News Release Archives
2015
Feberuary 10, 2015
Climate intervention techniques are not ready for wide-scale deployment
There is no substitute for dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the negative consequences of climate change, a National Research Council committee including CIRES director Waleed Abdalati concluded in a two-volume evaluation of proposed climate-intervention ("geoengineering") techniques. Read More ...
Feberuary 4, 2015
Charting Colorado’s Vulnerability to Climate Change
Sea-level rise may not be not eating away at Colorado’s borders, but climate change exposes other critical vulnerabilities in the state, according to a new report. Rising temperatures will likely take a toll on cattle and crops, for example, and could more often leave junior water rights holders with little water and few options. Read More ...
January 30, 2015
WINTER 2015: Investigating eastern US air pollution in wintertime
We tend to think of summer as prime time for pollution—picture the haze that hangs over big cities on hot, steamy days. That's when increased sunlight and temperatures speed up chemical reactions that transform pollutants in the air into other "secondary" pollutants, including ozone, particulate matter, and others. Read More ...
January 28, 2015
Erratic as normal - Arctic sea ice loss expected to be bumpy in the short term
Arctic sea ice extent plunged precipitously from 2001 to 2007, then barely budged between 2007 and 2013. Even in a warming world, researchers should expect such unusual periods of no change—and rapid change—at the world's northern reaches, according to a new paper. Read More ...
January 14, 2015
Forecasting and explaining bad air days in Utah’s oil and gas fields
To accurately forecast wintertime bad air days in Utah’s Uintah Basin, researchers must use real atmospheric measurements to estimate chemical emissions from nearby oil and natural gas fields, a new study in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics has found. Read More ...
