The circulation of high pressure air, or “heat dome,” that toasted Europe in the past couple of weeks is now hovered over Greenland, the home of the planet’s most important sheet. How important?
Category: Climate Change
Are We At The Breaking Point?
It’s said that every generation feels that the world is at a crossroads, and that it’s incumbent upon them to do the right thing about something, whether that something is abolition, women’s suffrage, civil rights, banning nuclear weapons, or any …
Fabulous Climate Change Video Boasts a Touch of Humor Along With Scientific Rigor
The video below is one of many made by a brilliant young man, Derek Muller, under the name of his YouTube channel “Veritasium,” with its 5.9 million subscribers.
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The Lighter Side of Climate Change
As the Arctic melts and huge glaciers break free there are bound to be a few wild moments. Imagine you live in this town, only to notice that a 300-foot hunk of ice is making its way past you, a …
Climate Change and a Letter To Our Future
In Western culture, the concept of a “time capsule,” the tucking away of writing and artifacts to be opened at a later date, goes back at least to the 18th Century.
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Effects of Global Warming Include….
When we think about climate change, we often consider the indirect effects of all that heat, creating things like droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, famines and the like, but we sometimes overlook the heat itself and its direct effect on the …
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Climate Change and Probability Theory
Here’s another exercise for those who like to play with probability and statistics. In 139 years of record-keeping, this June was the warmest June ever recorded, but it also revealed something more troubling: each of the last five January through …
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Climate Change: Shockingly Low Awareness
In this article, 87 Percent of Americans Unaware There’s Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, we see the result of surveys conducted by Yale and George Mason Universities.
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Her Highness Moves Earth for a Good Purpose
It’s common knowledge that planting trees (and stopping mass deforestation) is one of the most important tools in preventing environmental collapse. What most of us don’t know is that the Queen of England is perfectly comfortable wielding with the Royal …
Climate Change Risks Compound With One Another
Here’s an excellent article describing some unanticipated consequences of climate change. When I saw it, I commented: Humankind will never completely understand the dynamics associated with climate disasters, simply because weather is intrinsically chaotic.
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