The Northeast continues to experience heavy rain, and all eyes are turning to Category 3 Hurricane Joaquin as the next big rainmaker for much of the East Coast. It is expected to turn into a Category 4 storm some time on Thursday. … [Read more...]
Hurricane Joaquin Getting Stronger, Heading to East Coast
Hurricane Joaquin, the tenth named storm of the season, has strengthened in the Atlantic Ocean. It currently has winds of 85 mph, located 190 miles east-northeast of the Central Bahamas and is moving southwest at 6 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. … [Read more...]
Secretary Kerry Calls for Swift Action on Climate Change, Still Defends Arctic Drilling
In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, Secretary of State John Kerry defended the Obama administration’s decision to allow Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic, pushing back against claims that such a decision is at odds with the administration’s action on climate change. … [Read more...]
Countries’ U.N. Climate Pledges Aren’t Enough to Keep Warming to 2 Degrees
French foreign minister Laurent Fabius talks to delegates during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany, Monday, June 1, 2015. The targets countries have set so far to limit their contribution to climate change over the next several years won’t do enough to keep global warming below the 2°C threshold, according to a new report. … [Read more...]
A Storm’s Brewing in the North Pacific
A storm system is brewing in the North Pacific, which will help to usher in an “Autumn-like” air mass to the Northwest later this week, and the High Plains for Labor Day weekend. … [Read more...]
The Invisible Victims Of California’s Drought
Irrigation water in California. A 17 year-old pregnant farmworker died in a vineyard of heat exhaustion in the summer of 2008 in triple-digit temperatures. The nearest water cooler was a 10-minute walk and a foreman allegedly wouldn’t let her take a break to get a drink of water. … [Read more...]
Carbon Pollution Is Expanding Global Dry Zones, as Predicted
A landmark study in the journal Nature documents an expansion of the world’s dry and semi-arid climate regions since 1950 — and attributes it to human-caused global warming. This expansion of the world’s dry zones is a basic prediction of climate science. … [Read more...]
Four Hurricanes Churning in the Oceans with More Dangerous Weather Coming
Forecasters are keeping a wary eye on four hurricanes -- two of which are Category 4 -- feeding off the warm waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Hurricane triplets Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena have simultaneously formed in the central Pacific. … [Read more...]