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Oceans Rising At Alarming Rate!

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 in Climate Change

Whew! We made it through that Mayan end of the world apocalypse thing. But don’t even begin to imagine that our doomsday problems are nearly over. Even the Wall Street Journal breathlessly reported "Polar Ice Melt Is Accelerating: Shrinking in Greenland, Antarctica Has Sent Ocean Levels Higher, Stu...

Are you Hot? 2012 was According to NOAA

Posted by acox on Thursday, 31 January 2013 in Climate Change

The globally-averaged temperature for 2012 marked the 10th warmest year since record keeping began in 1880. It also marked the 36th consecutive year with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The last below-average annual temperature was 1976. Including 2012, all 12 yea...

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Global Warming or US Warming?

Posted by addison on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 in Climate Change

The Ashville, North Carolina-based National Climatic Data Center says the continental United States had a national average of just over 57 degrees between January and November. While that is 3.3 degrees higher than the long-term average, it is only one degree above the soon-to-be-outdated ...

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Mayan Prophesy Hard Lessons about Environment

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 21 December 2012 in Ecotourism

Through a clearing in the jungle, visitors catch their first glimpse of the ancient Maya ruins of Yaxchilan in Mexico's southern Chiapas state. Stubborn vines have penetrated the walls of the Maya temple of the underworld. Bats hang in the cool vaulted ceiling and spiders scurry around the structure...

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Northeast Bakes Under Blistering Heat

Posted by kenk on Monday, 25 July 2011 in Climate Change

The ungodly weather that scorched the Midwest of the USA has travelled east, giving the large population centers along the Atlantic coast a chance to experience the skin-frying joy. Temperatures exceeding 100 degrees F (38 C) have lingered for several days. When factoring in humidity and other condi...