Cool paper out today in GRL by Edmund Chang and Yanjuan Guo about the hurricane record. To try to estimate the number we might have missed when we had to depend on ship-board observations rather than satellites, Chang and Guo fed storm tracks from the satellite era into a simulation that included old-timey ship tracks …
Others at my work (I had nothing to do with this) offer their take on the Bingaman climate bill: What does it take to ratchet back an energy-hungry nation’s contributions to global warming? In the Senate, at least 60 votes. Among proposals now on the table, the one with the best chance of clearing that …
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Continuing our down-under theme, word that despite the Aussies’ astonishingly bad day in the Tour de France Sunday, things in the south are looking up: Families could pay less for their Christmas dinner this year as the drought eases throughout NSW, state Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald says. Announcing the best drought figures since May …
Bingaman’s bill is in the hopper: New Mexico Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman will introduce sweeping legislation today aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The bill, being introduced with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., would impose costs on industries that emit greenhouse gases, including coal, petroleum and natural gas. By reaching across the entire U.S. economy, the …
This is serious: Careers at stake with each swing, baseball players leave little to sport when it comes to their bats. They weigh them. They count their grains. They talk to them. But in towns like this one, in the heart of the mountain forests that supply the nation’s finest baseball bats, the future of …
Simon Donner observes the hurricane-wildfire link: Has the epidemic of wildfires reached the point that we need to talk about the summer fire season the way we talk about the hurricane season? Should we be as concerned, or maybe even more concerned, about the migration to the edge of the national forests as the migration …
Last night’s spectacular thunderstorm over Albuquerque is a great example of the spatial variability of the summer thunderstorm season. Lissa and I were out for a wander around sunset and saw it coming from the north, great flashes of lightning against the sunset sky. We had to stop at the market to get some breakfast …
Via Mike Campana, an interesting essay by Chris Milly about the problem climate change poses for the folks who build dams and such: I would argue, in fact, that changing climate is the new “default hypothesis,” rapidly displacing the assumption of stationarity upon which generations of hydrologists and engineers have built their careers—not to mention …
My colleague Bruce Daniels explains why the 0.87 inch of rain (and hail) that fell at my house early yesterday evening is not the monsoon.
In the June 19 Eos, Vergana and colleagues itemize the impending costs to Andean communities as glaciers, their source of water for both consumption and electricity generation, disappears as a result of climate change: These consequences are akin to a climate tax imposed by energy-intensive societies on populations that have contributed little to the climate …