The Global Warming Hot List for 2013
Clutches are in. Red is the new black. A Korean rapper's cantering dance has been trending since August. Any number of lists promise the hot trends of 2013. But where to get hip to what's in vogue with climate change this year?… 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
Sandy Tops List of 2012 Extreme Weather & Climate Events
From unprecedented heat waves that shattered "Dust Bowl" era records from the 1930s, to Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal New Jersey and New York, 2012 was the year Mother Nature had it out for the U.S. No country on Earth rivaled the U.S. in 2012 in terms of extreme weather and climate events, as one rare episode after another rocked the c… Read More
Arctic Storms: A Climate Danger Nobody’s Talking About
Summer and fall are hurricane season, but for the storms known as polar lows, prime time falls in the dead of winter, when frigid air blows off sea ice to collide with warmer, moister air in the North Atlantic. Polar lows are a lot smaller and weaker than hurricanes, they’re generally shorter-lived, and the only danger they generally pose is to… Read More
Sans Polar Satellites, Sandy Forecasts Would’ve Suffered
In an analysis NOAA released on Tuesday, meteorologists at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in Reading, England, re-ran their computer model after depriving it of the data that comes from the current fleet of polar-orbiting sat… Read More
NOAA Forms Hurricane Sandy Review Team, Again
After aborting its initial attempt, NOAA formed a panel to examine the NWS's performance during Hurricane Sandy.… Read More
Warming May Bring More ‘Black Swan’ Storm Surges
Hurricane Sandy offered a grim reminder of how vulnerable coastal cities, such as New York, are in the face of rare, powerful storms. As sea levels rise in response to global warming, this vulnerability is likely to increase, leaving officials across the U.S. and around the world to grapple with increasingly urgent questions regarding how to adapt … Read More
