Posts Tagged Global Warming

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 [...]

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 [...]

French Researcher Develops Impressive Pollution-Eating Streetlights Using Microalgae

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Pollution on March 9, 2012

Fermentalg, the company founded and led by French researcher Pierre Caleja, has recently developed street lighting that could one day soak CO2 from the air with the use of microalgae. Caleja’s company had received several millions in funding from various private investors in recent years to discover ways of harvesting the power of microalgae to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Greenhouse Gases Rising Steadily, World Meteorological Organization Reports

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on November 21, 2011

The global warming is here to stay – this is what the World Meteorological Organization said in this year’s issue of their Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane are at their highest since the industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th century. Carbon dioxide is actually not the most harmful [...]

Researchers Fight Over Global Warming Existence – Who's to Win?

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on October 31, 2011

A study published last week reveals the conclusions of a study led by Richard Muller from the University of Berkeley. The study claimed, with irrefutable evidences, that Earth’s average temperature has been raising with about 1 degree Celsius from 1950. What professor Muller said has shattered the skeptics’ theories saying that there’s no scientific evidence [...]

Worst Case Global Warming Scenario: Sea Levels May Rise by 1.1 Meters by 2100

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on October 18, 2011

Intentionally disregarding what else may happen as a consequence to global warming, a team of researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute in Denkmark has calculated the effects of global warming on sea levels alone. The team predicted them for the long run: until 2100 and 2500. Of course, currently modern times will be to people [...]

Climate Change Endangers Cocoa Production, Bill Gates Comes Up with Solution

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on October 4, 2011

Simple story: one morning, Bill Gates wanted some chocolate for breakfast. The next thing that happened is that his foundation analyzed the prices of chocolate worldwide, the price of cocoa, someone in Ghana prepared an ultra-special recipe for him and delivered it before Mr. Gates finished eating the caviar, with an F22 fighter jet. After [...]

Water Evaporation From Plants Helps Cool Down The Climate, Study Demonstrates

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on September 27, 2011

A team from the Carnegie Global Ecology department have recently concluded that water evaporation on Earth actually cools down the atmosphere and fights global warming, but not in the way you’d be tempted to think. You probably know from elementary classes that evaporation happens with energy consumption, thus taking the heat from the object and [...]

Study Shows How Reduced Arctic Summer Snowfall Makes Ice Thinner

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on July 5, 2011

With the Arctic region warming quicker than any place on Earth, a new research presented today by Dr. James Screen from the University of Melbourne has evidenced that the rising temperatures and increased rainfall make the sea ice melt more and more.

People Living In The Countryside Pollute Just as Much as City Inhabitants, Study Says

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Global Warming on June 28, 2011

A recent study performed by two Finnish researchers from Aalto University reveals that people living in the countryside pollute just as much as city dwellers. They used a different approach to fund their study’s conclusion, placing the source of CO2 at the consumer site rather than at the production site, like it’s been done before.

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