by faster | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Nature DATE: July 18, 2018 SNIP: In a paper in Nature, Chen and Tung report that the system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can explain changes in rates of global surface warming. Rather than the conventional...
by faster | May 22, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Grist DATE: May 22, 2018 SNIP: In case you couldn’t get enough extreme weather, the next 12 months or so could bring even more scorching temps, punishing droughts, and unstoppable wildfires. It’s still early, but odds are quickly rising that another El Niño —...
by faster | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: University of Arizona DATE: January 24, 2018 SNIP: Global surface temperatures surged by a record amount from 2014 to 2016, boosting the total amount of warming since the start of the last century by more than 25 percent in just three years, according to new...
by faster | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Scientific American and San Diego Tribune (video) DATE: September 15, 2017 SNIP: Deadly climate change could threaten most of the world’s human population by the end of this century without efforts well beyond those captured in the Paris Agreement....
by faster | Jul 18, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Climate Central DATE: July 18, 2017 SNIP: At the halfway point of the year, 2017 remains the second-hottest year to date — a surprise given the demise of the El Niño that helped boost temperatures to record levels last year. “Personally, I wasn’t...