Archive for category Global Warming

NASA Scientist Warns About Canadian Tar Sands’ Potentially Catastrophic Impact on Climate

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on May 14, 2012

Tar sands – Canada’s dream of a richer life, are about to disrupt changes so dramatic in the global climate that 20 to 50 percent of the planet’s species could go extinct and civilization as we know it could reach the edge of peril. However, those tar sands filled with bituminous fuel aren’t seeing daylight [...]

CarbonSat: The New Ultra-Precise Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Satellite Designed by Astrium

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Global Warming on April 30, 2012

A new climate-monitoring satellite is being designed by Europe’s leading aerospace company Astrium. CarbonSat, the new greenhouse gases trailer, is being prepared for the European Space Agency (ESA). The project is expected to continue over a span of another 22 months. ESA announced its resolution to grant Astrium a contract to design and make the [...]

Arctic Melt to Release Huge Quantities of Methane, NASA Mission Concludes

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Global Warming on April 26, 2012

The HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) airborne campaign set out a campaign to see where greenhouse gases come from and where are they stored in our planet’s system. So they flew specially instrumented aircraft over the Pacific Ocean from nearly pole to pole. Between 2009 and 2010, they measured at a 8.7 miles height from the [...]

Americans Care More About Gasoline Prices Than Its Effect on Climate, Study Reveals

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on April 26, 2012

Polls are often the only way to see the health, normality or sickness of a population’s mindset when it comes to topics like religion, beliefs, political views or even global warming. But sometimes polls just bring out the naked truth, even if it sometimes is hard to swallow. A recent poll performed by the University [...]

Eat Less Meat, Produce Less N₂O, Reduce Global Warming

Posted by Kasun Madushanka in Global Warming on April 14, 2012

Meat is one of the main food items consumed worldwide. The meat consumption of developed countries is relatively high than that of the developing countries. New studies have shown that meat consumption must be reduced in order to reduce their related greenhouse gas emissions. The most recent publications show that we must cut the meat [...]

Modifying Urban Surface Reflectivity Levels Could Slash 150 Billion Tons of CO2

Posted by Kasun Madushanka in Global Warming on April 13, 2012

The Sun, our only external source of energy, is also responsible for the heat on Earth. This heat is what makes all life possible on our blue planet. However, this energy is also responsible for global warming. Imagine cities reflecting this sunlight away from Earth. A team of researchers from Concordia University did some research [...]

Corals Deeply Affected by Increasing Atmospheric CO2, Scientists Say

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on April 12, 2012

The increasing CO2 concentration in air is having a profound impact on corals in the most unforeseen ways. It had been previously thought that CO2 would affect the calcium structure of the coral skeleton, but an international team of researchers proved something that’s deeper: CO2 affects the very core of the corals: their genes. “Every [...]

Global Warming Causing Antarctic Ice Sheets to Detach From Land

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on March 29, 2012

By analyzing 40 years worth of satellite imagery of West Antarctica, scientists from the University of Texas have recently concluded that the floating ice shelves are losing their grip on the bay walls that used to sustain them. This situation could worsen the loss of ice into the sea. “Typically, the leading edge of an ice [...]

Irreversible Global Warming Nearing, Scientists Warn

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on March 27, 2012

Although yesterday we were talking about how trees may actually bear higher concentrations of CO2, Australian scientists discovered that we’re pretty close to not being able to reverse global warming – and, yes, you can call that a WARNING. Current estimates are saying that if we continue our polluting habits the way we’ve been doing [...]

Plants More Carbon-Hungry Than Thought, Ecotron Study Suggests

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on March 26, 2012

Scientists have always worried that if we produce too much carbon dioxide then plants, also known as the planet’s lungs, won’t be able to cope with that and will eventually fail sinking it into the ground or inside their own body matter. Now, a collaborative research of the Imperial College London and the University of [...]

Arctic Ice Reduction Responsible for Recent Cold Winters in Northern Hemisphere, Says Georgia Tech

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on February 28, 2012

Global warming doesn’t necessarily refer to the actual warming of the planet. There are places on Earth where excessive warming determines cooling in other places. The reduction of the Arctic Ocean’s ice surface generated by climate warming could constitute an explanation for the snow and frost of the latest years in Europe and some Northern [...]

Bacteria Could Speed CO2 Mineralization in Underground Sequestration

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on February 25, 2012

Many things have been written about CO2 sequestration and many experiments have been carried in recent years that could easily confirm one thing: it’s expensive, not so efficient as it had been thought and people realized we really don’t know all the side effects of this technology. A type o bacteria, however, could save CO2 [...]

How Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Global Warming are Connected – A Plausible Theory

Posted by Doyle Doss in Global Warming on January 20, 2012

The recent volcanic eruptions in Indonesia and March 11th’s massive earthquake in Japan (and the ensuing tsunami) may have a simple rational scientific explanation: land ice melt. The oceans have risen 4 inches in the last 50 years (wikipedia.org/Current sea level rise). Two inches of this rise is due to thermal expansion (the oceans have [...]

The Criegee Biradical – A New Molecule That Could Stop Global Warming

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Global Dimming on January 20, 2012

Saying that you’ve discovered a molecule that could fix global warming is maybe a bit far-fetched. It’s like saying you found a medicine to cure cancer… My point is that it’s not that simple. There is however some truth in it: according to researchers at the University of Bristol and Snadia National Laboratories, the Criegee [...]

14 Ways to Reduce Global Warming, as Postulated by NASA Researchers

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Global Warming on January 17, 2012

Some measures can be so simple and yet so effective that you sometimes stop to wonder how come you didn’t thing about them before. You probably heard this a dozen times, but it’s true. The same goes for air pollution control measures: simple acts like putting a filter or changing a house appliance can make [...]