the data to reflect more current years. This activity is very straight-forward; students plot CO2 concentration data provided from the two locations, compare variations/patterns from month to month a ...

Over a long enough period of time, a new balance of CO2 will be established between the atmosphere, the land biosphere, and the ocean. Read more at the link below. ...

50 years-conditions that are consistent with higher temperatures and more water vapor in the atmosphere. This, in turn, is consistent with the observed increase in greenhouse gases. Thus, evidence com ...

Published : . January 2010. The Alaska Climate Change Sub-Cabinet was established on September 14, 2007, to advise the state's governor on creating a comprehensive Alaska Climate Cha ...

a boom in the mosquito population when the virus was circulating in the local bird populations. In general, the optimal temperature for West Nile virus transmission from mosquitoes to humans is 73.4-7 ...

when sea ice in the region is small, more (relatively warm) Arctic water is exposed to the atmosphere, which means much warmer air temperatures in the region, all else being equal. It's not just Novem ...

March 2003. This booklet describes how natural processes affect the coast, including changes in lake levels, storms and storm surges, waves and wave climate, transport of sediment, ice on the shore, s ...

winds (or intensity) of tropical storms and hurricanes under recent conditions as simulated in their computer model. The red line represents how that distribution of wind speeds changes by the year 21 ...

7 decades, however, carbon dioxide climbed nearly 100 ppm—5 times as fast! To put those changes in some historical context, the amount of rise in carbon dioxide levels since the late 1950s would natur ...

and land areas to the west and north were dry, typical of La Niña conditions, with a heat wave in northwest India and Pakistan early in the month, drier than normal conditions across the Arabian Penin ...