Topic: Forecast
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. // John Naisbitt
Prediction Market
Sep 3, 2008
Will the North Pole be ice free at any point in 2008?
All started with a question @ CNN
Join the prediction game, check out north pole webcams and follow Lewis Gordon Pugh while paddling with a kayak to the North Pole.
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Hurricanes
Sep 3, 2008
Shortly after Gustav made his landfall a fourth tropical storm developed in the Atlantic Ocean basin.
At 11:00 a.m. EDT Josephine was packing maximum sustained winds near 40 mph. She was located near latitude 13.2 north and longitude 25.3 west or about ...>>
Temperature Trends
Feb 9, 2008
Though the eleven year solor cycle as well as the Southern Oscillation hit their minimum 2007 is recorded as second warmth year in the period of instrumental data.
More:
Wikipedia: Solar Cycle
Marshall Space Flight Center: NASA Satellites Capture St ...>>
Doomsday Clock
Jan 18, 2007
By moving the hand of the Clock closer to midnight the figurative end of civilization the BAS Board of Directors is drawing attention to the increasing dangers from the spread of nuclear weapons in a world of violent conflict, and to the catastrophic har ...>>
Week Of Storms
Jan 17, 2007
Last weekend Sweden was hit by a strong storm with wind speeds of more than 100kph. Falling trees killed at least five people and hundreds of thousands were left without power. An estimated amount of that 12 million cubic metres of forest was felled.
The ...>>
Records
Jan 4, 2007
The world's 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1994 in a temperature record dating back 150 years. Now as every January the UK MET Office and the University of East Anglia issue a forecast of the global surface temperature for 2007. The Climate Change e ...>>
Sea Level Rise
Oct 28, 2006
Press Release, Pacific Islands Forum, 23rd October, 2006
Global warming and the effects of sea level rise is concern for the Small Island States (SIS).
And incoming chairman of the SIS and the Republic of Kiribati, Anote Tong is urging Australia and all ...>>
METOP Satellite
Oct 28, 2006
MetOp-A, Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology, was launched on 19 October 2006 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It complements Europe's Meteosat satellites positioned in geostationary orbit and provides better ...>>
Ration The Future
Oct 22, 2006
Published in the newstatesman.com today, this cover story from Mark Lynas promotes rationing per capita as an adequate answer to the hard facts we are facing.
You can't bargain with the planet because it doesn't care whether or not targets are 'politically ...>>
Going To The Extremes
Oct 20, 2006
Using nine different climate models a research team focussed not the averages, but the extremes. Lead author Claudia Tebaldi and colleagues computed 10 different indices of climate extremes, with 5 related to temperature and 5 to moisture.
For all three gr ...>>
Wind Directions
Sep 2, 2006
This 'Picture of Day' introduces a new set of time enabled layers. Satellite photo taken by Daily Aqua, 2006-08-31, shows Cat 3 hurricane John touching California, while the Ernesto system is still visible.
The picture is overlayed with surface wind direc ...>>
Melting Glaciers
Aug 16, 2006
Greenland is the largest non-continental island in the world. The Greenland Ice Sheet holds about 2.85 million cubic kilometres of ice - 10% of the world's ice mass. About 81% of the surface is covered by ice and helps to preserve the global energy balance. Th ...>>
Less Tourism
Aug 1, 2006
With the current European summer in mind Climate Scientist David Viner makes an educated guess. During an interview with Reuters International he states tourists from the northern Europe may stay at home in future and do not spend billions of Euros in the Sout ...>>
Digital Zeitgeist
Jul 9, 2006
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Though far away from a quantitative tool Google Trends allows some qualitative analysis. Live picture above shows how often Google was used for searches with environmental relevant en ...>>
Fuel Consumption
Nov 3, 2005
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
By using a coupled climate and carbon cycle model to look at global climate and carbon cycle changes, the scientists found that the earth would warm by 8 degrees Celsius (14.5 degrees Fahrenheit) if humans use the entir ...>>
