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Is This the Year CO2 hits 400 PPM?
Could be. Look at the trend, courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Last month’s reading at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 395.55 parts per million in January...
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“What Global Warming?” asks North Country New York. This Global Warming,...
In a February 12 2015 letter to the editor of New York State’s North Country Now, an anonymous reader asks, “What Global Warming? Whatever happened to global warming? I feel short changed!” You see,...
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How Many in the Sea? Automatic Detection of Ribbon Seals
In 2008, J. Clifford wrote about the delisting of the ribbon seal under the Endangered Species Act, noting that the Bush administration was late in its determination but admiring the unusual deference...
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NOAA: Globally, the First Four Months of 2015 were the Hottest on Record
One town’s weather is not the same as global climate. It’s easy to lose track of the difference because as humans we pay more attention to what we see with our own eyes and pay less attention to what...
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2015 Global Temperature Data Smash All-Time Record, UK Conservative Newspaper...
You may have heard today’s news from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but just in case you haven’t: Around the globe, 2015 was the hottest year on record in NOAA’s temperature...
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It’s official: the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has crunched the numbers and confirmed that yes, 2015 was the hottest month on record, and last month, December 2015, was the...
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Is it Snowier than it Used to Be? The Answer Depends on When You Ask.
NOAA’s climate data, newly revamped in its presentation, is utterly fascinating to me. Today I’ve been looking at NOAA’s snow cover data, which is provided courtesy of Rutgers University’s Global Snow...
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Whose Side is God On? The NOAA Test
Here we are in the 21st Century. We have hoverboards, virtual reality implants, hotels on the Moon… … and still we have some people insisting that tornadoes are an instrument of God’s judgement: If...
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400 ppm? If Only! Carbon Dioxide Increase Reached Record High in 2015
Back in February 2013, I asked, “Is This the Year CO2 hits 400 PPM?” It wasn’t, quite: atmospheric carbon dioxide in the gold-standard record from atop Mauna Loa, Hawaii first hit 400 parts per million...
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Climate News In A February Gone Crazy
Here’s the good news: Donald Trump has not decommissioned Climate.gov yet. Here’s the bad news: The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting on Climate.gov that, by the end...
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