Enlarge Our warming planet is melting lots of ice and heating the waters of the oceans, creating a clear trend of rising oceans. In some areas of the US, this is starting to cause what’s called nuisance flooding, where high tides cause coastal flooding even in the absence of storms. As the oceans continue to […]
Enlarge / What a difference a decade makes. Even though 2/3 of the data in the new normals is present in the previous ones, the last decade’s still been hot enough to drag the temperatures upwards. (credit: NOAA) On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a set of data it terms the […]
Enlarge / Intense wildfires were one of the climate impacts linked to the recent string of very hot years. (credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Today, NASA and NOAA are announcing that 2020 was one for the record books, tying with 2016 for the warmest year since we’ve been tracking temperatures. NASA rates 2020 as the warmest ever, […]
Enlarge (credit: NASA) The reality of climate change has frequently put the Trump administration in an awkward position. Determined to set policies that ignored climate change and staffed by political appointees that refused to accept it, the administration nonetheless found itself responsible for scientists who kept publishing reports filled with awkward facts. The administration’s response […]
Expand / David Legates discusses in a Heartland Institute occasion. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently hired a new man within an upper-level deputy assistant secretary place. Usually, that wouldn’t be overly abrupt or newsworthy, but that can be an exception. Mixing NOAA because the”Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and […]