‘Widespread methane leakage’ from ocean floor off US coast
A sonar image of a new methane plume discovered off the US east coast. A worrying report states that over 500 ...
Tag: global warming
Study confirms “global warming hiatus” is in the deep oceans
Observations of climate change often report a "missing heat" - a hiatus in the global warming, which went unaccounted for; ...
Study confirms global warming is moistening the atmosphere
Climate models have invariably predicted that the upper atmosphere would become moister as a result of global warming, the question ...
Media Still Disproportionately Including Views of Climate Change Skeptics
If you look at most televisions, you'll find that climate change deniers get half the air time - or even ...
Keystone XL pipeline could produce 4 times more emissions than previously thought
President Obama said he will only allow the controversial Keystone XL pipeline's construction if it doesn't significantly increase carbon dioxide ...
Mysterious Siberian craters attributed to methane. Permafrost methane release might have begun
The "mysterious" craters in Siberia have actually been caused by methane seeping from the melting permafrost. No rockets, no meteorites, ...
How air conditioning is making your city hotter
Air conditioning may make your home cooler, but it's making your city hotter - cities can be even 3 degrees ...
Americans are convinced of global warming by changing temperatures, not by climate scientists
The Stanford News Service recently made an interview with Jon Krosnick, a Stanford professor of communication and of political science who conducts ...
Scientist offers $10.000 to anyone who can scientifically disprove man-made climate change
Are you a convinced climate change denier? Wanna make a quick buck? This is the thing for you! A physics professor ...
By 2100, Our Oceans Will Be Twice as Acidic as They Were in Preindustrial Times
When we think of CO2 emissions, we generally tend to think of air pollution and global warming; we tend to ...
Scientists show for the first time that climate change will cause more intense summer storms in Britain
The British summer has always been a subject of fascination and annoyance, for its fickle, rainy nature. But a new ...
Canada Wages War on Science: Weather Forecasters Forbidden from Discussing Climate Change
I like it when people talk about climate change. I even like it when they speak against climate change - ...
Antarctic Ice Collapse Could Devastate Global Food Supply
We've already written about the damage done to the Antarctic ice sheet, and how sadly, its collapse seems irreversible. A ...
Carbon dioxide hits 400 ppm for the first time in human history
Carbon dioxide levels throughout the northern hemisphere hit 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history ...
Trillions of pieces of plastic in the Arctic ice
The Arctic ocean likely holds trillions of pieces of plastic in ice; as global warming starts to tick in and ...
Cutting down CO2 emission might save the economy $71 trillion by 2050
Photo: Dong Energy "We can't give up oil and coal because it will ruin our economy." This is an argument ...
West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse is irreversible; to cause 10 feet sea level rise
Various measurements have captured the West Antarctic ice sheet changing very rapidly in the region where it flows into the ...
Rising CO2 poses significant threat to human nutrition
Image via Harvard University. If current trends continue, by 2050, the elevated levels of CO2 in the atmosphere will cause ...
Climate Change is a Current Reality, lengthy US report concludes
Climate change is no longer a distant threat - it's happening now, and it poses real, clear dangers in the ...
China just admitted 20% of its farmland is polluted
The Chinese government sort of took everyone by surprise after it made a most unaccustomed statement; it admitted the country ...
Arctic melting season getting longer and oceans turn warmer
An image mosaic of sea ice in the Canadian Basin, taken by Operation IceBridge's Digital Mapping System on Mar. 28, ...
Rising atmospheric CO2 lowers nutrient content in crops
Farmers will have to more carefully manage nitrogen fertilization as the world climate warms up to prevent crop loss. Trying ...
When it comes to global warming “the polar bear is us”
The already iconic global warming images with polar bears sadly floating on small chunks of ice have acted as a ...
Climate change will cause lower crop yields than expected and threaten global food security
Crops, like any plants, adapt to their surroundings and, depending on conditions, can offer more or less yield. In the ...
