Climate science
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Some of you may have heard of the Shell Oil video on climate change that was produced in 1991, showing the dangers of continuing use of fossil fuels. You can view a copy of it here. Note that this version has been annotated by The Guardian to highlight what has changed in the years since…
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Reuters and other news agencies noted that an Argentine research station on the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula set a new continental record high of 63.5 F on March 24, 2015, but said that the data was not officially recognized until it was recently reviewed, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The heat record for…
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From my Facebook feed from Marshall Shepherd: “Here is one of many examples of how warming winters and earlier warming impact you. UGA geology professor Steven Holland has been tracking emergence of pollen in Athens since 2013. Note that it has gotten earlier and earlier. Already appearing in Feb 2017. Geez. Now, we cannot draw…
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Okay, I admit it. I put this in the blog partly just because this little guy is so cute. But the story that NOAA tells about packrats like this one is important because it shows one way that climatologists determine what the climate was like as much as ten thousand years ago. Packrats, NOAA tells…
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Here’s a really interesting story about how extreme weather patterns in one area can lead to a catastrophe far away. We are linked together by the ocean of air that flows around the planet, and what happens in one place can affect things far away. Here in the Southeast we see this with El Niño…
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Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA has an article this week in Forbes.com about television meteorologists and their views on climate change. He explains that only about 10 percent of meteorologists are on television, and that many meteorologists don’t have much training in climatology. Even so, the results of the study might surprise you. You can…
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The American Geophysical Union blog from February 18 discusses the “real surprise” behind the 3rd hottest January on record, which occurred last month. One of the things I thought was really interesting about the article was a graph which showed the trend lines for all of the different radiative forcings that are acting on the…