G-8 Leaders Agree to Cut Short-Lived Greenhouse Gases
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition for Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, which was formed in mid-February, is now made up of 18 members in the developing and developed world. The coalition's goal is to cut emissions of climate warming pollution that acts on shorter timescales than carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the main greenhouse gas respo… Read More
Digging into Climate Change, Students Find Much More
The unit represents the vanguard of a nationwide effort, pushed by education and science groups, to broaden climate change education into a variety of physical and social science classes in public school curricula. Yet even here, in one the most sophisticated climate change education units in the nation, teachers still feel the need to balance wha… Read More
The Joplin Tornado, One Year Later: Where Does it Rank?
The Joplin tornado was also one of the most expensive tornadoes on record, having caused direct insured losses of $1.9 billion, according to Missouri officials. Others have estimated losses at closer to $3 billion.… Read More
Heartland Facing Uncertain Future as Staff, Cash Dries Up
The first Heartland Institute conference on climate change in 2008 had all the trappings of a major scientific conclave — minus large numbers of real scientists. Hundreds of climate change contrarians, with a few academics among them, descended into the banquet rooms of a lavish Times Square hotel for what was purported to be a reasoned debate … Read More
Climate Science Education Graduates to the Next Level
and school districts across the United States. Parents have pressured teachers not to teach the subject. Teachers have watered down the science. Special interests “ from the Heartland Institute on the right to Facing the Future on the left “ have vied to influence curriculum. Some states and districts have ignored the topic altogether. Others insis… Read More
Australasia Has Hottest 60 Years in a Millennium
The last 60 years have been the hottest in Australasia for a millennium and cannot be explained by natural causes, according to a new report by scientists that supports the case for a reduction in manmade carbon emissions. In the first major study of its kind in the region, scientists at the University of Melbourne used natural data from 27 climat… Read More
Australian Project Simulates Runaway Climate Change
An Australian university has embarked upon an ambitious project — hailed as the first of its kind in the world — to simulate how the environment would cope with runaway climate change. The decade-long study, at the University of Western Sydney's Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, will subject Australian bushland to heightened CO2 levels and… Read More
Weather Channel Expert Tabbed to Lead Hurricane Center
Knabb, 43, was formerly a NOAA researcher and manager prior to joining The Weather Channel as the on-air hurricane expert in 2010. He was deputy director of NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, and before that, he was a senior hurricane specialist and the science and operations officer at the Hurricane Center.… Read More
