Thousands of Crocodiles on the Loose After Floods
Thousands of crocodiles are on the loose in South Africa after heavy rains and flooding forced a tourist attraction to open its gates, according to a newspaper report. Around 15,000 crocodiles made the great escape from the Rakwena crocodile farm near the border with Botswana on Sunday, according to the newspaper Beeld. Although "a few thousand" h… Read More
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
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
Energy, Water, Land Intertwined & Threatened, Says Report
Water resources, energy and land use are so mutually dependent that climate-related disruptions to any one of them could lead to economically devastating ripple effects — especially as a growing population puts increasing strains on all three. That’s one conclusion of a recent report issued by a federal advisory committee charged with assessing how… Read More
2012 Global Temps Rank in Top 10 Hottest On Record
NASA and NOAA independently keep track of Earth’s surface temperatures, and their records, along with other independent datasets generated in other countries, all show a clear warming trend during the latter half of the 20th century, which studies show is due in large part to manmade emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.… Read More
Southwest Faces Looming Threats From Climate Change
The American Southwest, which is already the hottest and driest region of the nation, is likely to become even hotter and drier in the next few decades thanks in part to the ongoing effects of human-generated greenhouse gases. That’s the verdict of the draft National Climate Assessment report, the product of a federal advisory committee charged … Read More
NOAA: 2012 Hottest & 2nd-Most Extreme Year On Record
According to NOAA, 2012 was the warmest and second-most extreme year on record in the lower 48 states.… Read More
On ABC, Heidi Cullen Talks Climate & 2012’s Extremes
Heidi Cullen, Climate Central's chief climatologist, spoke with reporter Dan Harris of ABC News about the finding that 2012 was the warmest year on record in the contiguous U.S. The news segment also focused on the many extreme weather events of 2012, and the role that manmade global warming may have played.… Read More
