Survey: Support for Alternatives Ebbs Among Westerners
Support for alternative energy has weakened in the western U.S. as support for oil, gas and coal has risen. Read More
The New Geopolitics of Global Warming
Climate change, an abstract concept for many in the U.S., is already shaping conflicts around the world. Read More
Warming Climate Reveals Links to Infectious Disease
Public health experts are already able to establish stronger links between global warming and infectious disease. Read More
The Future is Now for Sea Level Rise in South Florida
It’s not unusual for Keith London to run into people who doubt that global warming is really such a big deal. “I tell them, ˜the ocean is rising,’ he said. “They say, ˜so?’ It drives you crazy. London is no scientist; he’s a city commissioner in Hallandale Beach, Fla., a municipality of about 37,000 that sits on the Atlantic coast between Fort … Read More
The Brighter Side of Air Pollution
New research links North Atlantic cooling events observed last century to man-made aerosol emissions.… Read More
Climate and Carbon: The Link Just Got Stronger
What they found was that in Antarctica, there was indeed a bit of warming that preceded the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide — but just a little, and only by a couple of hundred years. In the rest of the world, Shakun said, “global temperature clearly lags the CO2 buildup. Cause, in short, really did come before effect.… Read More
A Dozen Texas Tornadoes Leave Lasting Impression
The Dallas-Forth Worth area was hit by two tornadoes Tuesday afternoon and there were reports of maybe a dozen more throughout the state, according to the National Weather Service.… Read More
Chilling out in Alaska, A Scientist’s Dream Come True
Growing up on a farm near the rural town of Brooklyn, in northwestern Pennsylvania, Kerri Pratt didn’t even know what the initials “Ph.D. stood for. Today, Pratt, AGE TK, not only holds a Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry from the University of California, San Diego; she’s working on her second postdoctoral fellowship. Since February, Pratt has been … Read More
