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Southwest Climate Blog
The Southwest Climate Blog, a new feature of the Southwest Climate Change Network Web site, will explore challenges that experts and community members in the region face in trying to understand climate variability and change and make informed decisions.
The monsoon started off with a bang earlier this summer, bringing what seemed like above-average precipitation to many parts of the Southwest. I remember thinking, “this is what it was like...
Arctic sea ice, much of which melts every summer and refreezes every winter, has overall been declining in extent over the past 30 years—another signal of global warming. In a typical melt...
As high temperatures and drought blanket the country, Americans are witnessing more and more extreme weather this year, on top of the multiple billion-dollar disasters we experienced last year. It...
I thought I was leaving the extremes of the southwestern desert behind as I traveled to the so-called temperate climate of the Midwest and the balmy tropics of Puerto Rico. But those areas, like...
This past weekend I was bombarded by a plethora of climate change information and images in a variety of art forms—film, magazine, and TV. I was thrilled! In one day, I saw a movie with...
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Earlier this summer, I volunteered at the 2012 International Conference on Climate Adaptation hosted by the University of...
Sweltering heat and extreme drought has been wreaking havoc on the U.S. over the past few months, resulting in wilted crops and record wildfires. January to June was the warmest first half of the...
Wildfires have been raging over the past two months throughout the Rocky Mountains, with the most recent of the devastating fires occurring in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Several fires have...
What science is needed to meet the climate challenge in the Southwest? What science solutions are necessary to help managers solve problems? These questions were posed to a large group of...