global climate Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:20:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Volcano Eruptions Found to Determine The Global Climate https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volcano-eruptions-determine-the-global-climate-20130207/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volcano-eruptions-determine-the-global-climate-20130207/#respond Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:20:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32845 A study conducted by a team of researchers from Rice University, University of Tokyo, the University of British Columbia, the California Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University and Pomona College, suggests that the shifts in weather patterns and temperature that have resulted in global warming and cooling over the past 500 million years, are caused […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volcano-eruptions-determine-the-global-climate-20130207/feed/ 0 32845 New Carbon Tracing Technique to Improve Global Climate Models https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-carbon-tracing-technique-to-improve-global-climate-models-20121102/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-carbon-tracing-technique-to-improve-global-climate-models-20121102/#respond Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:20:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27498 New computer models, based on photosynthesis and respiration data from dogwood trees, can improve the accuracy of climate change predictions. This is the conclusion that a team at in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Environmental Sciences Division (ORNL) reached in attempt to determine the quantity of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere by these deciduous trees. […]

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