Global Warming

President Barack Obama celebrated Earth Day at the entrance of Florida s Everglades National Park. Climate change is threatening this treasure and the communities that depend on it, which includes almost all of South Florida. And if we don t act, there may not be an Everglades as we know it,Obama said…

Warning signs today: In 2003, extreme heat waves claimed as many as 70, lives in Europe. In France alone, nearly 15, people died during two weeks of soaring temperatures, which reached as high as 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Much of North America experienced a severe heat wave in July 2006, which contributed…

Campaigners issued a dossier with 100 reasons why climate change is natural and not man-made The report, by the respected European Foundation, also argues that a higher level of carbon dioxide (CO2) – the main greenhouse gas – is not a problem because it helps to boost crop yields. And it claims that…

2 years ago, I did post the data on the CO2 and global temperature relationship. The conclusion was: at least in the last 10 years, CO2 concentration kept rising, but the global temperature didn’t. Now, as the last year was the warmest year ever measured, it is time to look at the data again – having…

A recent report released by the White House, the National Climate Assessment Report, says the effects of climate change are already being experienced across the United States. And according to one commodities expert, global warming has turned up the heat on agriculture prices—which could be leading to…

Continued warming of the Earth’s oceans over the next century could trigger disruptions to marine life on a scale not seen in the last 3 million years, scientists warn in a study released Monday. The changes could include extinctions of some of the ocean’s keystone species as well as a widespread influx…

The four major greenhouse gases, in order of their contribution to the greenhouse effect, are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone. Cloud cover plays a dual role in the greenhouse effect. The amount of cloud cover, along with ice coverage, largely determines the reflectivity of Earth. A change…

But all this leaves a big question, one that scientists have been trying to answer: If the atmosphere is warming more slowly than projected, where did the heat go? There are two ways to create a global-warming hiatus: The heat can go somewhere other than the atmosphere, or there might be less heat in…

You can generally expect that animals will be affected by global warming in many of the same ways as humans in that they will have to deal with extreme weather as well as changing weather patterns. However, humans have many ways to deal with these atmospheric alterations. We have homes that are electrically…