40 year Aussie rain cycles found, according University of Newcastle News and Australasian Journal of Water Resources doi: 10.1080/13241583.2018.1446677, 18 March 2018. Researchers at the University of Newcastle, Australia, Anthony Kiem and Greg McMahon, have carried out a survey historical flood date from 10 catchment areas in South East Queensland. Their work extended a study […]
Shifting winds release ocean carbon dioxide, according to a report in ScienceDaily, 13 March 2009. Many scientists believe the dramatic climate shift involved in ending the last ice age, usually dated as being around 17,000 years ago, occurred due a change in the earth’s orbit. Ice core records show an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide […]
Obama’s “carbon pollutics” described in a White House press release 25 June 2013. After citing a list of recent natural disasters and claiming “the 12 warmest years in recorded history have all come in the last 15 years”, President Obama has announced “a plan to cut carbon pollution; a plan to protect our country from […]
Little room for CO2 in climate change, according to CNSNews.com 24 July and Baylor University news 27 July 2009. Chris de Freitas of Auckland University, NZ, along with Australians John McLean and Bob Carter, have studied records of lower atmospheric temperatures from 1958 to 2008 and found a strong correlation with natural phenomena including “internal […]
Is CO2 warming the earth? In an article entitled “Climate facts to warm to”; The Australian, 22 March 2008, Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, a PhD Botanist and senior fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs stated; “there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point […]
High oxygen atmosphere no fire risk, according to an article in New Scientist, 1 May 2004, p18. A controversy over the oxygen content on the earth’s atmosphere in the past may have been solved by Richard Wildman of the California Institute of Technology. Some scientists have suggested that earth’s atmosphere once had more oxygen during […]
Warmer tundra increases CO2, report scientists in articles in Harvard University SEAS News 8 May 2017 and PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.161856, Published online 8 May 2017. A group of scientists from School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University, NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have measured the amount of carbon […]
High CO2 plants bigger and better, according to reports in ScienceDaily 24 August 2016 and Global Change Biology, 2016; doi: 10.1111/gcb.13322. Experiments involving growing plants in artificially increased levels of carbon dioxide have indicated that plants grow faster with more CO2 in the short term. In order to study the long term effects of higher […]