Climate science
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Weather Underground had an interesting analysis of how many record highs and record lows have been recorded at a number of stations across the United States since 2010. The work shows that five times as many record highs have been broken as compared to new record lows. This is not surprising because of the upward…
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If you are at the beach this holiday weekend, you may have enjoyed a beautiful sunrise or sunset filled with color as the sun touched the horizon. Here is a short article by Dr. Marshall Shepherd in Forbes.com on the science of sunrises that you might find interesting, along with a sunrise picture I took…
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According to a new article in the journal Nature, “Satellite temperature measurements do not support the recent claim of a “leveling off of warming” over the past two decades.” Previous claims by those skeptical of the recent trends towards increasing temperature at the surface of the earth (including Scott Pruitt – the new Administrator of…
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A new study by European scientists shows that the pace of rising sea levels is now three times faster than in the period before 1990 according to the Washington Post. The story says that “before 1990, oceans were rising at about 1.1 millimeters per year, or just 0.43 inches per decade. From 1993 through 2012,…
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The World Meteorological Organization recently published a list of the world’s deadliest storms. None of these storms has occurred since 1994, which means that weather services around the world are likely improving their ability to predict and warn for these storms. In addition, vulnerability of people in the most susceptible areas has been reduced by…
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Here is a lengthy (67 pages!) web site which provides a thorough background on the science of climate, from Andrew Revkin. He describes it as “a primer based on decades of reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, IPCC and other peer-reviewed lit.” You can view the web site at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3680541-Climate101.html. You might…
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Have you ever heard the comment that in the 1970s climate scientists were talking about global cooling? I get this statement frequently when I give talks to the public. And yet, this was proven false a decade ago. This article from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (which popped up in my Facebook feed…