Your browser does not support the video tag. Every year, sea ice fluctuates through the seasons, growing in the winter and shrinking in the summer. This year, Arctic sea ice reached its annual maximum March…
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Ask NASA: Explaining polar sea ice
Your browser does not support the video tag. Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingly different ways. Video and description courtesy…
Ask NASA: How will a changing climate affect food production?
Your browser does not support the video tag. Will climate change drastically reduce our food production, or will it change what we produce? This question was posed to Goddard Space Flight Center’s Molly Brown as…
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Ask NASA: How will Climate Change affect Humans?
Your browser does not support the video tag. How does climate change affect humans? That’s the question we asked Tom Wagner, Program Scientist for Cryospheric Research at NASA. In four different ways, he says, from…
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Ask NASA: Scientists explain the “warming hiatus”
Your browser does not support the video tag. Earth’s oceans could be concealing a mystery about climate change. Researchers have recently found evidence of hidden heat hundreds of meters below the ocean’s surface.
A counter-intuitive twist to Climate Change
Climate Change is, for certain, a hot-button topic in the United States. Because, for some people, they say there is a bit of a yo-yo effect (it was global cooling, then warming, now a change),…
Thermodynamics, overnight heat, and mosquitos
Some people balk at even the mention of climate change. They scoff at people who are concerned about a warming earth. And some even argue about cycles that are easily refuted by an avalanche of…
Wx Info: Why tornado strength is tough to predict along the Gulf Coast
I received a great question from a viewer on facebook the other day about the forecast. The viewer asked if the Storm Prediction Center underestimated the severe weather threat on Sunday, given the multiple tornado…
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It isn’t just a feeling: Spring is getting longer, pollen getting worse
I want to start off with a little story… I had someone mention to me the other day, “Spring feels like it comes earlier, anymore. What do you think? Is there any weather information to…
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Despite cold plunging into US, rest of world still quite warm
Despite the incoming slug of cold air from the Arctic, this year has been hot. This is the third-warmest year to date. The globally-averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for this last November tied with…
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