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Records near impossible without manmade climate change
Posted in Featured, Science on 26th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
New calculations shows there is just a 0.01% chance that recent run of global heat records could have happened due to natural climate variations.
We narrowly missed a new ice age, and now we wont see one for a very long time
Posted in Science on 13th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
An ice age is not going to happen any time soon. Our current breakneck emissions of greenhouse gases have ensured that.
2015 Unambiguously the Hottest Year on Record
Posted in Science on 13th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
The international community has set a goal of limiting warming to no more than 2 C above pre-industrial levels; the Earth is now approximately half way to that limit.
Giant icebergs play 'major role' in ocean carbon cycle
Posted in Science on 12th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
Giant icebergs could be responsible for the processes that absorb up to 20% of the carbon in the Southern Ocean's carbon cycle, a study suggests.
US wild bee numbers decline as land is converted for biofuel
Posted in Featured, Science on 22nd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
The researchers say that the conversion of land to grow corn for biofuels is a key element in the decline.