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The conscious decoupling of greenhouse gases and economic growth
Posted by Mashable: None Given on March 13th, 2015
Mashable: Global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main long-lived global warming pollutant, flatlined in 2014, despite global economic growth, a report released Friday found.
This is the first time in 40 years in which there was a halt or reduction in greenhouse gas emissions without an economic downturn, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Vienna, Austria. The new data may indicate some progress is being made in addressing global warming, which is caused largely by increasing amounts...
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NASA chief has perfect comeback to Ted Cruz’s attack on Earth science
Posted by Mashable: None Given on March 13th, 2015
Mashable: Texas Republican Senator and likely presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has had it with NASA researching our home planet, preferring that NASA devote its attention to sending humans to Mars and inspiring children with space exploration missions.
His vision collided with NASA's actual mission, which has been in place since its founding in 1958, and was represented at a Senate hearing on Thursday by NASA administrator Charles Bolden.
Senator Cruz's critique of what he sees as an agency that has drifted...
The winter of 2014-15 was the season that divided America
Posted by Mashable: None Given on March 9th, 2015
Mashable: The winter of 2014-15 was among the more unusually divisive such seasons on record, according to new data released on Friday. While the West saw record warmth and dryness, the Midwest and East shivered through brutal cold not seen since the 1930s in some places, along with large amounts of snow.
In the end, though, the lower 48 states as a whole averaged out to 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average this winter, ranking as the 19th-warmest winter on record. February, however, was...
Global groundwater crisis may get worse as the world warms
Posted by Mashable: None Given on October 30th, 2014
Mashable: From India to Texas, people are rapidly depleting their valuable stores of groundwater -- leading to the possibility that aquifers may be emptied within decades, a NASA researcher has warned.
In a commentary published Wednesday in the journal Nature Climate Change, Jay Famiglietti, who has helped lead the use of a NASA satellite system to detect groundwater changes around the world, warned of dramatic consequences to come if changes are not made to the way that societies manage water supplies....
‘Unprecedented’ flooding event in Detroit fits global warming pattern
Posted by Mashable: None Given on August 13th, 2014
Mashable: Detroit received 4.57 inches of rain in just a few hours on Monday, breaking its record for that date and coming in second place for the all-time wettest calendar day, behind a 4.74 inch deluge in July of 1925. The heavy rain -- which included more than an inch of rain falling in just 24 minutes -- led to some of the most widespread flash flooding on record in the Motor City.
Every major interstate was affected by the flooding, which longtime weather forecasters in the area called an unprecedented...
Global Warming to Triple Frequency Drought, Floods Along Indian Ocean
Posted by Mashable: None Given on June 11th, 2014
Mashable: The frequency of extreme forms of a climate cycle that can cause devastating droughts and flood events from Indonesia to India to Kenya, may triple in the coming decades, according to a new study published Wednesday. The study, published in the journal Nature, ties manmade global warming to shifts in the behavior of a naturally-occurring climate cycle, known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD).
Like the Pacific Ocean, which gives rise to El Niño and La Niña events, the Indian Ocean has its own inherent...
Scientists Need Your Help to Discern Global Warming’s Role in UK Floods
Posted by Mashable: None Given on March 5th, 2014
Mashable: A team of climate scientists in the UK has launched an ambitious citizen science effort to quickly assess the role that manmade global warming may have played in that region's extraordinarily wet winter.
The program, known as the Weather@Home 2014 project, is part of a longer term and international push to develop scientific techniques to gain insight into the relationship between global warming and extreme weather events, from heavy precipitation events to heat waves.
The winter of 2013-14...
Al Gore on Climate Change: ‘Extreme Weather Events Are a Gamechanger’
Posted by Mashable: None Given on January 24th, 2014
Mashable: Climate change made an appearance at the 44th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, thanks to former Vice-President Al Gore and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. The two world figures commented on how extreme weather events are intensifying global awareness of the climate change phenomenon.
The weather events they mentioned include the likes of the recent typhoon Haiyan and Hurricane Sandy, both of which caused huge economic and human damage.
“I think that these extreme weather...