When NOAA released their state of the climate report for 2010, most of the ensuing headlines were about the sky-high global average temperatures...
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.
It’s become a regular thing to turn on the news during the hot months of the year, and see images of wind-whipped flames devouring a California subdivision or a forested mountainside. In...
In my last post, I summarized the stolen email episode known as “climategate,” and highlighted the official investigations that reveal that the email “scandal” was, first...
Aside from one heavy downpour in mid-August that airmailed my neighbor’s corrugated fence into my yard, the 2010 monsoon season seemed lackluster. Clouds arrived late, storms burst in fits...
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Recently, a colleague (Brad Udall, University of Colorado) and I wrote a short overview of climate change in the West—based on peer-reviewed literature—that appeared in the journal...
Two days prior to leaving for the Andes Mountains of Bolivia, I had my vision tested by a testy optometrist. Once he found out I study the climate, I heard numerous vacuous arguments and twisted...
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January though June, 2010 has been the warmest January-June period since 1880 according NASA and NOAA (see my last post). And the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009) has been...
After a relatively cool spring in the Southwest, we’ve switched to some above-normal temperatures in recent weeks, and the National Weather Service is predicting that this warm trend will...
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I recently spoke with Dave Bertelsen about the effect of climate on flowering dates. Bertelsen is a local Tucsonan and a self-trained expert on botany in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson....
Greetings. We’re happy to unveil the Southwest Climate Blog as a new feature on the Southwest Climate Change Network site. The goal of this blog is to spark more discussion of climate...