Boston, MA, January 26, 2021 – Precipitation from Hurricane Dorian, South Africa’s extraordinary four-year drought, fires in Alaska and China, and devastating floods in southern Canada were some of the extreme weather events made more likely by human-caused climate change in 2019, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological […]
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2019 was among Earth’s Three Hottest Years on Record, Latest State of the Climate Report Finds
BOSTON, MA, August 12, 2020 – The globe had another year where all-time records were either challenged or broken, as 2019 ranked among the world’s hottest. What’s more, greenhouse gases reached their highest levels on record, according to the 30th annual State of the Climate report. This international annual review of the world’s climate, led by […]
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New Research Examines Climate Change’s Role in 2018 Extreme Weather Events
DECEMBER 9, 2019, San Francisco, CA – The desiccating Four Corners drought, intense heat waves on the Iberian peninsula and in northeast Asia, exceptional precipitation in the Mid-Atlantic states, and record-low sea ice in the Bering Sea were 2018 extreme weather events made more likely by human-caused climate change, according to new research published today […]
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Climate Change: An Information Statement of the American Meteorological Society
April 22, 2019 – The AMS Information Statement seeks to provide a trustworthy, objective, and scientifically up-to-date explanation of climate change to the public using easily understood language. Background This statement provides an overview of how and why global climate has changed over the past century and why it will continue to change in the […]
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AMS Releases Council Statement on Federal Government Shutdown
January 6, 2019 – The AMS Council released the following statement, which was approved at their meeting today during the 99th AMS Annual Meeting: Those of us who study and predict the atmosphere are familiar with the impacts of uncertainty. Americans rely on weather forecasts, and they trust them to be reliable. Lives and livelihoods […]
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American Meteorological Society: New Studies Reveal Clear Ties between Today’s Extremes and Human Causes
WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 10, 2018 – The U.S. Northern Plains and East Africa droughts of 2017, floods in South America, China and Bangladesh, and heatwaves in China and the Mediterranean were all made more likely by human-caused climate change, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). The […]
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How Hurricane Florence Could Turn Weird and Deadly – American Meteorological Society
Sept. 13, 2018 – Hurricane Florence is forecast to slow to a crawl as it nears landfall in the next 24 hours. As a result, some unusual and unimaginable things could happen. People in the Carolinas need to take this hurricane seriously. Even veterans of past landfalls there may be in for a surprise. For […]
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Human influence on climate led to several major weather extremes in 2016
NEW ORLEANS, LA DECEMBER 13, 2017 – Last year’s record global heat, extreme heat over Asia, and unusually warm waters in the Bering Sea would not have been possible without human-caused climate change, according to new research inExplaining Extreme Events in 2016 from a Climate Perspective, a report published today as a special supplement to the Bulletin […]
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AMS: Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement Flaunts the Climate Risks
June 2, 2017 – President Trump’s speech announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement emphasizes his assessment of the domestic economic risks of making commitments to climate action. In doing so the President plainly ignores so many other components of the risk calculus that went into the treaty in the first place. There […]