Category: Earth Science Education
Pollution has its benefits. With fewer particulates being released by smokestacks and cars, there are fewer aerosols in the atmosphere. Fewer aerosols means that more solar radiation hits the ground. With more sunlight hitting the Earth, the Earth warms up–faster than many scientists had initially predicted. Calculations by Jan Magnus, Bertrand Melenberg, and Chris Muris, […]
Our Sun has bursts of activity that occur in an 11 year cycle–some periods of lots of activity and some periods of low activity. The Sun provides the radiation that heats the Earth and makes it habitable for us. So when the Sun is more active, the Earth should get warmer, right? Wrong. New research, […]
Climate scientists are working intently on models that can forecast what Earth’s climate might be like in the future. The evidence points towards a warmer future, thanks to increased greenhouse gas emissions from humans. So why are climate scientists studying the distant past (paleoclimate), long before humans roamed the planet? Well, it turns out that […]