Peter Ward: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps
Brown Bag Lecture Series; Center for Student Engagement & Leadership; and Arts, Culture, and Civic Engagement.
James Zachos: Ocean Acidification in Earth’s Past: Insights to the Future
Presented by James Zachos, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz, at the 2013 Metcalf Institute Annual Public Lecture Series, June 13, 2013.
Colorado frack-site flooding (September 2013)
Historic flooding across large portions of Central and Eastern Colorado has caused an unprecedented amount of damage.
Historic Flooding Colorado September 2013
Colorado flooding forces thousands more evacuations "Biblical" rains trigger flooding that kills 3 in Colo. Live coverage of Colorado flooding from KUSA-TV Residents of an apartment building work to divert floodwater from their homes in Boulder, Colo.. Flash flooding in Colorado has cut off access to towns, closed the [...]
ESA Cryosat Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness (1979-2013)
Difference in the area, volume and depth of the average September Arctic sea ice between 1979, shown in blue, and 2013, shown in orange.
Global warming could change strength of El Nino
Global warming could impact the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), altering the cycles of El Niño and La Niña events.
Life found in the sediments of an Antarctic subglacial lake for the first time
This is the first instrument ever to explore a subglacial lake outside of a borehole.
Meet the NASA computer used for most climate simulations
The system architecture is made up of multiple scalable units.
A shift in priorities for the biggest single climate action blocker?
Koch Industries, the holding firm for David Koch and his brother, will buy Molex, which sells interconnection systems to automakers, mobile-phone companies and military customers. That includes Apple, which uses some Molex connectors for the iPhone 5, the top-selling smartphone. Source Billionaire Koch brothers latest bet: Spending US$7.2 [...]