Relating Air Temperature to Surface Temperature
As Dr. C wrote during his Surface Temperature Field Campaign, the weather in mid-December was cold in many parts of the United States. At our house here in Boulder, Colorado (Figure 1), this morning’s...
View ArticleMore Misconceptions about Climate Change: Part I
Currently, GLOBE is running a Workshop on “Global Climate Change Research and Education,” in Geneva, Switzerland, so this blog seems particularly timely. — PL Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear...
View ArticleMore Misconceptions about Climate Change, Part 2
Misconception: The carbon dioxide record at Mauna Loa is not reliable because Mauna Loa is a volcano. It is true that volcanoes give off carbon dioxide. In fact, paleoclimatologists talk about...
View ArticleVolcanic Eruptions and Cooling of the Planet
By Dr. Charles Kironji Gatebe, NASA Scientist for GLOBE Student Research Campaign on Climate The recent volcanic eruption in Iceland marked by the spectacular “curtain-of-fire” and near-complete...
View ArticleMarch… In like a lion, out like a lamb.
This week, we have a guest blogger. Ashley Kaepplinger is currently working on her master’s degree in Meteorology at Florida State University and will finish in the summer of 2012. After she receives...
View ArticleWow, it’s hot!
This week we have a guest post from Dr. Kevin Czajkowski. Dr. Czajkowski has been lead of the University of Toledo GLOBE partnership since 2001. It continues to be really hot in the central part of...
View ArticleThe 2012 GLOBE Surface Temperature Campaign
The month of December features the Surface Temperature Field Campaign. To recognize this exciting event, we are featuring Dr. Kevin Czajkowski, the scientist behind the campaign. This post is a...
View ArticleA tale of two extremes
Weather extremes have become a common theme in the news headlines the past few weeks. For example, nearly every part of the United States has been experiencing one of two extremes – either frigid cold...
View ArticleConnecting pollutants and air temperature in the Maldives
With climate change, there are many relationships that are understood, and many others that are not. Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan from The Scripps Institute in San Diego has spent the last fifteen...
View ArticleExploring the Intertropical Convergence Zone
This week we have a guest post from Janis Steele, PhD and Brooks McCutchen, PhD. They own and operate Berkshire Sweet Gold Maple and Marine, an agroforestry and ocean-going enterprise concerned with...
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