Global Warming

  2010 AUG 30 - (VerticalNews.com) -- New investigation results, 'Sensitivities of marine carbon fluxes to ocean change,' are detailed in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. "Throughout Earth's history, the oceans have played a dominant role in the climate system through the storage and transport of heat and the exchange of water and climate-relevant gases with the atmosphere. The ocean's heat capacity is approximately 1,000 times larger than that of the atmosphere, its content of reactive carbon more than 60 times larger," investigators in Kiel, Germany report ...read more

  2010 AUG 23 - (VerticalNews.com) -- Fresh data on science are presented in the report 'Ocean warming slows coral growth in the central Red Sea.' According to recent research from the United States, "Sea surface temperature (SST) across much of the tropics has increased by 0.4 degrees to 1 degrees C since the mid-1970s. A parallel increase in the frequency and extent of coral bleaching and mortality has fueled concern that climate change poses a major threat to the survival of coral reef ecosystems worldwide. ...read more

  2010 AUG 2 - (VerticalNews.com) -- New investigation results, 'Expert judgments about transient climate response to alternative future trajectories of radiative forcing,' are detailed in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. "There is uncertainty about the response of the climate system to future trajectories of radiative forcing. To quantify this uncertainty we conducted face-to-face interviews with 14 leading climate scientists, using formal methods of expert elicitation," scientists in Victoria, Canada report ...read more