The new spring: charts showing different take to global warming
A while ago, Andrei published a post in which he uploaded and spoke about seven key charts that show plain ...
Warmest winter on record for California worsens drought streak
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a statement that California just came off its warmest winter on ...
Tax on emission is twice as burdening on the poor than on the rich
Photo: freedomoutpost.com In attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming, one of the key measures considered by policy ...
Watch Bill Nye Explain Climate Change to GOP Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn
I love Bill Nye, and I think the world needs more people like him. I don't mindlessly follow him, I ...
The most devastating mass extinction in Earth’s history happened much faster
Some 252 million years ago, 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent of life on land became extinct following ...
Leaking natural gas may be a significant contributor to global warming
Natural gas leakage in the LA basin area from oil drilling and piping loses could be more significant than thought. ...
The top 7 countries responsible for global warming
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters ranks the the top seven contributing countries to global warming. Together, these nations ...
Coral Reefs can be saved – immediate action is necessary
Although some scientists suggest that coral reefs are headed for certain doom, a new study by University of Florida and ...
Even if all emissions stop today, Earth will continue to warm for centuries
By now, hopefully, most people understand the huge problems caused by global warming - but most people probably don't understand ...
Just 90 companies are responsible for 60% of all man made global warming emissions – Exxon, Chevron and BP lead the way
The climate crisis we are facing right now (which for one reason or another many people choose to ignore) has ...
Ocean acidification could devastate the economy in the future
As if that would be our biggest concern in the first place, but it's important to understand, especially for policy ...
Study confirms IPCC’s 95% certainty on man made climate change
Global warming is real, it's affecting us all, and it's gonna get worse - and we have nobody to blame ...
Almost unanimous: climate change 95% caused by man, according to U.N.
From left, Lena Ek, Ministry of the Environment of Sweden, Prof. Thomas Stocker, IPCC working group and Prof. Dahe Qin, ...
America’s first climate change refugees: Hundreds forced to flee their Alaska village before it goes underwater
It's hard to find Kivalina on the map as it is, but soon it will be impossible - the place ...
Hot temperatures and tempers: climate change heat wave linked to rise in violence
The ramifications of climate change are long and vast, but with all this talk and attention the subject's been gaining ...
Some 1,700 US cities under threat of going under-water by 2100
According to a recently published in the journal PNAS, some 1,700 cities in the United States coastal areas are under ...
Forests become more efficient in response to rising CO2 levels
For years scientists have hypothesized that a rise in CO2 levels will cause the world's forests to use water more ...
Past decade saw unprecedented warming in the deep ocean
From the 1950s, and especially from 1975, the global surface ocean has shown a significant and steady warming trend. However, ...
Record level atmospheric CO2. Reaches 400 ppm for the first time in 3 million years
A bit late with on this story, but considering the importance of this rather unfortunate milestone, it's best you all ...
Antarctic ice is melting 10 times faster than 1,000 years ago
(c) British Antarctic Survey A new study that examined ice core samples found that parts of Antarctica's ice are melting ...
Rising hemisphere temperature difference shifts tropical rainfall patterns
An often overlooked aspect of climate change is the migration of the traditionally-viewed climate line that separates the Northern and ...
Climate model made in 1999 is remarkably correct
There's a lot of fuss about climate modeling is definitely a hot one, with the validity of certain models (and ...
Study suggests global warming has in fact accelerated in the past 15 years
You've probably heard it a few times: the climate is indeed warming up, but it's all good, because the rate ...
Icelandic volcanic eruption yields bad news for iron fertilization geoengineering
In one of the first articles I've ever written on ZME Science, all the way back in 2007 (has it ...
Bigger and meaner hurricane surges expected in the future due to climate change
Hurricane Sandy storm surge makes its way through Atlantic City, N.J. (c) 6abc Action News An extremely worrisome climate model ...
Global temperatures reaching 11,000 years peak
Hotter than ever, basically.
