Africa’s Great Green Wall Against Climate Change Begins
Senegal's capitol city Dakar sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean on a peninsula. It's at least a thousand miles to the Sahara desert yet the air today is so thick with sand that the tops of buildings disappear in a sandy haze. It's the worst sand storm in a year and people here are worried thatclimate change will cause these events to be more… Read More
Lemonick Takes On the Weather Channel: The Sequel
Climate Central senior science writer Michael Lemonick's Wednesday appearance on The Weather Channel's "Wake Up With Al" show just wasn't enough to satisfy the audience, so he was back Thursday for an interview with Al Roker's co-anchor Stephanie Abrams. The topic, as before: Global Weirdness, our new book.… Read More
Greenland Glacier Sheds Two Manhattans’ Worth of Ice
Greenland’s massive ice sheet drains slowly to the sea, but until the last decade or two, the drainage was balanced by new snow that fell every winter. Not anymore, though: thanks to rising global temperatures. Greenland has begun shedding ice at a prodigious rate, a major factor in the sea level rise that poses a greater threat to life and propert… Read More
Waking up With Roker, Lemonick & ‘Global Weirdness’
Fans of Al Roker, or Climate Central, or both, take note! Climate Central’s Michael Lemonick will be on The Weather Channel’s “Wake Up With Al Wednesday morning between 6 and 6:30 a.m., and again on the show’s 8 to 8:30 a.m. half-hour. … Read More
Global Fight For Natural Resources ‘Has Only Just Begun’
Business & academic leaders gathered at the Resource 2012 conference to discuss the growing battle for natural resources.… Read More
Sea Level Rise: It Could Be Worse than We Think
A new analysis released Thursday in the journal Science implies that the seas could rise dramatically higher over the next few centuries than scientists previously thought — somewhere between 18-to-29 feet above current levels, rather than the 13-to-20 feet than the numbers they were talking about just a few years ago. The increase in sea level … Read More
Preventing Fires, Before Everything’s Aflame
Wildfires have been national news this summer. Massive, destructive burns in Colorado and New Mexico have emblazoned websites and T.V. screens across the country. But just as the monsoon rains roll into the Southwest bringing much needed moisture, the nation’s gaze over the fires will move on too. The wildfires are just the eye-catching … Read More
Wind and Tulips and Success in North Holland
“If I only grew potatoes and onions, then I wouldn’t speak with so many people, says Jaap van der Beek. “You speak so often to these people because we all have the same interest. That interest is to build a big wind turbine. Jaap van der Beek has been harvesting the wind for over 15 years, and his 850kw turbine powers hundreds of homes. He lives… Read More
