Think We’re Headed for a New Ice Age? You’re Wrong
Read some reports of our changing climate today, and you might be convinced that we're about to enter a mini Ice Age, with decades of plummeting temperatures ahead. Here's why that's a lot of hot air.
View ArticleTurns Out Some Glaciers Are Actually Getting Bigger
In one corner of the world, there is more ice today than there was 10 years ago. New satellite data shows that the glaciers in the Karakoram have grown slightly over the last decade, bucking the global...
View ArticleDinosaur Flatulence Caused Jurassic Climate Change
A lot of dinosaurs were big eating machines. Now, scientists have calculated how much gas they would have expelled as a result of their digestion—and the quantities they produced probably meant that...
View ArticleExtreme Weather Linked to Man-Made Climate Change, Claim Scientists
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events has had meteorologists scratching their heads for a long time, unsure whether they could be firmly attributed to man-made climate change or not. Now,...
View ArticleWhy There’s More to Rising Sea Levels Than Melting Ice
Most simple explanations of climate change suggest that rising sea levels are a result of melting ice in the polar regions. While that’s true to an extent, there’s a simple piece of physics behind the...
View ArticleNASA’s Beautiful Climate Picture Makes You Forget Extreme Weather Is Possible
The world is utterly beautiful, especially when seen through the lens of picture of global aerosols — the solid and liquid particles that float around in our atmosphere. You’re familiar with dust, but...
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