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Shale Oil and Crude Oil Production Generate Similar Levels of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory this week released a pair of studies on the efficiency of shale oil production excavation. The reports show that shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to traditional crude oil production.

19 Oct 2015

Potential ‘Tipping Points’ Where Abrupt Regional Climate Shifts Could Occur

An international team of scientists have identified potential ‘tipping points’ where abrupt regional climate shifts could occur due to global warming,

19 Oct 2015

Subsurface Ocean Warming Could be Causing More Release of Frozen Methane

Warming ocean temperatures a third of a mile below the surface, in a dark ocean in areas with little marine life, might attract scant attention. But this is precisely the depth where frozen pockets of methane 'ice' transition from a dormant solid to a powerful greenhouse gas.

16 Oct 2015

IPCC Projections About Future Warming are ‘Wildly Over Optimistic,’ says Climate Expert

As a new chairman is appointed to the Intergovernmental Panel on climate Change (IPCC) a University of Manchester climate expert has said headline projections from the organisation about future warming are ‘wildly over optimistic.’

14 Oct 2015

Experts to Urge Political Leaders to Address Threat of Thawing Permafrost in the Arctic

Three leading Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) experts on the threats of climate change in the Arctic will urge France's President Hollande and other political leaders to address the threat posed by thawing permafrost in the Arctic at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 15.

14 Oct 2015

“Bridge” Fuel May Not Have Been Accounted for While Measuring Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Emissions

While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests there has been a decline in measurable atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use in the U.S. for the past seven years, a Cornell scientist says the EPA’s computation may be in error – by a wide margin – due to problematic accounting for natural gas, the so-called “bridge” fuel.

13 Oct 2015

Amazon Would Confront More Hydrological Extremes, Concludes Study

A new paper co-authored by WHRC scientists Philip Duffy and Paulo Brando evaluates the accuracy of current climate models and uses them to project future drought and wet periods in the Amazon. They conclude that the whole of the Amazon will confront more hydrological extremes, and that most of the region will experience much more frequent and extensive drought. These changes would have profound implications for forest structure, composition, biomass, and carbon emissions.

13 Oct 2015

New Research Suggests Horn of Africa Will Become Even Drier

The Horn of Africa has become increasingly arid in sync with the global and regional warming of the last century and at a rate unprecedented in the last 2,000 years, according to new research led by a University of Arizona geoscientist.

12 Oct 2015

Understanding Carbon Cycles Adds Value to Knowledge Base of Climate Change

Making predictions about climate variability often means looking to the past to find trends. Now paleoclimate researchers from the University of Missouri have found clues in exposed bedrock alongside an Alabama highway that could help forecast climate variability. In their study, the researchers verified evidence suggesting carbon dioxide decreased significantly at the end of the Ordovician Period, 450 million years ago, preceding an ice age and eventual mass extinction. These results will help climatologists better predict future environmental changes

12 Oct 2015