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Natural Disasters and the Common Cause
Natural Disasters and the Common Cause We have suffered brutal direct hits. Over half of the state of Florida is without power, in the dark. It is too soon to know what the losses are. Houston, America’s fourth largest city, suffered the most extreme rain event in U.S. history. Casualties are mounting; damages are estimated […]
How Vulnerable Are Oil Markets To Extreme Weather?
How Vulnerable Are Oil Markets To Extreme Weather? Last week, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the United States and for days disrupted the national energy industry. Refineries were closed, pipelines shut down, tankers held out to sea. The price of fuel shot up as gas stations went dry across the country, while crude slumped with […]
Mortal Mugginess
Mortal Mugginess Extreme Heat Stress in Florida and in the Persian Gulf A spate of new research warns of lethally hot, humid weather in many regions by the end of this century- weather in which it would be dangerous even to walk outside, or turn off the air conditioning. These are very long range projections, […]
July 2017 Stormwatch: Climate Change
July 2017 Stormwatch: Climate Change Many years ago, not long after I first got onto the internet, I created a website to try to encourage community groups to make preparations for the hard times to come. It was titled “The Stormwatch Project” — why, yes, I was a Jethro Tull fan back in the day; […]
Canadians fight floods across the country
Canadians fight floods across the country Thousands in Central Canada, the Atlantic and B.C. spend the weekend struggling with rising water levels Erick Miner comforts a cat rescued by boat from a home Saturday on Rue Saint-Louis in Gatineau, Que., as rising river levels and heavy rains continue to cause flooding. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press) Across […]
Wet weather walloping much of Ontario, Quebec and heading east
Wet weather walloping much of Ontario, Quebec and heading east Ottawa River, Laurentian communities hit hard; New Brunswick expected to be next Some Pointe-Gatineau, Que., residents have had to abandon their cars trapped by flooding. Firefighters have gone door-to-door in parts of Gatineau to warn residents of the dangers of staying put as forecasts call […]
Sea sends early warning of heatwaves
Sea sends early warning of heatwaves Feeling the heat as New York City swelters in extreme summer temperatures. Image: Bill via Flickr Surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean can give the US Midwest and East Coast 50 days’ notice to prepare itself for a dangerous spell of extreme heat. LONDON, 8 April, 2016 – Americans could have as many […]
Apple crop under threat after cold snap follows early spring
Apple crop under threat after cold snap follows early spring Warm weather caused apple trees to start budding earlier than normal, and the fruits are now in danger by the cold snap that followed. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) Apple farmers in the East worry the late-season Arctic blast could take a big bite from their budding crops. […]
What is the Polar Vortex? How does it work?
What is the Polar Vortex? How does it work? Monday, March 28, 2016, 1:48 PM – It is safe to say 2014 was the year ‘polar vortex’ muscled its way into the public lexicon for talking about the weather, and for good reason. The winter of 2013/2014 was bitterly cold across much of North America. […]
In-depth: the scientific challenge of extreme weather attribution
In-depth: the scientific challenge of extreme weather attribution © Gene Blevins/LA Daily News Working out whether human activity is supercharging extreme events, such as floods, storms, droughts and heatwaves, is one of the youngest branches of climate science. But it’s moving at breakneck pace. So much so, that the US National Academy of Sciences has fast-tracked a report, […]
Extreme Weather, Widespread Flooding Hammer Louisiana as Federal Government Prepares to Lease Gulf of Mexico for Drilling
Extreme Weather, Widespread Flooding Hammer Louisiana as Federal Government Prepares to Lease Gulf of Mexico for Drilling Walter Unglaub never thought flooding would threaten the carriage house he rents in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It is on a bluff 30 feet above the Bogue Falaya River, in an area that is not considered a flood zone. But that didn’t […]
Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science
Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science Guest essay by Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences (Emeritus) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the text of a lecture delivered on August 20, 2015 to the 48th Session: Erice International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies In many fields, governments have a monopoly on the […]
El Niño and Climate Change: Wild Weather May Get Wilder
El Niño and Climate Change: Wild Weather May Get Wilder This year’s El Niño phenomenon is spawning extreme weather around the planet. Now scientists are working to understand if global warming will lead to more powerful El Niños that will make droughts, floods, snowstorms, and hurricanes more intense. Wild weather is gripping the planet. An El […]
Prepping for a Blizzard: A Practical Survival Guide
Prepping for a Blizzard: A Practical Survival Guide Few can deny the common sense behind preparing for something that is definitely going to happen, yet every year, an impending winter storm sends people rushing out to the store at the last minute, prepping for a blizzard that is due to hit in mere hours. Every […]
Scientific concern begins over lack of Great Lakes’ ice
Scientific concern begins over lack of Great Lakes’ ice Thursday, February 4, 2016, 2:56 PM – Ice coverage on the Great Lakes is near record-low levels for this time of year, and scientists are concerned about the effect this will have on wildlife species in the months to come. Southern Ontario set some record high temperatures on […]
