2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Lecture Moderated By Neil de Grasse Tyson
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View ArticleNASA Satellite Measures The Effects Of Greenland Block That Stopped Spring
I mentioned the North Atlantic Oscillation in a recent blog post. The Arctic Oscillation is closely related to the NAO and many meteorologists often use the two interchangeably. The AO and NAO have...
View ArticleWhat Happens If You squeeze Out A Wet Rag….In Zero G???
This happens. Is that cool or not! Hat tip to Meteorologist Sean Sublette for that.
View ArticleNASA Was Making Dreamers Today
Thousands of people in the Mid-Atlantic saw something they had never seen before today. A rocket going into orbit. Orbital Sciences launched their Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility at...
View ArticleMarch 2013 is 337th Consecutive Month Above 20th Century Average
From NOAA: While Mother Nature was still giving the United States the cold shoulder during March, many other areas across the world experienced higher-than-average monthly temperatures according to the...
View ArticleYou’ll See This On TV Tomorrow
Each dot is a Molecule of Carbon Monoxide ( A stack of two molecules actually). The world’s smallest animation ever made. More here. Note I previously wrote atom instead of molecules and that has been...
View ArticleGlobal Carbon Dioxide Levels Approaching 400 PPM
We are very near passing a milestone. The CO2 levels will likely soon reach 400 ppm at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The curve of course is named after Charles Keeling who started the...
View ArticleThe Future Of Weather Forecasting Is Under Construction
Every summer, thousands of people drive out to Chincoteague in Virginia to see the beautiful beach, wild ponies, and the stunning National Wildlife Refuge. To get there, they drive around the long NASA...
View ArticleThe Turbulence of Van Gogh and the Labrador Shelf Current
This is a guest post by Andreas Muenchow at Icy Seas. Vincent Van Gogh painted his most turbulent images when insane. The Labrador Current resembles Van Gogh’s paintings when it becomes unstable. There...
View ArticleThe Oklahoma Tornado: Some Facts and Pictures
First of all, this tornado was not the biggest and strongest tornado ever recorded on Earth, as one Oklahoma City weather-caster said. We don’t know the wind speeds yet, and until then it cannot be...
View ArticleAmazing View of the Moore Tornado from The Storm Cellar Door
You can see the multiple suction vortices in the tornado. I think this video may have some very high scientific value.
View ArticleCrazy Weather- Science Looks at Why
This is a re-post from the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the media. The Committee for Station Science at the AMS (I’m the current chair) invited Dr. Francis to address the American Meteorological...
View ArticleI Was Chasing When Chasing Wasn’t Cool
In 1979 I was on the National Severe Storms Lab chase team, and people would actually laugh at us. In those days the idea was to get good quality film of a developing tornado and try to match...
View ArticleGOES 14 Satellite Rapid Scan Imagery of Tropical Storm Andrea Today.
The GOES R satellite will be able to do ONE minute rapid scans in two different locations when it is launched in two years! (If budget cuts don’t delay it, we will finally catch up to Europe with...
View ArticleTwo Views of An Increasingly Wild and Changing Climate
My friend Su Ostro at the Weather Channel, and Dr. Jennifer Francis at Rutgers joined author/journalist Chris Mooney at a Climate Desk Live/WWF event last week. The talk is well worth a watch. I’ve...
View ArticleAmazing One Minute GOES 14 Images of Severe Storms Crossing Mid Atlantic...
When the new GOES R satellite is launched in two years (unless budget cuts intervene), we will have high resolution one minute images available in real time during events like this. The GOES-R will...
View ArticleTwo Highly Repected Scientific Views On The Effects Of A Warming Arctic
This is a re-post from the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media: Over the past year, Jennifer Francis, Ph.D., of Rutgers University has produced compelling evidence of links between the rapid...
View Article5 Things to Know About Carbon Dioxide
Bob Henson, at The National Centers For Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder has written an excellent piece in UCAR Atmospheres on CO2. Well worth a read. Click the image below:
View ArticleRead this before next week (It may save you from saying something silly).
There are rumors that President Obama will announce initiatives regarding climate change next week, likely dealing with the carbon dioxide output of power plants and perhaps other things. I know...
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