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UCI science programs get top ranking

Written on September 30, 2010.

Pat Brennan, science, environment editor, the Orange County Register UC Irvine gained top rankings this week for several of its doctoral programs, including Earth System Science, home of the university’s climate researchers. The rankings, from the National Research Council, place UCI’s School of Physical Sciences among the nation’s best. That included all four of its programs, chemistry, mathematics and physics & astronomy as well as Earth System Science. “That was...

Scientist: Huge Greenland iceberg a sign of warming

Written on August 13, 2010.

Pat Brennan, The Orange County Register When a massive ice island broke off Greenland last week, it looked quite familiar to UC Irvine climate researcher Eric Rignot. Rignot, who has attracted global attention for research showing rapid melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica in response to global warming, was heading to Greenland from Europe this week for more climate research. Rignot, also a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, will be taking...

June Gloom Stretches into Gray Sky July

Written on August 4, 2010.

Kirsten Amavisca, Chris Bashaw and Sarah Guidas, San Clemente Times It’s a tongue-in-cheek phrase that communicates the irony of what outsiders think Southern California is like, contrasted to what locals know to be reality. With overcast skies and record-breaking average temperatures dipping lower than normal, weather officials have since confirmed last July as being one of Southern California’s coldest in decades, if not a century. But although the rhyme describes the ironic weather of...

Hottest decade, warming ‘unmistakable’

Written on July 28, 2010.

Pat Brennan, science, environment editor, The Orange County Register The past decade is the warmest ever recorded, and the powerful signals of global warming — from sea ice to glaciers, temperatures to sea level — are “unmistakable,” according to a new report from the nation’s climate agency. The 2009 State of the Climate report, released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, says measurements of 10 different indicators shows the planet has...

Last month? Hottest June on record

Written on July 15, 2010.

Pat Brennan, The Orange County Register Last month was the hottest June ever recorded when land and sea surface temperatures are combined, a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows. It was also the warmest on record when temperatures from April to June and January to June are averaged, the agency says. And it’s the second warmest, after 2007, when January to June temperatures are averaged. The average land and sea surface temperature combined for...

Climate change: smart strategies

Written on May 11, 2010.

Inundated with conflicting advice on how to reduce your carbon footprint? Diane Pataki, associate professor of Earth system science, will clear up the confusion. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications People are inundated with advice on how to reduce their carbon footprints. With many ideas, some of them contradictory, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. Which measures are scientifically sound and most effective? How much leverage do people really have to reduce global warming...

Warmer ocean speeding Greenland glacier melt

Written on February 17, 2010.

Glaciers in West Greenland are melting 100 times more rapidly at their end points beneath the ocean than they are at their surfaces, according to a UC Irvine/NASA study. Alan Buis, NASA\’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Glaciers in West Greenland are melting 100 times more rapidly at their end points beneath the ocean than they are at their surfaces, according to a UC Irvine/NASA study published online this week in Nature Geoscience. The study results suggest this undersea melting caused...

Climate change: global problem, local response

Written on October 7, 2009.

UCI’s Diane Pataki discusses strategies for dealing with climate change in Southern California. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications Over the last two centuries, people have mined and burned fossil fuels, cleared forests, and developed agriculture and industry. The consequence: rapid atmospheric pollution that is driving climate change. Diane Pataki, Earth system science and ecology & evolutionary biology associate professor at UC Irvine, discusses climate change,...

Raising water awareness

Written on September 29, 2009.

More than 1 billion people worldwide have unreliable access to clean water. To raise awareness of this and other water issues, UC Irvine is hosting a two-day public event featuring free movies and a panel discussion with local water experts. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications More than 1 billion people worldwide have unreliable access to clean water. To raise awareness of this and other water issues, UC Irvine is hosting a two-day public event featuring free movies and a panel...

Balancing the planet

Written on March 1, 2009.

Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications Last spring, UC Irvine launched a new institute that will bring together scientists to identify new research needed for an improved understanding of society’s response to a changing climate and for environmental science to better respond to societal needs. Topics to be tackled by the UC Irvine Environment Institute: Global Change, Energy and Sustainable Resources could include how climate change will alter public health and welfare; whether...

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