Where has all the heat gone?
Eleven of the twelve warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. The average global temperature during this decade has also been the warmest on record,...
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.
An impressive late winter storm moved across the Southwest earlier this week dropping over two feet of snow across higher elevations and over half an inch of rain to much of the low desert...
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“The nuclear waste problem is solved; we just have to do something about it.”
So said Mark Lynas, a controversial and award-winning writer from the UK who visited the University...
Who can forget a year ago, when temperatures in the Southwest plunged well below freezing, bursting water pipes and devastating local vegetation (...
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It’s time to get the discussion going on our first SW Climate Book Club selection: ...
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Are greenhouse gas emissions going up or down? Are governments and international agreements working to grapple effectively with moving to a low- or zero-carbon economy?
Up and no.
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Ready to discuss climate change and geoengineering? As we announced a few weeks back, we’ll be hosting both online and in-person discussions focused on this topic and the book:...
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Freshwater is a precious resource, especially in the arid and drought-prone Southwest. But what you may not know is that the biggest user of freshwater in the U.S. is not our everyday needs, or...
Many may have already seen the video released by NASA last week, but just in case, here it is – an animation of how surface air temperatures have changed around the globe since 1880 (you can...
Are you trying to decide which book to read next? Struggling to choose timely and relevant climate-related books out of the hundreds out there? Aching to learn about what’s under the hood of...
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