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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 10, 2025
My first memory of a major hurricane was Hurricane Isabel making landfall in North Carolina in 2003. Pursuing that love, I went on to study and earn my PhD in atmospheric science.
Circle of Blue
JULY 23, 2025
Back in 2003, when researchers began predicting with excellent accuracy how much of western Lake Erie would be coated with the green slime of a toxic algae bloom, there were important points to be made. They will be answered this summer by Congress, which is considering President Trump’s proposal to cut NOAA’s budget by $2.1
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Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Purported updates to these series were themselves plagued by arithmetic errors which negated their conclusions ( Laut, 2003 ). If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. 801-812, 2003. 27489-27492, 2000. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali , vol.
Real Climate
MARCH 4, 2021
Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns. Ammann and Naveau (2003) ).
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 20, 2023
The lightest lines are from the earliest projections, the lightest grey being from 1977, and the darker colors are later with the black line being from 2003. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s Source: Supran et al., The company’s own research estimated that to prevent the average temperature from rising beyond 2 degrees Centigrade (3.6
Breezometer
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
A leading global expert on weather and climate, Dr. Shepherd is the Director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program and Full Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. Stephanie Abrams has worked as an on-air meteorologist for The Weather Channel since 2003. Dr. Marshall Shepherd. Eric Blake. Angela Fritz.
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