National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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As Trump questions warming, climate report warns of dire risks to U.S.
The White House’s decision to release the report over the holiday weekend is likely to bury the sobering new findings.
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Heartbroken scientists lament the likely loss of ‘most of the world’s coral reefs’
With coral bleaching events increasing in frequency, researchers are forced to consider marine life without the underwater ecosystems.
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Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again
There’s new evidence that an unprecedented transformation is underway at the North Pole.
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Trump’s proposed cuts to weather research could make it much harder to prepare for storms
The cuts would cripple NOAA’s ability to keep afloat its satellites and data-gathering activities, affecting those depending on it when planning for snowstorms and hurricanes.
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Republicans cockblock NOAA appointment because of an oil-drilling snit
You’d think that the main criterion for being named the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s chief scientist would be that you are a scientist. (Lesser criteria: being plausibly chiefly; studying some field related to oceanic and/or atmospheric science.) Turns out, though, that being a scientist can be a real liability for the chief scientist job, […]
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Most of the country had record heat in July
This July has seen so many record daytime and nighttime temperatures that if you plot them on a map, they show a nearly complete image of the lower 48 states. Almost 9,000 daily records were broken or tied last month, including 2,755 highest maximum temperatures and 6,171 highest minimum temperatures (i.e., nighttime records). It should […]
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The new normal: billion-dollar disasters
The U.S. has racked up more mega-expensive natural disasters in 2011 than ever before.
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NOAA: The new normal is hot
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center has just released an overview of its new “1981-2010 Climate Normals” [PDF]. Meteorologist Paul Douglas, founder and CEO of Broadcast Weather, explains what this means: NOAA just released the latest climate “normals” for the USA. When you hear the “average high” or “average low”, […]