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?
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Vanishing Act: Drought and Warmth Send Colorado’s Snowpack into Freefall
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 …
Climate Skeptics on Record Heat: Have a Nice Big Slice of Cherry Pie
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 …
Drying Up
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 …
Who Should be Rocketed into Space?
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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