Earth‘s Climate

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on February 13, 2020 by curryja | by Judith Curry A range of scenarios for global mean surface temperature change between 2020 and 2050, derived using a semi-empirical approach. All three modes of natural climate variability – volcanoes, solar and internal variability…

News Review by Kip Hansen – 16 February 2020 Several media pieces have followed up on a study about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.  Even the (in)famous climatologist who shares my last name pulled out this story for the press in Australia.  Newsweek ran with it as part of a…

House Democrats have finally unveiled a flurry of climate bills aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but activists say only one proposal represents the “gold standard” for tackling the climate crisis: Legislation introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that would ban fracking nationwide. While none of these…

AbstractThe Arctic region is projected to experience amplified warming as well as strongly increasing precipitation rates. Equally important to trends in the mean climate are changes in interannual variability, but changes in precipitation fluctuations are highly uncertain and the associated processes are unknown. Here, we use various state-of-the-art global climate…

How Earth climate models help scientists picture life on unimaginable worlds by Lonnie Shekhtman for GSFC News Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 26, 2020 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…

NASA's Webb will seek atmospheres around potentially habitable exoplanets by Christine Pulliam for STSI News Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 06, 2020 This artist's concept portrays the seven rocky exoplanets within the TRAPPIST-1 system, located 40 light-years from Earth. Astronomers will observe these worlds with Webb in an effort to detect…

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PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS “FOUR YEARS TO SAVE EARTH:” Climate doomsayers keep putting sell-by dates on their credibility. (Classical reference in headline.) Posted by Ed Driscoll at 8:45 am InstaPundit is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to…

by Larissa Schneider, Colin Cooke, Nathan D Stansell and Simon Haberle, The Conversation Industrial activities like mining, fossil fuel combustion, and cement production release mercury into the environment. Credit: Shutterstock Climate change and bushfire may exacerbate recent mercury pollution and increase exposure to the poisonous neurotoxin, according to our study…

In 2015, a team of scientists from the United States and China traveled to Tibet to gather samples of Earth’s oldest glacial ice. Earlier this month, they published a paper on the pre-print server bioRxiv detailing their discovery of 28 new virus groups in the 15,000-year-old ice – and warning…