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Afro-Siberian red knots migrate from the Arctic to winter in Africa, where they recover from the arduous journey. But warming in Siberia is causing physical changes in the birds that hinder their ability to feed, and scientists fear the subspecies is headed for extinction.
Hunter Santana's insight:
This article discusses the effects of rising global temperatures has on migratory birds. It focuses on the Afro-Siberian Red Knot bird that migrate between the Arctic and Africa.
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Some California utilities have developed systems to shut off power in targeted locations facing the worst wildfire risk. Pacific Gas & Electric is far behind, resulting in expansive - some would say excessive - outages.
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A new study links the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions to more frequent heat waves, floods and droughts in the Northern Hemisphere.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Read the full Science Daily article here
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This is my brief introduction to issues in the American southwest. Our Boy Scout Troop is preparing for a trip down the Green River through Canyonland
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A warming world is bad news for Earth’s ice sheets, but a new study suggests the outlook could be even worse for coastal cities around the world. Via NERC press office
Casey Lysdale's insight:
Change of five-degree celsius is linked to a two-meter rise in sea level. These impacts are not uniform along coastlines. The rising sea would displace millions and cost billions.
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"The Humanitarian OpenSteetMap Team (HOT) has activated to provide geographic base data in areas affected by Hurricane Matthew. Category 4 Hurricane Matthew continues to strengthen and is advancing on Haiti and the Bahamas. Hurricane Matthew is expected to cause 'catastrophic' damage including extreme flooding and landslides potentially affecting millions in Haiti, Jamaica, and Bahamas. To start we are mapping coastal communities in the storm path."
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The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once-in-a-generation storms this winter to drought-parched California. The National Weather Service’s...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Here it comes...
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While the East looks like a scene from Disney's "Frozen," California is in the midst of its warmest winter for at least 120 years.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
It has been pretty warm here
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Sea surface temperatures are up. So why haven't forecasters declared El Niño conditions? Via Marian Locksley
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Good summary of the different index measurement points.
Please also see the frequent updates from NOAA here:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/index.shtml
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Thousands of herring were flash-frozen in place after a particularly cold gust of wind swept through a Norwegian bay.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Ummmm...yes that seems to be cold.
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A beautiful animated map of global wind conditions.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Building off of the idea of a wind map of the United States by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas, Cameron Beccario made one for Earth, based on data from the Global Forecast System. This is a great tool for introducing global near-surface wind (and to a certain extent surface water phenomenon such as waves/wave height). Beautiful illustration!
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Climate Change Via TechinBiz
Natasha Booth's insight:
This video summarizes how farms are using nitrous oxide, which is another greenhouse gas that is rarely talked about, is having a bigger effect on climate change than we originally thought.
Victor Martinez's comment,
March 26, 2021 4:43 PM
It always blows my mind how many things can contribute to climate change. For example farms using nitrous oxide which is a green house gas is a contributor to this problem.
Ray Daugherty's curator insight,
March 28, 2022 11:27 PM
This video is showing that this specific farming technique is accelerating climate change. This should put all farmers on high alert and force them to find another way of farming that won't accelerate climate change or even better, help slow down climate change.
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Trump erroneously insisted that Alabama was in the storm's path, and Wednesday he showed a weather service map clearly altered to include the state.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is simply crazy. For anyone interested in some of the increasingly disturbing takes on Hurricane management, see also: and: and a more light hearted-take:
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New research shows that three major 'switches' affecting wildfire -- fuel, aridity, and ignition -- were either flipped on and/or kept on longer than expected last year, triggering one of the largest and costliest US wildfire seasons in recent decades.
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The El Niño and La Niña weather systems are well known. But what are El Tio and La Tia? And what could they potentially do to warm the planet?
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) explained in an easy to understand manner and relative to El Nino (ENSO).
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El Nino was a boom for Northern California, and a bust for Southern California during the last year. Now, some experts say as we approach what should be
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During a hurricane you usually hear meteorologists refer to its intensity by categories. If you don't know the difference between a category 1 and a category 5 hurricane, The Weather Channel meteorologist Mark Elliot breaks it down for you.
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Some experts have believed that the first signs of California’s drought easing could emerge thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean near the equator. That’s where the famously fickle weather condition known as El Niño forms. Predicting one can be difficult. But when the effects of a very strong El Niño arrive in California, heavy — sometimes epic — rains often follow.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We are way too far out to make confidential statements about a possible El Nino this coming year...but it would be nice.
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An animated map of global wind and weather. Visit the community at https://www.facebook.com/EarthWindMap
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Here is the absolutely mind blowing viewer for wind and weather patterns on earth. Have fun and remember to click the "earth" text to get to the options/dialog box.
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Pollution from China's coal-burning power plants has increased the strength of storms in the Pacific Northwest by 10 percent over the last three decades Via Anita Woodruff
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In a now-familiar Los Angeles story, late 1933 brush fires cleared the vegetation from the hills above the Montrose-La Crescenta section of Los Angeles County. When heavy rains arrived on New Years...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Wonderful glimpse into the now-familiar phenomenon of coastal flooding in the wake of coastal wildfires. Southern California is particularly prone to this thanks to our "heavy dump vs. no rain for months"-style of precipitation in our Mediterranean region.
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