The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate […]
By Jim Bouldin24 October 2010 Red foliage is one thing you’re not supposed to see a lot of in western North America, any time of year. In many places in the west–particularly through the central and northern Rocky Mountains and British Columbia–there is now a lot of red foliage, but unfortunately, it’s not just in […]
By Jeffrey P. Mayor, The Tacoma News Tribune12/06/1012:01 pm The greatest threat to the busiest road in Mount Rainier National Park is the mountain itself. Receding glaciers, loose rocks and boulders, glacial outbursts and debris flows could combine to cut off Nisqually-Paradise Road. Half the 1.2 million people who typically visit the park each year […]
By Marlowe Hood – Sun Dec 5, 1:57 pm ET PARIS (AFP) – Global warming is driving forest fires in northern latitudes to burn more frequently and fiercely, contributing to the threat of runaway climate change, according to a study released Sunday. Increased intensity of fires in Alaska’s vast interior over the last decade has […]
By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Sun Dec 5, 4:59 pm ET TABI, Mexico – The first time Araceli Bastida Be heard the phrase “climate change” was on TV two years ago. Then she began to understand why strange things had been happening in her village. Tabi was in its second year of drought, and the […]
Average of annual maximum thermal stress, measured in Degree Heating Weeks (DHW), during 1985–2006. Significant coral bleaching was reported during periods with average thermal stress above 0.5°C-weeks, and was especially widespread in 1995, 1998, and 2005. Thermal stress during the 2005 event exceeded any observed from the Caribbean in the prior 20 years, and […]
By Michelle Esteban Dec 2, 2010 at 5:10 PM PST ISSAQUAH, Wash. — More than 30,000 local Coho salmon have mysteriously disappeared. They didn’t return to the Ballard Locks or local hatcheries, and local fish specialists can’t figure out what happened. This year’s Coho salmon run is so low that the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery has […]
By Richard HarrisNovember 29, 2010 When the BP oil well blew out earlier this year, the 4 million barrels that flowed into the sea didn’t simply vanish. There’s growing evidence that a good portion of it sunk to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, where some of it remains. To get to the […]
Sea surface and air temperature records for the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Sea surface temperature averages for the Gulf of St. Lawrence from May to November, from 1 km2 resolution NOAA AVHRR imagery, are available since 1985 (blue line) and show a 2ºC warming trend between a cooler and a warmer period centered around 1993. […]
By JACK HEDINNovember 27, 2010 THE news from this Midwestern farm is not good. The past four years of heavy rains and flash flooding here in southern Minnesota have left me worried about the future of agriculture in America’s grain belt. For some time computer models of climate change have been predicting just these kinds […]
