Risks of Hurricane Sandy-like Surge Events Rising
Timothy M. Hall, a climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, and Adam Sobel, a researcher at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Observatory, set out to investigate how common Hurricane Sandy’s impact angle was under static climate conditions. Given that global average temperatures are rising, their findings supp… Read More
Frigid Air Grips Big Part of U.S.; Is There A Tropical Link?
On Tuesday afternoon, the heart of the cold air mass was located over the northern Plains and Upper Midwest, extending eastward into northern New England. In Duluth, the temperature failed to rise above -10°F on Monday, and on Tuesday temperatures were even lower in northern Minnesota, with International Falls reaching -30°F, with a wind chill in t… Read More
Scientist: East Coast Cities are ‘Sitting Ducks’ for Storms
Cities on the United States east coast are "sitting ducks" for the next big storm because of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy, one of Barack Obama's top scientists warned on Tuesday. Marcia McNutt, who last week announced her resignation as director of the U.S. Geological Survey, told a conference … Read More
Rogue Geoengineering Could ‘Hijack’ World’s Climate
The world's climate could be hijacked by a rogue country or wealthy individual firing small particles into the stratosphere, claims a warning that comes not from a new Hollywood movie trailer but a sober report from the World Economic Forum (WEF).… Read More
Climate Change Moves to Forefront in Obama’s Address
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations," Obama said. He made a carefully calibrated appeal to Republicans, situating a transition from fossil fuels to clean energy in a religious and conservative framework of God and constitution.… Read More
Stratospheric Phenomenon Is Bringing Frigid Cold to U.S
Starting on Jan. 6, temperatures in the stratosphere, which is the thin layer of air above the troposphere where most weather takes place, increased sharply, a hallmark of a phenomenon known to meteorologists as a “sudden stratospheric warming event.”… Read More
NASA Warns of Climate Change’s Impact on the Amazon
A team of scientists led by the agency found that an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from a mega-drought that began eight years ago. The new study shows the severe dry spell in 2005 caused far wider damage than previously estimated and its impact persisted longer than expected until an even harsher dro… Read More
Global Food Crisis Will Worsen as Heat Waves Increase
The world's food crisis, where 1 billion people are already going hungry and a further 2 billion people will be affected by 2050, is set to worsen as increasing heat waves reverse the rising crop yields seen over the last 50 years, according to new research.… Read More
