heatwaves, Tag

By Jo Nova Medieval “climate change” was filled with heatwaves, droughts, and crop failures One thousand years ago, “rivers ran dry under the protracted heat, the fish were left dry in heaps and putrefied...

By Jo Nova The “hottest day” is not that hot, and very irrelevant So the news cycle went hyperbolic over a single dubious hot day in records that only go back 0.01% of human existence. Remember when “30...

By Jo Nova A new paper estimates that if we increased our tree canopy in cities to 30% we could cool our cities by nearly half a degree. Works better than a windmill…

A new study has found that heatwaves associated with climate change are threatening coral populations in the Mediterranean. The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society Biology, established that corals could...

In a surprise, mammals with a body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius do better in warmer weather

The Heat Dome was a freak local event Once upon a time, scientists would say only 30 year trends counted. Now, all weather is climate except when it isn’t. Climate modelers know the heat over North East America was...

This might be one of the most incompetent studies of 2o21

Tuesday was Australia’s hottest day on record sayth the Bureau of Meteorology. And perhaps it was. But look at the temperatures reported in newspapers across the country during the month of January in 1896 when people...

Winning! The 1896 heatwave story is going viral and the  ABC is reduced to weak, late excuses Australians are realizing that our hot history has been hidden from us...

Here’s an inconvenient fact: Australia had the highest number of very hot days in 1952, back when CO2 levels were 311ppm and humans had not yet emitted 87% of our carbon dioxide emissions...

This summer's deadly heatwaves in Japan have caused government and Olympic officials to consider the benefits of adopting daylight savings time for the 2020 Summer Olympics to ensure athlete safety...

Cheap energy might save more lives than expensive “climate-changey” energy? Researchers looked at 47 major cities in Spain, from 1980 to 2015 and checked 554,491 deaths...

It's autumn in Australia, but you might not be able to tell from the weather. Record-breaking heat has gripped large swaths of the country — the government's Bureau of Meteorology said Sydney, Adelaide, and other locations...

What happens to a poor tree when you withhold rain for a whole month, then hit it with four days in a row of 43C temperatures? It was so hot, some of the leaves on these trees got close to 49-50 °C.

… The danger is in the definition Ken Stewart has been diligent at trying to understand the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) method for finding heatwaves...