Back-to-back La Niñas cooled globe and influenced extreme weather in 2011
Worldwide,
2011 was the coolest year on record since 2008, yet temperatures
remained above the 30 year average, according to the 2011 State of the
Climate report released by NOAA. The peer-reviewed report was compiled
by 378 scientists from 48 countries around the world. It provides a
detailed update on global climate indicators, notable weather events and
other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and
instruments on land, sea, ice and sky.
No matter how you drill it, using natural gas as an energy source is a
smart move in the battle against global climate change and a good
transition step on the road toward low-carbon energy from wind, solar
and nuclear power. That is the conclusion of a new study by Cornell
Professor Lawrence M. Cathles, published in the most recent edition of
the peer-reviewed journal Geochemistry, Geophysics
The combination of melting sea ice and global atmospheric warming are
contributing to the high rate of warming in the Arctic, where
temperatures are increasing up to four times faster than the global
average, a new University of Melbourne study has shown. Professor Ian
Simmonds from the University of Melbourne's School of Earth Sciences
co-authored the study and said the new information showed
On this July 4th week, U.S. beachgoers are thronging their way to
seaside resorts and parks to celebrate with holiday fireworks. Across
the horizon and miles out to sea toward the north, the Atlantic Ocean's
own spring and summer ritual is unfolding: the blooming of countless
microscopic plant plankton, or phytoplankton. In what's known as the
North Atlantic Bloom, an immense number of phytoplan
A University of Saskatchewan-led international research team has
discovered that aerosols from relatively small volcanic eruptions can be
boosted into the high atmosphere by weather systems such as monsoons,
where they can affect global temperatures. The research appears in the
July 6 issue of the journal Science. Adam Bourassa, from the U of S
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, led the
As a powerful summertime storm, known as a derecho, moved from Illinois
to the Mid-Atlantic states on June 29, expanding and bringing
destruction with it, NASA and other satellites provided a look at
various factors involved in the event, its progression and its
aftermath. According to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center web site, a
derecho (pronounced "deh-REY-cho") is a widespread, long-lived wind
Drought in the United States affecting mainly corn crops will cut
forecast world production of grain this year by 23 million tonnes to
2.396 billion tonnes, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on
Thursday.
Grain market sources in Paris said that drought was also holding back
crops in southern Russia and around the Black Sea.
The FAO cut its forecast for output from the last estima