WASHINGTON (AP) — To understand what really works as countries try to combat climate change, researchers examined 1,500 ways countries have tried to reduce heat-trapping gases. Their answer: Many have failed. And success often means someone has to pay a price, whether at the gas station or elsewhere. According to a new study published Thursday… Read More »
Susan Solomon was born and raised in Chicago and received her PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his work in the 1980s that revealed how the Earth’s protective ozone layer was being depleted by man-made chemicals. Their work formed the basis of the 1989 Montreal protocol, an… Read More »
Last summer’s 2015 Paris Agreement, which aimed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, has already been violated. SoilThe hottest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2000 years. More specifically, new estimates from tree ring records show that the summer of 2023 is 2.07 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial… Read More »
The worst-ever floods in sweltering Brazil have killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of nearly 4 million. In India, voters and politicians in the world’s biggest election are fainting as heat reaches 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heatwave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people in Thailand and set… Read More »
Climate models are some of the most complex pieces of software ever written, capable of simulating many different parts of the overall system, such as the atmosphere or ocean. Many have been developed by hundreds of scientists over decades and are constantly being added to and improved upon. They can run more than a million… Read More »
Meteorologists say that as clouds spread, rain can fall, but it doesn’t actually produce downpours or flooding; At least it’s not like the one that drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai. Even though cloud seeding is decades old, it is still controversial in the weather community, largely because it has been difficult to… Read More »
Deep’s underwater habitat, Sentinel, will enable humankind to survive 656 ft below the waves – Deep Beautiful, terrifying and unfathomably vast, the world’s oceans are some of the least understood places on the planet. There are things out there we don’t know, to say the least, and since it’s a fundamentally inhospitable place, exploration has… Read More »
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Earth was record warm in January for the eighth month in a row, according to the European climate agency. That was evident in the northern United States, where nearly 1,000 people played golf in snow-covered Minneapolis last month during what the state calls the “Lost Winter of 2023-24.” According to… Read More »
A handful of super-strong tropical storms in the past decade and the possibility of more have led several experts to propose a new category of major hurricanes: Category 6. Research shows that the strongest tropical storms are becoming more intense due to climate change. So the traditional five-category Saffir-Simpson scale, developed more than 50 years… Read More »