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Study: A Million Years of Data Confirms: Monsoons Are Likely to Get Worse
New York Times: A Million Years of Data Confirms: Monsoons Are Likely to Get Worse. The annual summer monsoon in South Asia begins this month. A new study points to more destructive storms.
Global warming is likely to make India’s monsoon season wetter and more dangerous, new research suggests.
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Study: Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger chain reactions, bringing monsoon rains to the ice cap
In an ever-warming climate, ripple effects or chain reactions could lead to altered weather patterns across the globe thanks to a melting Antarctic ice sheet, a new study […]
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The Daily Climate, April 27, 2021
Articles include: California drought; underreporting GHGs; weather station in the Andes; 26,000 snakes; tools: graphics and climate change; deforesting Brazil; EPA and California air standards; pandemic and snow melt in SE Asia.
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Why the intense U.S. drought is now a megadrought
Mashable: Why the intense U.S. drought is now a megadrought.
Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate.
The water keeps going down.
Almost the entire Southwest is mired in various stages of drought as of April 21, 2021, resulting in falling water […]
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Climate Change Denial Shifts Tactics – 2 articles
ABC News: As extreme weather increases, climate misinformation adapts. As the impact of climate change becomes more apparent, misinformation about it is shifting to focus more and more on extreme weather. “It just isn’t credible to deny climate change or the impacts it’s having. People see it with their own two […]
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Ars Technica: Missing Arctic ice fueled the “Beast of the East” winter storm. Less ice means more moisture in the air, but connecting it to weather is difficult.
Extreme weather has become the new normal—whether it’s precipitation, drought, wind, heat, or cold. The question of how the ever-shrinking layer of Arctic sea […]
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Multiyear drought builds in western US with little relief in sight
CNN: Multiyear drought builds in western US with little relief in sight.
While much has been written this year about atmospheric rivers, avalanche warnings and even flash flooding, the western half of the United States is experiencing a crushing drought.
The weather patterns […]
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Study: Scientists blow up decades of thinking on why hurricanes are becoming more deadly
The Hill: Scientists blow up decades of thinking on why hurricanes are becoming more deadly. Researchers have used the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation to explain hurricane activity. Now, it may not exist.
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Using preindustrial climate and pollution data, scientists are walking back the idea that the Atlantic Multidecadal […]
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Study: 2 articles – Ocean currents are slowing down – could have a devastating effect on our climate
CNN: The slowing down of ocean currents could have a devastating effect on our climate. Well, new research reveals Earth’s major ocean currents are slowing down, and though the consequences will not be as immediate or dramatic as in the Hollywood fiction, there are real-world impacts for global weather […]
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Texas grid crisis exposes environmental justice rifts
E&E News: Texas grid crisis exposes environmental justice rifts.
As temperatures plunged below freezing and much of Texas’ power grid collapsed last week, Ana Parras braved the pitch-black night to check on friends in the southeast Houston neighborhood of Manchester.
The majority-Latino, low-income community sits along the Houston Ship Channel, bordered by […]
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