Climate Change

Melting Ice • Extreme Weather • Suspected Causes

Science and Technology News

This page is devoted to news about science and technology issues related to Climate Change. I've tried to put analysis and politics on other subjective matters on other pages. See the set of file tabs at the top.

Melting of the Planet’s Ice

• Antarctic Climate: Short-term Spikes, Long-term Warming Linked to Tropical Pacific
  (Science Daily, 15 Aug 2008)
• Satellites help explain Greenland ice loss mystery (New Scientist, 9 Aug 2008)
• No Ice at the North Pole (The Independent, 27 Jun 2008)
• Arctic sea ice melt ‘even faster’ (BBC News, 18 Jun 2008)
• Even the Antarctic Winter Cannot Protect Wilkins Ice Shelf (Science Daily, 14 Jun 2008)
• Baltic sea ice cover hits an all-time low (Physorg.com, 3 May 2008)
• Major Arctic Sea Ice Melt is Expected This Summer (Physorg.com, 2 May 2008)
• Researchers Warm Up To Melt's Role In Greenland Ice Loss (NASA, 18 Apr 2008)
• Forecast for big sea level rise (BBC News, 15 Apr 2008)
• Antarctica's Wilkens Ice Shelf eroding at an unforseen pace (Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar 2008)
• Large Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses (Voice of America, 26 Mar 2008)
• Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013‘ (BBC, 12 Dec 2007)

Extreme, Unusual, and Changing Weather

• Climate Change: When It Rains It Really Pours (Science Daily, 8 Aug 2008)
• Australia faces worse, more frequent droughts-study (Reuters, 6 Jul 2008)
• US Experts: Forecast is more extreme weather (MSNBC, 19 Jun 2008)
• Tornados, Flooding May Warn of Climate Change (Science Daily, 4 Jun 2008)
• Potential Global Warming “Fix” Will Damage the Ozone Layer (Universe Today, 25 Apr 2008)
• Clearing smog reveals true extent of global warming (New Scientist, 18 Apr 2008)
• Purdue's Vulcan Project Reveals U.S. Carbon Emissions in New Detail
     (CARMA—Carbon Monitoring for Action, 8 Apr 2008)
  Purdue's Project Vulcan (Purdue University)
• Carbon Trading Not Enough, Says Rio Tinto Scientist (ABC News, Australia, 5 Apr 2008)
• Obama and Clinton plan to cool it (i.e., the Earth) (Salon, 15 Mar 2008)
• 2007 Was Tied for the Second Hottest Year on Record (Universe Today, 18 Jan 2008)

Pollution, Greenhouse Gases and Other Suspected Causes

• Global Warming Forecasts Not Taking Into Account
  Nanoscale Atmospheric Aerosols (Science Daily, 9 Aug 2008)
• Scientists to assess Beijing Olympics air pollution control efforts (Physorg.com, 8 Aug 2008)
• Past Climate Change: Continental Stretching Preceding Opening of the Drake Passage
  (Science Daily, 25 Jul 2008)
• Scientists solve riddle of toxic algae blooms (Times Colonist, 22 Jul 2008)
• Along with beauty, fireworks create a beastly mix of pollutants (Los Angeles Times, 04 Jul 2008)
• Volcanoes erupting beneath Arctic ice. (MSNBC, 27 Jun 2008)
• Global Warming Could Release Trillions Of Pounds of Carbon Annually
  From East Siberia's Vast Frozen Soils (Science Daily, 12 Jun 2008)
• Apparent Problem With Global Warming Climate Models Resolved (Science Daily, 30 May 2008)
• Large Methane Release Could Cause Abrupt Climate Change (NASA, 28 May 2008)
• Ice Cores Reveal Fluctuations in Earth's Geenhouse Gases (Science Daily, 17 May 2008)
• CO₂ Output Must Cease Altogether (MSNBC, 10 Mar 2008)
• Nature's carbon balance confirmed (BBC, 28 Apr 2008)