La Nina
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2017 will likely get the “not-as-hot-as-last-year” award
The streak of record-hot years is about to end -- but not by much.
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Critical List: Trader Joe’s signs Fair Food agreement; newborn baby tapir
Trader Joe’s signed a Fair Food agreement with Coalition of Immokalee Workers that increased the price the company pays per pound of tomatoes. Energy Secretary Steven Chu defended the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program, after a independent review outlined possible improvements to the program’s oversight. The White House is pointing out that the review showed […]
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‘Winter Jam Canceled Due to Lack of Winter’
The New York City parks department’s annual Winter Jam in Prospect Park has been nixed due to unseasonably warm temperatures — it’s kind of hard to have winter sports demonstrations when you don’t have any winter. (There is basically no way we could improve on the Times headline about the decision, so we’re just gonna let that sit […]
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Buckle up for more weather weirdness, America
Last year, the climate phenomenon La Niña messed with everyone’s heads. La Niña conditions mean that the ocean temperature in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean are colder than usual, and this was responsible for (among other things) the uncannily warm winter that the Northeast has been having. Sorry, can’t blame that on climate change! Yet. NASA’s […]
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It's gettin' (really, really) hot in here
Even in a supposedly colder, wetter La Niña year, we're seeing ten times as many record highs as record lows.
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What’s the relationship between climate change and Arizona’s forest fires?
A crazy-big forest fire is raging through Arizona, battled by 2,300 firefighters and covering 287 square miles. It's the third largest forest fire in the state's history. But is it a product of climate change? The short answer is that we have no idea until someone digs in to the specifics of this particular event. But […]
