If you're on the East Coast, you know very well
there's a heat wavegoing on. At Carbonfund.org, we like to cool down in a carbon-friendly way by opening the windows, but when the heat index is topping 100, we give in and turn on the AC. Lucky Russell: today and tomorrow, he's visiting a project in Kansas, where the temperature is a bone-chilling 70 degrees.
Weather like this makes the
Capital Weather Gangblog required reading. These meteorologists provide multiple daily updates that go beyond temperature range and sunny/cloudy graphics, with fascinating posts that draw comparisons to historical weather patterns and explain the systems at work to produce, for instance, relentless heat and humidity.
The CWG isn't afraid of writing about climate change, either. For instance, today Andrew Freedman
posted a rundown of climate change newsthat may have gone unnoticed in the past week due to other news sucking up all the oxygen. He notes several stories we've been following: a bleak assessment of Arctic ice melt; a plea from the president of Kiribati, an island nation that may already be doomed by rising ocean levels; and the parliamentary ridiculousness of Senate Republicans making clerks read out loud the entirety of a 492-page climate change bill as a tactic for killing it.
Meteorology is a science, albeit a difficult, sometimes imprecise one. Despite the occasional
meteorologist climate change denier, who asserts that one cool summer in one region means climate change isn't real, a statement by the American Meteorological Society shows that
he's the exception, not the rule, and that meteorologists by and large let science guide their views.
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Weather like this makes theCapital Weather Gangblog required reading. These meteorologists provide multiple daily updates that go beyond temperature range and sunny/cloudy graphics, with fascinating posts that draw comparisons to historical weather patterns and explain the systems at work to produce, for instance, relentless heat and humidity.
The CWG isn't afraid of writing about climate change, either. For instance, today Andrew Freedmanposted a rundown of climate change newsthat may have gone unnoticed in the past week due to other news sucking up all the oxygen. He notes several stories we've been following: a bleak assessment of Arctic ice melt; a plea from the president of Kiribati, an island nation that may already be doomed by rising ocean levels; and the parliamentary ridiculousness of Senate Republicans making clerks read out loud the entirety of a 492-page climate change bill as a tactic for killing it.
Meteorology is a science, albeit a difficult, sometimes imprecise one. Despite the occasionalmeteorologist climate change denier, who asserts that one cool summer in one region means climate change isn't real, a statement by the American Meteorological Society shows thathe's the exception, not the rule, and that meteorologists by and large let science guide their views.