Blogposts tagged 'California'

Voices for Change: California

Posted by jossc - 16 November 2009 at 3:14pm - 0 Comments

In this third Voices for Change video, fire chief Thom Porter talks about how weather is changing in his native California, because of climate change. And how this is directly affecting him and his team, because more dry wood and more dry lightning means more fires.

Article tagged as: california, climate change, forest fires, videos, voices for change

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5 things we've recently learned about the climate

Posted by christian - 9 February 2009 at 3:33pm - 1 Comment

If you live in the Arctic, don't try this at home - Methane from melting permafrost, a powerful greenhouse gas, gushes out through a hole in an Arctic lake.

Last week, as snow and ice appeared to shut London completely (apart from a few hardy Greenpeace souls who stumbled to work in near-blizzard conditions,) it was perhaps inevitable that we got a few emails about the weather. This post goes out to Debbie, who emailed me to ask "why it so cold when you predicted a rise in global temperatures are you wrong?" Well, in the spirit of answering that question, allow me to present the first in an occasional run-down of some current hot topics (sorry) in climate science.

Article tagged as: arctic, california, climate science