weather
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Yellowstone’s grizzlies have officially given up on winter
It's so warm that the park's famous grizzlies are coming out of hibernation earlier than ever before.
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The Weather Channel has your forecast for 2050
The Weather Channel joins the IPCC in predicting a chaotic future without climate action. Wear a raincoat.
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A dry run from hell: Drought hits the smallest farms the hardest
This drought will give small Midwestern farmers lots of practice coping with climate change -- if it doesn’t bankrupt them first.
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Here’s what lightning looks like in 3-D
From our vantage point on the ground, lightning usually looks like a forked line from the sky to the ground. But it's way more complicated and cool, as this model of lightning from the D.C. derecho shows.
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Photos of train tracks and airplane runways melting in the heat
Last weekend’s heat played havoc with transportation in the D.C. area, but at least we got some cool photos out of the chaos. The heat-buckled highway was just a heat-buckled highway — they’ve been all over the country this summer — but check out this plane sinking four inches into the tarmac at Reagan National […]
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Climate denier campaigns have zero impact on belief in global warming
It’s hard sometimes to ignore climate deniers: They’re so wrong! About everything! But the biggest impact they seem to be having is just that: annoying environmentalists. Denialist campaigns have had little influence on the 30 percent of people who are skeptical about climate science, ABC News reports. The one thing that does change those people’s […]
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People sitting in warm rooms are more likely to believe in global warming
All this time we’ve been trying to make the public understand climate change using science and logic, and it turns out we could have just made everyone wear sweaters. People’s beliefs about climate change are closely tied to the temperature they’ve recently experienced — so much so that, as Justin Gillis of the New York […]
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Critical List: Americans link climate change to hot weather; yet another Keystone XL bill
The majority of Americans are convinced that climate change had something to do with the warm winter and last year’s super hot summer. Good news: They believe climate change has consequences. Bad news: When it gets cold, they’ll be convinced we fixed it. House Republicans are going to vote today on yet another bill that […]
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Critical List: U.S. carbon emissions on the rise; Japan without nuclear power
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have started to rise again. After May 5, Japan will be without nuclear power, at least until two idled reactors are started back up. New forecasting technology means fewer people die in extreme weather.