Climate change made Hurricane Helene and other 2024 disasters …
2024年10月9日 · Deadly Hurricane Helene, wildfires in the Amazon, an extreme monsoon downpour in India, a heat wave during the Summer Olympics, and other dangerous and …
The planet is ‘on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster ...
2024年10月30日 · Earth’s climate in 2024 is “in a major crisis with worse to come if we continue with business as usual,” a team of 14 climate scientists warned in “The 2024 state of the …
Energy loss is single-biggest component of today’s electricity system
2022年10月24日 · Efficiency of renewables. What about the efficiency of renewables? A wind turbine is around 35 to 47% efficient. But wait, isn’t that the same low efficiency as coal and …
Electric vehicles use half the energy of gas-powered vehicles
2024年1月29日 · As U.S. EV sales rise, more cars than ever are using the electrical grid to power up. It would be reasonable to assume that means the grid must now supply a vast amount of …
Don’t get fooled: Electric vehicles really are better for the climate
2022年11月6日 · You may have heard the myth that electric vehicles are just as bad for the climate — or worse — than gas-powered cars and trucks. One common myth claims that the …
Which hurricane models should you trust in 2024?
2024年7月18日 · Figure 2. Skill of various computer model track forecasts of Atlantic named storms in 2023, compared to a “no skill” model called CLIPER5 that uses only climatology and …
Epic floods are wreaking havoc from Africa to Asia to Europe
2024年9月18日 · At midlatitudes — the region of the globe that includes much of North America, Europe, and Asia — blocking patterns and cut-off upper lows have been prevalent in recent …
Electric cars vs. gasoline cars: Which is better for climate change ...
2021年7月8日 · Electric vehicles can be an effective way to reduce pollution from transportation and limit global warming. But in most parts of the U.S., the electricity used to charge EVs is …
Eye on the Storm - Yale Climate Connections
Welcome to “Eye on the Storm” … Weather Underground Co-Founder Dr. Jeff Masters and his long-time meteorologist and writer colleague, Bob Henson, now are both regular contributors …
UN report: The world’s farms stretched to ‘a breaking point’
2022年1月19日 · The world’s climate-stressed and pollution-degraded farming and agricultural system must shift quickly to sustainable practices to feed an additional 2 billion mouths …