by Admin | Oct 18, 2017 | Climate Change
Everyone is talking about how climate change is influencing weather patterns in the Atlantic, where several intense hurricanes have wreaked havoc in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. But what about drylands? Does climate change affect them,...
by Admin | Sep 27, 2017 | Climate Change, Resources
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, a lot of attention has been given to extreme rainfall and weather events as signs that climate change is real. But what many people haven’t been paying attention to are the changes in non-extreme precipitation...
by Admin | Jul 19, 2017 | Climate Change
You’d have to be living under a rock not to know that a 1 trillion-ton iceberg calved off the Larsen C Ice Shelf of Antarctica some time between July 10 and July 12. But what does this mean in terms of the Earth’s climate? Did the release of the iceberg mean that the...
by Admin | Jul 12, 2017 | Climate Change, Information
Climate change deniers and skeptics have long used satellite data to back up their arguments. This is because the data showed lower temperatures than those recorded on the ground. However, new research may be knocking the wind out of climate skeptics’ sails. Dr. Carl...
by Admin | Jul 5, 2017 | Climate Change
In January of 2016, an area of roughly 300,000 square miles—twice the size of California—in Antarctica had an extreme melting event. The cause of the melt was warm winds blowing over the continent forced by an especially strong El Niño. The warm spell lasted more than...
