‘Killer Summer Heat’ Report Grabs Attention
It’s one thing to project that climate change will bring more intense and more frequent heat waves as we move through the 21st century, which climate scientists do. It’s another and more meaningful thing to put a number on the toll this will take on people — and that’s what a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council has done. Titled … Read More
Image of the Day: A Technicolor Land of Extremes
A satellite view of Death Valley, Calif., the hottest, driest, lowest point in North America. The region, according to National Geographic, receives less than two inches of annual rain and experiences summer temperatures up into the triple digits. Despite these conditions and its morbid name however, plants and animals are infact able to thrive… Read More
Image of the Day: Monkeying Around in a Cool Bath
Monkeys enjoy a cool bath near Bangkok, Thailand where temperatures, according the The Guardian, are warmer than the hottest average temperatures seen in the past 30 years. … Read More
Image of the Day: It’s Not Easy Being Green in the U.K.
The asparagus season is short-lived; starting around May 1 and ending at the end of June. Since asparagus is very climate sensitive, with a warm spring, the greens could hit the shelves even earlier. But that wasn’t the case. While temps were high in March, April was much cooler and the recent rains have also worked on cooling the soil temperatures… Read More
Spring Backward? For Many, April Was Cooler than March
These records are particularly remarkable because April was also a warmer-than-average month in the Northeast and Midwest. In Chicago, April was cooler than March for just the second time on record, despite the fact that April was the seventh-straight month of above normal temperatures there.… Read More
Heat Wave Bakes West, Sets Marks & Hits High Note of 113
During the past seven days, 746 daily recordhigh temperatures were set or tied, along with 400 daily record=high minimum temperatures, according to the National Climatic Data Center. More impressive is the fact that 99 monthly record-high temperatures were set or tied during this same period, along with 22 monthly record-high minimum temperatures.… Read More
Image of the Day: Warming Keeps Them Busy as a Bee
The biggest change in the onset time for bees and flowers took place after 1970, which is the period that has had the greatest increase in mean annual temperature. While researchers don’t know the exact trigger for the bees emergence, Bryan Danforth, Cornell professor of entomology fears, “if climate change accelerates the way it is expected to, we… Read More
NOAA: It Was Hot and Wet with Pockets of Drought
Twenty-five states had a record warm month, with another 15 in the top 10 historically. Alaska, by contrast, had its 10th coolest March on record.… Read More
