Is my headline an exaggeration of reality? If you ask a denier site such as Watts Up With That, no doubt they would scoff, and say it's the usual natural variability. But deniers not only ignore the bad news about global warming obvious to most people on the ground, in places like Sydney and SoCal,Continue reading “Australian Winter Turns Apocalyptic: Global Warming Blamed”
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Battle of the Headlines: “World’s Ocean Temps Warmest Ever Recorded” vs. “Arctic Sea Ice Is Again on the Rise”
The first headline for USA Today, atop veteran science writer Seth Borenstein's story for the AP, was inspired by world-wide records from the National Climactic Data Center. As the story said: WASHINGTON — The world's oceans this summer are the warmest on record. The National Climatic Data Center, the government agency that keeps weather records,Continue reading “Battle of the Headlines: “World’s Ocean Temps Warmest Ever Recorded” vs. “Arctic Sea Ice Is Again on the Rise””
The Winter Skies of Southern California
…seem to me wilder and more beautiful than at any other time of the year (save perhaps fire season, which is scary as heck but also spectacular as all get out, let's be honest). But back to winter…here's an example from last week, between storms…
Experts Agree on Rain Forecast: It’ll Be Dry. Or Not.
If you talk to the National Weather Service, they will tell you (link) that we're in an "ENSO-neutral" condition, and for that reason they're unwilling to predict the upcoming rain season in our region. But according to this typically excellent story from Rob Krier at the San Diego Union-Tribune, many forecasters who spoke at aContinue reading “Experts Agree on Rain Forecast: It’ll Be Dry. Or Not.”
The 2007-2008 La Nina: Coldest in A Decade
A nice chart by NASA of seasonal temperature anomalies, via Climate 411 and Environmental Defense, succinctly makes a point about the cold winter we just experienced, which is that the cold temps of the past couple of months…would have been normal just twenty-five years ago. For more, see the short but unusually informative post byContinue reading “The 2007-2008 La Nina: Coldest in A Decade”
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