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Tropical Storm Isaac stayed at hurricane strength for only about a day, and it was only a middleweight Category 1 hurricane at that, with sustained winds that only reached 80 mph or so; by Thursday morning, those winds had dropped to 45 mph as the eye lumbered at a leisurely 8 mph on a north by northwesterly path through central Louisiana. By … Read More
Climate Central's Heidi Cullen appeared on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Lateline with host Tony Jones to discuss climate change and the recent news of the record low Arctic sea ice. Click here to watch the broadcast or read the full transcript. … Read More
Climate scientists have long fretted about the hundreds of billions of tons of methane frozen under the floor of the Arctic Ocean. If the water warms enough, some of that methane could escape. Nobody knows how soon or how quickly such a release might happen, but since methane is a far more potent heat-trapping gas than the more familiar carbon… Read More
New Orleans’ system of flood-protection levees and canal floodgates, upgraded to the tune of $14.5 billion after the system’s catastrophic failure due to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, continued to hold against the wall of water pushed onshore by the storm — a surge that reached 11 feet in Shell Beach, La., according to Brian McNoldy’s Tropical Atlanti… Read More
As Tropical Storm Isaac batters southeastern Louisiana and nearby coastal areas with surging seas, howling winds, and torrential rainfall, it’s nearly impossible to imagine that humans could have done anything to stop such powerful force of nature. Nearly impossible, but not quite. A team of atmospheric scientists, writing in the journal Atmosphe… Read More
Shortly after noon on Tuesday, the Weather Channel reported that Isaac had been upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane, with sustained winds above 74 mph, hours before its expected landfall in southeastern Louisiana Tuesday night.… Read More
Tropical Storm Isaac is forecast to swell into a full-fledged hurricane before it makes landfall sometime Tuesday or Wednesday. The storm’s projected track is taking it in the general direction of New Orleans, which will expose Mobile’s 194,000 residents to a glancing blow. Even so, the city is likely to experience tropical-storm-force winds and … Read More
Tropical Storm Isaac is forecast to swell into a full-fledged hurricane before it makes landfall sometime Tuesday or Wednesday. The storm’s projected track is taking it in the general direction of New Orleans, which will expose Biloxi’s 45,000 residents to a glancing blow. Even so, the city is likely to experience tropical-storm-force winds and dre… Read More
With drought, increasing water consumption, and climate change, the Colorado River Basin faces potential water shortages.
