Sep 18 Keeping Climate Stories in Context By Hari Sreenivasan Update: 3 p.m. ET | If the amount of personal email that hit my inbox last night or the comment thread on Spencer Michel's blog post featuring Anthony Watts is any indication, many of you care in some way, shape,… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming… Continue watching
Sep 17 Climate Change Skeptic Says Global Warming Crowd Oversells Its Message By Spencer Michels // It was about 105 degrees in Chico, Calif., about three hours north of Sacramento, when we arrived at the offices of one of the nation's most read climate skeptics. Actually, Anthony Watts calls himself a pragmatic skeptic when… Continue reading
Sep 13 Are Hurricanes Linked to Climate Change? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy This polar map shows hurricane patterns since 1851. Image by John Nelson/IDVsolutions The image above uses NASA and NOAA data to show the location and intensity of every hurricane and tropical storm recorded since 1851. Continue reading
Sep 10 Third Hottest U.S. Summer Ends With a Splash of Drought Relief By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy This infographic from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center highlights some of the records set for the country this summer. Image by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The hottest July on record combined with a warmer-than-average June and August… Continue reading
Aug 24 Timeline: The Summer of Wild Weather An Indian villager watches fast-moving water during a flash flood on the outskirts of Jammu. Photo by STRDEL/AFP/GettyImages Severe weather events have devastated much of the world in recent months. Flash floods and unrelenting wildfires battered Eurasia as crops in… Continue reading
Aug 24 National Geographic's Peter Miller on Weather Gone Wild By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy [ DUE TO RIGHTS RESTRICTIONS, VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE ] National Geographic magazine's September issue looks at the impact of steadily warming temperatures and changing weather patterns on severe storms, droughts, forest fires and other extreme weather… Continue reading
Aug 22 Rain or Shine, Climate Change Pushes Farmers to the Brink By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Mother Nature has been unkind to farmers this year. Last week, the NewsHour talked to cherry farmers in Michigan who lost 90 percent of their crops when an early spring warm-up meant trees were battered by frosts after blooming… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Shifting Seasons Lead to Sour Year for Michigan Cherry Farmers Shifting Seasons Lead to Sour Year for Michigan Cherry Farmers… Continue watching
Aug 16 Drilling for Clues to Ancient Climate EmbedVideo(4168, 482, 304); On the Joides Resolution research vessel, a team of scientists study the Earth's climate history by drilling deep into the ocean floor and analyzing the deep sea dirt. Two weeks ago the… Continue reading