Category Archives: climate science

Talking ANDRILL

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Chris Rowan

The Antarctic Geological Drilling Project – ANDRILL – is an ambitious program of drilling down to the sediments deposited around Antarctica in the past few tens of millions of years, to unravel the history of the Antarctic ice sheets: how … Continue reading →

Categories: Cenozoic, climate science, past worlds

Earthly and Unearthly Beauty

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Chris Rowan

NASA unveiled a couple of rather beautiful things at AGU last week – and despite actually being at the conference, I haven’t really had the time to sit back and appreciate them until now. The first was the ‘Black Marble’, … Continue reading →

Categories: climate science, geology, geophysics, photos, planets

Air conditioning as a positive climate feedback?

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Could our need to cool ourselves increase our need to cool ourselves? Continue reading →

Categories: climate science, environment, society

What do you mean, the Gulf Stream doesn’t keep Europe warmer than North America? How even scientists are afflicted by urban myths

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Chris Rowan

In science, you discover that you’re wrong at least as often as you’re proven right – and the things that you end up being wrong about can be quite surprising. Prior to last week, if asked I would have confidently … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, climate science