An unusually strong earthquake hit the North Atlantic today at the orange dot inside the colored concentric circles; a moderate aftershock hit the red dot nearby. Image: USGS An unusually strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake rocked the Atlantic Ocean this afternoon, about 350 miles east of San Juan, Puerto Rico and about 125 miles north of … Read more
One thing I knew: This was a direct result of my decision to talk about climate change on television. As Chief Meteorologist at KCCI-TV in Des Moines, I saw it as my responsibility to our audience to connect the dots between climate change and extreme weather events in the region. I had moved to the … Read more
Image by Annie Spratt. Will the world’s major coastal cities, such as New York, survive the growing global warming conditions in Greenland? What if both Greenland and Antarctica followed the very disturbing recent pattern of the world’s oceans? For the first time scientists can remember, sea surface temperatures that always retreat from annual peaks fail … Read more
