Posted Thu Nov 19, 2009 02:09 PM ET | 0
Galloping increases in human fossil fuel emissions now appear to be outrunning the ability of the world's oceans to absorb them. The first year-by-year accounting of the oceans' role as a carbon sink shows that, even as they soak up ... Read more
Posted Mon Nov 16, 2009 01:13 PM ET | 0
Melting Arctic sea ice isn't just about polar bears: If temperatures continue to warm over the far north, a new study suggests, California could be in for a long dry spell. A new profile of the climate at the end ... Read more
Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:11 PM ET | 0
The warming climate is making itself felt in the daily weather across the United States, tilting the odds in favor of a daily record high temperature to two-to-one over a record low. In a world without a warming climate, the ... Read more
Posted Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:42 AM ET | 0
For several months now, scientists at the national Climate Prediction Center have been watching El Niño conditions developing in the Pacific Ocean and have been issuing regular advisories about its probable impacts this winter -- a circumstance that... Read more
Posted Wed Nov 04, 2009 01:11 PM ET | 0
In the nick of time, just as the world's diplomats are about to sit down and try to do something about our changing climate, the Wall Street Journal has discovered global cooling. And so, of course, it says here, "The ... Read more
Posted Fri Oct 30, 2009 05:10 PM ET | 0
If Earth were behaving the way we have all grown up expecting, its climate swaying to the timeless rhythms of its orbital path around the sun, the Arctic would not be warming. Its sea ice would not be thinning and ... Read more
Posted Sat Oct 24, 2009 03:07 PM ET | 0
Why did the mid-section of the United States suffer two severe droughts in the 20th Century -- the infamous "Dust Bowl" of the 1930s and the Southern Plains drought of the 1950s? Most meteorologists pondering this question have been looking ... Read more
Posted Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:38 AM ET | 0
A more southerly Pacific jetstream shaped by El Niño leads forecasters to predict a wetter and cooler south and a drier and warmer north across the United States this winter. While the warm sea surface temperatures in the central and ... Read more
Posted Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:18 PM ET | 0
It must be an interesting time to be a business lobbyist in Washington. Not only has the political lineup changed along Pennsylvania Avenue, but now the fault lines among your friends along K Street seem to be shifting from day ... Read more
Posted Thu Oct 01, 2009 03:07 PM ET | 0
Drought in the Southeastern United States is a story that goes back at least 400 years to the earliest days of European settlement of the continent. Expecting a benign New World of peace and plenty, colonists found themselves betrayed by ... Read more
Posted Wed Sep 23, 2009 03:27 PM ET | 0
If you ask more than one researcher about the climate episode known as the Little Ice Age, you are likely to get more than one answer. It's an odd fact of climate science, but some more recent events are harder ... Read more
Posted Fri Sep 18, 2009 05:26 PM ET | 0
Just when it looked like researchers had figured out the mysterious link between sunspot activity and Earth's weather, along comes another solar surprise: As indicators of the impact of the Sun's activity on the planet, sunspots are not all they ... Read more
Posted Thu Sep 10, 2009 02:34 PM ET | 0
The most unsettling information about the potential for harmful impacts of a changing climate comes not from some runaway simulation of a computer model but rather from actual data -- the large and rapid changes that are recorded in clearly ... Read more
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