Global Warming

The blue ice covering Lake Fryxell in the Transantarctic Mountains comes from melted glacier water. Credit: Joe Mastroianni, National Science Foundation The impact of sea surface temperature variations in the tropical Pacific on global climate has long been recognized. For instance, the episodic warming of the tropical Pacific during El…

Climate change alters disease risksClimate change appears to be provoking changes in the patterns and intensity of infectious diseases. For example, when conditions are cool, amphibians from warm climates experience greater burdens of infection by chytrid fungus than hosts from cool regions. Cohen et al. undertook a global metanalysis of…

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Ulysses: Beyond relief and tweaking the bureaucracy OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT National Ocean Service (NOS) of the US Department of Commerce has one interesting distinction between weather and climate and it can never be clearer than “climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.” In the aftermath of…

Sometimes the human trauma of the climate crisis is too painful to recite, and this is one of those times: the busiest hurricane season ever recorded is continuing on into the late fall, with consequences so horrifying one can hardly stand to look. Right now, Hurricane Iota is mashing Central…

Donald Trump’s election was a near-apocalyptic moment for many in the climate movement. The 2016 election took place during the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, where advocates, leaders, and scientists had gathered from across the world to hammer out what they thought would be mundane details of the Paris…

Seemingly still struggling to end the post-National Day lackluster run, the domestic movie market is gearing up for 44 new releases in Nov, with some expecting to warm up the market.Data on Beacon, a live box-office tracker, show that the country grossed 880 million yuan ($133.7 million) in Nov, while…

Doyle Rice   | USA TODAY Humanity is beyond the point of no return when it comes to halting the melting of permafrost, a new study says.To stop the warming, "enormous amounts of carbon dioxide have to be extracted from the atmosphere."Some experts are skeptical of the computer model used in…

AbstractThe high global warming potential of current refrigerants in cooling equipment based on the vapor-compression cycle has triggered a major effort to find and implement more environmentally benign alternatives. Here, we review the basics of the vapor-compression cycle together with the safety, environmental, and thermodynamic constraints that have led to…

Scientists say that, if U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers his plan to cut emissions to net-zero by 2050, the world will once again have a chance of keeping climate change in check The election of Democrat Joe Biden as the next U.S. president puts the world "within striking distance" of…