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  • Weather tracker: Guam and Philippines brace for Typhoon Mawar

    05/22/2023 7:06:09 PM PDT · by Eccl 10:2 · 8 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 05/22/2023 | Analysis Weather tracker: Guam and Philippines brace for Typhoon Mawar Brendan Jones
    Over the weekend, a rapidly intensifying region of thunderstorms in the western Pacific culminated in the formation of Typhoon Mawar. The movement of this storm is projected to affect the Mariana Islands, including the US territory of Guam, as early as Tuesday. There is a risk of wind speeds above 75mph, with torrential rain.
  • 6 Claims Made by Climate Change Skeptics—and How to Respond

    05/22/2023 2:44:02 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 23 replies
    Rainforest Alliance ^ | 11/1/21 | Not given
    It’s hard to believe, but apparently more than a few climate change deniers still roam our ever-heating planet. According to a recent study in the esteemed science journal PLOS, people systematically understate their disbelief in human-caused climate change when answering surveys, so skepticism is more prevalent than many of us realize. Given the urgency of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we all do our part to educate any doubters we might encounter. That’s why the Rainforest Alliance has compiled six arguments commonly made by climate change deniers, along with science-backed responses you can deploy to convince them of the...
  • Mayorkas: COVID, Extreme Weather Are Part of Why Border Crossings Hit Record Last Year

    05/13/2023 7:22:27 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 50 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/12/2023 | Ian hatchett
    On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas argued that the number of crossings at the border has spiked in the past year due to “poverty, violence, corruption, authoritarian regimes, the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme weather events,” and false information from smugglers. Co-host Willie Geist asked, “You said a moment ago, Mr. Secretary, that we have a broken immigration system. And I don’t think many people would disagree with you about that. And yes, this is a decades-old problem, but the truth of the matter is, just this week, we’re seeing record numbers of illegal crossings at the...
  • Computer-modeled severe-weather trend forecasting distorts reality

    05/05/2023 8:28:21 AM PDT · by golux · 6 replies
    WND ^ | May 5 2023 | Franklin Raff
    Recent predictions have turned out wrong. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center said 2022 would be a whopper, "predicting above-average hurricane activity [this] year – which would make it the seventh consecutive above-average hurricane season." It wasn’t. In fact, in terms of combined frequency, intensity, and duration, 2022 represented a noteworthy "low mark" in the past 42 years of all hurricane occurrences on the planet. Talk of seven "above-average" seasons was the real whopper. The eleven years from 2006-2017 show an unprecedented period in which no major hurricane made continental landfall, and yet the "average" data set was selected to comprise these...
  • U.N. Issues (Another) Grim Weather Forecast: Warns World to Prepare for El Nino, New Record Temperatures

    05/03/2023 6:19:40 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/03/2023 | Simon Kent
    The United Nations warned Wednesday hot weather will be dominating the months ahead, driving “higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records.” The U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) delivered the grim forecast from its base in Geneva, Switzerland. It said it now estimated there was a 60 percent chance that El Nino would develop by the end of July and an 80 percent chance it would do so by the end of September. It was the second WMO forecast of hot weather ahead following one made last month.
  • Extreme weather is nearly universal experience, poll shows

    04/23/2023 6:21:46 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 63 replies
    Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | April 23, 2023 | Hannah Fingerhut
    WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they recently experienced an extreme weather event, a new poll shows, and most of them attribute that to climate change. Yet even as many across the country marked Earth Day on Saturday, the poll shows relatively few say they feel motivated when they talk about the issue. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll findings echo growing evidence that many individuals question their own role in combating climate change. Still, it suggests people are paying attention. About half of U.S. adults say they grew more concerned...
  • Tornado alley is expanding — and scientists don’t know why

    04/16/2023 7:42:31 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 78 replies
    The hill ^ | 04/16/2023 | Saul Elbein
    Tornadoes are becoming more frequent in populated parts of the United States and are often occurring as damaging clusters — a development seen in recent deadly outbreaks from Alabama to Michigan. The number, damage and deadliness of individual tornadoes has held roughly steady over the past 50 years, federal experts with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration told The Hill. But broad shifts in the patterns of how tornadoes occur will pose serious challenges to policymakers and emergency managers across the South and Midwest — even as risks remain in the traditional heart of Tornado Alley.
  • World records 529th straight month of above-average heat — and an El Niño is brewing

