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Arctic Warming Exceeds Global Average
On December 1, NOAA released its annual Arctic Report Card. Like a yearly check-up at the doctor's office, the report summarizes conditions in the Arctic atmosphere, ocean, and on land.Over the past...
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Explaining Why Climate Change is Amplified at the Poles
TranscriptNed Gardiner: Temperature in the Arctic has risen twice as fast as the global average. That means: even if you haven’t experienced climate change, people in the Arctic have. Jackie...
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Climate Science 101: Ethics and Issues Surrounding Geo-engineering to...
About the PresenterMichael MacCracken has been chief scientist for climate change programs with the Climate Institute in Washington, D.C., since October 2002. His current research interests include...
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Climate Science 101: What is the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
About the presenterWayne Higgins is the director of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, which delivers predictions, monitoring and assessments of future climate conditions-- on time scales from weeks to...
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Climate Science 101: Historical Perspectives on Climate Change
About the PresenterJames Rodger Fleming is a science historian and professor of science, technology and society at Colby College. He is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of...
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Winter 2011-2012 Recap
TranscriptDeke Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch, NOAA's National Climatic Data CenterAn important factor in the outcome of winter, especially in our part of the world, is the position of...
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Summer weighing heavily on Greenland Ice Sheet
Rotator Image: A series of unusually strong, long-lasting high pressure systems has parked over Greenland this summer. As many a weather forecaster has explained, high pressure generally leads to calm...
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June wind shift a little something extra behind recent Arctic ice losses
A graph of the long-term trend in summertime Arctic sea ice extent for the past few decades could double as a highway sign warning drivers that the road is heading downhill. Even against that backdrop,...
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Summer 2012 brought record-breaking melt to Greenland
Rotator Image: The summer of 2012 brought Greenland far more extensive melt than anything observed in the satellite record: in July 2012, surface melt extended over nearly the entire ice sheet. The...
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Arctic sea ice: 2012 record low was 18% smaller than previous record, nearly...
On August 26, 2012, Arctic sea ice extent shrank to 1.58 million square miles (4.1 million square kilometers), an area about half the size of the Lower 48 United States. That ice was melting was not...
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2012 State of the Climate: Humidity
Rotator Image: Earth's atmosphere includes billions and billions of gallons of evaporated water: in fact, water vapor is Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas.Category: How the Climate System...
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2013 Arctic Report Card: Visual Highlights
Rotator Image: From reindeer to regional temperature patterns, from sea ice age to Greenland surface melt, the Arctic Report Card is a yearly assessment of the Arctic's physical and biological systems...
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What’s the Mystery Behind West Antarctica’s Disappearing Ice?
Why on Earth are climate scientists so interested in the West Antarctic ice sheet? This remote region of the seventh continent has been the subject of many recent research explorations--the results of...
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2013 State of the Climate: Humidity
Rotator Image: 2013 continued a trend of water vapor in the surface atmosphere increasing over land and ocean relative to the 1970s, while the atmosphere over land becomes less saturated. Category: How...
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Winter 2011-2012 Recap
TranscriptDeke Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch, NOAA's National Climatic Data CenterAn important factor in the outcome of winter, especially in our part of the world, is the position of...
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Summer weighing heavily on Greenland Ice Sheet
Rotator Image: A series of unusually strong, long-lasting high pressure systems has parked over Greenland this summer. As many a weather forecaster has explained, high pressure generally leads to calm...
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June wind shift a little something extra behind recent Arctic ice losses
A graph of the long-term trend in summertime Arctic sea ice extent for the past few decades could double as a highway sign warning drivers that the road is heading downhill. Even against that backdrop,...
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Summer 2012 brought record-breaking melt to Greenland
Rotator Image: The summer of 2012 brought Greenland far more extensive melt than anything observed in the satellite record: in July 2012, surface melt extended over nearly the entire ice sheet. The...
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Arctic sea ice: 2012 record low was 18% smaller than previous record, nearly...
On August 26, 2012, Arctic sea ice extent shrank to 1.58 million square miles (4.1 million square kilometers), an area about half the size of the Lower 48 United States. That ice was melting was not...
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2012 State of the Climate: Humidity
Rotator Image: Earth's atmosphere includes billions and billions of gallons of evaporated water: in fact, water vapor is Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas.Category: How the Climate System...
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