Scientific American

JULY 23, 2025

On July 23 more than 35 million people are at a major or extreme risk of heat effects , according to the National Weather Service , a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Long periods of summer heat are becoming more common as climate change continues to unfold. in the coming week, meteorologists warn.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Your morning newscasters or social media feeds typically give you “ stay cool ” tips in advance of a heat wave, or a hurricane warning for your coastal city may show you maps or list areas under mandatory evacuation order due to projected dangerous storm surge.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As a result of fossil fuel-driven climate change, it’s on track to be the warmest year in recorded history. In Brazil, the world’s largest grassland caught fire; a rapid attribution study found the fire to be 40% more intense due to climate change. 2024 will be a year to remember.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

February 12, 2025 In parts of the United States, theres no relief from climate change. A fortnight after calamitous wildfire swept across the Los Angeles region , forecasters are warning of four days of terrible flooding in southern and northern California caused by an approaching atmospheric river. ever produced.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

On the ground, firefighters are using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites for wildfire monitoring in real time. Today, those duties are carried out by the National Weather Service (NWS), housed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce. But guess what?

2010

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

From that year forward, the agency predicted, the use of the dirtiest fuel to generate electricity would steadily decline, carrying with it planet-healing reductions in climate-changing air emissions and water-polluting discharges. At the time, the IEA forecast appeared sound.

Clean Energy

Scientific American

JULY 28, 2025

—nearly three quarters of the population—are experiencing moderate, major or extreme risk of heat effects on July 28, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service. National Weather Service/NOAA More than 250 million people in the U.S.—nearly and Charlotte, N.C.

2025

Scientific American

JULY 14, 2025

But climate change is warming once cool waters, and vibriosis cases have been relentlessly spreading northward. Climate change is extending summer seasons, encouraging more recreational water use and thus raising the risk of exposure. coastlines, particularly the Gulf Coast. Gulf Coast during the warmer months.

Ocean

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

First, some background drawing from my previous posts: Solar geoengineering (SG) is a set of technological interventions in the climate system being discussed, which could provide quick, temporary, imperfect relief for severe near-term climate change impacts. OMG, climate change must be even worse than I thought.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2025

A heat dome is an exceptionally warm air mass that forms when a strong high pressure system in the upper atmosphere “sits” in one spot for days or even weeks. Our friends at Climate Central have developed a tool that quantifies the role of climate change in the near-term heat forecast—and generally finds it to be ubiquitous and overwhelming.

Cooling

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

February 12, 2025 In parts of the United States, theres no relief from climate change. A fortnight after calamitous wildfire swept across the Los Angeles region , forecasters are warning of four days of terrible flooding in southern and northern California caused by an approaching atmospheric river. ever produced.

Carbon Emissions

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

When organic waste is packed into landfills, a lack of aeration (introducing oxygen) renders it unable to decompose, causing it to emit larger quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Therefore, finding ways to reduce food waste is essential in neutralizing climate change.

Waste

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

East Coast to the North Atlantic, where it cools, sinks and then moves south. This exchange plays a key role in weather and climate. Atmospheric modeling programs have predicted its decline, and now the Atlantics circulation is the lowest in about 1,500 years.

2018

Nature

JULY 7, 2025

If today’s atmosphere contains such a high proportion of old carbon, it would have consequences for assessments of anthropogenic CO₂, which assume that natural sources have higher levels of 14 C. Nature 642 , 105–111; 2025 ) shows that 59% of the carbon dioxide released by rivers originates from millennia-aged reservoirs. per year only $3.90

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

These dire circumstances have not yet come to pass, but the Trump administration’s extensive and ongoing attacks on science, including further cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) threatened in the Presidents skinny budget , make it a likely scenario during this year’s Danger Season.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

MAY 29, 2025

As a technology that produces no climate-changing gases and uses much less water to operate, this next generation of electricity-generating reactors makes a lot of sense. Our job was to explain how cooling water pumps failed and valves ignored control center commands early on March 28, 1979. and around the world.

