ice ages that climate scientists came to understand the dominant role that carbon dioxide plays in Earth's climate system, and the primary role that human-produced carbon dioxide is playing in current ...

basin. And it also marked the first time that two major hurricanes (Kilo and Ignacio) existed in the central Pacific Ocean at the same time. Hurricane Jimena was the strongest of the bunch, with wind ...

from the 2014 BAMS State of the Climate report, the map shows precipitation across the globe in 2014 compared to the 1988-2010 average. The map shows areas with below-average precipitation (brown) and ...

experience, is Climate Smart. From Asheville, North Carolina, I'm Deke Arndt. ___ Links . In stark contrast to last year, March 2013 cooler than average in U. S. March 2013 Global Temperature ...

in the satellite record. Change Over Time. Overall, since satellite-based measurements began in the late 1970s, Arctic sea ice extent has decreased in all months and virtually all regions, with the ex ...

of the Equator, but this season started out very dry in the Horn of Africa. What's unfolding in the climate system thousands of miles away could deliver the rain that farmers and herders depend on to ...

Perovich, D. K., W. Meier, J. Maslanik, and J. Richter-Menge, 2012: [The Arctic] Sea ice cover [ in "State of the Climate in 2011"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93 (7), S140-S142. ...

true generally east of the Rockies. Considering temperature, the southern U. S., and Louisiana in particular, showed an extreme version of a pattern we've been tracking for much of the 21st century no ...

shape of a graph of paleoclimate data reconstructed by Shaun Marcott and several other scientists in a paper they published back in 2013. We chose the metaphor of a rollercoaster to convey the idea of ...

maps of annual heat stress and aragonite saturation state declines under the RCP 6.0 scenario). In the intervening years, however, aragonite declines will pose their own risks to reefs' resilience, wh ...