Wunderground launches new Local Climate Change section
In honor of Earth Day on Sunday, wunderground has launched a new Climate Change Center, which gives people resources to understand how the climate is changing both globally and in their local neighborhoods. I am particularly pleased with our Local Climate Change feature, which allows one to see how temperature and precipitation have changed over the past 100+ years at the nearest station with a long period of measurements. Predictions from climate models on what the next 100 years may bring are overlaid for each station. Data for most U.S. stations goes back to 1895; we have data for a few stations in Europe that extend back to the 1700s. Berlin has the longest period of record in this database, with data back to 1702.
Figure 1. Screenshot of the Local Climate Change page for Washington, DC. Measured temperatures since 1820 are shown in grey. By clicking on the "Show post-1900 trend:" box, we see that the trend since 1900 has been for an increase in temperature of 1.5°C (2.7°F) per century. Moving the thin vertical red line over the image using the mouse shows that the warmest year on record in Washington D.C. was 1991. Predictions for a future with low emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide are shown in yellow; the high emissions prediction is shown in red. Separate tabs are available to examine precipitation and snow.
Skeptical?
Also included in the new Climate Change Center is a section addressing the common skeptical arguments made against climate change. We offer three levels of explanation. The "Basic" level is the default, but one can also see more technical in-depth discussions by clicking on the "See All Explanation Levels" link. The material was developed by physicist John Cook for his excellent skepticalscience.com web site, which is widely referenced in the climate science communication community.
Video 1. I'm featured in this video on extreme weather and climate change done by veteran videographer Peter Sinclair for the Yale forum on Climate Change and the Media this month. I'm also featured in Part 1 of this series. Our new Climate Change Center has a section for climate change videos, which includes a twice-monthly feature from GreenTV detailing the world's notable wild weather events of the past two weeks.
Earth: the Operator's Manual airs Sunday night
Penn State climate scientist Dr. Richard Alley hosts parts II and III of Earth: the Operator's Manual on PBS beginning at 7pm Sunday, April 22--Earth Day. Part I of this excellent series aired in April 2011. The series gives an overview of climate change, but primarily focuses on what we can do to help slow down climate change though smart energy choices. Dr. Alley, a registered Republican, geologist, and former oil company employee, is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at the Pennsylvania State University, and one of the most respected and widely published world experts on climate change. Dr. Alley has testified before Congress on climate change issues, served as lead author of "Chapter 4: Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground" for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and is author of more than 170 peer-reviewed scientific articles on Earth's climate. He is also the author of a book I highly recommend--The Two Mile Time Machine, a superb account of Earth's climate history as deduced from the 2-mile long Greenland ice cores. Dr. Alley is an excellent and engaging speaker, and I highly recommend listening to his 45-minute keynote speech, "The Biggest Control Knob: CO2 in Earth's Climate History", given at the 2010 American Geophysical Union meeting, via this very watchable recording showing his slides as he speaks in one corner of the video. If you want to understand why scientists are so certain of the link between CO2 and Earth's climate, this is a must-see lecture.
Have a great weekend, everyone, and I'll be back Monday with a new post. I'd like to thank Wunderground meteorologist, Angela Fritz for spearheading the creating the new Climate Change Center; it's a product I'll be referring to frequently in the future, and one we'll be updating in the coming months with data on local sea level rise, fire risk, and drought.
Jeff Masters
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GEOS-5 has been calling to bottom it at 992mb for a few days.
whats the temp. like in ur area?
Link gives me this:
"bad bad_referer"
We are sitting near 60 °F.
Better than ending up sans culottes.
Sorry about the Bad bad referer..
Try this & click on the map, then animate or what ever.
Always looked at the NASA GMAO input on ENSO. It's nice to see their short term weather forecast model run. So far it's really nailed this.
here is some clips
Probably complaining about its lingering hangover from the 20April smoke-in.
Ya and 421 is national drug test day..
Good evening all, i see we have a snow event coming up in the Appalachians.
I was looking over the gulf temps earlier and looks like they have decreased slightly of late.
the scene where water was coming over the Himalayas was so fake as there is not enough water on earth to reach anywhere close to the height of the Himalayas
Actually all oof the water on earth (groundwater, and Icecaps) would cover my everests peak, however no way a tsunami could do that
Oh,yeah. That will cheer anybody up.
Never seen the movie but I read the book but it was sad
Not thinking titanic enough. That's a video of the Himalayas sinking 29,000feet(8,840metres).
No the said specifically in the movie it was a tsunami!
Just like most hollywood movies....2012 had a lot of fake stuff and some people that watched the movie where asking if what occured in the movie will happen in reality
So you sayin' that sinking the Himalayas wouldn't produce a tsunami?
I could understand if they had an Asteroid impacting the ocean and creating a mega Tsunami
Oh, and when the aircraft carrier hit the white house it is completely the wrong size...
Yea the ash would fall to the south east!
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
Oh, no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla
Oh, no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla
:)
Godzilla!
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Pat, Where did you get that picture from?
Yeah, but close to the end they were saying that only some new mountains in Africa were not covered by water....this is also very unlikely or not possible
You are right. Dr. Strangelove is on also. Peter Sellers always made me laugh.
If you are using Weather Underground, the Zapata monthly data redirects to Laredo, and I wasn't able to find any of the actual Zapata data.
Google Images, HERE
Thanks Pat,
There are some Narsty looking things on there!
Glad you don't have any of them this weekend!
You bet,dem Nadoe's can turn ones life upside down in a flash.
I dunno how expert our mets are at judging tornado damage; it's not really an area of expertise they woul have concentrated on in their training. I certainly don't have any extensive experience myself. But aside from the roof damage, most of what I saw could have been done by straight line winds over a period of time and given moist soil.
The roof damage looked like tornado, not hurricane. The western side of the roof was perfectly fine; the eastern side was gone.
Storms, blizzards, heat waves and even had a 91L off your coast!
All we have got is a boring French National election and the standard cold blustery low over the UK.
A is my grade for it.
...Not sure if serious.
Yes it was a good. Movie
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