Nuclear Power

Environmental News Bits

JULY 28, 2025

People across the United States are in for another scorcher of a summer, according to an outlook from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The agency predicts “hotter-than-average” temperatures, a trend that is becoming increasingly common as climate change worsens.

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Do you remember the first time that climate change really entered your consciousness? Ive been working for climate solutions ever since. But as part of the climate movement, you also know that climate change is the context in which all of these crises are unfolding. We have to stop them.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2025

The Trump administration proposed this month to allow coal-fired power plants to pour more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere. Coal-fired plants consume enormous quantities of fresh water for cooling. Climate-changing gases heat the atmosphere, adding to the burden of dangerous drought and flooding storms.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2025

1: Of course it’s climate change Our friends at Climate Central show with their Climate Shift Index that this week’s heat over the Eastern US was made 3 to 5 times more likely because of climate change. Our climate has already changed. Our climate is still changing and at an accelerating rate.

2025

Scientific American

JULY 25, 2025

On July 25 the East Coast is bearing the brunt of the heat, with more than 80 million people at major or extreme risk of heat effects , according to the National Weather Service , a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And as the coming days unfold, the southeastern U.S.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

One of the most alarming casualties is the federal government and external scientists’ ability to use science to address the existential threat of climate change. Pulling the plug on climate and clean energy progress The Trump administration wants to eliminate completely NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

These conditions are extremely dangerous—and have already been deadly this summer —to anyone without cooling and hydration. Eighty-six percent of Americans say extreme heat is increasing their concern about climate change, and 89% see it as a serious health risk. This results in more droughts.

Politics

Yale E360

MAY 18, 2023

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather. Read more on E360 →

Cooling

Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

As predicted in 1967 by Manabe and Wetherald , the stratosphere has been cooling. Until relatively recently, there were some discrepancies in what the climate trends were from these instruments because of the usual issues with remote sensing – instrument trends, orbital shifts, inter-satellite calibration etc.

Cooling

Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

An AMOC weakening by 15 % thus cools the region at a rate of 0.15 x 10 14 W and according to model simulations can fully explain the observed cooling trend (2). So in comparison, the cooling effect of a 15 % AMOC slowdown is over 1,000 times larger than the direct cooling effect of the Greenland meltwater.

Cooling

Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

This warming is mostly from natural greenhouse gases, mind you, but we’re adding approximately 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year , significantly increasing the warming effect. But the sun’s production of energy does change noticeably—over hundreds of millions of years.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: How Anglers Are Responding Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative.

Climate Change

Yale E360

AUGUST 12, 2021

Read more on E360 ?.

Cooling

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

Atmosphere

Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

First, the cooling from the reflective materials they will inject, for which they are already selling carbon credits, charging $10 per gram of SO 2 released (!) Those following debates on active climate interventions have been expecting – and worrying about – something like this for a few years. Could this activity change the climate?

Cooling

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? There is another important aspect to what is sometimes called “committed warming,” “climate inertia,” or “zero emissions commitment,” an aspect I wrote about over a decade ago. As I noted in my article, that may still produce a backlash against continued climate action.

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather. Read the full story from e360.

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California is no stranger to the impacts of climate change. From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. Vapor pressure deficit is closely related to temperature and climate change is causing temperatures to rise.

Climate Change

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. Background.

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

But with estimates suggesting that sea level rise will affect more than one billion people around the world in the next 25 years, this is one member of the dysfunctional climate change family that shouldn’t be ignored. Cool, right?) Why is this? Read on for the science you need to know about sea level rise, in seven parts.

Sea Level

Real Climate

MARCH 5, 2023

I had reason to be reviewing the history of MSU satellite retrievals for atmospheric temperatures recently. Remember ‘satellite cooling’?]. This was before Wentz and Schabel (1998) pointed out that orbital decay in the NOAA satellites was imparting a strong cooling bias (about 0.12 Climatic Change , vol.

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