NASA GISS leading dataset shows 2010 temperature record

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

With all 2010 data collected and analysed, research groups are bombarding reports about climate record breaking year 2010.

WMO confirms 2010 hottest year

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

2010 was 0.01 degrees Celsius hotter than the number two hottest year 2005 and 0.02 degrees Celsius hotter than the third hottest year, 1998. Having combined the datasets of Met Office’s Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit (HadCRU), NOAA’s National Climatic Data … Continue reading →

Snowball Earth was partly sleet

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Stefan Engels

Sedimentary structures encountered in South Australian rocks indicate that parts of the sea in which they were formed were open, and therefore unfrozen, during at least part of the Cryogenian, or ‘Snowball Earth’.

Science celebrates corresponding measurements

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

We’re 10 days late for SI’s anniversary. Let’s call that a small margin on 50 years – although this little bit of science news is all about being precise.

NASA: temperature is all about CO2

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Two new studies by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies help improve basic quantitative understanding of the Earth’s greenhouse system. The one, ‘CO2: The Thermostat that Controls Earth’s Temperature’, is a Goddard climate model based study (lead-author Andrew Lacis) to … Continue reading →

What is biodiversity?

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

The United Nations have declared the year 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. This Monday a big biodiversity conference starts in Nagoya, Japan, in order for countries to define and agree upon a combined strategy to slow the decline. … Continue reading →

One less planet, need 3 more

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Confusing planetary news today. We recently reported on the discovery of Gliese 581g, an Earthlike planet, 20.5 light-years away, in the Constellation of Libra. It was claimed by two US astronomers. Now colleague astronomers from a Swiss observatory say they … Continue reading →

Common type of planet finally found

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Goldilocks number 2 has been found: Gliese 581g. The planet is some 20.5 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Libra – unsurprisingly a sign that is presently visible in the Zodiac, so if you live somewhere on the … Continue reading →

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