As the Earth absorbs more energy from the Sun and reflects less back into space, much of the excess heat is being funnelled ...

What you see is the visible surface of the Sun, also called the photosphere. Almost all radiation from the Sun comes from this layer, which has a temperature between 4500 and 6000 °C. Beneath it, the ...

Decades prior, the brilliant Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch had explained how our world warms and cools on roughly 100,000-year cycles due to its slowly changing position relative to the ...

Several types of weather may not seem all that hazardous, but can actually be quite dangerous. Here are five examples.

Although the temperature of the surface continues to rise ... that water is such a poor conductor of heat that the hottest sun s rays are not perceptible at the depth of sixty-five feet.

Explore the debate on climate change causes: human activities vs. natural variability. Discover the latest data, scientific ...

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) timeseries are available from 1900 for a number of regions around Australia and globally. These timeseries include ocean surface temperatures only and do not include any ...

Annual and seasonal mean sea surface temperature (SST) trend maps are available for the Australian region for periods starting at the beginning of each decade from 1900 to 1970 to near present.

The global average surface temperature rose 0.6 to 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.1 to 1.6° F) between 1906 and 2005, and the rate of temperature increase has nearly doubled in the last 50 years. Temperatures ...

The pressure on Venus's surface is about 90 times that of Earth, equivalent to being deep in the ocean, making it inhospitable to most life forms. Venus is covered in clouds of sulfuric acid, which ...

The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an ...

Attractive forces between the atoms or molecules within the surface of a liquid result in forces parallel to the surface, which we call surface tension. Surface tension is temperature-dependent and ...