The majority of scientists agree that global warming is real. It is bad for the earth, at least for the existing species on earth, because changes are happening too quickly for adaptation. Increased carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in…
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There are a number of weather phenomena that cause damage from a major thunderstorm. Wind, rain and lightning are associated with almost any storm. The most damage, however, usually comes from hail and tornadoes in the strongest storms. Since hail…
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The history of the Earth is a very tumultuous one, one that began around 4.5 billion years ago. An essential part to the history of the Earth and the development of life as we know it is the Earth’s atmosphere….
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We’ve all heard about global warming. It’s about cars and business releasing CO2 into the atmosphere and after some chemistry you get a man-made warming of the earth. There is, however, something that is getting away with filling the atmosphere…
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It doesn’t matter who it is or where, when people look up to a darkening sky they know what it means. The darker a cloud, the harder the precipitation that comes with it; it’s just one of those simple facts…
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Not content with contaminating the land we occupy with Styrofoam coolers and Hummer H2’s. Unfulfilled with our slow extermination of sea creatures so as they may fill our bellies as part of a surf and turf platter. Dismayed at the…
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With increasing frequency, evidence of global warming and climate change are making headlines around the world. Politicians, while giving lip service to the dangers that lie ahead for the planet, lack a fundamental understanding of either the dangers or the…
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Hail is one of the many types of precipitation that falls on this planet we call Earth. In order to know how it forms, we must first understand what it is. Hail is an irregular ball of water ice that…
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When I was a child, the most essential piece of snow equipment, stationed right next to the shovel by the front porch, was a yard stick. If the snow measured six or more inches deep, school would be cancelled for…
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Death Valley in California commonly reaches an air temperature of 120 degrees. This place is this hot partly because it is located in a belt of deserts that circle the globe. Here descending dry air that was heated at the…
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