    04/15/2023 5:11:49 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 72 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | April 14, 2023 | by David Knowles
    Planet Earth continues to run a fever. Data released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service last week showed that March of 2023 was the planet’s second-warmest month in recorded history, registering average global temperatures 0.92 degrees Fahrenheit above normal high temperatures measured between 1991 and 2020. Above-normal monthly temperatures haven’t just become the norm thanks to climate change; they are all but guaranteed. The heat in March marked the 529th consecutive month of hotter-than-normal temperatures in comparison to the 20th century average. March was the 529th straight month hotter than the 20th century average. If you're younger than 44, you've...
  • NYC Breaks Heat Record Set in 1977 as Temperatures Soar to 90

    04/13/2023 5:58:59 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 48 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 13, 2023 | Natalie O'Neill and Social Links for Natalie O'Neill VIEW AUTHOR ARCHIVE GET AUTHOR RSS FEED Kevin
    The Big Apple’s early summer weather is heating up the history books. New York peaked at 90 degrees in Central Park Thursday — shattering a heat record set in the 1970s with weather rarely seen in spring, meteorologists said. Temperatures climbed higher than the previous record for the day — set in 1977 at 88 degrees — as New Yorkers busted out sunscreen and suffered through sweltering outdoor jobs.
  • Another widespread severe weather threat with strong tornadoes to impact 48M in central US Tuesday

    04/03/2023 7:12:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 04/03/2023 | Brian Donegan, FOX Weather
    For the second time in four days, a widespread severe weather threat with strong tornadoes is expected to impact some 48 million people across more than a dozen states from the Midwest to the South on Tuesday. Some of the areas facing this next threat of severe storms and tornadoes include those that were just struck by a deadly multi-state tornado outbreak on Friday. Tuesday’s severe weather will be associated with the same storm system that will also spawn an early-April blizzard across parts of the northern Plains and Upper Midwest early this week. The weather pattern responsible for Tuesday’s...
  • Deaths In South Amplify Extreme Danger Of Manufactured Homes During Severe Weather

    03/28/2023 9:01:56 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 43 replies
    The Weather Channel ^ | March 28, 2023 | By Niki Budnick
    Severe storms in the South that killed at least 21 people in Mississippi and Alabama highlight the dangers of being inside a mobile home or manufactured home during severe weather. Many of the dozens of homes destroyed in the storms were manufactured. In the hardest-hit community of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, 24% of housing units in the county are manufactured homes according to the Census Bureau. To really drive it home, the National Weather Service says you are 15-20% more likely to die in a manufactured home than a permanent home during severe weather. The danger is magnified in the southeastern...
  • Local Weatherman Overcome as Tornado Hits MS Town: “Dear Jesus, Please Help Them” – Video

    03/25/2023 8:43:08 AM PDT · by Federalist Patriot · 25 replies
    Freely Informed ^ | March 25, 2023 | FreelyInformed
    A local weatherman, doing a great job, and with a genuine heart for the people he serves. As a massive tornado bears down on Amory, Mississippi, meteorologist Matt Laubhan is overwhelmed. He stops and prays for the people of the city. . . .
  • An entire town is 'gone' and at least 23 are dead after a catastrophic tornado tore across 3 states overnight

    03/25/2023 6:30:22 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 53 replies
    Msn ^ | 3-25-23
    At least 23 people died overnight after a tornado ripped through central Mississippi, destroying homes and leaving at least one town in ruins. Officials said dozens more were injured and at least four people are still missing after what was likely multiple tornadoes tore through the region in the dead of night, according to the Mississippi Department of Emergency Management. The agency said that the numbers are expected to rise.
  • WATCH: ‘No way to charge this battery!’ Electric Car Owner Left Stranded When His Vehicle Died in the Cold

