| Headline |
Author |
Published |
Section |
The more the climate changes, the more they stay the same
U.K. Ministry of Defence: Global warming goes on, deniers are deluded |
Joseph Romm |
25 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The U.K.'s Met Office issued a blunt statement on Tuesday, 'Global warming goes on,' that begins: Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped has their head in the sand. The evidence is clear -- the long-term trend in global temperatures is rising, and humans are largely responsible for this rise. Global warming does not mean that each year will be warmer than the last, natural phenomena will mean that some years will be much warmer and others cooler. You only need to ... |
|
| Topics: United Kingdom, severe weather, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate change impacts, climate (all these topics) |
|
|
Barking up all the wrong trees
Oldest Utah newspaper: Bark-beetle driven wildfires comprise a vicious climate cycle |
Joseph Romm |
18 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Deseret News, owned by the Mormon Church and 'usually described as moderate to conservative' may have begun the slow march toward climate reality. A story this month titled, 'Bark beetles are feasting on Utah forests' begins: A vicious cycle is brewing in Utah: Bark beetles are killing a lot of trees in the state. Dead trees are fuel for wildfires, which experts say contributes to global warming. And climate change is now being blamed for an increased population of b ... |
|
| Topics: climate change impacts, climate science, climate, severe weather, Utah (all these topics) |
|
|
Kicking up a storm
Nature: Hurricanes are getting fiercer |
Joseph Romm |
05 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Nature has published a major analysis that supports my recent two-parter. As Nature explains: ... scientists have come up with the firmest evidence so far that global warming will significantly increase the intensity of the most extreme storms worldwide.The maximum wind speeds of the strongest tropical cyclones have increased significantly since 1981, according to research published in Nature this week. And the upward trend, thought to be driven by rising ocean tem ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate science, climate change impacts, severe weather, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
|
|
I'll Huff and I'll Puff ...
Warming seas make strong storms stronger, says new study |
|
03 Sep 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:39 PM on 03 Sep 2008 As Gustav, Hanna, Ike, and Josephine become household names, more research has been added to the ongoing debate over the impact of climate change on hurricanes. A new study published in Nature indicates that warming seas have not increased the intensity of your everyday hurricane, but have made the mightiest storms even mightier. In essence, "if the seas continue to warm, w ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Typhoon Marys and cyclone Janes
Why future Katrinas and Gustavs will be much worse, part 2 |
Joseph Romm |
03 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A lot of knee-jerk deniers (please don't write in -- I know that is redundant) misread 'part 1,' as I knew they would. I was not wading into the issue of whether global warming has already made intense tropical storms more common. That remains a great subject of debate, mostly because of the inadequacy of historical hurricane records, before the satellite era, and especially before WWII. That said, the North Atlantic seems special because much of the hurricane-formin ... |
|
| Topics: severe weather, climate change impacts, climate science, climate (all these topics) |
|
|
Stormy weather
Should environmentalists jump on climate disasters? |
Glenn Hurowitz |
03 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| There's a heated debate going on about whether environmentalists should jump on breaking climate disasters like Gustav and frame them in terms of global warming and other environmental issues. Open Left's Matt Stoller and Center for American Progress's Joseph Romm say yes, and 'anonymous environmental leader' says no (all are must-reads). In my recent book, Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party, I wrote about some research that might shed light on this question (th ... |
|
| Topics: politics, climate science, climate change impacts, severe weather, climate (all these topics) |
|
|
Hurri-cane we stop these storms?
