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The researchers used both observations and computer simulations to identify long-term climate signals that might help provide predictability for extreme tornado outbreaks. The ocean configuration they zeroed in on is known as “Trans-Niño, since it occurs during the transition phase as an El Niño or a La Niña event begins or comes to an end.… Read More
Controversial U.S. businessman's iron fertilization off the west coast of Canada contravenes two UN conventions.… Read More
One of the major unanswered questions about climate change is whether hurricanes have become more frequent and stronger as the world has warmed up. Until now, there hasn’t been enough evidence to settle the question for sure, but a report just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may have changed all that. Using an entirely … Read More
The last below-average September temperature was in 1976, when Gerald Ford was President, and the last below-average month for any month of the year occurred in February 1985, during the Reagan Administration.… Read More
"As a pastor, I look at the call in the first book of Genesis, to care for the Earth, and to the gospels' call to love thy neighbor," said the Rev. Terry Gallagher, a pastor at Sacred Conversation in Trenton, Mich. "If we don't change energy paths, we're dooming the future of the Earth." The Renewable Energy Amendment would mandate tha… Read More
the damaging impacts of climate change in the developing world. In one of the most radical climate programs yet by an oil-producing nation, the Norwegian government has proposed increasing its carbon tax on offshore oil companies by $72 (Nkr410) per ton of CO2 and an $8 (Nkr50) per ton CO2 tax on its fishing industry. Norway will also plough an ex… Read More
Earth’s polar regions — the Arctic and the Antarctic — are far from where most of us live. What’s happening there now as a result of climate change, however, will end up affecting us in very direct ways. Melting glaciers and ice caps are raising sea level worldwide, and new research released in 2012 shows that the melting, especially in Antarctica,… Read More
The gathering of United Nations advisers, climate experts, and international students was billed as a snapshot of the “State of the Planet. As such, it did not paint a very rosy picture.… Read More
