Earth‘s Climate

A Proxima-tions — NASA scientists get a climate model to take on Proxima Centauri b. John Timmer - Mar 2, 2020 7:55 pm UTC Enlarge / One way to look at these simulations is to imagine Earth-like continents on Proxima Centauri b. The alternative is to imagine Earth being dropped…

By Peter Kuchar Recently on 23rd of February I was witness of really amazing event, strongest dust storm in recent history of Canary Islands. Most of you probably know, but those wonderful islands are located 100 to 400 kilometers west from Africa coast of West Sahara. Dust is not unknown…

Britain's Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled in favour of environmental campaigners who oppose the building of a third runway at London's Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest.The court said the UK government - which approved the Heathrow extension in 2018 after years of delays - had failed to take into account…

WIN. Campaigners against Heathrow expansion celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on February 27, 2020 after a decision by the Court of Appeal on legal challenges to the UK government's approval of plans to expand capacity at Heathrow airport. Photo by Niklas Halle'n/AFP LONDON, United Kingdom –…

The industrial revolution is often considered the starting point for mankind’s deviation towards destruction – but the roots go far deeper. Credit: Samuel Griffiths/Wikipedia If radical action to reduce emissions isn't taken in the next decade or so, many of today's schoolchildren could live in a world that's 3℃ or…

Paris (AFP) - Former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres was a key architect of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, due to go into effect at the end of the year.The Costa Rican diplomat spoke to AFP about her new book, "The Future We Choose", which lays out the best-…

Netflix has boarded Adam McKay’s new comedy feature Don’t Look Up, which Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence will star in. Deadline first broke the news about the project last November when we announced the Oscar-winning Big Short filmmaker’s new first-look deal at Paramount under his label Hyberobject Industries. Don’t Look Up tells the story of two…

Keith's note: I sent this media request to a list of people at NASA SMD, GSFC, and JPL: "I have a question. Why does this NASA GSFC authored story "How Earth Climate Models Can Help Scientists Search for Life on Other Planets" - posted on 24 January 2020 - on…

In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching.Day and night, they spit out 7 quadrillion calculations per second. These machines…

Illustration of an exoplanet. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. Day…