The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021
Jan 11, 2022 · The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021. The most extreme heat wave in modern history, a record four $20 billion-plus weather disasters, and the hottest month on record globally highlighted a remarkable year in weather and climate. A pyrocumulonimbus cloud – a thunderstorm cloud created by the intense heat from a massive ...
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How climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous
Jul 8, 2019 · Generally, the increase in rainfall follows the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, which dictates that for every one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) increase, the atmosphere can hold 7% more moisture. This increase in moisture and rainfall does not fall uniformly; in tropical cyclones this effect is boosted.
Eye on the Storm - Yale Climate Connections
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 ...
Scientists agree: Climate change is real and caused by people
Feb 17, 2022 · [Leer en español aquí] The scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that it is human-caused is strong. Scientific investigation of global warming began in the 19th century, and by the early 2000s, this research began to coalesce into confidence about the reality, causes, and general range of adverse effects of global warming.This conclusion was drawn from studying air and ...
Electric cars vs. gasoline cars: Which is better for climate change ...
Jul 8, 2021 · He says the results are clear. Even with the current electricity mix in the United States, driving using electricity is cleaner than gasoline. And Reichmuth says that as the country transitions from fossil fuels to clean energy, electric cars will have lower emissions in each year that goes by. “So effectively, electric cars already on the ...
What the latest science says about Antarctica and sea-level rise
Feb 23, 2022 · If the Earth’s temperature were to rise to 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 F) above pre-industrial levels, a third of Antarctica’s ice shelves could become destabilized and would be at risk of collapse, according to an April 2021 paper in Geophysical Research Letters. About 193,000 square miles (500,000 square kilometers) of these ice shelves — an ...
Pros and cons of fracking: 5 key issues - Yale Climate Connections
May 27, 2015 · A brief guide to sorting out the plusses and minuses of key fracking issues. There’s an issue where the underlying science remains a political football, and scientists are regularly challenged and called out personally. Where energy needs and short-term economic growth are set against our children’s health and future.
Climate change and droughts: What’s the connection?
May 11, 2023 · Climate change, namely rising average temperatures driven by human-generated emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, is contributing to droughts, too. Drought conditions across the contiguous United States as of August 10, 2021. Around 40% of the U.S. is experiencing drought. (Source: U.S. Drought Monitor/Drought.gov)
Coming to grips with pros and cons of more nuclear power
Dec 16, 2021 · The false promise of nuclear power in an age of climate change (Robert Jay Lifton and Naomi Oreskes, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists).; Why small modular nuclear reactors won’t help counter the climate crisis (Environmental Working Group).; Small modular nuclear reactors are mostly bad policy (Michael Barnard, Clean Technica).; One main argument in favor of nuclear power is that we’ll ...