Articles in the Category: Climate
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...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Climate Change, Engineering, Environment, Geoengineering, Politics, 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 Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Featured Articles, Politics, SciClips, Science Policy 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, Climate Change, Environment, Politics, SciClips, Science Policy 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, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, SciClips on 11 12th, 2009 | 9 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, Climate Change, Ecology, 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 Biochemistry, Climate, Climate Change, Diseases, Environment, Featured Articles, Greenovation, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Politics, SciClips on 10 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Global Warming Trial
The biggest business lobby in the U.S. is pushing for the EPA to hold a public hearing to debate the science of global warming.
The move, calling for the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st Century, is proving too much for some chamber members, from big utilities to Nike and Johnson & Johnson.
Yesterday,...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Around the Americas, Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 08 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Sailing Through the Thick of the Northwest Passage
Route of Ocean Watch Through the Northwest Passage
Ocean Watch, the 64-foot sailboat that also doubles as a voyage of scientific discovery is traveling over the top of North America, in an effort to traverse the rapidly melting yet still dangerous Northwest Passage.
The fabled shipping route has been...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Around the Americas, Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Featured Articles, SciClips on 08 10th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Climate Change Opens Northwest Passage
The fabled Northwest passage that claimed the lives of many explorers including Sir John Franklin is now open to small boats for a few weeks each summer thanks to a rapidly changing climate in the high Arctic.
The 64-foot Ocean Watch sailboat is parked behind a 45-mile chunk of sea ice, waiting for...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, SciClips, Science of..., Weird Weather on 08 3rd, 2009 | 3 Comments
Science of…Heat Wave
The western half of North America has been baking in a heat wave that shattered all-time records while the east coast is shivering in one of the coldest summers on record.
A giant ridge of high pressure and a giant low pressure trough that span the continent set up and became locked, creating a formidable...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Featured Articles, RawAudio, Solar, Weird Weather on 06 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Dr. James Lovelock Warns
British naturalist Dr. James Lovelock has some strong words for the world. The futurist warns that the Earth is a living organism that is undergoing massive changes.
He believes the Earth is sick and in order to heal itself it may need to get rid of a few billion people. But Dr. Lovelock delivers his...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Featured Articles, Greenovation, SciClips on 06 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Sinking Kivalina
As the Arctic heats up, indigenous people seem to bearing the brunt of global warming. The village of Kivalina, in northwestern Alaska is the latest victim and is being forced to relocate in a safer spot.
The village is suing the largest oil companies in the world–blaming the warming world on...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Featured Articles, Greenovation, SciClips on 03 16th, 2009 | No Comments
11 Degrees of Separation
Scientists just met in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss the state of science surrounding the climate. The prognosis–we’re in serious trouble unless we change course, fast.
The news was pretty grim for the most part, with each bit of science raising dire prediction after dire prediction.
The...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, SciClips on 03 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Unknown Greenhouse Gases Pose New Climate Risk
In the last six months scientists have become aware of two new greenhouse gases that could add to a growing problem that is heating our atmosphere and changing the climate.
Last fall, nitrogen trifluoride–a chemical used in making liquid crystal flat screen TVs–began showing up in greater...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, SciClips on 03 9th, 2009 | No Comments
Why the Seas Rise
Courtesy of Seattle Graphics, Created by David L Coplan
As the planet gets warmer, heating makes water expand and glaciers and ice sheets melt. That’s what makes sea levels rise.
A group of climate scientists are meeting this week in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss the latest science surrounding...
Global Warming Speeds Up
Watch the video Eye To Eye: Vanishing Ice Caps (CBS News).
Using the Arctic as an early warning system, scientists are claiming the amount of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide is higher than predicted. Daniel Sieberg from CBS News reports.
Antarctica Already Warming
Satellite Image of Wilkins Ice Sheet, January 12, 2009
Scientists are ready to say that despite commonly held beliefs within and outside the science world, the continent of Antarctica is warming.
For many years, it was the continental contrarian in a globally warming world. But new research shows that...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Marine Science, SciClips, Video on 01 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Frost Bite Nips Pelicans
Brown Pelicans in the Caribbean, photo by Diana Shpektor
From Oregon to Mexico, brown pelicans are dropping from the sky and scientists are puzzled. They say it could be exposure to a chemical, a disease or even frost bite after being caught too far north when winter began.
Wildlife experts are trying...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Greenovation, Solar, Video, Wind on 12 31st, 2008 | No Comments
Carbon-free City Under Construction
Watch the video Carbon-free City Under Construction.
The first city in the world to be completely carbon free is being built in the Gulf state of Abu Dhabi. When it’s finished, there will be no cars and all of the city’s energy will come from the sun and wind.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Engineering, Environment, Greenovation, Solar, Video on 12 4th, 2008 | No Comments
Solar Car Completes World Tour
Solar Taxi Crosses Finish Line, courtesy of REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
The first solar-powered car to travel around the world ended its journey at the U.N. climate talks Thursday, arriving in Poznan, Poland with the message that clean technologies are available now to stop global warming.
A Swiss teacher...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Climate, Genomics, SciClips, SciLebs on 11 20th, 2008 | No Comments
Hollywood Gets Science
As the line between fact and fiction blurs in television and film productions, Hollywood is turning to the National Academies of Science for a much-needed dose of reality.
A new initiative, called the Science & Entertainment Exchange was announced yesterday and will match creative screenwriters...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Video on 11 19th, 2008 | No Comments
Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the Rise
Greenhouse gas emissions in the world’s 40 leading industrialised nations rose more than 2% between 2000 and 2006, even though cuts had been promised, according to a UN climate change agency report.
