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January sets record for world’s most unusually warm month
Posted by Mashable: None Given on February 16th, 2016
Mashable: Global warming went into overdrive in January, leading to astounding temperature records.
January was the globe's most unusually warm month ever recorded, and the past three months have been the most unusually warm three-month period on record as well, according to new findings from NASA.
January was also the warmest such month on record, NASA found, in preliminary data released this weekend by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
The data, which is subject to adjustment...
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Unusually warm Arctic winter stuns scientists with record low ice extent for January
Posted by Mashable: None Given on February 7th, 2016
Mashable: Right about now, Arctic sea ice should be building up toward its annual maximum, making most of the region impenetrable to all but the most hardened icebreakers. Instead, January and indeed much of the winter so far has been unusually mild throughout large parts of the Arctic.
A freak storm brought temperatures to near the freezing point, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit, near the North Pole for a short time in late December and early January, and other storms have repeatedly acted like space heaters...
The blizzard of 2016 was influenced by manmade global warming
Posted by Mashable: None Given on January 27th, 2016
Mashable: The blizzard of 2016 was an exceptional storm that broke all-time snowfall records in multiple locations. Yet for many people it hit, this storm was not a complete shock; a string of severe winter storms have slammed the East Coast in recent years.
This could be random chance, since the atmosphere does tend to unleash more major winter storms during some decades compared to others. Or it could be due to another factor: Manmade global warming could be tilting the scale in favor of exceptional snowfall...
This barren desert was once Bolivia’s second-largest lake
Posted by Mashable: None Given on January 25th, 2016
Mashable: Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what was once Bolivia's second-largest lake. Beetles dine on bird carcasses and gulls fight for scraps under a glaring sun in what marshes remain. Lake Poopó was officially declared evaporated last month. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have lost their livelihoods and left the area. High on Bolivia's semi-arid Andean plains at 3,700 meters (more than 12,000 feet) and long subject to climatic whims, the shallow saline lake has essentially...
Blizzard of 2016 lives up to the hype, and then some
Posted by Mashable: None Given on January 23rd, 2016
Mashable: Call it what you want to: The Blizzard of 2016, Winter Storm Jonas or Snowzilla. The fact is that for tens of millions of people from New York to the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia, this storm lived up to -- and even exceeded -- the days of hype leading up to it.
In New York City, for example, millions of residents went to bed on Friday night expecting to wake up to a few inches of snow, only to find a raging blizzard outside. The storm is the No. 2 snowstorm on record in...
Warmest Christmas Eve the East Coast has ever seen shattering record
Posted by Mashable: None Given on December 25th, 2015
Mashable: The world's hottest year is ending in the most fitting manner possible: with one of the most significant heat waves on record for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The heat extends more than 1,500 miles, from South Florida northward to eastern Canada, and is being described on social media -- in non-technical terminology -- as a "blowtorch" weather pattern.
Or, in the words of a meteorologist at the National Weather Service forecast office in Portland, Maine: "It is safe to say Santa should wear...
No, NASA has not reversed itself on dangerous melting of Antarctica
Posted by Mashable: None Given on November 4th, 2015
Mashable: Many of the scientific studies published in the past two years on the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet can best be characterized as anxiety-inducing, if not outright panic-causing.
Studies have shown that huge chunks of the continent may be far more unstable than previously thought, and more susceptible to melting from manmade climate change and other factors. This is especially the case with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the glaciers along the Antarctic Peninsula.
See also: Paris Climate...
Historic Hurricane Patricia strikes Mexico vicious Category 5 storm
Posted by Mashable: None Given on October 23rd, 2015
Mashable: Hurricane Patricia, the strongest storm on record in the Western Hemisphere, made landfall near Cuixmala along the coast of western Mexico at 6:15 p.m. CT with maximum sustained winds of 165 miles per hour.
After slamming the coast, Patricia moved inland about 50 miles northwest of Manzanillo with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph, a slight decrease since landfall, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm weakened further by 10 p.m. PT, with maximum sustained winds dropping to 130...
Arctic research ship probes frigid depths and 4th-lowest sea ice extent on record
Posted by Mashable: None Given on September 17th, 2015
Mashable: Through Sept. 11 of this year, the Arctic -- which serves a crucial role as the Northern Hemisphere's refrigerator -- lost an area of sea ice nearly equal to the states of Texas, California, Montana and New Mexico combined. This led to the fourth-lowest sea ice extent on record since satellite data began in 1979, continuing the long-term decline in summertime ice cover throughout the Arctic.
Both the southerly route of the famed Northwest Passage through Canada and the Northern Sea Route north...
Obama addresses criticisms of Arctic oil drilling ahead of Alaska trip
Posted by Mashable: None Given on August 29th, 2015
Mashable: President Barack Obama is will be arriving in Alaska on Monday for a three-day tour of the state, which will become the longest trip to the state by a sitting president and make him the first president to visit the Arctic Circle.
During this week's address centered around the trip, Obama highlighted his reasons for the visit. Aside from Alaska's beautiful scenery, Obama's focus will be working with Alaskan communities as well as foreign Arctic countries in order to address the impacts of climate...