How a snowstorm develops
By: Darren James Bighetty
The weather network shows a variety of interesting satellite imaging system information of the atmosphere of the planet Earth. State of the art technology is the channel from where the images are viewable in different correlated energy patterns of differing factors in the weathers' developing...
Who is responsible for the greenhouse effect?
By: Eddie Alexander
Polar bears and their entire habitat are on the brink of destruction. The European heat wave of 2003 led to the deaths of 35,000 people. Meanwhile in the U.S., the Gulf Coast has been ravaged by increasingly destructive hurricanes. What do these things...
By: Alex Cull
According to current scientific orthodoxy, the main cause of global warming is the large amount of man-made carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Henrik Svensmark is a scientist who has put forward an alternative hypothesis, however. He proposes that global warming - and global cooling, for...
Air pollution problems and 'clean air' gains since the 1960's
By: Rita Mcconnell
Perhaps no where in the United States is the success of the Clean Air Act more apparent than in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Known around the world as the Steel City, Pittsburgh was once described in its industrial heyday as "Hell with the lid off." It...
How hurricanes are named
By: Harry Stevens
The modern system of naming hurricanes in the Atlantic has been around since the year 1953. Naming the various tropical disturbances in the Atlantic makes differentiating between various ones a lot easier, as well as the study of them. During the hurricane season for the...
By: Keith Hamburger
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 and tornadoes are caused from...
By: Keith Hamburger
One of the most deadly and damaging effects of tropical cyclones is what is called the "storm surge". The flooding associated with such a surge can carry for miles inland, flooding roads and buildings and trapping residents in extremely hazardous conditions.The primary cause of...
By: Harry Stevens
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 has fallen from the sky...
By: Morgan Carlson
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 of nature. But what about...
By: Harry Stevens
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. The atmosphere is the...

 

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