It took a week or so, but the stories linking U.S. extreme weather to climate change have started to roll out. A few links courtesy of the the Society of Environmental Journalists:
SCIENTISTS: ONGOING WEATHER EXTREMES OFFER PROOF OF CLIMATE CHANGE - "The bizarre weather of early summer in the US – from heatwave, wildfires, drought to…
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Given the play of the Waldo Canyon (Colorado Springs), High Park (Fort Collins) and Boulder (Flatirons) wildfires, I'm getting notes and calls from folks worried that flames are approaching our home in east Denver, 20 miles from the nearest lodgepole pine.
These fires are devastating in terms of property damage (500+ homes lost) and lives (I…
My book, From Jars to the Stars, won the 2011 Colorado Book Award for History at the annual Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book ceremony in Aspen last Friday. This is particularly gratifying to me because, being the history category, it's an indication that the book is readable.
I've found myself trying to explain this…
A politically neutral map of record temperatures in the United States, courtesy of Climate Central.
If you're in Virginia, check it out before the state legislature bans the use of the term "record temperature" in reference to record temperatures.
From the unintended (or probably intended, given the source) irony department: the first three news items from the Society of Environmental Journalists' e-mail summary this a.m. For those living in caves and U.S. Senators from Oklahoma: heat waves such as the one stoking the wildfires in Colorado and intense storms like those we're seeing in Florida and…