By Jeff Masters1 January 2016 (Weather Underground) – Category Five: the phase evokes an almost reverential awe in novice and seasoned hurricane watchers alike, as one considers the incredible power and majesty of these most perfect but terrifyingly destructive storms on the planet. As we look back on the year in weather, a striking feature […]
20 December 2015 (EDF) – Aerial footage filmed 17 December 2015, shows potent, climate-damaging methane gases escaping from a massive natural gas leak at a storage facility in California’s Aliso Canyon, with the San Fernando valley pictured in the background. The giant methane plumes were made visible by a specialized infrared camera operated by an […]
By Karen Graham 3 December 2015 (Digital Journal) – The southern pine bark beetle is a tenacious critter, native to the forests of the southern United States, Mexico, and Central America. While it’s always been present in Honduran forests, climate change has vastly increased the beetle’s numbers. The sudden explosion of southern pine beetles this […]
By Amy Lieberman and Susanne Rust 31 December 2015 (Los Angeles Times) – A few weeks before seminal climate change talks in Kyoto back in 1997, Mobil Oil took out a bluntly worded advertisement in the New York Times and Washington Post. “Let’s face it: The science of climate change is too uncertain to mandate […]
By Latika Bourke28 December 2015 (Stock & Land) – Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by nearly 1 per cent in 2015, a federal government report quietly released in the lead-up to Christmas showed. The Climate Council said the increase showed Australia urgently needed to transition to renewables and justified calls for a worldwide moratorium on […]
By Marlowe Hood 28 December 2015 PARIS (AFP) – Deadly extreme weather on at least five continents is driven in large part by a record-breaking El Niño, but climate change is a likely booster too, experts said Monday. The 2015-16 El Niño, they added, is the strongest ever measured. “It is probably the most powerful […]
22 December 2015 (Department of the Environment) – Figure 5 shows domestic emissions by sector. The key changes expected in emissions by sector to 2019–20 are: expected growth in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production will result in emissions from this subsector increasing by over 27 Mt CO2-e. This represents around three quarters of the expected […]
22 December 2015 (MSN) – 2015 saw some extreme weather stories — from drought in California to floods in Chennai. Let’s take a look at some of the worst weather disasters from 2015. [more] Worst natural disasters of 2015 Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,flood,drought,hurricane,wildfire,forest fire,California,India,heatwave,pollution,Mexico
By Thomas Erdbrink18 December 2015 POUZE KHOON, Iran (The New York Times) – The early-morning sun meagerly brightened the gloom of this sad township, a collection of empty, crumbling houses along a highway through the dusty desert landscape in southeastern Iran. Until a decade or so ago, Amin Shoul would come here every year to […]
By Chris Mooney21 December 2015 (Washington Post) – In a troubling new study just out in Nature Climate Change, a group of researchers says that a warming climate could trigger a “massive” dieoff of coniferous trees, such as junipers and piñon pines, in the U.S. southwest sometime this century. The study is based on both […]
