By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE6 May 2013 THE HAGUE (The New York Times) – If uncertainty runs rampant in the global-warming debate, it is in part because scientific data is often too complex to be well understood by anyone but climate scientists. This month, however, the world is likely to reach a scientific milestone that appears […]
By Tina Susman6 May 2013 NEW YORK (Los Angeles Times) – It has been six months since Donna Graziano packed a barbecue into her car, drove 15 miles from her Brooklyn home to Staten Island, and began cooking for residents of a neighborhood ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. Her one-woman effort in a seaside park expanded […]
By Patrick Wintour2 May 2013 (The Guardian) – Ed Davey, the energy secretary, has written a private letter to Michael Gove, the education secretary, urging him to rethink his plans to downgrade climate change in the new national curriculum. Amid protests from environmentalists and some students, Gove has removed debate about climate change from the […]
By John Upton3 May 2013 (Grist) – Republican voters are told over and over by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and GOP leaders in Congress that climate change is a sham, a scare campaign orchestrated by scientists with liberal agendas. Ergo, Republicans are less likely than others to believe that fossil-fuel burning is changing the climate. […]
Contact: Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Kathryn Hansen Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-1046 kathryn.h.hansen@nasa.gov 3 May 2013 WASHINGTON (NASA) – A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought. The study shows for the first time how rising carbon dioxide concentrations […]
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News4 May 2013 (NBC News) – Record-setting temperatures, erratic winds and a parched landscape spell a dangerous fire season for California, experts said on Friday as firefighters fought to control several large blazes of a kind that usually would not raise thick plumes of smoke over the horizon until […]
By William Marsden 3 May 2013 WASHINGTON (Postmedia News) – A year of strange and often devastating weather that included extreme hurricanes, drought and wildfires appears to have increased the number of Americans who want government action on climate change, a new study shows. Unfortunately, researchers say, this higher level of global-warming awareness is […]
(Climate Commission) – The length, extent, and severity of this heatwave are unprecedented since records began. This is the longest period ever for such persistently high temperatures. For seven days running, from 2–8 January 2013, the average daily maximum temperature for the whole of Australia was over 39 °C, easily breaking the previous record of […]
GENEVA, 2 May 2013 (WMO) The World Meteorological Organization’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record despite the cooling influence of a La Niña episode early in the year. The 2012 global land and […]
By Andrew Freedman 3 May 2013 (Climate Central) – The last time there was this much carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere, modern humans didn’t exist. Megatoothed sharks prowled the oceans, the world’s seas were up to 100 feet higher than they are today, and the global average surface temperature was up to 11°F […]
