El Nino Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:42:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How El Niño is Hiding the Effects of Climate Change https://www.greenoptimistic.com/el-nino-climate-change-hidden-effects/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/el-nino-climate-change-hidden-effects/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:42:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56637 Weather patterns are endlessly complicated, a fact that stands in the way of climate change awareness. Year after year, despite all the mounting evidence and expert testimony, people are still reluctant to take responsibility for their role in the global ecosystem. For many, the moment it snows, any notion of global “warming” gets dismissed. There may […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/el-nino-climate-change-hidden-effects/feed/ 0 56637 Tropical Rain Forests Regulate Variations In Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tropical-rain-forests-regulate-variations-in-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-20130723/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tropical-rain-forests-regulate-variations-in-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-20130723/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:15:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=39773 A NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discovered that a temperature anomaly of only 1ºC leads to an annual 3.5 Petagram anomaly in the annual CO2 growth rate, equivalent of 1/3 the annual global emissions of the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation together. The […]

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