Study Adds to Arctic Warming, Extreme Weather Debate
While the study adds to the body of evidence pointing to the outsized role the Arctic is playing in shaping weather patterns, it failed to mark an end to the debate within the scientific community over whether and how what is happening in the Far North could be having such far-reaching impacts. There is virtually no controversy among climate scien… Read More
Evidence Shows Global Heat May Be Hiding in Oceans
Far below the surface, the waters of south-east Asia are heating up. A region of the Pacific is now warming at least 15 times faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years. If this finding – so far limited to the depths where the Pacific and Indian Oceans wash into each other – is true for the blue planet as a whole, then the questions of climat… Read More
Six Degrees: Hot Streaks, Survey Results & Sea Level
This week's six top stories cover a warming trend, sea level rise, coal power, fracking and more. … Read More
Staggered Turbines Harness the Most Wind Power
U.S. scientists have worked out how to get 33 percent more power from an offshore wind farm – stagger the turbines rather than line them up in neat, orderly rows. Cristina Archer of the University of Delaware and colleagues report in Geophysical Research Letters that they started with a real, working offshore wind farm – Lillgrund in Sweden – and … Read More
Six Degrees: CO2, Earthquakes and a Super Typhoon
We explore record high gas emissions, earthquakes, Super Tyhpoon damage and more. … Read More
Images Show Super Typhoon Haiyan’s Destruction
Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines on Friday, and left behind widespread power outages, tattered buildings, and displaced people on a number of the islands that make up the country. The provinces of Leyte, Bohol, and Cebu, and Samar were among some of the hardest hit by the storm’s fury. Satellite showed that Haiyan, known in th… Read More
Geoengineering Could Reduce Critical Global Rainfall
Climate researcher John Fasullo, one of the authors of the study, said geoengineering options present a “Pick your poison” dilemma. “Climate change is one ill, but geoengineering contains its own downsides as well.” The study focuses on one geoengineering proposal that has gained traction among geoengineering proponents and some policymakers looki… Read More
Green Climate Fund Can Power Poor Countries
A vast program of financing solar, wind and other renewable electricity technologies for developing countries using the UN’s new Green Climate Fund is proposed this week. The Fund is currently being set up by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to “provide support to developing countries to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emis… Read More