    03/20/2023 8:32:46 AM PDT · by montag813 · 52 replies
    RNN ^ | 03-20-2023 | Samantha Foster
    by Samantha FosterElectric cars have been increasing on American roads, partly because of massive government tax-incentives, and also because of looming mandates to ban gasoline-powered vehicles from states such as California. While total vehicle sales fell in 2022, EV sales grew by a whopping 65%. About 5.8% of the new cars Americans bought last year were electric with roughly 800,000 leaving the lot over the course of the year, according to the Kelley Blue Book. And Cox Automotive is forecasting that EV sales will hit 1 million in the U.S. for the first time in 2023 Widespread discounts and goverment...
  • Mayorkas Won’t Say Border’s a Crisis, Says Weather Driving Migration

    03/07/2023 1:39:59 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03-07-2023 | IAN HANCHETT
    During an interview with Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday broadcast on Tuesday’s edition of CNN International’s “Amanpour,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to say the border is a crisis, argued that there are many issues facing the agency, such as the “extreme weather events” that he said are “triggering migration,” and stated that other nations have migration issues. Mayorkas cited Chile deploying its military to the border as an example of this. Mayorkas said that the threats facing the agency, which have grown in “diversity and complexity and footprint as well. You know, I speak often about the fact that...
  • Yosemite snow totals smash 54-year-old record

    03/02/2023 4:35:50 AM PST · by ProtectOurFreedom · 38 replies
    SFGate ^ | March 1, 2023 | Eric Brooks
    Yosemite National Park remains closed indefinitely as startling photos show popular parts of Yosemite Valley buried in snow. Heated tents in Curry Village and a shuttle stop near Yosemite Falls, both highly trafficked locations even during the cold season, were blanketed in snow. The park originally closed to visitors last weekend as severe winter weather approached the Sierra Nevada. The storm ultimately dumped "up to 15 feet" of snow in some areas of Yosemite, the park noted on Twitter, and created whiteout conditions across the region over several days. For its part, Yosemite Valley tallied 40 inches of snow Tuesday...
  • Snow, graupel fall on Los Angeles and Disneyland during California storm

    03/02/2023 4:23:06 AM PST · by ProtectOurFreedom · 61 replies
    SFGate ^ | March 1, 2023 | Olivia Harden
    Hail, light snow and graupel have reached areas across the southern counties, including Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego and Riverside. Most winters, the rest of the country might be envious of the weather conditions in Southern California — where locals enjoy Christmas with perfect weather and the misery of shoveling snow is nonexistent for city dwellers. But this year, even Angelenos are not immune to snow, as white patches surround the Hollywood sign and graupel reaches the Happiest Place on Earth. “Right now we have really cold low pressure moving over Southern California ... bringing these scattered showers...
  • Snow Flurry in Long Beach

    03/01/2023 2:19:29 PM PST · by BigEdLB · 39 replies
    Me! ^ | 3/1/2023 | BigEdLB
    Snow flurry in Long Beach
  • Columbia University scientists predict record-breaking heat will return this summer

    02/28/2023 12:18:54 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 56 replies
    Fox 22 Bangor ^ | 2/28/23
    The record-breaking heat Earth endured during the summer of 2022 will be repeated without a robust international effort to address climate change, a panel of scientists warned Monday. Heat-related deaths, wildfires, extreme rainfall, and persistent drought are expected to become increasingly severe as both ocean and atmospheric temperatures continue to rise, the experts said. Even if all greenhouse gas emissions ceased today, Earth will continue to warm for several decades
  • This weather network, tied to one of Steve Bannon’s platforms, doesn’t talk about climate change

    02/21/2023 3:54:17 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 19 replies
    The Washington Post via MSN ^ | February 21, 2023 | by Scott Dance (D-WP)
    The two television studios are separated by a wall with a sliding-glass door. In one, Colorado-based meteorologists track snowstorms, hurricanes and day-to-day conditions around-the-clock for viewers of WeatherNation, a channel airing forecasts on smart TVs and streaming devices. The other broadcasts shows on the conservative network Real America’s Voice, one of few remaining news platforms where false election fraud claims and other conspiracies get airtime. It airs Stephen K. Bannon’s show “War Room”. The two networks’ shared ownership has alarmed some meteorologists, who say that WeatherNation is helping to legitimize the extreme viewpoints aired on Real America’s Voice. These critics...