KXAN Pavement Temperature 162 F August 19, 2024, high temperature for the year. American cities are getting unbearably hot. These ones are roasting the most First published at CNN by Amy O’Kruk and Angela Dewan, August 13, 2024 (Editor’s note: Caution when viewing unbelievable statistics. Check their work! This article states that the heat island…
Extreme Heat Increased 22,100 Percent in Last 40 Years James Hansen has a new post out to his big list where he shows heat extremes across Northern Hemisphere land areas have increased a mind bending 22,000 percent. Breaking down Hansen’s work, in the classic 3-standard deviation bell curve colored red, white, blue and burnt sienna with…
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) coordinates and integrates federal research on changes in the global environment and their implications for society. The USGCRP began as a presidential initiative in 1989 (Reagan – Bus) and was mandated by Congress in the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-606), which called for "a comprehensive…
