Climate & Climate Change

More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll released to coincide with the local elections. The survey also reveals that most … [Read more...] about Over 70 per cent of UK Voters Reject ‘Green’ Taxes

Writing in Science, Met Office researchers project that at least half of the years between 2009 and 2014 are likely to exceed existing records. However, the Hadley Centre researchers said that the influence of natural climatic variations were likely … [Read more...] about 3 Recent Climate Predictions Reported by the BBC

Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said. Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in … [Read more...] about Global Warming Takes a Break, Naturally

PASADENA, Calif. – Boosted by the influence of a larger climate event in the Pacific, one of the strongest La Niñas in many years is slowly weakening but continues to blanket the Pacific Ocean near the equator, as shown by new sea-level height data … [Read more...] about NASA JPL: Larger Pacific Climate Event Helps Current La Nina Linger

”We compare new observationally-based data sets of Antarctic near-surface air temperature and snowfall accumulation with 20th century simulations from global climate models (GCMs) that support the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth … [Read more...] about Antarctic Snowfall and Temperature Trends in Global Climate Models

Using evidence from an Antarctic ice core, Zebee and Caldiera calculated that over a period of 610,000 years the long-term change in atmospheric CO2 concentration was just 22 parts per million volume (ppmv), although there were larger fluctuations … [Read more...] about Earth’s CO2 Balance