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By The Mound of Sound, on February 26, 2015, at 9:42 pm Just in from NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. January, 2015 was the second hottest January on record. I know, I know – the Polar Vortex, all those snowstorms, – yada, yada, yada. But, you see, that’s the “global” part of global warming.
Much of central and eastern North America has been in the deep freeze for several weeks but much of the rest of the planet has been toasty. Recently Barrow, Alaska has been logging warmer temperatures that many states in the lower 48. Here’s what the world looked like in January. Red is warm, blue is (Read more…)
By Lorne, on August 8, 2014, at 12:47 pm
Posted by MoS, the Disaffected Lib:
It’s the latest term spawned by climate change – “nuisance flooding.” According to Insurance Journal, nuisance flooding is the periodic flooding being experienced due to rising sea levels.
Eight of the top 10 U.S. cities that have seen an increase in nuisance flooding – which causes such public inconveniences as frequent road closures, overwhelmed storm drains and compromised infrastructure – are on the East Coast, according to a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report.
This nuisance flooding, caused by rising sea levels, has increased on all three U.S. (Read more…)
By The Mound of Sound, on February 18, 2014, at 12:07 pm Starting this year, buyers shopping for a nice coastal dream home in the U.S. will be able to consult ‘storm surge maps’ produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That is, unless Congress kills this idea before it came come to pass.
Starting this 2014 hurricane season, NOAA’s National Hurricane Center will begin issuing an experimental graphic, Potential Storm Surge Flooding, whenever a hurricane or tropical storm creates a threat of rising water from wind. It will be found on their website. You’ll see a similar version on WKRG-TV News 5 when a storm threatens our (Read more…)
By Christine, on December 20, 2012, at 7:36 am The U.S. National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its updated Arctic Report card earlier this week. Like many other recent reports about the condition of the north, the canary in climate change coal mine, the news is sobering; new records have been set for snow extent, sea ice extent and ice sheet surface melting. [...]
By Farron Cousins, on August 15, 2012, at 1:54 pm corporate media ball chain.jpg
North America just witnessed the hottest month in the history of record keeping (about 117 years). The month of July shattered every previous record, but was certainly not a freak occurrence. So far, the first 7 months of this year have been the warmest on average since records began over a century ago. Media outlets were abuzz with coverage of floods, droughts, fires, and storms, so naturally you’d think climate change would have played a massive role in their coverage.
You’d be wrong.
A great new study by Media Matters for America shows that our
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: Media Fails Again On Climate Change Coverage During Massive Heat Waves
By Laurel Whitney, on June 2, 2012, at 12:00 am Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide.png
There's a saying that trouble comes in threes. Earlier this week, the International Energy Administration announced that emissions reached a record high last year, increasing by 1 Gt worldwide. At the Bonn climate talks, experts have warned that the window to curb a global temperature rise of more than 2 degrees is swiftly drawing to a close.
To cap it off, NOAA released the news that carbon dioxide levels have reached a new milestone this spring, tipping the scales over 400 ppm, a concentration the world hasn't seen in the last 800,000 years.
Scientists are seeing these high
. . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: 400 PPM Carbon Dioxide Concentrations Breach The Arctic
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