by Anna Bisaro Oct 24, 2013 Icebergs the size of Manhattan’s Central Park break off of Greenland’s outlying glaciers and trigger earthquakes that can be detected thousands of miles away. About half of the mass lost from Greenland every year is due to these earthquakes. Seismologist Meredith Nettles of Columbia University monitors the force of…
RECYCLING CO2 COULD FIGURE IN THE ZERO SUM SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
by Monika Wnuk Oct 26, 2013 Capturing and storing the 29 billion tons of carbon dioxide the world emits annually from burning fossil fuels could help clamp a lid on climate change. At the Comer Abrupt Climate Change Conference this month in Wisconsin, scientists shifted the focus away from capturing and storing CO2 and toward recycling…
NEW PALEOCLIMATE RESEARCH EMERGES OUT OF AFRICA
by Jenny Draper Oct 28, 2013 Africa—the continent for catching a glimpse of lions, zebras, elephants and glaciers. Yes, glaciers. The quest for climate change clues led geologist and paleoclimatologist Meredith Kelly to Uganda last August in search of the missing puzzle piece in global warming research. Kelly and her team and 27 porters carried equipment up…
MILLIONS OF YEARS OF CLIMATE CLUES BUILD MOSAIC OF GLOBAL WARMING
by Elizabeth McCarthy and Monika Wnuk Oct 27, 2013 Top climate scientists assessed the impact of melting glaciers, rising sea levels and lakes turning into deserts at this year’s Comer Abrupt Climate Change Conference in Wisconsin. Rising fossil fuel emissions in our era are escalating global warming, scientists said. “The big picture, I think, was the strength…
LITTLE ICE AGE SPURS MONGOL INVASION
by Anna Bisaro Oct 28, 2013 In a period of less than 100 years, the Mongol Empire spread across Eurasia and encompassed the greatest contiguous land empire in history under the great Khan dynasty. Historians generally attribute rising power and domination to leadership, new inventions and military strategy. But, some climate scientists credit the Little Ice…
DON’T BE FOOLED BY STABLE GLOBAL TEMPS – THE WORLD IS GETTING WARMER
by Monika Wnuk Oct 23, 2013 Climate change critics are pointing to a 15-year period of stable global temperatures to suggest that global warming has stopped. Global temperatures showed a continuous rise since 1975 before the respite set in. But climate change hasn’t halted. At the Comer Conference on abrupt climate change this month, scientists countered…
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