Climate science
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Last week in many news feeds there was a fascinating story about how the North Pole is moving due to changes in the distribution of weight around the world from melting ice. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab scientists showed that the axis of rotation around which the Earth spins is moving towards the east (I do…
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According to a recent article in USA Today, the hotspot for lightning in the United States is located in Orangetree, Florida, a few miles southeast of Fort Myers on the southwest coast of the peninsula. This is based on a new satellite study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Globally, the most…
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Every child I know likes to draw raindrops with a bulbous bottom and a point on the top. This may be in part due to the path of water droplets on glass, which do tend to have that shape due to surface tension and friction between the water and the glass surface. But what shape…
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AgWeb published an article in late March describing the changes that have occurred in growing season across the US since 1980, including graphs of both spring and fall frost changes and length of growing season. You can read it here. They attribute the changes to increasing temperatures over that time period. The article also relates the…
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“Airglow” is defined as a luminosity or “glowing” given off by the Earth’s own atmosphere. Marshall Shepherd describes the science of airglow in a recent blog post at Forbes.com here. It turns out that what we think of as airglow (not to be confused with aurora) is actually a collection of several different phenomena. Jason Samenow…
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A commercial weather provider, AccuWeather, has just started issuing 90 day forecasts for specific conditions at locations around the US. They have been getting blasted by meteorologists around the country for irresponsible science, since there is no skill in weather forecasting beyond about ten days, except for some general guidance about overall conditions. In past…
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Marshall Shepherd posted an interesting blog at Forbes.com on common posts that climatologists see all the time on Facebook and other social media about global warming. You’ve probably seen some of them too. Unfortunately, when someone claims that having a snowstorm disproves global warming or other such myth, they are really just displaying their ignorance of…