Water stores a lot more energy than air does. So when energy stored in the oceans is released back into the atmosphere, the results are dramatic.
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Climate Science for Everyone: heavy snows are expected in a warming world
Water vapor increases as temperature does, even when the temperature is below freezing. This simple fact is why heavier snowfalls are expected in a warming world.
Climate Science for Everyone: Carbon dioxide increases in the air are mostly from burning coal, oil, and natural gas
Carbon dioxide has been increasing in the atmosphere for a long time now. Scientists have thoroughly examined all the possible sources – the ocean, land plants, and fossil fuels – and concluded that the increase is the result of burning coal, oil, and natural gas.
Climate Science for Everyone: How scientists measure the carbon dioxide in 800,000 year old air
Scientists can directly measure air that has been sealed in an icy time capsule for 800,000 years. Climate Science for Everyone describes how this works.
Climate Science for Everyone: Why 3% annually is actually a lot of carbon dioxide
In this installment of Climate Science for Everyone – people are adding a lot of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. But how much is “a lot,” really?
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- Magic Hat vs. West Sixth brewhaha: will MH win the battle that costs them the war?
- WordsDay: Postmodernist Xerism at it most discontentedly hopeful…
- How to stop journalists: Say they might be criminals
- Denver FOX News affiliate caught making shit up
- IRS/Tea Party controversy: progressive groups “targeted,” too, and corporate media once again refuses to tell Americans the whole truth
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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Rho: Just out of curiosity for the rest of us, where do…
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Brian Angliss: No, I'm not claiming that I know the authors' pape…
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populartechnology: Are you claiming to know more about the paper than…
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Samuel Smith: So, the IRS admits what it did re: those TP groups…
