Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Roughly about the middle of each month, NOAA publishes their Global Climate report for the previous month and so NOAA has now published their assessment for April 2017. In Summary … Temperature The combined global average temperature over the land and ocean surfaces for April 2017 was 0.90°C (1.62°F) above the 20th century average of … Read more
The Medical Society Consortium has published a report that lays out the impact that Climate Change is already having on human health. Who? They have an about page. There they explain … The mission of the Consortium is to inform the public and policymakers about the harmful health effects of climate change on Americans, as well as … Read more
The consistent and persistent shrinkage of the sea ice extent in the Arctic means that the question of an ice free summer is not simply a possibility, but rather is a probability. Below is the NSIDC trend illustrating this downward trend. What is shows you is the extent of sea ice each and every March since … Read more
Chris Mooney gives us a heads in a recent Washington Post article that the EPA, under the leadership of climate-denying Pruitt, has now started to purge Climate Science from public view … The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening that its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the … Read more
Sea Level is rising. As illustrated above, it is been slowly doing so for some time, this is a measurable verified fact. If you ever wondered if there was some unambiguous clear decisive evidence that the world truly is warming then this is it. Crack open the Wikipedia page on the topic and you will read some … Read more
For rather a long time, since 1880 to be precise, accurate monthly temperature records have been kept. 2016 saw record breaking months, but that was an El Niño year. Since that has now passed everything now returns back to normal .. right? So how has 2017 been doing? To answer that we can turn to ClimateCentral. … Read more
