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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.

Posted by Sarah LeRoy on January 18, 2013

Happy New Year! Wow, 2012 was eventful: President Obama was re-elected for a second term, Felix Baumgartner was the first person to break the sound barrier while skydiving, and Curiosity landed...

Posted by Sarah LeRoy on December 11, 2012

While recording our November podcast a couple weeks after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the eastern seaboard, Gregg Garfin, assistant professor and...

Posted by Sarah LeRoy on July 27, 2012

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...

Posted by Sarah LeRoy on April 23, 2012

In my last blog I explored the scientific basis of attributing climate extremes to climate change. Can we attribute one extreme event...

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Posted by Sarah LeRoy on April 10, 2012

Last year the U.S. experienced a record 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters (the previous record of nine was set in 2008) totaling $53 billion dollars in damage (...