2017 Atmosphere Climate Scientist 
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climate scientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.
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Legal Planet
JULY 12, 2023
By the end of the century, Montana could see several months a year with temperatures staying above 90 degrees, said Cathy Whitlock, a retired paleoclimate scientist at Montana State University who was the lead author of the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment.
Frontiers
AUGUST 7, 2023
above normal) occurred in east Antarctica in March 2022, caused by an atmospheric river of warmth stemming from Australia and penetrating across the southern ocean and through the polar vortex (a permanent stratospheric cyclonic flow of air) that normally prevents such movement. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C
HumanNature
APRIL 10, 2023
Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.
Real Climate
OCTOBER 12, 2021
In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column. 1975) , and Bryan et al.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 22, 2023
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. That fits with the last five years , which have seen an annual average of 18 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. Climate scientists are not sitting on their 99.9
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