Scientists call out Pruitt’s false view of climate change
These "alternative facts" go against 150 years of research.
Tag: greenhouse effect
Man-made greenhouse gas is 7,100 times worse than CO2
Chemists at University of Toronto report a new greenhouse gas has been added to the roster - perfluorotributylamine, or PFTBA. Like ...
Greenhouse gases reached record levels in 2011
Greenhouse gas emissions are growing, growing and growing; the level of CO2 emitted by humans grew to 390.9 parts per ...
CO2 levels reach record height – 45% larger than in 1990
Recent figures published in a report prepared by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency ...
Arctic wildfire spews huge amount of carbon into the environment
[caption id="attachment_8261" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire burned more than 1,000 square kilometers of tundra on Alaska's North ...
Aerosols slow down global warming by a third in 2000s
According to a new study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), tiny solid and liquid particles in ...
Chinese coal linked to global warming standstill
[caption id="attachment_7805" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A Chinese flag flies in front of a coal-fired power plant in Tianjin, China. China is ...
Warmer oceans lead to faster glacier melting
[caption id="attachment_7788" align="alignnone" width="453" caption="Masses of ice rise up to 120 feet above the water level near the Southern Shetlands ...
Soot responsible for rapid Arctic melting?
[caption id="attachment_6314" align="alignleft" width="244" caption="An international research team is exploring the Arctic in search of soot. Carbon deposited there as ...
Record High Greenhouse Emission Rates for 2010
A week before the UN Copenhagen climate summit, a disheartening new study conducted by scientists from University of Exeter in ...