Tag Archives: climate

Another round of weird peak-season quiet in the Atlantic tropics » Yale Climate Connections

Another round of weird peak-season quiet in the Atlantic tropics » Yale Climate Connections

We’ve arrived at the peak week of hurricane season – the traditional midpoint of the Atlantic’s yearly activity is September 10 – but you wouldn’t know it from the Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, on Monday, September 8. The headline: “Tropical cyclone activity is not expected during the next 7 days.” As we reported last …

Read More »

Disturbance 91L in the eastern Atlantic a potential long-range threat to the Lesser Antilles » Yale Climate Connections

Disturbance 91L in the eastern Atlantic a potential long-range threat to the Lesser Antilles » Yale Climate Connections

A tropical wave located a few hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands on Wednesday morning was growing more organized, and was designated Invest 91L by the National Hurricane Center Thursday morning. The wave was headed west-northwest at about 5-10 mph, and satellite imagery showed that it had a small area of heavy thunderstorms that had acquired a moderate …

Read More »

This Unlikely Chemical Could Be a Powerful Weapon Against Climate Change

This Unlikely Chemical Could Be a Powerful Weapon Against Climate Change

Year after year, humans pump more carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere than nature can remove, fueling global warming. As the need to mitigate climate change becomes increasingly urgent, scientists are developing ways to actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere in addition to cutting emissions. One of the biggest hurdles to scaling current carbon capture technologies is the vast amount …

Read More »

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest supercomputers. Critiques of climate science, such as the report written for the Department of Energy by a panel in 2025, often point to this complexity to argue that these models are …

Read More »

Over 85 scientists say Energy Dept. climate report lacks merit

Over 85 scientists say Energy Dept. climate report lacks merit

Over 85 top climate scientists on Tuesday said that the Trump Energy Department’s recent climate assessment used to justify an unwinding of federal greenhouse gas rules does not meet standards for scientific integrity. The group of scientists, led by professors Andrew Dessler from Texas A&M University and Robert Kopp from Rutgers University, submitted a more-than 400 page review of the …

Read More »

Mass Extinctions, Biodiversity Bursts, And Climate Shifts May Follow A Hidden Pattern That Spans Billions Of Years

Mass Extinctions, Biodiversity Bursts, And Climate Shifts May Follow A Hidden Pattern That Spans Billions Of Years

Earth’s history is divided up into different geological wedges of time, wedges we like to call things like epochs, periods, and eons. They’re defined by events that shaped the planet (think big extinctions and biodiversity booms), and it’s generally been accepted that the boundaries between them are randomly distributed.  The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign …

Read More »

Flesh-eating bacteria: Vibrio vulnificus cases, which cause necrotizing fasciitis, rising due to climate change, scientists say

Flesh-eating bacteria: Vibrio vulnificus cases, which cause necrotizing fasciitis, rising due to climate change, scientists say

NEW ORLEANS — Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just like he had done thousands of times before. This time, he noticed a tiny scratch on his leg – a scratch that nearly cost him his life. …

Read More »

30-Year-Old Climate Predictions Were Shockingly Accurate, Study Finds

30-Year-Old Climate Predictions Were Shockingly Accurate, Study Finds

Icebergs in Disko Bay (West Greenland) discharged by the Jakobshavn Isbrae, one of the fastest moving outlet glaciers in the world. Mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has contributed nearly 2 cm (three quarters of an inch) to global sea-level rise over the past three decades. Credit: Torbjörn Törnqvist/Tulane University Satellites confirm that mid-1990s climate projections of sea-level rise …

Read More »