Posts Tagged ‘El Niño’

• 2011: A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to Come

  The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation …

• The Caribbean monk seal is now extinct due to human causes

  Photo from “The Fisheries and Fisheries Industries of the United States”, by George Brown Goode (1887). The Caribbean monk seal has gone “the way of the dodo” and been officially listed as extinct by the US Government. The Caribbean monk …

• It keeps getting warmer, no matter what some people say

  There have been some talks, especially on the Internet, that the global temperature this winter has increased less than it’s done the last fourteen years. Climate deniers have, of course, been acting like crazy about this. But is it true? …