Mar 08 2010

Climate Myths and Questions, Part I

This week, Discovery Earth is focusing on the science of climate change. To that end, to help clarify some of the misunderstandings and misrepresentations of a number of climate change issues, we will be looking at a selection of the ...

Feb 17 2010

The Foggiest Idea

When Mark Twain said that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco, he was talking about the fog and the strong afternoon winds that are set in motion by rising pressure differences between California's hot, ...

Feb 17 2010

What Strange Snowstorms Say About Global Warming

Tag: Climate Change, Global Warming, Green ScienceMichael Reilly @ 1:48 am
Opposite sides of North America have been experiencing some unusual weather the last few weeks, with multiple snowstorms pummeling the eastern United States, and snow noticeably lacking at the Olympics in Vancouver. Massive piles of snow in and around Washington, ...

Feb 08 2010

Friday News Feedbag for February 5, 2010!

If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on iTunes and chat ...

Feb 05 2010

Warm Up, Pay Up

Tag: Climate Change, Global Warming, Green Science, Oceanography, WaterMichael Reilly @ 7:12 pm
Submitted by guest blogger Debbie Salamone of the Pew Campaign to End Overfishing in the Southeast. Polar bears won’t be the only ones paying the price as the Arctic melts. The economic impact of losing the Arctic’s climate-cooling services could ...