Climate Change
Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective
This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events.
This sixth edition...
From Heat Waves to Hurricanes: What We Know About Extreme Weather...
By NADJA POPOVICH
SEPT. 15, 2017
It’s been a hectic end to summer, meteorologically speaking.
Back-to-back hurricanes raked Texas, Florida and the Caribbean. A Labor...
Climate of Fear
by John Davis
March 15, 2018
In The Atlantic, November 1, 2007, Cornell West wrote that “Niggerization is the wholesale attempt to impede democratization – to turn...
On Trump, US-Russian relations and the state of the World |...
Belgian journalist Michel Collon, Greek journalist and former member of SYRIZA Secretariat Dimitris Konstantakopoulos and ex-senior CIA Analyst Ray McGovern debate Trump, East-West relations and the...
Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at the UN headquarters (Dec. 2017)
Speaking at the United Nation’s Geneva headquarters today (December 8, 2017), Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leader of the Labour Party, made the following statement.Thank you...
Two Minutes to Doomsday
by Robert Hunziker
January 30, 2018
Not since 1953, when the U.S. and the Soviets exploded thermonuclear bombs, has the world been such a powder keg!
Only...
Deadly heat waves could hit South Asia this century
Without action, climate change could devastate a region home to one-fifth of humanity, study finds.
By David L. Chandler
August 2, 2017
In South Asia, a region...
‘Personally, I Would Rate the Likelihood of Staying Under Two Degrees...
By David Wallace-Wells
Professor at Princeton, Michael Oppenheimer was the longtime chief scientist of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate and Air program, and was an...
Decreasing cloud cover drives the recent mass loss on the Greenland...
By Stefan Hofer, Andrew J. Tedstone,Xavier Fettweis and Jonathan L. Bamber
Published 28 Jun 2017
Abstract
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has been losing mass at an...
Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change: NOAA and AMS Issue Annual...
by Jeff Atkins
Posted December 23, 2016
The attribution of extreme events to human-induced climate change—what is termed anthropogenic climate change—has been a burgeoning scientific frontier...