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Dr. Jeff Masters: Katrina-level storm surges have more than doubled due to global warming
Posted by coby on March 26, 2013 Jeff Masters reports on these studies: Grinsted, A., J. C. Moore, and S. Jevrejeva, 2012, “A homogeneous record of Atlantic hurricane surge threat since 1923,” PNAS 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1209542109 Grinsted, A., J. C. Moore, and S. Jevrejeva, 2012, “Projected Atlantic hurricane surge threat from rising temperatures” PNAS March 18, 2013 201209980, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1209980110 There is a…
So Tasmania is in the news, which is where I am living (see here for links). The stories are about heat and bush fires. So far, nothing as dramatic as “Black Saturday” four years ago has happened, thank goodness, but conditions are very similar. The post’s “featured image” above is of the electronic weather station…
The reality of weather modification is no conspiracy theory.
Posted by coby on October 30, 2012 The reality of weather modification is no conspiracy theory. Or at least, so say the conspiracy theorists…. Hurricane Sandy is being described as the “worst storm in 100 years” and will possibly mutate to super-storm status once it combines with a polar air mass over the eastern United States enabling it to cause widespread damage…
Very Unusual Hybrid Storm Headed for East Coast
Posted by coby on October 29, 2012 
As pretty much everyone should be aware already, Hurricane Sandy is getting close to landfall in the New Jersey area where it will collide with a strong winter storm coming down from Canada. It seems no one really knows what will happen, but all the people who should agree it will be very bad. This…
August Monthly Anomaly Smashes Previous Record
Posted by coby on September 6, 2012 August sea ice extent in the Arctic this year was 640,000 square kilometers below the previous record set in 2007. It is also already a record monthly low for any month, though that record will not last as it is going to be broken this September when the lowest extent of the year is normally…
CCW – “This is Not Cool” is cool
Posted by coby on August 11, 2011 A really good overview of all the extreme weather we have been seeing this last year from Greenman. I’d say it is about time to say welcome to the new normal.
Looking through the wrong end of the climate telescope
Posted by coby on May 9, 2011 Forced climate change causes global warming as a response, not the other way around. We all focus on globally and seasonally averaged mean temperature, and though it is a very coarse measure, there are some justifiable reasons. But as a general focus for those concerned about the human influence on our planetary life support system,…
RealClimate on the Australian bushfires
Posted by coby on February 16, 2009 I recently wrote about the tragic bushfires in Australia and how it seems to me that it is reasonable to ask if this would have happened without anthropogenic climate changes. Real Climate has the details on this in their latest post: Bushfires and extreme heat in south-east Australia.
A few hurricane records considered
Posted by coby on November 11, 2008 Although there was not much buzz about hurricanes this season (which is not quite over yet), this year has in fact set a few records. I guess since New Orleans (narrowly) escaped Gustav there seems so much less to talk about!