Science

The study of our environment continues to throw up road-block after road-block, preventing us from ever acquiring a grasp of what may be to come. We know that ice ages and warm periods have come before us – they are evident through geological and ecological study – but we don’t know how they started. Take

Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth did a lot of good for the awareness of environment, but in so doing it also created a few misconceptions. Probably the largest was the link between hurricanes and a warming planet, a link that Gore made clear when he tied Hurricane Katrina to global warming. In reality, climatologists and

A recent paper published in the prestigious Nature journal suggesting that over the next decade we could experience a temporary global temperature drop has naturally seen the climate skeptics announce that they were right all along. Of course, reality – a term long since forgotten to many – would suggest that global warming will still

Greenpeace, always good for stirring up trouble, have released a report entitled False Hope to coincide with the seventh annual Carbon Capture & Sequestration conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The report is said to be “…critically examining the status and promise of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.” Needless to say, Greenpeace aren’t overly happy.

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have finally explained a mystery that fishermen in the California current of the Pacific Ocean have monitored over the past 70 years. Their discovery has resulted in the naming of a new climate pattern, one called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO).

or, Scientist Strike Back. Just the other day I wrote on the most recent edition of GeoJournal, which had only just published an albeit late September edition, with an in depth forum of articles looking at Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth. In it all 6 scientists that took part in the discussion noted that

This is one of those instances where text lets me down (which happens rarely). Somehow you need to hear a deep announcer’s voice, announcing to a captive audience, the following; “Coming to a drought inflicted area near you: Water Wars, 2008!” My lame humor aside, water wars is exactly what some areas across our planet

Kerry Emanuel is an American professor of meteorology currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, and in 2006 was named one of Time’s 100 Influential People of that year. Much of his fame has come from being among the first to link global warming to an apparent increase in hurricane intensity. Just

Yesterday we saw that past Nobel chemistry winner Mario J. Molina come out and publically warn against the dangers of climate change. Today, NASA’s top climate scientist has come out to warn the same thing. You’d think there was something wrong. “We’ve already reached the dangerous level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” James Hansen,

An Inconvenient Truth has provided us with modern day scientists who are only known for agreeing or disagreeing with the movie. It is how many of the scientists involved in the current environmental science war have made their names. Often we forget that science has created names before there was the environmental furor there is