The business lobby, hoping to fend off potentially sweeping emission limits, wants the US EPA to hold a ‘Scopes’-like hearing on the evidence that climate change is man-made. Read more here.
Archive | August 25, 2009
Understanding Ice Sheets and Collapse
“FOR a glacier to maintain its present size it must have precipitation as snowfall at its source. This leads to a slightly complex relationship with temperature. If the regional climate becomes too dry, there will be no precipitation, so the glacier will diminish. This could happen if the region became cold enough to reduce evaporation […]
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.