Category Archives: climate science

Geological mayhem and destruction in 2012: not the end of the world, just business as usual

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Chris Rowan

We don’t live on a boring planet. 2012 will be plagued by natural disasters, but so is every other year. Continue reading →

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Categories: antiscience, climate science, earthquakes, geohazards, palaeomagic, public science, volcanoes

Bacteria in the sky, making it rain, snow, and hail

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Even though we all think of the freezing point of water as 0 °C, very pure water remains a liquid until about -40 °C. Water crystallizes to ice in the presence of tiny nucleation particles in the atmosphere. These particles … Continue reading →

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Categories: by Anne, climate science, hydrology, paper reviews

The scientist-journalist divide: what can we learn from each other?

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Last week, the journal Nature published two research papers on the effects of human-caused global warming on extreme precipitation events. I’m working on a post on the papers, and they’ve already received quite a bit of attention in the media. … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, climate science, public science, ranting

Pakistan floods: Predictable or predicted, but a disaster nonetheless

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Unusually heavy monsoon rains in July and August 2010 left large swaths of Pakistan underwater. At least 18 million people were affected by the flood, and it is estimated that, more than six months later, several hundred thousand remain without … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, climate science, geohazards, hydrology, paper reviews, society

Heat in the Southeast

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

Taking stock Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, climate science

Anne’s picks of the June literature: Humans as Agents of Hydrologic Change

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

How large reservoirs affect our measurements of global sea level rise…and how the world’s biggest river basins are going to respond to mid-century climate change Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, climate science, hydrology, paper reviews

Oman’s view of the Snowball Earth

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Evidence from my field area of extreme climatic fluctuations 700 million years ago – but does it support the notion that the whole planet froze over?
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Categories: climate science, deep time, fieldwork, geology, outcrops, palaeomagic, past worlds, Proterozoic

Carbon capture and storage: where should it go?

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

If we’re going to sequester carbon, is it better to do it under land or under the ocean? A grad student examines the pros and cons of each, in this guest blog post.
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Categories: climate science, hydrology

Coal and the fossil record of climate change in the Canadian High Arctic

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

Spectacular fossilized forests in the Canadian High Arctic provide clues to life on a warmer earth. Unless we mine their coal in order to heat our planet back to the Eocene.
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