Why global warming means killer storms worse than Katrina and Gustav, part 1 |
Joseph Romm |
03 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Hurricanes can get much, much bigger and stronger than we have so far seen in the Atlantic. The most intense Pacific storm on record was Super Typhoon Tip in 1979, which reached maximum sustained winds of 190 mph near the center. On its wide rim, gale-force winds (39 mph) extended over a diameter of an astonishing 1,350 miles. It would have covered nearly half the continental United States. 'More than half the total hurricane damage in the U.S. (normalized for infla ... |
|
| Topics: oceans, severe weather, climate change impacts, climate science, climate (all these topics) |
|
|
At Least Buy Us All Umbrellas
Science orgs plead for more funding for severe-weather preparation |
|
21 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 8:30 AM on 21 Aug 2008 More floods, storms, and droughts are a-comin', and the U.S. lacks funding to predict and prepare for 'em, say eight scientific organizations. The groups, including the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society, made a plea Wednesday for Congress and the next U.S. president to double the current budget for climate research and forecasting between ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Climate forecast: Hot and then even hotter
NOAA says July 08 was fifth warmest on record |
Joseph Romm |
18 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I know we're supposed to be going into a period of cooling, at least according to people who don't believe in the scientific method. For those who do however, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reports in its 'Climate of 2008 July in Historical Perspective': Based on preliminary data, the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the fifth warmest on record for July and the ninth warmest for the January-July year-to-date period. It is worth ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
It's raining tigers and wolves
Science: Extreme rains supercharged by warming |
Joseph Romm |
10 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Science has just published, 'Atmospheric Warming and the Amplification of Precipitation Extremes' ($ub. req'd). It concludes: Here, we use satellite observations and model simulations to examine the response of tropical precipitation events to naturally driven changes in surface temperature and atmospheric moisture content.These observations reveal a distinct link between rainfall extremes and temperature, with heavy rain events increasing during warm periods and dec ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
A harbinger of denial
The Washington Post's Joel Achenbach doesn't understand basic climate science |
Joseph Romm |
04 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Repeat after me, Joel: 'Global warming makes the weather more extreme.' If even the Bush administration accepts that basic fact of climate science, shouldn't you? I used to like Achenbach's cutesy science pieces, but his knowledge of climate science is about one or two decades old, as evidenced by his major story in The Washington Post, 'Global Warming Did It! Well, Maybe Not.' It is a typically uninformed journalistic 'backlash' piece whereby a reporter creates a ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Hot, hot heat
By century's end we can expect extremely high surface temperatures |
Joseph Romm |
31 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Sure glacier melt, sea level rise, extreme drought, and species loss get all the media attention -- they are the Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Barack Obama of climate impacts. But what about good old-fashioned sweltering heat? How bad will that be? Two little-noticed studies -- one new, one old -- spell out the grim news. Bottom line: By century's end, extreme temperatures of up to 122°F would threaten most of the central, southern, and western U.S. Even ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Sorry, delayers and enablers, part two
Climate change means worse droughts for American Southwest, Australia |
Joseph Romm |
25 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Part one presented the synopsis of the remarkable new U.S. Climate Change Science Program (a.k.a. the Bush Administration) report, Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. One central point in the synopsis is Droughts are becoming more severe in some regions, though there are no clear trends for North America as a whole ... Substantial areas of North America are likely to have more frequent droughts of greater severity. Seems pretty clear, no? Dry a ... |
|
| Topics: climate science, climate change impacts, severe weather, climate (all these topics) |
|
|
Still, waters run deep
Mainstream media misses connection between global warming and Midwest floods |
Joseph Romm |
12 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The British and the Chinese understand global warming has driven their record flooding. The United States? Not so much. Although you wouldn't know it from most U.S. media coverage, the record 'once-in-a-hundred-year flooding' the Midwest now seems to be getting every decade or so is precisely what scientists have been expecting from the warming. A 2004 analysis [PDF] by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center found an increase during the 20th century of 'precipitation ... |
|
| Topics: climate science, climate change impacts, severe weather, climate (all these topics) |
|
|
What's Your Hurricane?
Link between climate change and stronger hurricanes becomes fuzzier |
|
14 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:24 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Climate change may not in fact make hurricanes more frequent and intense, says new research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. While other climate models have reached similar conclusions, this study is notable for having as its lead author atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel, who was one of the first to suggest a link between warming and stro ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
The Spin on Hurricanes
Warming oceans lead to more frequent hurricanes, says study |
|
31 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:22 PM on 31 Jan 2008 A new study published in Nature weighs in on the effect-of-climate-change-on-hurricanes debate, postulating that a warming north Atlantic has made hurricanes stronger and more frequent. sources: The Guardian, Associated Press, Reuters, CBC News From the Archives Punt and Center. Super Bowl to be powered by renewable energy. The Consent of the Governator. ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Coming to Blows
Global warming will reduce U.S. hurricane landfall, says controversial new research |
|
23 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 9:57 AM on 23 Jan 2008 The argument over whether climate change is real has largely subsided -- and, as nature abhors a vacuum, another tiff has risen to fill its place. What effect will global warming have on hurricanes? Them's fightin' words! Various studies have suggested that climate change will increase hurricane frequency and intensity, but new research by the National Oceanic and ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Hurricanes are getting stronger -- thanks to global warming!
Climate change is increasing the frequency of Category 5 storms |
Joseph Romm |
04 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Global warming has long been predicted to make hurricanes more intense. Well, now we are seeing more intense hurricanes. Chris Mooney has a great post on the recent storm surge of Category 5 hurricanes, now that Felix has joined that once-elite club. He notes: There have now been 8 Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes in the past 5 years (Isabel, Ivan, Emily, Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Dean, Felix). There have been two Atlantic Category 5s so far this year; only three ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
Storms a brewin'
Global warming will spawn severe storms and tornados, reports NASA |
Joseph Romm |
31 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| We have known for a while that global warming is making our weather more extreme, especially extreme heat, drought, heavy rainfall, and flooding. Now we have more predictions: NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth's climate warms. Perhaps that is why we have been setting records for tornados lately. This is especially bad news for this country because, as th ... |
|
| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics) |
|
|
©2008. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense of humor®.