Climate Change Extreme Weather

Climate Change Could Be Factor In Record-Breaking Weather

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 04.09.2012

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city. Inundated...

We're Gonna Need A Bigger Umbrella: Extreme Weather Worsening

AP | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 01.01.2012

WASHINGTON -- For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, mor...

An Open Letter to Secretary Clinton: KO Keystone XL

David Yarnold | Posted 12.11.2011

David Yarnold

These murky relationships and end-runs around science were hallmarks of previous administrations that disdained science. Has the Obama administration signed on as well?

Climate Change and Extreme Weather: We're Asking the Wrong Question

Kelly Rigg | Posted 11.05.2011

Kelly Rigg

Just as we would never ask whether a single individual smoker's story constitutes proof or disproof of the theory that smoking causes cancer, we should not look at extreme weather events in isolation.

UN Climate Panel To Examine Extreme Weather Events

AP | Posted 08.29.2011

UNITED NATIONS -- The chairman of a top U.N. climate panel says it will release a new report in November examining the link between climate change and...

Monster Floods And Killing Droughts Are 'New Normal' In U.S. Weather

Posted 07.19.2011

WASHINGTON (By Deborah Zabarenko) - Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a "new normal" of extreme U.S. weat...