to buy for their homes.
With roots in NASA’s Mars program, here’s...
Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle
Each year, scientists at NASA’S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instrumental temperature records began 130 years ago.
Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57°C (1.03°F) warmer than the 1951-1980...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Video on 02 8th, 2010 | No Comments
New Study Shows Accelerated Arctic Heating
An ice-free Arctic in the summer may just be a few years away, according to preliminary Canadian Research that began during the International Polar Year.
And less sea ice this winter allowed the coast guard icebreaker Amundsen to spend the whole winter research season in the Arctic, studying the climate...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011
The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs.
Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Marine Science, Video, Weird Weather on 01 28th, 2010 | No Comments
Florida Freeze Kills Invasive Species
Millions of tilapia, an invasive fish species, have been wiped out. It has put a temporary dent in commercial fishing, but now biologists say other fish will have a chance to flourish. The tilapia has made its home in Florida lakes for decades since being first brought in to control out of control vegetation....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Energy, Environment, Global Warming, SciClips, Solar on 01 25th, 2010 | No Comments
The Sun’s Hot Solar Promise
The sun is one-stop shopping when it comes to finding an unlimited supply of power. But harnessing light and turning it into electricity has proven to be a tricky and expensive proposition.
But if we could squeeze our huge thirst for power from the sun, one way to go may be something called “solar...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Endangered Species, Global Warming, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Video, Weird Weather on 01 13th, 2010 | No Comments
Cold Snap Masks Global Warming for a Minute
Much of the country and for that matter the Northern Hemisphere has been locked in an icy weather pattern that sent records tumbling and even forced Florida produce growers to seal oranges and strawberries in ice to protect them from frigid temperatures.
Some scientists are saying this is yet another...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Diseases, Endangered Species, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 01 10th, 2010 | No Comments
The Growling Uncertainty of Science
One thing is for sure. Science doesn’t do certainty. No matter how close a researcher gets to complete certainty there is always room to know more. Therefore uncertainty is a scientific fact. And we need to get comfortable with it.
From taxonomic tussles over classifying the giant panda to more...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Solar, Video on 01 7th, 2010 | No Comments
A House of Cards in the Columbian Jungle
Dedicated environmentalists, or eccentric architects? Nearly a decade ago, the Jimenez family moved from the Colombian city of Cali to a humble home in the jungle made entirely out of paper.
They keep cool, cook, do laundry and demonstrate how to live off the grid by generating their own energy.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Geoengineering, Geology, Global Warming, Video on 12 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Philippine Volcano Prepares to Blow
Mt. Mayon is known worldwide for its almost symmetrical cone but that could all change if it decides to blow its top, a move seismologists are saying could happen soon.
The last time a big volcano in the Philippines rumbled to life like this was in 1991. Within 60 days Mt. Pinatubo exploded sending...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Engineering, Environment, Geoengineering, Global Warming, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 12 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Science Looks for Plan B after Getting the Cold Shoulder at Warming Talks
Many scientists are disappointed after two weeks of climate change negotiations resulted in a toothless agreement that didn’t limit carbon dioxide, the main culprit of global warming. The new Copenhagen Accord(PDF) did not cut emissions as previously thought, dimming some hope that a global treaty...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, SciClips, Video on 12 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Tree Kangaroos Fate Up in the Air
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo courtesy of Woodland Park Zoo
Climate negotiations over how to limit carbon dioxide emissions are heating up in Copenhagen. But one other important area negotiators are addressing — how to sequester existing CO2.
Climate sinks — like oceans, forests and permafrost...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Energy, Environment, Science & Religion, Video, Wind on 12 14th, 2009 | No Comments
Wind Powered Menorah
Two Yeshiva University students are introducing science to religion in the wind tunnel of New York where powerful blasts of air rip down skyscraper lined streets. Wind power offers a new way to power Hanukkah.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Global Warming, Politics and Science, Video on 12 4th, 2009 | No Comments
ClimateGate Ignites Global Warming Firestorm
On November 19, a computer hacker penetrated the internal e-mail system at the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit and began posting 13 years worth of internal correspondence and documents online, in an effort to show that a small group of climate scientists has been deliberately suppressing...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
Deconstructing Carbon Emissions
Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to be hearing a lot about carbon emissions–the gas released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and a whole host of other human activities. While the catch-all is called “carbon emissions” they aren’t confined to carbon...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 11 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Copenhagen Diagnosis Reveals Dire Climate Future
just as world leaders are getting ready to head to Denmark for a big climate negotiations conference that will determine the treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol, a new scientific assessment is painting a dark picture of the future, based on recent climate science.
Though not an official report of the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 12th, 2009 | 7 Comments
Climate Deniers Turn Up Heat on Science Societies
Scientists within the most venerated science organizations in the United States are mounting rebellions against those organizations and their somewhat unified policy on the science of climate change–that it is real and being driven by human activities.
A group of several hundred of 47,000 physicists...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate, Ecology, Global Warming, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Science Teachers off to Antarctica
Gary Wesche is counting the days. It’s down to 14 now before he heads to Antarctica as part of a scientific expedition. KMBC’s Bev Chapman reports from St. Regis Catholic School in Kansas City.
Wesche’s expedition to study ice sheets is organized by PolarTREC where you can follow Gary’s...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, Solar, Space, Video on 11 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Contest Begins Elevator Race to Space
Engineers compete and test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators. The AP’s John Mone on why leaving the Earth, may not require rocket science.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Plants, SciClips on 10 29th, 2009 | No Comments
Open Data Opens Doors for Citizen Scientists
Members of the Surui tribe in Brazil test Open Data Kit, photo courtesy of Carl Hartung, UW
Cell phones are coming to the aid of international health workers, environmental monitors and even citizen scientists. Now loaded with a data collection tool, Open Data Kit is the brainchild of some doctoral students...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Backyard Science, Books, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Physics and Chemistry, Video, Wind on 10 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
They call William Kamkwamba “the boy who harnessed the wind.” At 14, after dropping out of school, the African boy in a rural Malawi village taught himself how electricity works, and built a windmill from scraps and pieces of a bicycle.
Now 22, Kamkwmaba has a book, detailing how he built...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Ecology, Endangered Species, Global Warming, New Species, SciClips on 10 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Tiny Frog Now Big Hawaiian Pest
A little green frog is causing big problems across Hawaii, where the coqui has become the latest invasive species to get a strong foothold.
But Hawaii may be the only place experiencing a surging frog population. Around the world, frogs are dying in droves from a fungus called a chytrid.
What can we...
