Climate science
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. Abraham Lincoln The folks at the Yale Program on Climate Connections just released this new tool that you can use to generate climate change fact sheets by state, county, or congressional district showing how attitudes towards climate change vary across your…
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With the strong El Nino that has been in place all winter, it is no surprise that the temperature and precipitation patterns we have experienced in recent months show a strong resemblance to a typical El Nino pattern. But there are other factors at work as well, and two scientists from NOAA looked at the…
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Do you spend a lot of time outside this time of year? It could be working on a tractor, feeding cattle, golfing, or out on the water. If so, you should also be weather-aware and be prepared to find a safe place to get away from severe weather, high winds, lightning, and hail. Here are…
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The 5th National Climate Assessment, released in November, discussed the changes in climate we are observing in the Southeast U. S. You can find the full report at https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/ and the Southeast chapter at https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/22/. I am one of the authors of this chapter. We have been hosting a series of webinars covering the different…
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Today, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is announcing the availability of all chapters of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) in Spanish. This marks the first time that the entire National Climate Assessment has been translated into Spanish, greatly broadening the reach and accessibility of the U.S. government’s premier resource for communicating climate change risks, impacts, and…
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One of the factors used in predicting the number of tropical storms and hurricanes we expect in the Atlantic Ocean is the temperature of the ocean, since tropical activity generally only starts when the sea surface is at least 80 F. That is the temperature needed to help tropical waves develop the vertical circulation needed…
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You may have noticed in the news some recent stories about incredibly fast crossings of the Atlantic Ocean by passenger planes, such as this story from Business Insider. In addition to the speed of the airplane itself, the air that it was traveling in was moving at close to 200 miles per hour, one of…