Category Archives: climate change

A Polar Winter!!

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

One thing you can say about the winter of 2010-’11, for what it’s worth: the Arctic doesn’t seem so remote anymore. You don’t have to be a meteorologist to get the feeling that the polar atmosphere has sprung a leak … Continue reading →

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Motions of the Ocean

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Water swirls around ocean basins in surface ocean currents. The Gulf Stream is a surface current that runs between the United States and Europe in the North Atlantic Ocean. Smaller spinning rings of water called eddies can form from surface … Continue reading →

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According to U.N. Estimates Cost of natural disasters $109 billion in 2010-Cities were More Vulnerable

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Natural disasters caused $109 billion in economic damage last year, three times more than in 2009, with Chile and China bearing most of the cost, the United Nations said Monday. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile in February cost $30 … Continue reading →

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Accurate Measurements of Energy from Sun and Understanding of Climate Change

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Scientists have taken a major step toward accurately determining the amount of energy that the sun provides to Earth, and how variations in that energy may contribute to climate change.In a new study of laboratory and satellite data, researchers report … Continue reading →

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