Talking about the weather may be mere elevator chit-chat but, come rain or shine, there is no honest conversation that does not make some reference to the weather. Obviously the online community could not remain silent on the issue. Especially not in the face of Brazil's readying for the United ...

Snowpack losses across the West since the 1980s may signal a fundamental shift from precipitation to temperature as the dominant influence on snowpack in the principal mountain ranges in North America. (Credit: iStockphoto) U. WASHINGTON (US) — A do...

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Anthony Watts That’s a sign in one of the videos below. This is what college churns out these days, at least in UMass Lowell, but I’ll give them points for not wasting state funding or seeking grant money. From their ...

First-of-its-kind fluorescence map offers a new view of the world’s land plants A first-of-a-kind global map of land plant fluorescence shows stronger photosynthetic activity in the Northern Hemisphere in July when light and temperature conditions w...

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Anthony Watts Submitted by Dave Stealey WUWT regular Jim Peden updates this post, which went viral when it was first published. Well worth reading: Our planet has been slowly warming since last emerging from the “Little I...

NASA/NOAA GOES Project, Dennis Chesters NASA/NOAA GOES Project, Dennis Chesters 11 satellites all captured images of the ash plume from southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Volcano this week. The volcano is located in Puyehue National Park in the And...

Published: Monday, June 6, 2011 - 11:36 in Earth & Climate The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentra...

Published: Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 21:03 in Earth & Climate Humans have been building reservoirs and dams for thousands of years. Over the past few decades, their construction has spiked as our need to harness water – critical in flood control...

Press Release 11-111New Map Reveals Giant Fjords Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet View video Duncan Young discusses research in the Aurora Subglacial Basin.Credit and Larger Version June 2, 2011 View a video with Duncan Young, research scientist at...

Readers may recall Pat Franks’s excellent essay on unceratinty in the temperature record.  He emailed me about this new essay he posted on the Air Vent, with suggestions I cover it at WUWT, I regret it got lost in my firehose of daily email. Here i...

Published: Monday, May 30, 2011 - 15:50 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) William D'Andrea, Brown University The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written ...

That’s from the avalanche center in the Tetons, and here is a current web-cam view up Yosemite Valley towards still-closed Tioga Pass (in the left background): AP has a nice roundup of late snow and snowpack news (including the Teton quote). Just w...

Published: Friday, May 27, 2011 - 15:05 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen Typhoon Songda became a Super Typhoon in the evening on May 26, 2011 (Eastern Daylight Time) was it reached a Category 5 status on ...

Press Release 11-105Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling Evidence that early Antarctic Circumpolar Current development affected global climate Aerial view of the drillship JOIDES Resolution.Credit and Larger Version May 26,...

Published: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 09:35 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) NASA JPL, Ed Olsen Songda is now a typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as it continues tracking parallel to the eastern coast of Luzon, Phili...

Press Release 11-101Big Clue to Future Climate Change in Small Plants Scientists find surprising response to higher levels of carbon dioxide in 13 species of grassland plants A wild lupine blooms at NSF's Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research si...

A dead zone -- already the size of the state of New Jersey -- is growing in the ...

Under all but one of 21 climate scenarios studied, Chicago heat waves are likely to be both more frequent and longer by the end of the 21st century. (Credit: Thinkstock) JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Hundreds to thousands more city residents could die by the...

Published: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 11:33 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Marcos Guerra, STRI Robert Stallard To understand the long-term effects of a prolonged tropical storm in the Panama Canal watershed, Robert Stallar...

Published: Monday, May 16, 2011 - 11:32 in Earth & Climate The majority of seaports around the world are unprepared for the potentially damaging impacts of climate change in the coming century, according to a new Stanford University study. In a s...

by Brad Johnson. Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. “Flooding along the Mississippi River has set a new water level record,” according to the National Weather Service. “The massive flood churning its way down the Mississippi...

Published: Monday, May 9, 2011 - 14:33 in Earth & Climate A study by Duke University researchers has found high levels of leaked methane in well water collected near shale-gas drilling and hydrofracking sites. The scientists collected and analyze...

Published: Friday, May 6, 2011 - 09:05 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) International Pacific Research Center Image courtesy International Pacific Research Center Peter Craig, National Park Service. El Niño and its par...

by William S. Becker Last February, three Republican leaders in Congress filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that when it comes to global climate change, judges and Justices should mind their own business. The courts are about to get a di...

Published: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 09:33 in Earth & Climate Global climate change is anticipated to bring more extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves that could impact human health in the coming decades. An analysis led by researchers at the...

Published: Monday, May 2, 2011 - 14:33 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Sara Pryor Steve Scott The production of wind energy in the U.S. over the next 30-50 years will be largely unaffected by upward changes in global tem...

by David Roberts. I have a feature story in the latest issue of Popular Science: “Hundreds of Miles of Wind Farms, Networked Under the Sea.” It’s about the Atlantic Wind Connection, a new project (funded, in part, by Google) that...

Biofuel crops, like sugarcane, are best located on land that is already used for agriculture because less carbon is released into the atmosphere by converting land where existing vegetation contains low amounts of carbon, such as pasture or crops, tha...

Published: Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 09:06 in Earth & Climate One of the ocean currents which particularly interests oceanographers and climatologists is the Gulf Stream. This current, originating in the Gulf of Mexico, transports enormous amoun...

Published: Monday, April 25, 2011 - 10:03 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Sara Muñoz Vallés et al. Although the dune ecosystem is unusual, fragile and is protected by the "habitats" directive of the network Natura 2000, ...