Calls for Emissions Reductions

US national security advisor says climate change is threat, calls for Emissions Reductions By Carl Franzen / The Verge (April 24, 2013): Scientists and advocates have called for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for years. But now the White House national security advisor is joining in the chorus. Tom Donilon, the national security advisor to…

The fragile fringe of West Antarctica

Expedition to a crumbling Antarctic ice shelfBy Ted Scambos / NSIDC[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]November 4, 2011: With preparations in place, I asked if I could tag along with a NASA group here working on Operation IceBridge, an airborne mapping and measurement program intended to bridge the gap between the ICESat satellite (a laser-ranging mission that…

More Strong Hurricanes Part II

Part II[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]Figure 2: Number of Katrina magnitude surge events per decade (B) hindcast and projected changes in temperatures from climate model BNU-ESM under for RCP4.5 (A). The thick blue line shows the projection using the full spatial gridded temperatures and confidence interval (5–16–84–95%); magenta and black show the projections using only Main…

More Strong Hurricanes Part I

New Research Shows Humans Causing More Strong HurricanesBy Dana Nuccitelli / Skeptical Science[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]April 29, 2013: The link between human-caused global warming and extreme weather is often difficult to pin down, particularly with regards to hurricanes. As Kevin Trenberth has discussed, a ll weather now occurs in a climate that humans have altered.…

Video: Jet Stream & Dark Snow Project

Video[wpcol_2fifth id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_2fifth][wpcol_3fifth_end id=”” class=”” style=””] Climate Warming & the Jet Stream Extreme Weather Published on YouTube Aug 21, 2012 One of the most confusing effects of climate change is the increasing incidence of weather extremes, that may include hot, AND cold, snow and rain, wet and dry, drought and flood. [/wpcol_3fifth_end] [wpcol_2fifth…