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Geotimes
April 2003
Greg Peterson |
El Nino's future While forecasters can now predict El Nino events up to a year before they reach their peak, the impacts of long-term climate change on El Nino remain difficult to pin down.   |
Geotimes
July 2003
Christina Reed |
La Nina predicted to boost hurricane season This year's hurricane season is promising strong activity due to a confluence in time of La Nina, which is expected to arrive this summer, with a multidecadal pattern of tropical rainfall that supports hurricane activity. |
Geotimes
January 2005
Sara Pratt |
El Nino Drives Rainfall For the first time, scientists have been able to quantify the causes of year-to-year variability in global rainfall. |
Geotimes
February 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Past El Ninos Portend Future Climates A new study examining evidence of long-term variability at El Nino's source suggests the strength of the phenomenon is highly sensitive to even small changes in climate. That sensitivity could have implications for how it plays into future climate change. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Sara Pratt |
Making El Nino Predictions The phenomenon may be more predictable than previously thought, according to a new climate model tested with a century and a half of data. |
Geotimes
August 2005 |
Hurricane Outlook Updated With high activity early in the season, in addition to ripe oceanic and atmospheric conditions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revised its hurricane outlook. The new outlook indicates an increase in the number of expected hurricanes. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
2005 Was Warmest Year on Record The record-breaking number of named storms during the 2005 hurricane season may have dominated weather news, but at the same time, another record was in the making: The year now stands as the warmest on record, according to some climatologists. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Sara Pratt |
Volcanic forcing of El Ninos Research has begun to connect large volcanic eruptions with the onset of an El Nino. Now, climatologist Julian B. Adams of the University of Virginia and colleagues report in the Nov. 20 Nature that the events are likely linked in certain cases. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Prachi Patel |
Predicting the Future of Drought Prediction Better instruments and models could help scientists forecast droughts years in advance |
Geotimes
March 2007 |
Geophenomena Appalachian Mountains Becoming More Rugged... Smoke on the Water... |
Geotimes
March 2007
Katherine Unger |
Indian Ocean to Face Extreme Weather New evidence from climate patterns of the distant past suggests that Indonesia and other regions bordering the Indian Ocean may experience devastating weather extremes, from powerful monsoons to lengthy droughts. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Corroding Pipe Organs Extreme Storms as Climate Warms Hurricanes, typhoons and drought. Aspects of these extreme weather conditions may be related to global climate change, some scientists say. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Eliza Strickland |
Satellites and Supercomputers Say 6 to 10 Hurricanes Coming U.S. scientists predict a stormy season; new satellites and simulations coming too |
Geotimes
April 2005
Laura Stafford |
Drought in the Horn of Africa Eastern Africa is suffering from a severe drought for the sixth year in a row, which could endanger the upcoming harvest season and put the area at risk of famine. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick |
New Explanations for Western Drought Arizona Wildfires Four separate fires raged across Arizona at the end of June and the beginning of July. The potential for fires across the West this summer was normal to above normal, exacerbated by the region's ongoing drought. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Global Climate Affects Storms? Experts caution that drawing a direct link between climate change and hurricane behavior is not yet possible, and that the El Nino-Southern Oscillation may have more of an impact on storm intensity and occurrence. |
Geotimes
November 2004 |
Book Reviews "The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World" by Paul Roberts... "The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself, and Profit, from the Coming Energy Crisis" by Stephen Leeb and Donna Leeb... Digital Mapping in Kentucky... etc. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Michael Glantz |
What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc. |
Science News
April 11, 2009
Michel Jarraud |
Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005 |
NOAA and NASA Begin Science Experiment With UAVs The UAV Flight Demonstration Project, using GA-ASI's Altair remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), is the first time NOAA has funded a UAV Earth science demonstration mission. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Sid Perkins |
Book Review: Weather's Greatest Mysteries Solved! By Randy Cerveny In this book, climatologist Randy Cerveny provides an insider's perspective on how storms, droughts and even asteroids may have altered the course of history. |
| AskMen.com |
Global Warming: Still On The Earth is still warming, not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming, according to an analysis of global temperatures by independent statistics experts. |
Reason
October 2005
Sallie Baliunas |
Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Sandra Upson |
U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
River of Data Decodes Nile Cycles A story from the book of Genesis -- in which Joseph predicts seven years of abundant crops, followed by seven years of famine for Egypt -- drove researchers to scour centuries of water-level data for the Nile River to determine if such a cycle actually exists, and if so, what causes it. |
Information Today
April 30, 2007 |
NOAA Lab Opens 3-D Earth Site in Second Life The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration has developed a government-sponsored earth science "island" in the rapidly growing online world of Second Life. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Megan Sever |
La Nina controls Amazon floodplain A team of geologists linked the floodplain depositional layers to rapidly rising floods that occur during La Nina events in Bolivia. Rather than corresponding to annual flooding events in the rainforests, each large sediment influx corresponded to a La Nina event in the historic record. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
Scientific American
June 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Climate Change Refugees As global warming tightens the availability of water, prepare for a torrent of forced migrations. Economists, hydrologists, agronomists and climatologists will have to join forces to take the next steps in scientific understanding of this human crisis. |
Outside
March 2010
Sam Moulton |
Spring Break Wild weather makes the next couple of months the hardest time of the year to plan an adventure. To help you out, we've worked up game plans for all kinds of conditions. Your job? Just check the doppler then go. |
National Gardening
Barbara Richardson |
El Nino Forecast for Gardeners With drought conditions prevailing in nearly half the country this year, it's been a tough time for gardeners. There is some relief in sight for the southern half of the U.S. as the El Nino weather system moves in this fall and winter. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2008
Stoss & Stoss |
Heating Up for Global Warming Research and Policy The critical actions in combating global warming call for individuals, neighborhoods, communities, and geopolitical entities to implement a concept of global warming ICE. |
Scientific American
July 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Ecology and Political Upheaval Small changes in climate can cause wars, topple governments and crush economies already strained by poverty, corruption and ethnic conflict |
