Tom Yulsman

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Name: Tom Yulsman
Date registered: Nov 14

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  1. Frankenstorm Sandy: A Meteorological Monstrosity with Links to Global Warming? — Oct 28
  2. Vanishing Act: Drought and Warmth Send Colorado’s Snowpack into Freefall — Apr 2
  3. Climate Skeptics on Record Heat: Have a Nice Big Slice of Cherry Pie — Mar 24
  4. Drying Up — Mar 16
  5. Natural Disasters Were Big News in 2011 — Dec 23

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Frankenstorm Sandy: A Meteorological Monstrosity with Links to Global Warming?

The same weather front that brought last week’s snow in Colorado is now expected to play a role in creating “Frankenstorm Sandy.” What link, if any, Does climate change have to this looming disaster?

Vanishing Act: Drought and Warmth Send Colorado’s Snowpack into Freefall

Except for the shoulders of Longs Peak and other mountains in the distance, almost no snow is evident in this picture taken above Gem Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park last Friday. The lake sits at 8,830 feet. Photo/Tom Yulsman

By Tom Yulsman Like a spring avalanche, snowpack in Colorado has plunged off a precipice. Statewide, snowpack usually peaks in early to mid-April, but this year it began to melt off rapidly in early March. On March 1, snowpack in most of the mountainous parts of the state was between 70 and 89 percent of …

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Climate Skeptics on Record Heat: Have a Nice Big Slice of Cherry Pie

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By Tom Yulsman With astonishingly high temperatures for this time of year persisting over the Central and Eastern United States — including nighttime “low” temperatures that exceed the normal highs — it’s only natural to wonder what role climate change might be playing. As Andrew Freedman of Climate Central put it Tuesday: “In a long-term …

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Drying Up

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Thanks to drought and warm weather, snowpack through much of the West is taking a big hit, reducing streamflow forecasts for spring and summer. By Tom Yulsman A winter of seemingly relentless wind has given way to balmy and mercifully calm weather, bringing daffodils and sunnier spirits — but also heralding a potentially dry and …

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Natural Disasters Were Big News in 2011

Attention by the U.S. news media to environmental topics dropped from almost nil to all but nil in 2011, according to a new survey out Thursday from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Who Should be Rocketed into Space?

Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva, captured during the 'Opening Remarks' at the Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2008. (Photo/World Economic Forum).

By Tom Yulsman (originally posted at CEJournal, Dec. 20, 2011). As anyone who used to read CEJournal probably knows, I went into semi-retirement from blogging last spring. The time commitment played a role. But so were doubts I harbored about what I was contributing to move conversations forward on issues like environment and energy. But as …

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