An Arctic Sea Ice Low Point

August 29, 2012

A record low for Arctic sea ice and an extreme summer remind us that the Earth is not going to wait for us to make wise policy choices.

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After The Flood, Recovery Season

After The Flood, Recovery Season May 31, 2012

With a little help from Washington and Mother Nature, and a lot of self-reliance, Vermonters get an early start on summer.

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The Global Cone Of Uncertainty

February 2, 2011

When weather forecasters predict the path of a hurricane, they use what is known as a “cone of uncertainty” to show the area where the storm could possibly hit. The cone gets wider as it moves farther from the hurricane’s present location. Technology has made us very good at measuring current weather conditions, but our ability to forecast storms still has room for improvement. Theoretically, if we could measure every …

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My Bold Prediction: We’ll Have Summer Next Summer

November 26, 2010

I’m going to go out on a limb and make a prediction: We will have summer weather in the Northeast next year. This may seem obvious, but for a while I had my doubts. This year’s volcanic eruptions, first in Iceland and more recently in Indonesia, reminded me of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Like Eyjafjallaj√∂kull in Iceland and Mount Merapi in Indonesia, Mount Pinatubo spewed …

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