Guest Author • Feb 07, 2017 •
By Ben Henley, University of Melbourne; Andrew King, University of Melbourne; Chris Folland, Met Office Hadley Centre; David Karoly, University of Melbourne; Jaci Brown, CSIRO, and Mandy Freund, University of Melbourne You’ve probably heard about El Niño, the climate system that brings dry and often hotter weather … Read More
Guest Author • Oct 27, 2016 •
By Alvaro Montenegro, The Ohio State University Just look at a map of Remote Oceania – the region of the Pacific that contains Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, French Polynesia and Micronesia – and it’s hard not to wonder how people originally settled on these islands. They’re mostly small and located many hundreds to thousands of kilometers away from any … Read More
Gareth Renowden • May 19, 2016 •
The Arctic has been ridiculously warm this last northern hemisphere winter. The sea ice maximum in March was the smallest in the record (by a small margin). April was another warm month in the far North — especially over Greenland — and May is continuing the warm streak. The sea ice is showing the effects of prolonged unusual … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Oct 11, 2012 •
This week The Climate Show brings you an all news special. We have wet summers for Europe, permafrost warming delivering a methane kick, La Niña driving floods that make sea level fall, a glacier calving in Antarctica, mammoths and sabre tooth tigers — all delivered with Glenn and Gareth’s inimitable panache (!). Watch The Climate [...] … Read More
Waiology • Nov 21, 2011 •
By Daniel Collins On average, about 87% of the Earth’s evaporation takes place over the oceans. 9% of this water then makes it over the land and falls as precipitation, the rest falls back to the sea. But this is just an average. Over much of 2010, there was so much evaporation from the oceans that the global average … Read More