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A Dead Satellite Could Ruin Weather Prediction For Years
While extreme weather events seem to come and go more often than ever, our ability to forecast them does at least help us minimise risk to human life. But an impending weather satellite outage could make events like yesterday’s devestating tornado even harder to predict — for up to three years.
Why There’s More To Rising Sea Levels Than Melting Ice
Most simple explanations of climate change suggest that rising sea levels are a result of melting ice in the polar regions. While that’s true to an extent, there’s a simple piece of physics behind the rising waters that you might not have been made aware of.
Scientists Plan To Block The Sun Using Man-Made Clouds
The planet is hot and getting hotter. But while most plans to use geoengineering to alter the weather have been rather hypothetical, a pair of Harvard engineers have announced that they intend to spray particles into the sky to block the sun’s rays — within the coming year.
Wind Farms Linked To Local Climate Change
Wind power, one the oldest and most established forms of alternative energy, might not be as green as we thought. A new study in the US has linked wind farms to local temperature rises of over 0.7C — enough to change local weather and climate.
Turns Out Some Glaciers Are Actually Getting Bigger
In one corner of the world, there is more ice today than there was 10 years ago. New satellite data shows that the glaciers in the Karakoram have grown slightly over the last decade, bucking the global trend. We don’t know why it has happened — but it’s important to keep it in perspective.
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