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The study, which relies on climate model simulations as well as weather data for the past 40 years, shows that the Bermuda High has already expanded westward, which could be making summertime rainfall in the Central and Southeast U.S. much more variable.… Read More
Scientists at Arizona State University have announced a new computer simulation that displays a city’s greenhouse-gas emissions in unprecedented detail, showing how much heat-trapping carbon dioxide individual buildings and highways generate. The model, known as Hestia (after the Greek goddess of the hearth), and described in a paper in the … Read More
NOAA’s latest State of the Climate roundup shows that September marked the 16th month in a row of above-average temperatures for the Lower 48 states of the U.S. Over the month, the mercury averaged 67°F, which is 1.4°F higher than the long-term average. The period April-September, which is considered the “warm season in the continental U.S., was … Read More
If uncertainty could be reduced to zero, though, climate negotiations would be transformed from a classic “prisoner’s dilemma, in which countries have a perverse incentive to do less than what is required in order to solve a shared problem, and into a coordination game, in which countries would work with one another to ensure they are making suffi… Read More
It’s been called the Methane Bomb — a stash of gas buried under the Arctic seafloor whose heat-trapping power is much greater, molecule for molecule, than the carbon dioxide people usually worry about. As climate change forces the Arctic to warm, experts warn that methane could escape, speeding global warming. They can’t predict when the great esca… Read More
Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has dropped by more than half over the last 27 years, according to scientists, a result of increased storms, bleaching and predation by population explosions of a starfish which sucks away the coral's nutrients. At present rates of decline, the coral cover will halve again within a decade, though scientists sa… Read More
The drought that has kept much of the nation in its grip this summer brings a host of additional downstream worries for growers already struggling with reduced yields. Cattle are being poisoned by cyanide-laced weeds in Arkansas. Across the Midwest water-soluble fertilizers are concentrating in soils and plants, making them harmful rather than … Read More
In order for El Niño to form, a delicate dance needs to take place between the ocean and the atmosphere in the form of a series of feedbacks that end up reinforcing the above average sea surface temperatures. However, so far this fall, the ocean and atmosphere have not worked in tandem, making El Niño’s development less likely to occur.… Read More
