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Climate changes threaten the U.S. transportation system, according to the National Climate Assessment. Flooding, temperature changes, etc. will have...
EPA Researchers Are Providing Tools And Resources To Prepare Communities For Climate Change And Extreme Storms By U.S. EPA Each season brings expected changes to the weather. But with climate change and the warming of the atmosphere, weather patterns are becoming less predictable with more heat waves, and increased severity of super- and local- storms. EPA scientists are investigating the increased occurrence and intensity of extreme precipitation events, which are defined as days with precipitation in the top one percent of all days with precipitation, according to the U.S. Global Change R...
A New Book Feeds Climate Doubters, but Scientists Say the Conclusions are Misleading and Out of Date Steven Koonin, who during Trump’s presidency proposed having a “red team, blue team” climate debate, argues that climate action’s “certain downsides” outweigh the “uncertain” benefits. May 4, 2021 Steven Koonin, then-under secretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy, speaks at the 2011 CERAWEEK conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Friday, March 11, 2011. Credit: Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg via Getty Images Related Share this article The most ardent foes of climate ...
Sukham Blog – A monthly column focused on South Asian health and wellbeing. When I see or hear the words Climate Change, I conjure up mental images of global warming, rising temperatures, melting ice caps, rising ocean levels, increasing CO2 and methane emissions, more frequent extreme weather events such as flooding, drought, and wildfires, and our planet Earth rapidly becoming less habitable for present and future generations. My mind does not turn immediately to the ongoing impact on human health, and the decreased quality of life that brings for people, something that is also happe...
Why is this physicist challenging climate science? Amy Joi O'Donoghue © Steve Griffin, Deseret News Bill Pekny uses a monitor to check carbon dioxide levels outside of his home in Midway on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Pekny is a local author and scientist and agrees the climate is warming, but he says that we are in a normal cycle of warming and panic is unwarranted. Utah author Bill Pekny wrote a book with 13 chapters describing climate change, full of charts, colorful graphics and “key takeaways” after each segment in which he impresses upon his readers why his research ma...