The results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study – a major research initiative conducted to confirm or infirm global warming – finds that the phenomenon is indeed real. The paper shows that average temperatures around the world increased by 1 degree Celsius since the mid-1950s.
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21 October 2011
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One of the most severe effects of global warming, and the climate change it produces, is the thawing of permafrost, the perennial-frozen soils located in Arctic regions. These lands contain vast amounts of greenhouse gases, which could be released in the atmosphere by the end of this century.Calculations show that bi... |
23 August 2011
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According to the latest report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it would seem that the world could get as much as 80 percent of its energy demands from renewable sources by 2050, if steps are taken now.In the landmark study, experts explain that policies to target such ... |
11 May 2011
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According to the results of a recent investigation, it would appear that storms and other weather phenomena associated with global warming are prompting an yearly increase in the amount of water that flows into the Earth's oceans. One of the main reasons why these increases occurs is because storms take place wi... |
5 October 2010
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For the past few decades, researchers studying the planet's atmosphere have been puzzled by the fact that the amount of water vapors in the upper layers of the atmosphere appears to be dropping. This is now considered to be one of the possible culprits for the flattening of the temperatures around the globe over... |
29 January 2010
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A new scientific research that looked at large swaths of the Pacific Ocean has determined that the body of water is becoming increasingly acidic as the years pass. Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Marine Science analyzed water from various locations and depths in the Pacific northeast, ... |
21 January 2010
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Scientists from the United Kingdom's Met Office reveal that global temperatures may hit their highest peaks in recent history in 2010. This event will take place as a direct result of the growing concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Though some still c... |
11 December 2009
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In spite of looking like a giant stretch of ice in the Northern Pacific, Greenland fulfills a number of functions in the region, not the least important of them being the fact that it helps keep the North Pole cool. The way it manages to accomplish that is by being large and white, in the purest of senses. Light comi... |
13 November 2009
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This August, the American space agency made available the first computing hours at its high-end computing system for climate analysis, located at the Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The instrument is the centerpiece of NASA's new climate-simulation capabilities, which will contribute with th... |
25 August 2009
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New scientific models of the way the climate in the United States will evolve over the course of the next four decades show that Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah will be most affected by increasing heat waves, which will boost the average temperatures up by a significant amount. The computer model also reveals ... |
28 May 2009
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The United Nations released a 53-page recommendation report on Wednesday, saying that the world was not yet “standing still” as far as a consensus on climate change was concerned. At last December's summit in the Polish city of Poznan, the divide between the developed and the underdeveloped world wid... |
20 May 2009
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According to researchers at the Florida State University (FSU), sea levels in the New York area, as well as in adjacent regions, could rise twice as fast by 2100 than the global means. In other words, while ocean levels in India, Europe and Japan will also increase, they will do so constantly, while on the Eastern co... |
16 March 2009
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R.K. Pachauri, the chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), urged nations on Friday not to give in to growing pressures coming from industries worldwide, and to maintain the harsh environmental policies they set out to accomplish. The official says that this is a crucial moment, and that comp... |
2 February 2009
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a branch of the United Nations that deals with assessing the effects of global warming on the globe, has estimated that sea levels worldwide will rise by about 30-35 centimeters in the next century, on account of the large quantities of carbon dioxide emitted in... |
10 January 2009
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