Climate Change Accelerating

Methane levels as high as 2562 ppb were recorded on October 9, 2014, as illustrated by the image below. Many grey areas show up in the image...

Warming of the Arctic Fueling Extreme Weather

Extreme weather Heavy rains and floods hit Serbia and Bosnia in May 2014, as discussed in an earlier post . Later in May, further flooding h...

Escalating extreme weather events to hammer humanity

By Paul Beckwith Extreme weather events are rocketing upwards in their frequency of occurrence, intensity, and duration and are impacting ne...

Are Alberta’s Tar Sands prepared for a torrential rain event?

by Paul Beckwith In recent months we have endured incredible tropical-equatorial-like torrential rain events occurring at mid-latitudes acro...

The Social Tipping Point

by Paul Beckwith Abrupt Climate Change is happening today, big time! Abrupt climate change. It is happening today, big time. The northern he...

Extreme Weather Warning

Above image is from NOAA Storm Prediction Center , with Convective Watches in red.  Below, storm reports, from the same site.  For an update...

Arctic anomalies linked to extreme weather

Surface temperature anomalies of 20 degrees Celsius are not uncommon in the Arctic these days. The image below shows surface temperature ano...

Threat to global food supply makes comprehensive action imperative

Climate change is strongly affecting the Arctic and the resulting changes to the polar vortex and jet stream are in turn contributing to ext...

How extreme will it get?

The January-June period was the warmest first half of any year on record for the contiguous United States, reports NOAA in its June 2012 ove...