Greenland

What Will Happen if Arctic Sea Ice Loss Continues?

February 8, 2021

Climate change has been and will remain a key topic of discussion and concern for many people. For scientists, sustained study of Arctic sea...

Geology & Earth

by Hugh Ross Read

Discovery Challenges Cause of Earth’s Climate Stability

October 19, 2020

Climate change discussions can range from casual to serious, from dismissive to alarmist. But how many people talk about Earth’s current period of extreme...

Geology & Earth

by Hugh Ross Read

Mantle Bottom Pancakes Benefit Surface Life

September 28, 2020

The biggest island in the United States also is the fastest growing. Thanks to a steadily rising hot plume from the lower mantle, Hawaii...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Why the Moon Lost Its Magnetism and Earth Did Not

January 27, 2020

As human bodies age, thermodynamics, gravity, and electromagnetism take their toll. And what is true for human beings is also true for planets and...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Did a Giant Collider Help Give Us Extreme Climate Stability?

December 17, 2018

Floods and fires raged and boulders rained from the sky. Such a sci-fi-like scenario in Earth’s relatively recent past gave us, in part, the...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

How Did Earth Get Its Long-Standing Stable Climate?

December 10, 2018

In last week’s blog1 I described how a careful reconstruction of temperature proxies at sites all over the world revealed that the climate stability...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read