Friday, 25 May, 2012

Land use: When it changes, so does the climate! The plow and the thermometer: What relationship?

Farms release airborne, drug-resistant bacteria, and indoor air could be making you sick. More news about the particles we breathe every day.

Evidence from ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica show how fast the climate has changed in the past. In this era of global warming, you can’t count on a slow, gradual, predictable warming.

Tornadoes kill 60 Americans each year. How do we predict tornadoes? How do we make houses safer? Where do tornadoes get their energy?

What was learned on Columbia’s last, tragic mission?

Glaciers are melting in the tropics, in Africa, Asia and South America. Read the mock-Hemingway version of this ongoing tragedy.

The Edmund Fitzgerald went down in 1975 with barely a trace, and no warning call whatsoever. New evidence pins the blame on terrible weather.

New research shows that climate of the entire North Atlantic region cooled abruptly and repeatedly during the Holocene period. Drill hole reveals rapid temperature change during past few thousand years. If climate could change so much back then, what about today?

Global warming, greenhouse effect, rising temperatures and temperature anomalies. Early evidence for the coming storm.

How climatologists know about past and present climates. What role do pollen, ice cores, computer models, archeology and tree rings play in the effort to explore ancient climates?