Heidi Cullen Tackles Climate Extremes on ABC News
The July 10 release of two comprehensive climate science reports by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sparked widespread media coverage, including at Climate Central and elsewhere. The reports depicted the human influence on the global climate system during 2011, using indicators such as the amount of greenhouse gases in … Read More
El Nino May Be On the Way, Altering Weather Patterns
El Niño events can also help boost global average surface temperatures. A strong El Niño event led to the record warm year of 1998, and some climate scientists, including NASA’s James Hansen, have pointed out that a new El Niño event would likely lead to another record warm year given the combination of El Niño and manmade global warming.… Read More
U.S. Has Warmest Year-to-Date As Drought Expands
The U.S. continued its hot streak through June, recording the warmest January-to-June period on record, with drought conditions spreading across the Lower 48 states to an unprecedented degree… Read More
Heat Wave Peaks After Breaking Thousands of Records
During the heat wave of past 30 days nearly 8,000 warm temperature records have been broken or tied. … Read More
Ongoing Heat Wave in U.S. Rivals Events of Dust Bowl Era
Tens of millions of Americans continue to sweat out one of the most intense heat waves on record since the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, with heat watches and warnings in effect yet again from the Plains to the Mid-Atlantic states. As happened during the Dust Bowl, the heat is helping to dry out soils, increasing the extent and severity of drought co… Read More
Historic Heat Wave Marches On as Drought Expands
Much of the U.S. continues to be in the grip of unrelenting and dangerous heat, and the records just keep falling. During June alone, more than 3,200 daily high temperature records were set or tied, and more records have been set during the first week of July as well.… Read More
Heat Wave Continues As Storm Cleanup Drags On
Although the scorching heat that had set at least 155 all-time high temperature records across the country between June 24-30 retreated from some areas on Monday, the overall weather pattern remains favorable for extreme heat to build right back in as the week goes on.… Read More
Heat Wave Spawns Deadly Severe Thunderstorms
A heat wave broke records and sparked a severe thunderstorm event known as a derecho that killed at least 13 people.… Read More
