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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Video, Weird Weather on 12 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Deadly Dozen Extreme Weather Events of 2011

2011 was a banner year for weather. It was cold, wet, dry and hot, depending what part of the country you inhabit. And according to new analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration there were 12 weather events that each cost over $1 billion, setting a new record. Jack Hayes, head...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Atmospheric science, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Arctic Region Warms into New Climate State

In 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began monitoring the Arctic region, creating an annual report card to mark rapid change occurring there. Five years in and the news isn’t good. The 2011 Arctic Report Card shows that the entire region is changing dramatically. Ice, both...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Politics, Video on 11 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Climategate II: Attack of the Scientists

Two years ago the private e-mails of one of the top climate change research centers were stolen and published online. The timing was such that it occurred just before the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. Now, just two weeks before the Durban, South Africa Climate Summit, the hackers have released...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 1st, 2011 | 1 Comment

Climate Skeptics Confirm Global Warming

Global warming has become so politicized that many people forget there is science underlying the concept. The camps sort out like this. Climate scientists for the most part agree that the world is heating up thanks to man-made or anthropogenic global warming, largely caused by excess carbon dioxide...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Climate Change, Discoveries, Geology, Oceanography, Video on 06 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Sea Level Rise Small, Steady and Unprecedented

For years scientists and politicians have been saying the sea is rising. And it is. But because the amount of sea level rise each year is measured in millimeters for many it seems insignificant and for some it seems downright laughable. But new research this week confirms that sea levels have risen...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Space, Video on 03 30th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Mission to Study Polar Climate Change

The earth’s climate is getting a checkup thanks to NASA’s Operation Ice Bridge. It’s a six year mission to study the earth’s polar region from on board an airplane. NASA scientist Tom Wagner explains the mission from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. While...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Space, Video on 03 4th, 2011 | No Comments

No Glory at NASA Today

An Orbital Sciences Taurus rocket loaded with an Earth-monitoring satellite crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean just six minutes after launching from Vandenberg AFB this morning. The mission was equipped with two science instruments, one trained on observations of aerosols in Earth’s atmosphere...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video, Weird Weather on 02 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Sailors Notice Sea Change in the Ocean

Experienced sailors and seasoned meteorologists have the same nagging feeling — that something drastic is changing oceans around the world. A Canadian sailing in a solo around-the-world race says he is disturbed by the horrendous conditions he has encountered in the southern oceans, including...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video, Weird Weather on 02 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

La Nina Powers Big Storms

Cyclone Yasi barreled ashore on the Northeast edge of Queensland, Australia this week, where 190 mile-per-hour winds damaged towns guarding the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. The category 5 cyclone — akin to a hurricane in the U.S. and a typhoon in Asia — was the biggest Australia has...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Geology, Physics and Chemistry, SciLebs, Space, Video on 12 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Adventurous Careers Await Brave Science Minds

The top and bottom of the world are frozen solid but they are also a popular place for adventure-loving young scientists to travel in search of the world’s biggest questions. In Antarctica researchers are trying to understand dark matter and dark energy which comprises 96% of the universe. And...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Politics, Science Policy, Video on 12 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Cancun Climate Talks Wind Down Without Much Movement

World leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference try to hammer out a new deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the CBC’s Margo McDiarmid reports. Talks end tomorrow with little expectation that a new binding agreement will be signed to replace the Kyoto Protocol...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Climate, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Plants, Video on 11 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

One Scientist Works to Recreate Ice Age Ecology to Slow Global Warming

A Russian scientist is working to recreate Ice Age conditions by rewilding — reintroducing native beasts to Siberia. He hopes the move will help slow global warming. He wants to start with native musk oxen and then add other species like reindeer, foxes and even Siberian tigers. By returning this...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Computer Science, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 11 24th, 2010 | No Comments

How NASA Takes Earth’s Temperature

The Goddard Spaceflight Center is NASA’s research center for studying climate change. There, scientists like Dr. James Hansen, use computer models to learn about how Earth’s complex system is changing over time. The upcoming Glory mission will help NASA fill in more missing pieces of the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Climate, Computer Science, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Science Policy, The Brain, Video on 11 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Obama Awards National Science Medals

President Obama bestowed medals on researchers and scientists in a ceremony in the East Room on Wednesday. The President presented the National Medal of Science to ten eminent researchers and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to three individuals and a three-person team for a wide range...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 09 1st, 2010 | No Comments

How to Take the Earth’s Temperature

NASA scientists use computer models to study climate change. This short video explains the basics of climate models, their origin and how the new NASA Glory mission will help to reduce uncertainties and fill in critical scientific gaps in our knowledge about the complex climate system. Using complicated...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Math, Plants, Scientainment, Space, Video on 08 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Scientists are People Too

The race is on to humanize scientists. Mad, messy-haired white men in white coats in a dark, cold laboratory are out. Long distance running, singer-photographer, daredevils are in. These are the new faces of science. mechanical engineer and an all-purpose daredevil, Nate Ball is also an accomplished...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Climate Change, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Video on 08 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Fake Steak for the Future

21 papers produced from scientists in different fields released a report this week saying that technology may be one of the best fixes for a growing problem. Members of Britain’s Royal Society concluded that artificial meat — created in giant vats using vegetable protein — may be one...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Oceanography, Video on 08 12th, 2010 | No Comments

10 Indicators Point to Warming World

A joint report put out by NOAA and the UK Met Office have looked at the atmospheric and ocean research of 300 scientists around the world and concludes global warming is a fact. Scientists from 48 countries say 10 indicators that are related to surface temperatures all tell the same story: Global warming...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Space, Video on 02 25th, 2010 | No Comments

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, Climate Change, Environment, 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 Animals, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Endangered Species, 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, Featured Articles, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics, 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 Climate, Climate Change, Geoengineering, Geology, 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...

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