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Water woes likely to continue

Posted on January 4th by Tom Yulsman. %
As Colorado snowpack suffers, La Niña could persist into summer According to the latest forecast from the Climate Prediction Center, issued yesterday, the La Niña conditions that ...
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Global average temperature much warmer than normal in October

Posted on November 10th by Tom Yulsman. 3
January through October warmest such period in 131-year record UPDATE 11/11/10 10 a.m.: NASA GISS just published the January through October temperature anomaly map, which I've inserted below. (It's getting hotter ...
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Extreme weather in U.S. higher than normal so far this year

Posted on November 8th by Tom Yulsman.
The National Climatic Data Center is out with it's monthly State of the Climate report. Here's what may be the most notable finding: NCDC's Climate Extremes Index (CEI), which ...

Near record La Niña conditions continue

Posted on November 5th by Tom Yulsman. %
One of the strongest La Niña's ever has contributed to wildfires in Colorado and is very likely to impact U.S. weather into the spring Check out this outstanding time-lapse video of ...
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Dry conditions expand in the U.S.

Posted on September 30th by Tom Yulsman.
The percentage of the United States experiencing dry conditions has expanded significantly in the last week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. As of September 28th, slightly more ...
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How has the 2010 hurricane season stacked up?

Posted on September 24th by Tom Yulsman. %
Different answers for the N. Atlantic alone and the Northern Hemisphere overall As Hurricane Igor tore through the Atlantic, it drew a large amount of energy from anomalously warm sea ...
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Global average winter temperature fifth highest on record

Posted on March 15th by Tom Yulsman. 2
The climate bats last — another in a series From the National Climatic Data Center today: The combined global land and ocean surface temperature during December 2009 - February 2010 ranked ...
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The bad boy is back

Posted on October 15th by Tom Yulsman. %
A fresh El Niño shaping up in the Pacific will dominate U.S. weather this winter, according to a forecast from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center released on Thursday. A ...

As G-8 climate talks fail, some analysts urge a different approach

Posted on July 9th by Tom Yulsman.
At the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy today, leaders of the world's 16 biggest polluters failed to reach agreement on specific targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The failure ...
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Climate schizophrenia erupts at G-8 summit

Posted on July 8th by Tom Yulsman.
At the G-8 summit today, the world's major industrial nations agreed to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius — and simultaneously shot down failed to agree ...
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Warm conditions speed summer melt of Arctic sea ice

Posted on July 7th by Tom Yulsman.
The monthly June ice extent for 1979 to 2009 shows a decline of 3.3% per decade. (Image: National Snow and Ice Data Center)    Climate skeptics continue to Read More →

EPA grants California waiver on greenhouse gas emissions

Posted on June 30th by Tom Yulsman.
Under an EPA ruling today, the State of California will be able to impose strict limits on emissions of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. The Bush administration had turned ...

Will we take the first, small step toward grappling with climate change today?

Posted on June 26th by Tom Yulsman. %
One way or another, history will likely be made today when the House of Representatives votes on the Waxman-Markey climate and energy legislation.  The bill may not be up to the ...

If cap-and-trade is cheap, how does it stop climate change?

Posted on June 22nd by Tom Yulsman. 6
More flaws in the Waxman-Markey climate legislation emerge I've come back from vacation to find that the cap-and-trade debate rages on — today with Paul Krugman of the Times entering the ...

Why can’t we just get along?

Posted on May 28th by Tom Yulsman. 44
A couple of days ago, I noticed a steep spike in page views here at CEJournal, and it has kept up. This was puzzling because I hadn't begun to do ...