Hurricane Patricia drew immediate attention by intensifying from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in a single day. It soon developed the fastest winds ever recorded in a western hemisphere storm. Meteorologists and climate scientists have already begun their scientific investigations of how a cyclical El Niño and […]
Current Impacts
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Why Scientists are Calling for Nuclear Power to Save Biodiversity
The idea we might need nuclear power to save biodiversity from the effects of climate change is one that could not have...
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Ocean Circulation, Climate Change, and Arctic Sea Ice
Recent observations of the Atlantic deep ocean overturning circulation, called the Atlantic Meridional (north-south)...
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Pine Island Glacier hypothesis to emergent event
This Post is an update to one I wrote in 2009 for Realclimate. It is warranted given the increasing observations in...
Global Climate Change Impact on the Upper Texas Coast
Very few scientists still question global warming and the role humans have had in the process, while outside the science community it is largely viewed as a prediction. The reality is that climate change and associated accelerated sea-level rise are not predictions. Tide gauge records are supported by satellite data […]
Read more ›Gilkey Glacier Retreat Lake Formation
As glacier retreat has increased over the last 30 years, the number of new lakes formed by retreat has exploded. Alaska is one region where this is particularly true. In 1948 the Gilkey Glacier draining the west side of the Juneau Icefield ended on an outwash plain, red dots, as […]
Read more ›Greenland Ice Sheet Retreat Leading to Island Development, by Mauri Pelto
Climate change is changing the map of our world. The changes can be distant from the cause, such as sea level rise, which is partially from melting ice sheets, on coastlines around the world. The changes can be local as well such as is in the formation of new lakes, […]
Read more ›The Weather Trap
Climate change is something that’s difficult to experience directly. How many people can say, from personal experience, that it feels like the average temperature in your hometown, let alone the globe, has changed by a degree or two over the past century? Instead, people tend to try to detect climate […]
Read more ›CCNF Member Columnists:
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John Anderson
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Jim Bouldin
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John Nielsen-Gammon
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Barry Lefer
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Kerry Emanuel
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Andrew Dessler
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Mauri Pelto
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Lulu Liu
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Andreas Schmittner
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Scott Denning
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Jeremy Shakun
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Michael Tobis
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Sean Bryan
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Stephanie Thomas
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Sean Robinson
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Daniel Cohan
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Judith Curry
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Will Howard
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Eric Galbraith
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Muge Komurcu
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Ron Sass
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David Hone
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Eric Steig
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Tracy Hester
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Shi-Ling Hsu
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Bob Inglis
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Jed Anderson
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Josiah Neeley
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Andy OBrien
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Peter Sinclair
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Bruno Marino
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Benjamin Franta
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Suzanne Waldman