Archive for October, 2009

 

Global Surface Temperature Second Warmest

October 19th, 2009

The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest September on record, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Based on records going back to 1880, the monthly National Climatic Data Center analysis is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides.
NCDC scientists also reported that the average [...]

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Ancient Rainforest Resilient To Climate Change

October 2nd, 2009

Scientists revealed that climate change brought mayhem on the Earth’s first rainforests but they quickly got well. The findings of the research team led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal Holloway, University of London, are based on spectacular discoveries of a 300-million-year-old rainforests in coal mines in Illinois, USA.
Preserved over vast areas, these fossilized [...]

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