…ice sheet dynamics and their relationship with the global climate system.” Explore the relationship between temperature and ice-melting in our activity, “What will Earth’s climate be in the future?“ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110126131538.htm…
…big question, for us humans, is how humans will fare. Explore the role of oceans in Earth’s climate with our activity, “What will Earth’s climate be in the future?” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110109184025.htm…
…roughly the same amount of sea level rise caused by melting glaciers and icecaps outside of Greenland and Antarctica and 25% of the total sea level rise per year! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923142503.htm…
How can you tell what’s in the atmosphere of a planet that’s over one billion miles from Earth? Blog Post
…the measurement from that far away, it’s only a matter of time until we’ll be able to measure atmospheres of planets and moons outside of our solar system! http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20101126/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101128222041.htm…
…detect smaller and smaller motions will enhance the ability of instruments to detect smaller and smaller planets around other stars–perhaps even another “Earth.” Technological innovation is the only limit. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101128220203.htm…
…All they need to do now is find stars that have planets that have at least one moon. “When they’re found, we’ll be ready to weigh them,” said Kipping. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015140801.htm…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/164/ Science is about facts and evidence. There is a lot of evidence that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. You can explore with our models how carbon…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/402/ The permafrost line is shifting. It may be slow by tornado-chasing standards, but it’s shifting. A study earlier this year from Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada…
…on–that’s why it’s called RE-search! Read the ScienceDaily summary of the research at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101006141558.htm. Learn more about solar effects on Earth’s temperature and how climate scientists do research in our…
…user actions to a server specified in a configuration file. Consider becoming part of the community: Clone CODAP from GitHub (github.com/concord-consortium/codap) and make modifications. Submit pull requests so your improvements…