Andy Skuce News Today

Focusing on Earth, but also a few tidbits on wind, fire, and ice, some current news and observations about global warming.

Numerous studies into the effect of urban heat island effect and microsite influences find they have negligible effect on long-term trends, particularly when averaged over large regions.

By gregladen on September 9, 2014. Climate change is emotional, especially when the effects are disastrous and peoples lives are ruined. It is vague, sometimes. For example, bad weather happens and always has happened, so an increase in frequency or severity of bad weather isnt necessarily qualitatively novel, and can be hard to put ones finger on. Although the negative effects of climate change are already here, more serious effects are in our future. So, climate change has a ...