Pulse of the Planet

Global Warming: What Happens When You Factor Out the Other Factors

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Richard Muller, Glaciers, Refudiator, Climate, Temperatures, Solar Activity, Climate Skeptics, El Nino, El Nino-Southern Oscillation, Pulse of the Planet, Temperature Records, Sea Ice, La Nina, Arctic, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Cooling, Volcanoes, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) Project, Green News
Bill Chameides

2011-12-14-Screenshot20111214at6.04.10PM.jpg Has the warming trend slowed in the 2000s? Yes and no.

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Where Has All The Water Gone?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Africa, Water Cycle, Pakistan, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Agriculture, Groundwater, China, Pulse of the Planet, Hydrologic Cycle, California, Water Usage, Middle East, Water, Climate Change, Antarctic, India, Oceans, Greenland, Greenland Ice Sheet, Ice Sheets, Ogallala Aquifer, Sea Level Rise, Global Warming, Green News
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Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.Mankind is moving buckets and buckets of water from land to the ocean.Sometimes science moves slowly and sometimes ...

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Pulse of the Planet: Microbes Share the Load

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kin Selection, Antibiotic Resistance, Microbes, Research, Norfloxacin, Antibiotics, Science, Indole, Bacteria, Pulse of the Planet, Green News
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If we keep using the same antibiotic, the bugs become resistant to it and start causing havoc. The pharmaceutical folks have to head back to the lab to find a new killer antibiotic and the whole thing starts over again.

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Pulse of the Planet: Is It a Good Microbe or a Bad Microbe?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon, Pesticides, Methanotrophs, Microbes, Biomass, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gases, Permafrost, Bacteria, Pulse of the Planet, Peatlands, Global Warming, Methane, Green News
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Could it be that we've been looking in the wrong places to solve our problems? Could it be that all our worries would be over if we only had some more microbes?

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Too Darn Hot: Climate Change, Heat Stress, Human Life

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Body Temperature, Sweat, Hyperthermia, Heat Waves, Research, Climate, Temperatures, Health, Climate Change, Science, Wet-Bulb Temperature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Pulse of the Planet, Adaptation, Global Warming, Heat Stress, Green News
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According to the authors of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences there is a definite possibility that global warming could raise temperatures enough to be fatal to humans.

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