Search Term: climate change

VIEW HEADLINES ONLY
Physics

Are Long-Term Climate Models Trustworthy?
February 5, 2008
...~100,000-year glacial cycles of the late Pleistocene?  How do the subtle changes in insolation relate to the massive changes in climate known as glacial cycles?  And what are proxy climate...
CONTINUE READING
Physics

Can Caves Record Climate History?
January 19, 2006
Many geologists and climatologists have assumed that cave formations, forming slowly over long ages, preserve a record of climate changes.  These assumptions have been challenged by University of Texas researchers...
CONTINUE READING
Dinosaurs

Cretaceous Temperature Estimates Point Out Flaws in Climate Models
December 15, 2004
...the Cretaceous climate predict polar temperatures that are too cold and Equator-to-pole temperature gradients that are too large?  The solution to the problem may lurk in the climate models themselves. ...
CONTINUE READING
Uncategorized

North Pole Enjoyed Balmy Climate
September 8, 2004
In ages past, the North Pole region enjoyed a Mediterranean climate, according to Nature Science Update and the BBC News.  EurekAlert reminds us that ice cores demonstrate that Greenland, too,...
CONTINUE READING
Cell Biology

Botulinum Toxin Deactivated by One Slight Change
May 10, 2004
A researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory mutated a botulinum enzyme by just one amino acid, and abolished its toxicity.  The mutation, a change from a glutamate to a glutamine at...
CONTINUE READING
Bible and Theology

How Climate Influenced the Dead Sea and History
May 3, 2004
...at Masada overlooking the lake. Later, Moslems and Crusaders left marks of their conquests in the region. Did the Dead Sea preserve a record of climactic changes that affected not...
CONTINUE READING
Posts by Date
[archives type="yearly"]