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Welcome to “Eye on the Storm” … Weather Underground Co-Founder Dr. Jeff Masters and his long-time meteorologist and writer colleague, Bob Henson, now are both regular contributors to Yale Climate Connections, offering the kinds of timely and authoritative weather and climate analyses that have gained them many thousands of followers worldwide.
The world just broke a stunning slew of heat records. Why right …
2023年7月7日 · Hottest single days globally on record. Drawing on multi-source analyses from NOAA of daily global temperature that extend back to 1979, the Climate Reanalyzer website shows that July 3, 2023, was the warmest single day on record — only to be toppled by July 4, tied on July 5, and broken again on July 6 (see Figure 1 below). The Copernicus Climate Change Project, part of the European Center ...
1024-heat-deaths-research » Yale Climate Connections
Cue Ball (L) and Roni (2nd L), who are both unhoused, make their way toward a market amid a heat wave on July 24, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. Extreme heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes combined in an average year in the U.S. Unhoused people are at an especially high risk of heat-related illness or death.
The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021
2022年1月11日 · [en Español] The year 2021 made an indelible mark in the annals of weather history. Not only did it feature the most extreme heat wave in history – the late June heat wave over western North America that smashed all-time records by unprecedented margins – it also had four weather mega-disasters costing over $20 billion each, tied with 2017 for the most such disasters on record.
The new IPCC Report includes – get this, good news
2021年8月12日 · The report’s SSP3-7.0 pathway (the latter number represents the eventual global energy imbalance caused by the increased greenhouse effect, in watts per square meter), is considered by many experts to be a realistic worst-case scenario, with global carbon emissions continuing to rise every year throughout the 21 st century. Such an outcome would represent a complete failure of international ...
A major milestone: Global climate pollution may have just peaked
2024年7月16日 · Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same period in 2023.Many experts believe that the clean energy transition has reached the point where ...
It’s too soon to put the Atlantic hurricane season to bed
2 天之前 · Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Visible satellite image of 94L at 10:30 a.m. EDT Monday, October 14, 2024. (Image credit: tropicaltidbits.com) Hurricane activity in the Atlantic typically ...
Key takeaways from the new IPCC report - Yale Climate Connections
2021年8月9日 · A hellish northern summer laced with deadly heat waves, perilous floods, and massive wildfires may be just a preview of coming attractions, according to a blockbuster new assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The assessment lays out how the planet’s air, oceans, and ice are pushing relentlessly into new territory.
Eye on the Storm Archives » Yale Climate Connections
6 天之前 · Extreme weather events in the context of a changing climate, blending meteorology and climatology.