Gulf Coast States Brace for Arrival of Tropical Storm Isaac
Millions of residents in four vulnerable Gulf Coast states were bracing for the arrival of Isaac, a powerful tropical storm that has already claimed several lives on its path through the Caribbean.… Read More
Whatever You Call it, Water is Rising in Norfolk
Virginia has no state policy on climate change. But on the coast, flooding is on everyone's mind.… Read More
The Killer Drought of 2012 Eases — But Not By Much
The historic drought of 2012 continues to parch the nation, according to the latest version of the U.S. Drought Monitor, released Thursday. Although conditions have improved somewhat in the hard-hit states of Ohio and Indiana, nearly 53 percent of the U.S. remains at some level in drought as of August 21, the most recent date for which statistics … Read More
Climate is Ripe for Deadly West Nile Virus Attack on Texas
Texas dodged one major bullet this year: the crushing drought that seared the Lone Star State in 2011 shifted its sights northward in 2012, frying the nation’s agricultural midland but leaving Texas at least a little wetter than it was last summer. But that little bit of extra moisture has put Texas in the crosshairs of another climate-related … Read More
Ernesto Marches On, May Be a Hurricane Soon
Tropical Storm Ernesto, which was merely a tropical depression Thursday, has now crossed from the Atlantic Ocean into the Caribbean Sea, where it’s likely to spend the next four or five days moving in a west by northwesterly direction, aiming generally toward the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. (Here’s a radar movie that shows it passing over St… Read More
Great Lakes Water Temperatures At Record Levels
After a mild winter, warm spring, and extremely warm summer, the Great Lakes have heated up to record levels.… Read More
Greenland Ice Melt Reaches Unprecedented Level
According to a NASA press release, about half of Greenland's surface ice sheet naturally melts during an average summer. But the data from three independent satellites this July, analyzed by NASA and university scientists, showed that in less than a week, the amount of thawed ice sheet surface skyrocketed from 40 percent to 97 percent.… Read More
Times Review: ‘Global Weirdness’ is a Winner
“That is, it’s a book, written in the kind of plain English of which Strunk and White would approve, that lays out what we know about climate change while hewing to the facts and taking great care to avoid bias and hysteria,… Read More
