The Secret World Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Antarctica may be the world’s most mysterious continent, a frozen world free from permanent human development or habitation. The unforgiving environment holds the world’s record low temperature of −128.6 °F(−89.2 °C) set in 1983 and is consistently the coldest, driest, and windiest area on Earth. Despite the unique attributes of the surface, scientists have increasingly been drawn to the land hiding […] Brains Lucas Gauthier | August 5, 2021 0 Comments
Bigger Blankets Are the Key to Saving Our Glaciers Pontedilegno-Tonale Ski Resort has quite the problem on its hands: their Presena Glacier which allows the ski resort to have superb winter skiing and great summer skiing is melting at an alarming rate. According to saveoursnow.com, the Presena Glacier has lost 1/3 of its volume just between the years 1993 and 2011. The glacier’s rapid decline led to an unlikely […] Industry News Artur | July 12, 2021 4 Comments
Denver, CO Reports 3rd Day in a Row Over 100ºF | New Daily Record High Temperature Set This has only happened six times since Denver began keeping weather records. Three days in a row this week—all over 100ºF. With the current heatwave impacting the western United States, Denver recorded a new daily record high temperature yesterday on June 16, 2021, of 100ºF. The previous record was 98ºF. Other parts of the West are seeing record high temperatures as […] Weather SnowBrains | June 18, 2021 1 Comment
All-Time Highest Temperature Ever Tied in Salt Lake City, UT Yesterday 107°F. That was the temperature recorded at the Salt Lake City International Airport yesterday, June 15, 2021. Only twice in the past 147 years of record-keeping in Salt Lake City has the Utah capital witnessed a temperature so high. Once in July of 1960 and again in July of 2002. For now, the record remains tied at 107ºF. But will […] SnowBrains | June 16, 2021 6 Comments
NOAA: Which Mountain Snowpacks are Most Vulnerable to Global Warming? This article was originally published by Alison Stevens on Climate.gov on March 22, 2021 As Earth heats up thanks to human-caused climate change, scientists expect that winter snowpacks will melt increasingly earlier in the spring. According to a new NOAA-funded study, these impacts are already underway, but global warming isn’t impacting every region equally. While snowpack in some regions has been […] SnowBrains | June 15, 2021 0 Comments
NOAA: Is ENSO Running a Fever, or Is It Global Warming? This post first appeared on the climate.gov ENSO blog and was written by Michelle L’Heureux I want to kick off this blog post by introducing you to a force of nature in the climate community, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh. He just got recognized by the European Meteorological Society with a Technology Achievement Award for building the KNMI Climate Explorer. This website, which you […] Weather WeatherBrains | April 23, 2021 0 Comments
Arctic Sea Ice Decline Impacts California Based on satellite imagery, the Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent for the year in March. According to the National Snow & Ice Data Center, this year’s maximum of 5.65 million square miles was the 9th lowest since reporting began 43 years ago. This number is 305,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average. While the Arctic sea ice has […] Weather Miles Wong | April 22, 2021 1 Comment
Polar Bears, Now Mating With Grizzly Bears, Might Survive Climate Change Climate change has taken its toll on the polar bear population. Despite this, they have found a way to potentially survive its impact. Scientists have seen that polar bears are mating with grizzlies and passing on their genetic code. Rising temperatures have pushed the polar bear towards extinction, shrinking its habitat and limiting its access to hunting grounds. Dwindling polar ice […] Brains Alex Mangels | April 16, 2021 3 Comments
Without Climate Change Mitigation, Scientists Now Predict Summer to Last 6-Months in the Northern Hemisphere by 2100 For some, it may come as no surprise. A new study from the American Geophysical Union shows that without any further climate change mitigation, summertime in the northern hemisphere could last up to six months by 2100. By analyzing climate data from 1952 to 2011, the research team observed that on average, summer grew from 78 to 95 days, winter […] Brains Liam Abbott | March 22, 2021 4 Comments
Solar Geoengineering: Skiing’s Last Hope? In 1991, Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines. The eruption spewed 20 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, a layer in the Earth’s atmosphere between 10 and 50 kilometers above the ground. The haze of sulfate particles was ushered around the world by global weather patterns, and before long, the whole world was shrouded in a thin layer […] Brains Clay Malott | January 20, 2021 4 Comments
