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IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Eliza Strickland |
Satellites and Supercomputers Say 6 to 10 Hurricanes Coming U.S. scientists predict a stormy season; new satellites and simulations coming too   |
Geotimes
April 2005
Laura Stafford |
Drought in the Horn of Africa Eastern Africa is suffering from a severe drought for the sixth year in a row, which could endanger the upcoming harvest season and put the area at risk of famine. |
Popular Mechanics
December 20, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Satellite to Measure Rain From Space, Outsmart Your Weatherman Rain precipitation is difficult to predict, so scientists are using satellites to improve predictions. |
Geotimes
October 2003
Megan Sever |
Defined at last: El Nino and La Nina Scientists have been studying El Nino and the later-named La Nina for more than 100 years, but only now have they reached a consensus on defining the climatic events. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Corroding Pipe Organs Extreme Storms as Climate Warms Hurricanes, typhoons and drought. Aspects of these extreme weather conditions may be related to global climate change, some scientists say. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Robert Gall & David Parsons |
It's Hurricane Season: Do You Know Where Your Storm is? Souped-up satellites, supercomputers, and superior science might soon mean you really can trust the weather report. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Sandra Upson |
U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist. |
Geotimes
April 2007
Sally Adee |
Rainfall Affected by Climate Change Global climate change will likely cause significant changes in the world's rainfall patterns, according to researchers working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report summary. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick |
New Explanations for Western Drought Arizona Wildfires Four separate fires raged across Arizona at the end of June and the beginning of July. The potential for fires across the West this summer was normal to above normal, exacerbated by the region's ongoing drought. |
National Defense
May 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Water, Climate Change: Recipe for Trouble? We still lack a comprehensive understanding of how the world's water possibly could be affected by the phenomenon of climate change. |
Reason
October 2005
Sallie Baliunas |
Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan. |
Science News
August 4, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Cloudy Crystal Balls Computer models may never be able to predict climate accurately. |
Geotimes
August 2005 |
Hurricane Outlook Updated With high activity early in the season, in addition to ripe oceanic and atmospheric conditions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revised its hurricane outlook. The new outlook indicates an increase in the number of expected hurricanes. |
Geotimes
July 2003
Christina Reed |
La Nina predicted to boost hurricane season This year's hurricane season is promising strong activity due to a confluence in time of La Nina, which is expected to arrive this summer, with a multidecadal pattern of tropical rainfall that supports hurricane activity. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Michael Glantz |
What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005
Ben Ames |
Weather Forecasters Turn to High Technology From warfighting to civilian airline schedules, weather controls our lives. The modern meteorologist builds forecasting models on powerful computers, and pulls data from radars, satellites, and a global network of sensors deployed on airplanes, weather balloons, and ocean buoys. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
Information Today
April 30, 2007 |
NOAA Lab Opens 3-D Earth Site in Second Life The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration has developed a government-sponsored earth science "island" in the rapidly growing online world of Second Life. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
2005 Was Warmest Year on Record The record-breaking number of named storms during the 2005 hurricane season may have dominated weather news, but at the same time, another record was in the making: The year now stands as the warmest on record, according to some climatologists. |
National Defense
August 2013
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Industry May Have Answer to Weather Forecasting Blind Spot The United States faces a gap in future weather forecasts. From less accurate to untimely predictions, there could be dire consequences for the U.S. population and economy, warned a recent Government Accountability Office report. |
Popular Mechanics
December 1, 2009
Peter Kelemen |
What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change What stolen e-mails from climate scientists corresponding with East Anglia University tell us about global warming and what they don't. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2002 |
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program In order to avoid future "climate surprises" (abrupt, unexpected climatic changes), the Paleoclimatology Program collects evidence of climate change that has occurred over hundreds and even thousands of years. |
Science News
April 11, 2009
Michel Jarraud |
Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real. |
Geotimes
November 2003
Rickman et al. |
Precision Agriculture: Changing the Face of Farming Commercial farms around the world are changing, and remote sensing is beginning to play a large role. A new suite of technologies promises to help farmers better manage their crops at the scale of individual fields. |
Fast Company
September 2010
Stephanie Schomer |
How Joe Russo Modernized Agricultural Water Management Joe Russo creates programs that help farmers better manage their water use. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Katherine Unger |
Indian Ocean to Face Extreme Weather New evidence from climate patterns of the distant past suggests that Indonesia and other regions bordering the Indian Ocean may experience devastating weather extremes, from powerful monsoons to lengthy droughts. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Megan Sever |
Pakistan's Wetter Weather Linked to Global Warming New data from millennium-long tree-ring analyses are indicating that mountains in northern Pakistan have grown significantly wetter over the past century than they have been over the last millennium -- quite possibly due to human-induced global warming, the researchers say. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
Scientific American
July 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Ecology and Political Upheaval Small changes in climate can cause wars, topple governments and crush economies already strained by poverty, corruption and ethnic conflict |
Geotimes
February 2007
Katherine Unger |
Climate to Blame in Cultural Collapses The Anasazi people in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest disappeared suddenly, possibly due to climate change that made food and water sources scarce. Researchers are now linking several past periods of climate change with failed civilizations. |
National Gardening
Barbara Richardson |
El Nino Forecast for Gardeners With drought conditions prevailing in nearly half the country this year, it's been a tough time for gardeners. There is some relief in sight for the southern half of the U.S. as the El Nino weather system moves in this fall and winter. |
Geotimes
April 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Ocean Budget Surges Under the fiscal year 2008 budget request, priority ocean projects would receive a budget increase totaling $143 million, countering the otherwise flat budget for earth science. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
Scientific American
June 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Climate Change Refugees As global warming tightens the availability of water, prepare for a torrent of forced migrations. Economists, hydrologists, agronomists and climatologists will have to join forces to take the next steps in scientific understanding of this human crisis. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
Mohan Munasinghe |
Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks Global warming is already taking its toll internationally. Making development more sustainable will help address climate change. |
National Gardening
Eliot Tozer |
A Gardener's Guide to Frost How to predict when it's coming and what to do about it... |
Science News
May 31, 2003
Janet Raloff |
Global Food Trends Last year, for the third year in four, world per-capita grain production fell. Even more disturbing in a world where people still go hungry, at 294 kilograms, last year's per capita grain yield was the lowest in more than 30 years. |
Scientific American
August 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Making Development Less Risky (Extended Edition) Innovative forms of insurance could unshackle a green revolution in Africa and other poor nations. |
Home Toys
April 2005
Frank Geissler |
Now, Your Home Will Call You When There's a Problem While away, temperatures in your home or business will be carefully monitored, and you will automatically be notified via telephone whenever there is a dramatic on-site change in ambient temperature or other conditions. |
Popular Mechanics
February 20, 2010
Tyghe Trimble |
Do Climate Scientists Need to Be More Transparent? Scientists at AAAS 2010 talk about the need for better transparency in science, particularly for climate research. Here is what they have to say. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Deere's Drought Tough weather in the Midwest, Europe, and South America take a bite out of agricultural equipment demand. Investors, take note. |
IDB America
October 2001
Charo Quesada |
Chronicle of a drought foretold The social and economic costs of the drought that ravaged Central America could have been diminished with proper policies... |
