by Stephanie Novak Oct 23, 2012 Many know climate scientist Wallace Broecker, 81, as the “father of global warming”—but he says he isn’t very fond of the title. “They say I’m the first one to use those words in print,” Broecker explained during a break at this year’s Comer Conference on abrupt climate change, held…
LESS IS MORE: WHAT IT MEANS TO WARM THE PLANET ONE DEGREE
by Stephanie Novak Oct 23, 2012 In the midst of Chicago’s scorcher of a summer, one degree warmer didn’t mean very much. One hundred degrees compared to 101? The plain and simple answer: it was hot out. But for climate scientists such as Aaron Putnam and Sean Birkel, one degree means a lot more. They talk…
LORD OF THE RINGS: OLD TREES PROVIDE NEW INSIGHT INTO CLIMATE CHANGE
by Rachel E. Gross Oct 21, 2012 The trees were quite dead. But Jonathan Palmer, one of the world’s leading experts on tree rings, had expected them to be deader. Palmer has a strange calling. He chases the corpses of ancient trees throughout New Zealand bogs, and probes their annual growth rings for clues of…
ARTIFICIAL TREES: CAP YOUR CO2 AND SPEW IT TOO
by Rachel E. Gross Oct 20, 2012 For those of us torn between concern for a warming globe and a lifestyle that relies on spewing tons of the greenhouse gases responsible for warming it, Klaus Lackner has a solution. Suck it up. That isn’t just tough love. The Columbia University geophysicist has spent nearly two decades…
SCIENTISTS EXPRESS FRUSTRATION WITH THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE
by Matt Rhodesand Eric Eckstrom Oct 18, 2012 Each year scientists at the cutting edge of climate research undertaken all across the world gather at the Comer Conference in Wisconsin to exchange their latest findings and data. Physics, chemistry, geology, oceanography, biology and dozens of other disciplines are documenting the serious impact of global warming. It’s science –…
BHUTAN’S MELTING GLACIERS HOLD A MIRROR TO EARTH’S FUTURE CLIMATE
by Matt Rhodes Oct 15, 2012 Hiking up to 16,000 feet in the Himalayas, climate scientists plan to pin down how fast glaciers are melting near the top of the world. Bhutan, located at the center of the highlands of the Himalayas, is hosting a team of geoscientists as they research the small mountain…
HOW LONG CAN GREENLAND ICE HOLD OUT? SCIENTISTS TRACK CLIMATE SWITCHES
by Stephanie Novak and Rachel E. Gross Oct 23, 2012 As news of record sea ice loss in the Arctic made headlines this fall, some of the world’s top climate scientists met in Wisconsin to talk about the latest in climate change research and the accelerating pace of melting glaciers and global warming. Helicopters whirred…
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