Mar 25, 20191 min read
The Sun and climate change
Satellite measurements taken over the past 30 years show that the Sun’s energy output has not increased and that the recent warming...
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Mar 6, 20191 min read
U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes
Consider these recent examples: Heat records were toppled fromNorway to Algeria last year. In parts of Australia, a drought has gone on...
Feb 19, 20191 min read
Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds
A new analysis, publishe in the Journal - SCIENCE, found that the oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United...
Feb 16, 20191 min read
NOAA - Warming winters across the United States - Really?
Daytime highs were in the negative teens in parts of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes at the end of January, and the chill extended...
Feb 16, 20191 min read
NOAA- 2018 Arctic Report Card
The Arctic is warming at more than twice the rate of the global average. Human-caused climate change is transforming the Arctic, both...
Feb 6, 20191 min read
2018 Was the Fourth Warmest Year on Record
Even an increase of 1.5 degrees will have dire consequences, according to the United Nations science panel on climate change. Dr. Schmidt...
Feb 6, 20191 min read
Doing your part
Everyone wants to feel as though they are doing their part in the fight against climate change. First of all, nothing short of a...
Feb 1, 20191 min read
The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?
Nov 24, 2018 NY Times Indonesia is digging more coal. Vietnam is clearing ground for new coal-fired power plants. Japan, reeling from...
Feb 1, 20191 min read
Going Nowhere Fast on Climate, Year After Year
Dec 29, 2018 - NY Times Three decades after a top climate scientist warned Congress of the dangers of global warming, greenhouse gas...
Feb 1, 20191 min read
China’s Coal Plants Haven’t Cut Methane Emissions as Required
Jan 29, 2019 In a paper published Tuesday in Nature Communications, researchers concluded that China had failed to meet its own...
Jan 31, 20191 min read
Warming Seas May Increase Frequency of Extreme Storms
NASA Aqua Satellite Program Jan. 19, 2019 "Our results quantify and give a more visual meaning to the consequences of the predicted...
Jan 31, 20191 min read
Huge Cavity in Thwaites Glacier, Antartica
This latest discovery will certainly move the clock forward, as the scientific community continues to predict something so random as ice...
Jan 23, 20191 min read
Take-aways from recent NY Times Article
Global Warming Concerns Rise Among Americans in New Poll - published Jan 23, 2019 Americans seem to be waking to the threat of climate...
Jan 9, 20191 min read
U.S. Carbon Emissions Surged in 2018 Even as Coal Plants Closed
New York Times Article Jan. 8, 2019 - Yet even a steep drop in coal use last year wasn’t enough to offset rising emissions in other...
Jan 8, 20191 min read
The Most Powerful Evidence Climate Scientists Have of Global Warming
Inside Climate News - Oct. 7, 2017 The oceans hold the story of a planet warming as fossil fuels are burned. Earth's temperature is...
Jan 8, 20191 min read
The Climate Accountability Scorecard (2018)
Fossil fuel companies are facing increasing shareholder, legal and political pressure to stop spreading climate disinformation and to fix...
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