Climate change made Hurricane Helene and other 2024 disasters …
Oct 9, 2024 · Deadly Hurricane Helene, wildfires in the Amazon, an extreme monsoon downpour in India, a heat wave during the Summer Olympics, and other dangerous and devastating weather events in 2024 were all made more likely and damaging by climate change, scientists have found.
The planet is ‘on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster ...
Oct 30, 2024 · Earth’s climate in 2024 is “in a major crisis with worse to come if we continue with business as usual,” a team of 14 climate scientists warned in “The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth.”The report did not sugarcoat their view of the dangers humanity is facing.
Death Valley, California, breaks the all-time world heat record for …
Jul 12, 2021 · If verified, the 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4°C) reading at the Furnace Creek Visitor's Center on Friday, July 9, 2021, would be Earth's highest reliably measured temperature.
Category 5 Milton poses an exceptionally serious threat to …
Oct 7, 2024 · Intensity forecast for Milton. Between 2 p.m. EDT Sunday and 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Milton’s official top sustained winds increased from 80 to 175 mph, an increase of 95 mph (153 km/h) in 24 hours – not far from Hurricane Wilma’s Atlantic-record 24-hour intensification rate of 110 mph in 2005.Milton intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just under 25 hours, just shy ...
Electric vehicles use half the energy of gas-powered vehicles
Jan 29, 2024 · As U.S. EV sales rise, more cars than ever are using the electrical grid to power up. It would be reasonable to assume that means the grid must now supply a vast amount of energy to those cars — but it actually won’t take as much as you might think.
Category 5 Super Typhoon Man-yi hits the Philippines
Nov 16, 2024 · Super Typhoon Man-yi (called Pepito in the Philippines) made landfall on Catanduanes Island in the Philippines at 9:40 p.m. local time on Saturday, Nov. 16, as a category 4 storm with 150 mph winds, less than eight hours after peaking as a category 5 storm with 160 mph winds and a central pressure of 923 mb, as determined by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC).
Eye on the Storm - Yale Climate Connections
Welcome to “Eye on the Storm” … Weather Underground Co-Founder Dr. Jeff Masters and his long-time meteorologist and writer colleague, Bob Henson, now are both regular contributors to Yale Climate Connections, offering the kinds of timely and authoritative weather and climate analyses that have gained them many thousands of followers worldwide.
UN report: The world’s farms stretched to ‘a breaking point’
Jan 19, 2022 · The world’s climate-stressed and pollution-degraded farming and agricultural system must shift quickly to sustainable practices to feed an additional 2 billion mouths expected by 2050, a new United Nations report finds.
Energy loss is single-biggest component of today’s electricity system
Oct 24, 2022 · Efficiency of renewables. What about the efficiency of renewables? A wind turbine is around 35 to 47% efficient. But wait, isn’t that the same low efficiency as coal and gas power plants?
Don’t get fooled: Electric vehicles really are better for the climate
Nov 6, 2022 · You may have heard the myth that electric vehicles are just as bad for the climate — or worse — than gas-powered cars and trucks. One common myth claims that the climate-warming pollution caused by manufacturing electric vehicle batteries cancels out the benefits.