Apr 03 2010
The fact that Maldives will meet its watery grave in about a century is not surprising, considering that the highest point on this island nation is just 2.4 meters or 7.8 feet above sea level. More importantly, its average height is just 1.5 meters above sea level, which means that a rise of just [...]
Mar 27 2010
The arguments put forth by global warming skeptics revolve around two aspects - unreliability of the data and previous climate changes. They argue that most of the data which suggests that the planet is threatened by global warming is based on mere assumptions. The only reliable source of data is the satellites based in [...]
Mar 27 2010
According to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) , the decade January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest on record. 2005 was the warmest year, while 2009 came in second in a tie with four more years (2002, 2003, 2006 & 2007) in the same decade. However, in 2009 the Southern Hemisphere [...]
Feb 01 2010
Climate change refers to a long-term change in the average weather patterns over a specific region, over a significant period of time. The abnormal variations cause subsequent effects on the Earth’s atmosphere and significant regions like the polar ice caps and the natural habitat of different life forms. The various causes of climate change [...]
