“TOKYO – In the country that gave the world the word tsunami, the Japanese nuclear establishment has largely ignored the potential destruction that the...
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.
A blog post circulating around last week caught my attention. It suggested, based on new census data for Texas...
Geoengineering—the deliberate, planetary-scale alteration of the earth system—is being proposed more and more frequently these days as a way of combating global warming (recent...
Do you ever wonder what Westerners think about climate change, energy choices and broader conservation issues? I do, and I was thus quite interested in the results of a...
In a perspective published in Science last week, climate scientists Jonathan Overpeck, Gerald Meehl, Sandrine Bony, and...
February’s cold snap in Tucson left many sad-looking prickly-pear cacti and thousands of burst pipes across the city. The anomalous cold temperatures we experienced in Tucson extended across...
I was up in Phoenix last night to discuss climate change with a crowd of interested people up at the Arizona Historical Society Museum. It’s a nice place for a talk and discussion, and at...
A slew of articles in the scientific literature and popular media report how the Southwest is one of the epicenters for climate change impacts in North America. Over the last half century, warming...
When NOAA released their state of the climate report for 2010, most of the ensuing headlines were about the sky-high global average temperatures...
December turned out to be surprisingly wet for most of the state after an ominous dry spell set up through much of November. Exceptionally warm and dry conditions, associated with a strong and...