2011’s Record Number of Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
NOAA has found that the aggregate damage from these 12 events alone currently stands at $52 billion and rising -- a hefty price tag in a sluggish economy.… Read More
Taking it to the Extreme: 2011’s Off the Charts Weather and Climate Stats
What is of concern, though, is that climate change is bound to make droughts like this more severe than they otherwise would be, pushing temperatures higher and thereby drying out the soil even more.… Read More
New York Times Publishes a Searing Drought Story, But Completely Misses the Climate Change Angle
The fact that the Times story detailed both the drought and the record heat accompanying it, yet left out any mention of climate change, was a particularly puzzling error of omission.… Read More
Global Warming Goes Nuclear
Thus, the U.S. currently faces a bizarre display of what happens when nuclear energy/weapons issues and the climate crisis meet. If we're lucky, the results won't be too damaging - this time.… Read More
Not Your Average Weather Map
The Pew Center released a new map that illustrates some of the most extreme incidents that have happened in U.S. since 1995, including major floods, droughts, heat waves, and wildfires.… Read More
This Week in Climate Science: “Unprecedented Heat,” Declining Snowpack, and Wildfire Feedbacks
Think about what average summer temperatures are like in your neighborhood. Now, think about the hottest summer you can remember. In the future, what is now regarded as an unusually warm summer may be the norm.… Read More
Record Fires and Floods Threaten Southwest, Upper Midwest
Now covering more than 638 square miles, the Wallow Fire is so far listed as the second largest wildfire in Arizona’s history, and it's only getting larger.… Read More
Another Day, Another Deadly Tornado Strikes the US
Is this because of La Niña, that sneaky climate-influencing mechanism in the tropical Pacific Ocean? Is it because of global warming? Or are these events simply weather and chance — just a string of horrendous luck?… Read More
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