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New Application Shows Projected Climate Change Impacts in California

Details: Category: Climate; Published: Friday, 28 August 2015 06:57; Written by John Stewart; Hits: 69

Interactive Tool Provides Actionable Climate Data to Help Scientists and Planners

SACRAMENTO - (August 25, 2015) - An application that shows how climate change could alter ecosystems in the California desert and the natural range of birds, fish, and mammals was released today by the California Energy Commission.

Medieval Warm Period on the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Details: Category: Climate; Published: Saturday, 07 June 2014 13:15; Written by News Release; Hits: 1797

Datsenko et al. (2014) write that the problems of current climate change, the establishment of reasons for it, and the development of scenarios of its further potential evolution are still the "focus of attention of climatologists," and so they proceed to describe their most recent foray into this controversial realm of research.

FIRE STATISTICS DEBUNK ASSERTED LINK TO GLOBAL WARMING

Details: Category: Climate; Published: Sunday, 01 June 2014 14:45; Written by News Release; Hits: 1762

California Governor Jerry Brown blamed global warming for recent wildfires in California, but objective data show a decline in wildfires as our planet modestly warms.

2013 was one of the quietest wildfire years in U.S. history, according to data from the federal government’s National Interagency Fire Center. The 47,000 wildfires last year may seem like a very large number – and it certainly gives global warming alarmists like Brown plenty of fodder for misleading claims – but the 47,000 wildfires was less than half the average number of wildfires that occurred each year in the 1960s and 1970s. Earth was cooling during the 1960s and 1970s when so many more wildfires occurred.

CLIMATE SCIENTIST CHRISTY PRESENTS DATA SHOWING NO CRISIS

Details: Category: Climate; Published: Friday, 28 June 2013 12:38; Written by Climate Change Weekly; Hits: 1648

Climate scientist John Christy presented a series of charts and data at a global warming conference showing warming is proceeding at a modest pace and not causing significant harm. Christy, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville who oversees NASA’s satellite instruments measuring global temperatures, presented records debunking many of the most frequently asserted global warming myths.

In his first chart, Christy presented National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data documenting a long-term decline in powerful tornadoes. Data during the past 50 years show tornado activity peaked in the early 1970s and has been in gradual decline for the past 40 years.