Posts Tagged ‘Climate’


Beyond Carbon - Scientists Worry About Nitrogen’s Effects on Planet

by The Green A-Team

Full NY Time article here.

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If you have followed the environmental new trend from the very beginning, it is quite obvious what the public enemy number one is: Carbon. But there is something else stinking up our atmosphere; Nitrogen.

Nitrogen has long been ignored in the environmental protection agenda; so much so that it was not even mentioned in the famous Kyoto Protocol. But while it lagged behind Carbon in publicity, it has been festering in the Earth inside fertilizers that are often overused by the agriculture industry. As a result, an even more toxic nitrogen trifluoride has escaped into our atmosphere without warrant. It is not to say that Carbon has become on  non-issue. Instead, more attention should be raised towards the silent beast that is Nitrogen before it reigns supreme with Carbon in an ever smoggy world.

Photo by Kasi Metcalfe.

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A Laser Focus on Greenhouse Gas:
Debate Destroying Data Emerges

by The Green A-Team

The door has slammed shut and the debate is over.  Climate change by human hands is real.

According to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, industrial activity has irrefutably elevated global greenhouse gasses, reduced snowfall, increased temperature, and raised ocean levels higher than ever.

While stubborn skeptics, like big oil, are still claiming inefficiencies in the study, many have converted.

Troy Ribaudo, of the University of Massachusetts, has been researching the effects of the newest laser detection devices further supporting these climate conclusions.

At the forefront of science there is little question that these findings are indeed the final nail in the coffin regarding mankind’s impact on the environment.

For the full interview with Physicist, Troy Ribaudo, click here.

For daily updates on the climate crisis, check out the following links:

Climate Progress - An Insider’s View of Climate Science, Politics, and Solutions

Real Climate - Clmate Science from Climate Scientists

Desmog Blog - We’re here to clear the PR pollution that clouds the climate debate.

Photo by the Tyndall National Institute.

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Climate Debate: Quantum Cascade Lasers Give Rise to New Data

by Rich Awn

In light of the recent report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), skeptical attacks on the science from as far back as the 1970s continue to mire the advancement of the still nonexistent policies to control anthropogenic emissions.

The IPCC report gives little information on the methodologies used to collect their seemingly unequivocal data.  Fellow alumnist, PhD candidate, and friend, Troy Ribaudo of UMASS Lowell, was generous enough to lend his time to speak exclusively with Green Air on the science of cutting edge climate technology.  He sheds light on the traditional methods of climate gas concentration detection and how the invention of the quantum cascade laser is calcifying the IPCC’s findings with a degree of irrefutable accuracy.

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Rain, Rain: Beijing Pollution Washes Away

by The Green A-Team

Full AP article here.

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With wacky weather the world over, it seems the Games might have finally caught it’s breath from some recent downpours.  The heavy rains have cleansed the smog and brightened up the skies over Beijing but is this reason to rejoice?

Global precipitation patterns have been changing as a result of rising atmospheric temperatures and many areas have received increased amounts of rain and snow over the course of this past year while some have received less.

Global warming
increases the intensity of precipitation in two key ways:

1.) By increasing the temperature of the land and the oceans, global warming causes water to evaporate faster.

2.) By increasing air temperature, global warming enables the atmosphere to hold more water vapor.

These factors combine to make clouds richer with moisture, making heavy downpours or snowstorms more likely.  With periods of heavy rains, it’s believed that these will punctuate longer periods of relative dryness, increasing the risk of drought.

It appears while the Games might have gotten their lucky weather break, the larger climate problem lingers all the more ominously overhead.

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