Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Is Global Warming Debate Over? App Confirms Planet Is Heating Up

Source: TechnoBuffalo
Details: Global warming has been a hot-button controversy for years, but there's a new app that could end the discussion once and for all. Novim, a research group from UC Santa Barbara, took on the daunting task of wrangling data from more than two centuries of ...

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North Pole shifts due to global warming

Source: Times of India
Details: There has been huge ice sheet loss in the polar regions due to global warming. The study was carried out by scientists from the University of Texas, Austin, using data collected by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). Earth's two ...

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Amid Rapid Arctic Warming, U.S. Releases New Strategy

Source: Kitsap Sun
Details: However, those activities would add more global warming pollution, which would do further harm to the Arctic environment, and they also pose the risk of oil spills and other accidents. "We are looking to find ways to pursue these efforts in a way that ...

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Global warming slowdown retrospectively “predicted”

Source: Scientific American (blog)
Details: These are the thoughts that went through my mind as I read a recent paper from Nature Climate Change in which climate change modelers "predicted" the last ten years of global temperature stagnation. The lack of global warming since about 2000 does not ...

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Keen On… How One App Ends The Debate About Global Warming

Source: eu.techcrunch
Details: So what's the truth about global warming, I asked Ditmore. The earth is getting warmer, he confirmed, by around six tenth of a degree in the last 50 years. "Not spectacular, but significant," Michael Ditmore reports on the findings of an app which, in ...

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