by Paul Douglas | Jan 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Climate news that has caught our attention. Record Number of Billion-Dollar Disasters in 2020 for the USA. NOAA has details: “It was an extraordinary year for weather and climate events in the U.S.: The nation endured an unprecedented 22 billion-dollar disasters in...
by Paul Douglas | Jan 5, 2021 | Climate Notes, Uncategorized
Climate news that has caught our attention. Scott Kelly, NASA ISS “The Most Significant Climate Legislation Ever.” How Stimulus Bill Tackles Warming Climate. USA TODAY reports: “The mammoth spending bill Congress approved (last) Monday to curb the spiraling pandemic...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 22, 2020 | Climate Notes, Uncategorized
Climate news that has caught our attention. Dennis Onken, Twitter How Climate Change is Affecting Winter Storms. Not more storms, but the storms that do spin up (especially near the Atlantic Ocean) tend to be wetter, producing more snowfall. Here’s an excerpt from The...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 16, 2020 | Climate Notes, Uncategorized
Climate news that has caught our attention. Dr. Gavin Schmidt, NASA via Twitter 2020 Likely to End Up Hottest Year on Record. I daresay I see a trend here. NBC News has a summary: “NOAA’s calculations show that the first 11 months of 2020 were .02 degrees cooler than...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 3, 2020 | Climate Notes, Uncategorized
Climate news that has caught our attention. 2020 Hurricane Season Raising More Concerns About Climate Change. The underlying culprit is warming oceans; 93% of the additional man-made warming related to GHG emissions is going into the world’s oceans. Here’s...
by Paul Douglas | Nov 27, 2020 | Climate Notes, Uncategorized
Climate news that has caught our attention. Most People Don’t Really Understand How Climate Change Works. We are wired to experience (and appreciate) weather, not climate. Here’s an excerpt of a good explainer at Massive Science: “…Right now a...
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