Climate Change: Global Sea Level Has Risen This article originally appeared on climate.gov Global mean sea-level has risen about 8–9 inches (21–24 centimeters) since 1880, with about a third of that coming in just the last two and a half decades. The rising water level is mostly due to a combination of meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets and thermal expansion of seawater as it warms. In 2019, the […] SnowBrains | October 7, 2020 4 Comments
VIDEO: Ice Climbing the Disappearing Glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa Red Bull ice climber Will Gadd embarks on a mission to have one last shot at climbing the glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro. In 2014, Will made several first ascents of Kilimanjaro’s ice towers. Now, as the mountain’s iconic ice cap disappears rapidly, he returns to make a last ascent. During those elapsed years, some glaciers on Mt Kilimanjaro lost upwards […] Brains Clay Malott | September 12, 2020 0 Comments
Greenland’s Ice Sheet May Have Reached a Tipping Point That Sets It On an Irreversible Path Greenland’s ice sheet may have reached a tipping point that sets it on an irreversible path. Nearly 40 years of Greenland satellite data showed that its glaciers have shrunk so much that even if global warming stopped today, the ice sheet would continue to shrink. Related: Study Finds Climate Change Has Stopped 6,500 Years of Global Cooling According to the […] Brains Sebastian Opazo | August 21, 2020 2 Comments
Has Climate Change Brought an End to Summer Skiing on Horstman Glacier, Whistler Blackcomb, BC? In 2015, Whistler Blackcomb, BC announced that due to melting snow and the retreat of the Horstman Glacier they would take the unprecedented move of snowmaking in summer to preserve the long-held tradition of summer skiing on the glacier. It now looks like they managed to hold off the melting for five years, as photos of the area show the resort […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 14, 2020 10 Comments
Study Finds Climate Change Has Stopped 6,500 Years of Global Cooling A recent paleoclimatology study shows that climate change has reversed a major global cooling event. The study lays out that before roughly 150 years ago, the Earth, on average, was cooling for over six millennia. On June 30, the study was published in Nature Research’s Scientific Data revealing the most comprehensive data set ever studied in this line of research. […] Brains Ryan Flynn | July 8, 2020 0 Comments
Climate Change May Already Be SuperCharging Tropical Storms Reports show that climate change could already be supercharging tropical storms. This was something that climatologists around the world believed would occur, but it was unclear how soon this would start happening. Scientists now believe they have found evidence of this occurring already. Not only do they believe that these storms are intensifying, but that they also could be helping […] Brains Ryan Flynn | June 29, 2020 0 Comments
Climate: Historical High Temperatures and Modern Climate Earth has experienced many temperatures over time, from historical high temperatures to ice ages and our modern climate. Earth has experienced a range of climates and temperatures over time. There have been notable thermal maximums in Earth’s history. Scientists research these thermal maximums and compare them to current climate trends. Earth was at its peak temperature just after its formation, […] Brains Lynn Barlow | June 26, 2020 2 Comments
Climate Change is Moving International Borders — Literally The detrimental effects of climate change are blurring the borders between Switzerland and Italy, resulting in a convoluted dispute between the two countries. Accelerated temperatures in central Europe have forced the rapid melting of glaciers in the Alpine national frontiers. While the sections affected are located at high altitudes, the determination of country territory is in a state of flux. Related: […] Emily Crofton | June 23, 2020 0 Comments
May 2020 Was 18ºF Warmer Than Average in Siberia Yes, you read that correctly, May 2020 was 18ºF (10ºC) warmer than average in Siberia. The average temperature in May typically ranges from about 36ºF (2ºC) to 57ºF (14ºC) with a mean temperature of 47ºF (8ºC). While this might seem like a good opportunity to visit Siberia and not freeze, it is in fact not a good sign for the Earth […] Weather Alex Camerino | June 23, 2020 0 Comments
Siberian Town Experiences Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded in the Arctic This past Saturday, June 20th proved to be the hottest day ever recorded in the Arctic. In the town of Verkhoyansk, in Siberia, Russia a high temperature for the day of 100.4ºF (38ºC) was recorded, which is the hottest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. The previous high was 99.1ºF (37.3ºC). The Arctic has seen many temperature records broken in the […] Alex Camerino | June 22, 2020 0 Comments
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