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IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Sandra Upson |
U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 |
Satellite manages sensors with Maxwell computer The single-board computer will manage payload data for NASA's Glory mission, a three-year mission to investigate the composition of greenhouse gases and effect of solar radiation on the Earth's environment. |
AskMen.com |
Global Warming: Still On The Earth is still warming, not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming, according to an analysis of global temperatures by independent statistics experts. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Willie D. Jones |
New Sensor Shows Electric Nature of Dust Devils Electric field sensor could help in climate studies and electronics manufacturing too. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Raytheon Delivers Prototype Missile Warning Sensor Raytheon has built and tested an integrated infrared sensor for the Risk Reduction Alternative Infrared Satellite Systems (RR-AISS) program. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
Scientific American August 2009 David Appell |
Stumbling Over Data: Mistakes Fuel Climate-Warming Skeptics Do minor errors erode public support on climate issues? |
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
NASA Grant To Fund Online Professional Development for Climate Change Education PBS Teacherline has announced it has received a NASA Global Climate Change Education Grant to provide professional development courses and teaching resources to encourage the teaching of climate change topics in conjunction with science, technology, engineering, and math education. |
Geotimes June 2003 Neeta Bijoor |
Land use could also affect climate Scientists have traditionally called attention to heat-trapping greenhouse gases as a reason for climate change, commonly known as global warming. A new study adds to evidence that urbanization and other land-use changes may play a comparable role in climate change. |
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. |
Geotimes August 2003 Megan Sever |
Climate change report reexamined One of the more controversial topics of the Bush administration's revised strategic plan for climate change research is the ongoing debate of how anthropogenic factors factor into global climate change. Discussion at a meeting this week between government scientists and the NAS proved no different. |
Chemistry World February 12, 2010 Ned Stafford |
Belief in climate change plunges Recent polls suggest the public in the UK and US are becoming increasingly sceptical about climate change. |
Chemistry World November 22, 2011 Anthony King |
Nasa turns to the dark side with new material NASA scientists have embraced the dark side, creating the blackest material ever. It absorbs almost all light across multiple wavelengths and promises to open new frontiers in space technology. |
T.H.E. Journal January 6, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
NASA Launches Student Site The National Aeronautics Space Administration has launched a Web site aimed specifically at teenagers that gives them access to current NASA spacecraft data, potentially taking school science projects to a new level. |
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. |
Geotimes March 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Climate Report Points Finger at Fossil Fuels The world is warming, and the burning of fossil fuels is very likely to blame, according to a new report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever |
Humans impact the climate, says AGU The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has adopted a new position statement on climate change that recognizes the increasing alteration of the Earth's climate by human activities. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics October 1, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic. |
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. |
InternetNews July 13, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Discovery Launch to be Aired Online The STS-114 shuttle launch has been postponed, but Yahoo and Akamai have agreed to broadcast the entire 12-day mission live online. |
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick |
To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel. |
Chemistry World December 21, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Nasa show human impact on climate with air pollution maps Following the COP21 climate conference (21 st session of the Conference of Parties) in France, NASA has released a series of global satellite maps showing air pollution trends over the past decade. |
Chemistry World June 2, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Size Matters in Cloud Formation Scientists grappling to understand the effect of man-made aerosols on cloud formation have decided that particle size, rather than chemistry, is the main factor. |
Geotimes August 2007 Lynn Persing |
Down to Earth with... Gavin Smith and Michael Mann In late 2004, fed up with scientific misinformation in movies such as The Day After Tomorrow, climate scientists Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and Michael Mann of Penn State University in University Park created the blog RealClimate.org. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 |
In brief Boeing awarded Laser JDAM contract... Raytheon ships ARTEMIS sensor for on-demand surveillance from space... Air Force awards Lockheed Martin weather systems contract... |
Chemistry World August 24, 2011 Josh Howgego |
Cosmic Rays Get Ahead in CLOUD Organic chemical vapours may have a previously unimagined cooling effect on global climate. |
Geotimes June 2006 Margaret Anne Baker |
NASA Science: The Sick Man of Federal Research A key contributor to the Ottoman Empire's downfall was its leaders' resistance to changes and reform. The NRC report provides broad recommendations that NASA can follow to improve this disparity. Let's hope that the leaders of NASA remember their world history classes. |
Popular Mechanics February 20, 2010 Tyghe Trimble |
Do Climate Scientists Need to Be More Transparent? Scientists at AAAS 2010 talk about the need for better transparency in science, particularly for climate research. Here is what they have to say. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller |
Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation. |
Science News December 20, 2008 |
Letters Readers write in about NASA's weather graphs and how a crater on Mercury got it's name. |
Chemistry World September 2006 |
In the Papers... Pipeline Explosion Kills Seven... Environmental Monitoring Dropped From NASA's Remit... Boost for Thai Science... Blacklisted Company Denies Weapons Charge... |
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. |
Geotimes March 2005 Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids. |
Science News April 11, 2009 Michel Jarraud |
Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real. |
Chemistry World October 21, 2013 Philip Ball |
Chemistry's climate of scepticism It could be important for chemists to consider whether (and if so, why) there is an unusually high proportion of climate-change doubters in their ranks. |
Fast Company December 1, 2006 Chuck Salter |
An Inconvenient Business The Weather Channel's new Web site, One Degree, is a video-laden community devoted to educating visitors about climate change without getting mired in politics. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 |
Electro-Optic Brief Photonics mast, electro-optical sensor suite for attack submarines to come from Kollmorgen... Uncooled infrared focal-plane array top supplier ranking goes to DRS Technologies.... etc. |
Geotimes October 2005 Sara Pratt |
Revisiting the Satellite Record Global warming skeptics have long pointed to satellite data showing cooling in the tropical atmosphere as evidence that either climate models or measurements of surface warming, or both, are unreliable. New research suggests, however, that it is the analysis of the satellite data that was wrong. |
Geotimes July 2006 Megan Sever |
Climate Resolution A resolution on global warming, stating that the House of Representatives recognizes that warming is real and caused by excessive greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, reached the floor of the House, but was blocked from a vote. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics February 6, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Sun Stays Sluggish as Weathermen Fight for Anti-Ice Age Funding With a debate over implications on climate change at stake, solar researchers in Canada have been finding new lows in magnetic field outputs from the sun. |
Chemistry World October 22, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Free legal help for embattled US scientists A pro bono network that will provide legal protection for US scientists in government and academia has been launched by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental group based in Washington, DC. |
Science News November 17, 2007 |
Science Safari: Climate of Debate This site aims to provide a quick response to developing stories on climate science. |
Geotimes May 2007 Jessica F. Larsen |
A Comment on... Volcanoes in a Changing Global Climate It is highly speculative at present to predict how global climate change will transform the science of volcanology. Yet it is important that we begin to anticipate how the impacts of volcanoes will change, as population and precipitation patterns adjust to climate change during the 21st century. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2008 Stoss & Stoss |
Heating Up for Global Warming Research and Policy The critical actions in combating global warming call for individuals, neighborhoods, communities, and geopolitical entities to implement a concept of global warming ICE. |
InternetNews July 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo's Video Mission With NASA Portal will provide 24/7 streaming coverage of Discovery's return to space mission. No ads will be displayed alongside the streaming video. |
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick |
NASA Debates Hubble's Fate Without a replacement telescope in sight, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced in the spring that a robotic mission would be sufficient to service Hubble, but now a group of scientists says that a robotic mission is too costly and uncertain. |
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Virtual Climate Experiment's Results A worldwide global climate experiment that ran on tens of thousands of personal computers across the planet offered the most extreme scenario yet for global warming. |