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Sahel means “border” in Arabic. The Sahel region in Africa is the border between the Sahara Desert in the north and the savannah and tropics further south. In the east, Sudan, a nation of 50 million people, has experienced fifteen military coups since...
by Alan Singer
on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 09:38 AM PDT
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If you listened to the news over the holiday, you might have learned that it was not just exceptionally warm across much of the United States, but Monday was the hottest day in history. Or at least, the hottest day around the globe since temperature...
by Mark Sumner
on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 03:25 PM PDT
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by Brenton Weyi
This story was originally published at Prism.
America’s laborers in farming, construction, warehouses, and factories are dying due to extreme heat. These workers have been ...
by Prism Guest Writer
on Tue Sep 28, 2021 at 08:15 AM PDT
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'One of the hardest facts to grasp about climate change is this: No matter what we do now, it's almost certain to get worse in the future' The big picture: � Even under the � most optimistic ...
by Angmar
on Mon Aug 16, 2021 at 02:00 PM PDT
with 38 Recommends
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by annetteboardman
on Fri Aug 13, 2021 at 08:55 PM PDT
with 26 Recommends
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On Saturday, July 10, the New York Times had a number of articles on the impact of climate change on our lives today; collectively they are frightening although none of the articles made the front page. I am writing a book on Teaching Climate History...
by Alan Singer
on Wed Jul 14, 2021 at 04:38 PM PDT
with 23 Recommends
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"Warm January temperatures contributed to the ninth- lowest Bering Sea ice extent in the last 43 years" National Climate Report - January 2021: January Temperature January 2021 Statewide Temperature Ranks For January, the average contiguous U.S....
by Angmar
on Thu Mar 11, 2021 at 05:00 PM PST
with 20 Recommends
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I just nuked (microwaved) some leftovers and found them burning. Recalling a story a buddy once told me, I remarked this is hot… and warm. That make sense to anyone else? I have not verified what my buddy told me though it has a certain...
by Fffflats
on Wed Dec 02, 2020 at 01:22 PM PST
with 3 Recommends
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. Here are...
by dratler
on Mon Nov 02, 2020 at 07:27 AM PST
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The World’s Oceans Were The Hottest In Recorded History In 2019 Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates Oceans are clearest measure of climate crisis as they ...
by Angmar
on Tue Jan 14, 2020 at 07:30 AM PST
with 33 Recommends
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Ugh. I HATE this cold. For the last two weeks or so, here in metro-Detroit, we’ve been below (way below) our usual temps for this time of year. I think in the past 2 weeks we’ve hit 20 for a high once, all the other temps for highs have either been in...
by BFSkinner
on Sat Jan 06, 2018 at 02:03 AM PST
with 22 Recommends
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Agelbert NOTE: The above graphic is self explanatory, but be sure and read the full article that accompanied the graphic.
Author: NCEI staff
June 20, 2017
SNIPPET 1:
Below the map is a time series of temperatures each May from...
by Agelbert
on Tue Jun 20, 2017 at 04:03 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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I just found this at xkcd:
xkcd.com/…
A brilliant visualization of the fluctuation in earth’s average temperature starting in 20000 BCE.
For those not familiar with Asterix:
by CwV
on Mon Sep 12, 2016 at 11:58 AM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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Initial note: Don’t get angry before you read the whole thing. I am absolutely not an Anthropogenic Climate Change denier! This diary is specifically about how a natural weather occurrence is exacerbating this year’s temperatures. The Earth is still...
by catgrin
on Thu May 19, 2016 at 09:44 PM PDT
with 23 Recommends
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So the other day, the Speaker of the House of a large country was asked about the increasing temperatures around the country. “Last month was the hottest on record since records have been kept” ...
by Franksandbeans
on Fri Aug 21, 2015 at 04:54 PM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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Last week I sent a letter to our local weekly paper: My letter to the editor This week there was an "answer" from a denier: Creating a ‘State of Fear’ about climate change
I find the very idea ...
by don mikulecky
on Wed Aug 20, 2014 at 02:54 PM PDT
with 12 Recommends
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If you live in the United States or its territories, you will find that the temperatures given in the weather news and the temperatures given in your cook book will be given in something called ...
by Ojibwa
on Wed Dec 18, 2013 at 08:35 AM PST
with 62 Recommends
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So last week, one of my colleagues came up to me and said "What's all this about negative absolute temperature?" She caught me completely off-guard. Even among scientists, it's not a topic that ...
by gizmo59
on Sun Feb 10, 2013 at 07:00 PM PST
with 36 Recommends
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Back at the beginning of February, I published a somewhat well-received diary on what climate change looks like. Present tense. That is, not just what it will look like in the future, but what it ...
by Neapolitan
on Wed Sep 12, 2012 at 10:52 AM PDT
with 172 Recommends
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Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming
Aug. 6, 2012
You may have already seen this reported .
_"A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth's land ...
by jim in IA
on Wed Aug 22, 2012 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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