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Parts of SW Will Get Warmer, Drier
Temperatures in the Southwest U.S. are predicted to increase, with the greatest warming (3.5-6.5 degrees F) in the summer season and a localized maximum in central Utah, according to a new technical report produced as part of a series of regional climate descriptions by the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service prepared as input for the U.S.
Warm Winters Costing Winter Tourism Industry Millions
From November 1999 to April 2010, the downhill ski resort industry lost an estimated $1.07 billion in revenue between high and low snow fall years, according to a new report by two nonprofit groups, the National Resources
Dry, Warm Conditions Persist Across AZ, NM
Warmer-than-average temperatures have persisted in Arizona and New Mexico over the past month, with temperatures 2 to 4 degrees F above average, according to the latest Climate Outlook from CLIMAS.
Warming Temperatures Linked to More Atlantic Hurricanes
Warming global average surface temperatures over the past century have contributed to an increase in the frequency of large storm surges from tropical storms in the Atlantic, according to a new study in PNAS.
Wildfires Growing in the West
Wildfires in the western U.S. now burn about twice as much land area as they did in the 1970s, and the burn season lasts about two and a half months longer, according to a new report by Climate Central.
Warmer Droughts Change How Trees Die
Trees are more stressed under warmer conditions due to higher vapor pressure deficits (VPDs)—a measure of how much water the air can hold compared to what is already there—according to a study soon to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Melting Sea Ice Amplifies Global Warming
Last week Arctic sea ice reached its smallest extent since record keeping began in 1979 and has now dropped below 1.54 million square miles, with at least one week still left in the melt season, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Urban Expansion May Bring Greater Heat Than Global Climate Change
Summertime warming due to megapolitan expansion and associated land-use changes in Arizona’s Sun Corridor—the region stretching from Nogales to Prescott—could approach 7.2 degrees F over 2006 temperatures by mid-century, according to a new study in Nature Climate Change.
Hot Summer Extremes a Consequence of Global Warming
Extreme summer temperatures, such as those in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 and Moscow in 2010, were definitively the result of global warming, according to a new study by NASA scientists published in PNAS. The authors found that in the summer, colder-than-average temperatures now—in the most rec
Global Temperatures Rose 2.7 Degrees F Since 1753
A new study, conducted by Richard Muller (a known climate change denier) and other scientists from Berkeley Earth, shows that the Earth has warmed about 2.7 degrees F in the last 250 years, and that this warming closely follows carbon dioxide concentrations.