Drought in the Amazon
* * * Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, and the entire eastern region of the state are suffering …
Category Archives: Climate Change
More Rain Records
From Wunderground… Tropical Storm Matthew continues to dump heavy rains over Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and neighboring regions of Mexico today. …
Record Sea Temperatures in Japan: Fish Flee
From the indispensable EarthWeek Sea temperatures around Japan during August reached the warmest levels ever recorded since reliable measurements began …
Drought Conditions Upset Fall Migration
Interesting (worrisome?) note in Tom Stienstra’s Sunday outdoors column in the SF Chronicle.(Not Available online until Tuesday) Unusual migration A …
Russian Drought / Pakistan Floods / Atlantic Hurricanes
As the old song goes, the foot-bone is connected to the ankle-bone, the ankle-bone is connected to the shin-bone, the …
Don’t Fly Ryan Air
With a man this ignorant [Michael O’Leary] heading up an airline I wouldn’t feel safe in his aircraft. In an …
Plows, Plagues & Petroleum: A Review
William Ruddiman , one of the early paleoclimatologists —a climate scientist who studies climate in ages past– is the father …
Great Russian Heat Wave is Over
From Jeff Masters at Wunderblog: The Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010 ends A powerful cold front swept through Russia …
The Great Russian Heat Wave Continues
The mid-term and long-term effects of climate change are looking like they’ve become short-term this summer. Burning in Russia. Drowning …
Ice 4x Size of Manhattan Breaks off Greenland Glacier
A 100-square-mile block of ice 600 feet thick has calved off one of the largest ocean-bordering glaciers in Greenland. The …
The Devil’s Holiday: Fire and Record Heat
Update below End of July and southern California becomes the devil’s holiday resort. Fires near Tehachipi; fires near Palmdale “The …
Climate Change: 9 Minutes 41 Seconds to Understanding
From a new (to me) climate change blog worth having at your fingertips: CapitalClimate Then there’s this: Scientific evidence that …