The headline says it all. Looking back at 70 years of data, South Mississippi’s hottest days during the “Summer” (from May through September) have stayed about the same while the temperatures overnight have warmed up…
Tag: Climate Change
Hurricane speed debate highlights how the scientific community works
If tropical cyclones are – in general – slowing down, that could have some pretty dramatic impacts in the future. But the science isn’t settled. Let’s take a look… A quick preamble If you caught…
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Ask NASA: New Arctic Lakes could increase atmospheric Methane
Your browser does not support the video tag. For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic’s permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth’s climate continues to warm, that…
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Ask NASA: Evaluating the new threats to Earth’s Ozone layer
Your browser does not support the video tag. Scientists are closely monitoring positive signs of recovery of the Earth’s stratospheric ozone layer, which is depleted by the use of chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) for a…
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Ask NASA: Polar sea ice fluctuations
Your browser does not support the video tag. Every year, sea ice fluctuates through the seasons, growing in the winter and shrinking in the summer. This year, Arctic sea ice reached its annual maximum March…
Ask NASA: Explaining polar sea ice
Your browser does not support the video tag. Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingly different ways. Video and description courtesy…
Ask NASA: How will a changing climate affect food production?
Your browser does not support the video tag. Will climate change drastically reduce our food production, or will it change what we produce? This question was posed to Goddard Space Flight Center’s Molly Brown as…
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Ask NASA: How will Climate Change affect Humans?
Your browser does not support the video tag. How does climate change affect humans? That’s the question we asked Tom Wagner, Program Scientist for Cryospheric Research at NASA. In four different ways, he says, from…
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Ask NASA: Scientists explain the “warming hiatus”
Your browser does not support the video tag. Earth’s oceans could be concealing a mystery about climate change. Researchers have recently found evidence of hidden heat hundreds of meters below the ocean’s surface.
A counter-intuitive twist to Climate Change
Climate Change is, for certain, a hot-button topic in the United States. Because, for some people, they say there is a bit of a yo-yo effect (it was global cooling, then warming, now a change),…
