By Kate Galbraith3 July 2012 The historic Texas drought caused the Ogallala Aquifer to experience its largest decline in 25 years across a large swath of the Texas Panhandle, new numbers from a water district show. The 16-county High Plains Underground Water Conservation District reported this week that its monitoring wells showed an average decline […]
Washington, D.C. area before derecho, 28 June 2012 Washington, D.C. area after derecho, 30 June 2012 Caption by Aries Keck4 July 2012 These before and after images from NASA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite show the power outages in the clear skies over Washington, DC and Baltimore that occurred as a result of a […]
Satellite data of Greenland reflectivity 1-22 June 2012 versus the same periods in previous Junes back to 2000. The blue colors indicate a decrease in reflectivity compared to previous Junes. In a new study, Box and a team of researchers describe the decline in ice sheet reflectivity and the reasons behind it, noting that if […]
By Laura Betz, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center11 June 2012 Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean and into the U.S. and Canada. Images of data taken by the nation’s newest Earth-observing satellite tracked aerosols from the fires taking six days to reach America’s shores. Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite’s […]
By David Zucchino3 July 2012 Scientists with a state commission in North Carolina will not be permitted to issue formal predictions of sea level rise based on climate change – at least for the next four years. After enduring national ridicule for proposing a bill to outlaw any coastal sea level projections based on climate […]
4 July 2012 (MSNBC) – In the aftermath of violent storms that knocked out power to millions from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic, sweltering residents and elected officials are demanding to know why it’s taking so long to restring power lines and why they’re not more resilient in the first place. The answer, it turns […]
By Christopher C. Burt1 July 2012 After scorching portions of the West and Plains early last week, the amazing heat wave of June 2012 slid eastward on Thursday, June 28, continuing to astonish us with more all-time heat records. Below is a summary of those. […] ALL-TIME HEAT RECORDS BROKEN OR TIED JUNE 28-30 There […]
By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press3 July 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks. Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho. These […]
3 July 2012 – With power, and air conditioning, still out in nearly 1.5 million homes and businesses — and many of those not likely to be reconnected for days — the National Weather Service warned that dangerously high temperatures would hit the Midwest on Tuesday and then spread into the eastern third of the […]
By Nina Chestney; Editing by Pravin Char 2 July 2012 Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed down, climate scientists said in a study on Sunday. A lot of climate research shows that rising greenhouse gas […]
