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Popular Mechanics November 3, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
How Geoengineering Works: 5 Big Plans to Stop Global Warming Some scientists believe that now is the time to research such proposals so that in 10 or 20 years, should governments fail to act, scientists have them at the ready. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
Popular Mechanics February 2010 Erik Sofge |
How 4 Climate Control Plans Could Crash and Burn The term geo-engineering -- direct technological interventions to reshape the planet -- calls to mind the dark laughter of a science-fiction villain. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 Paul McFedries |
Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet There's plenty of controversy swirling around the idea of climate intervention -- and no shortage of new words |
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Emily Masamitsu |
4 Geoengineering Attack Plans to Fight Climate Change As the war on global warming heats up, some scientists argue that meddling with the environment might be the only way to save it. |
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict. |
Geotimes October 2007 Moran & Backman |
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic. |
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions. |
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 John Carey |
Global Warming Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO2 emissions. Many companies are now preparing for a carbon-constrained world. |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc. |
Wired November 2000 Charles Graeber |
Dumping Iron Ecohacker Michael Markels claims he has a megafix for global warming: Supercharge the growth of ocean plankton with vitamin Fe and let a zillion CO2 scrubbers bloom... |
Geotimes May 2003 Greg Peterson |
A new trigger for Ice Age retreat About 14,600 years ago, a huge pulse of freshwater drained from continental ice sheets into the world's oceans. Now scientists have a new theory for where it came from. |
Reason November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?... |
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever |
Conveyor Belt Shutdown Not Imminent As the climate warms and ice on Greenland melts, freshwater pours into the North Atlantic, which new research suggests is unlikely to cause a shutdown in global ocean circulation. |
Chemistry World July 19, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Ocean fertilization shows carbon sequestration promise New data from iron fertilization experiments in the Southern Ocean support the idea that artificially created algal blooms can draw carbon to the bottom of the ocean, where it may be stored for centuries. |
Popular Mechanics July 1, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
5 Climate Studies That Don't Live Up to Their Hype A leading climate scientist argues that overbroad claims by some researchers -- coupled with overblown reporting in the media -- can undermine the public's understanding of climate issues. |
Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics. |
Geotimes October 2006 |
Geocatastrophes Catastrophe and Opportunity in an Ancient Hot-House Climate... When the Mediterranean Dried Up: Forensics of a Geocatastrophe... The Great Death: Redefining a Mass Extinction... |
Outside July 2007 Amanda Griscom Little |
Brain Storm It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but as the mercury rises, a crop of weather-changing scientists want to try. |
Geotimes September 2004 Jay Chapman |
Hurricanes' Green Thumb As coastal residents are geared up for this year's peak Atlantic hurricane season -- mid-August through October -- scientists are looking at past hurricanes to better understand what happens to the oceans in the wake of these whirlwind events. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
Lead-lined clouds Lead in the atmosphere has a direct effect on how clouds form, according to research by an international team of scientists. |
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever |
A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater. |
Chemistry World January 23, 2013 |
Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community. |
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2013 Daniel Johnson |
Unconsidered chemistry could amplify global warming A link between the world's oceans' pH and climate change that has, until now, passed unnoticed could dramatically speed up global warming by lowering production of a smelly molecule, dimethyl sulfide, important for cloud formation. |
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Is Ocean Circulation Slowing Down? New measurements of temperature and salinity in the North Atlantic indicate that changes are occurring in this segment of the ocean's circulation that could eventually affect Earth's climate. |
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb |
Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sandra Upson |
Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water. |
Wired November 2000 Robert A. Metzger |
Confessions of a CO2 Composter How I learned to love crop residue... |
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
Wired September 22, 2008 Damon Tabor |
Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative. |
Scientific American April 2007 David Biello |
Conservative Climate The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's consensus document may understate the climate change problem. |
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Jim Gorman Diagrams |
Future Shocks Think mother nature has dealt us her worst? Think again. Here are five natural disasters poised to strike the United States, and why they will be like nothing we have ever seen... How to ride out an emergency... |
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever |
From Hot to Cold in the Arctic For the first time, scientists have recovered direct evidence of what life in the Arctic has been like for the past 56 million years. A new 400-meter-long sediment core is revealing that all in the Arctic has not always been as it seems. |
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming. |
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Nina Notman |
Iron helps oceans capture more carbon A team of international scientists studying the role of iron in the storage of carbon under the ocean have confirmed that natural iron fertilisation increases the rate of carbon capture. |
Popular Mechanics August 21, 2008 Emily Gertz |
Desert Storm Watch: Scientists Observe Saharan Dust to Predict the Next Big Hurricane Season A University of Wisconsin researcher and his team have connected the dry, windswept plains of the Sahara to the intensity of the Atlantic hurricane season. |
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Heat Imbalance Portends Problems Results from a new assessment show that Earth is absorbing more energy than it releases into space, with implications for climate change that researchers say point to future warming with consequences for melting ice sheets and sea-level rise. |
Scientific American December 2008 Barbara Juncosa |
Stations in the Seas: Permanent Underwater Observatories Scientists envisage unmanned labs on the floor of the ocean to conduct experiments and monitor climate change |
Geotimes September 2006 Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
Wired December 2004 Erika Check |
Mysteries of the Deep The top 15 places to explore beneath the sea. |
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration. |
Geotimes April 2005 Michael Glantz |
What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished. |
Wired July 2003 Gregg Easterbrook |
We're All Gonna Die! But it won't be from germ warfare, runaway nanobots, or shifting magnetic poles. A skeptical guide to Doomsday. |
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Ancient Ocean Burps A sediment core extracted from the ocean floor off the coast of Baja, Calif., indicates two "burps" of carbon dioxide were once released from a deep, stagnant part of the ocean. |
Fast Company September 2001 Fara Warner |
Where Is the Next Frontier of Innovation? Fast-paced experimentation. Distributed intelligence. Total teamwork. The scientific formula behind the new economy is still disrupting the status quo -- in this case, 20,000 leagues under the sea... |
Geotimes April 2005 Sara Pratt |
Space Dust and Snowball Earth Within the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy are thousands of giant clouds of dust. Some researchers now say that these clouds collide with Earth every 140 million years, possibly explaining the causes of two distinct periods of widespread glaciation in the planet's geologic past. |