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| 5 Things Every Homeowner Should Watch for This Winter Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 07:49 PM PST  Winter weather can cause damage to your home and if you don't catch it in time, it could lead to damages that are expensive to repair. This winter keep an eye out for these five warning signs and then make repairs as quickly as possible. Full Story | Top |
| Cold Snap Breaks Records Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 04:53 PM PST  Coastside residents should keep those coats and gloves handy for the next week at least, as temperatures are likely to dip even further and remain chilly through next Wednesday, a National Weather Service forecaster said today. The Full Story | Top |
| Snowfall on Mt. Tam ‘Highly Likely’ as Record-Setting Cold Snap Stretches into Weekend Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 03:54 PM PST  A cold snap that broke records in parts of the Bay Area this morning is expected to continue through the weekend and will likely dump snow on the peaks of Mt. Tamalpais, a National Weather Service forecaster said today. Full Story | Top |
| Northern Nevada Residents React to First Major Winter Storm Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 03:46 PM PST  FIRST PERSON | CARSON CITY, Nev. -- The first major storm of winter dumped three to eight inches of snow in northern Nevada on Tuesday, bringing with it cold temperatures expecting to last throughout next week. The National Weather Service reported a high of 27 Wednesday, with an overnight low forecast at minus 5 degrees. Jan Breese of Carson City welcomed the snow and said she doesn't mind the area's colder weather. For others, the snow and colder weather have had a negative impact. Full Story | Top |
| First Person: Severe Cold Snap Grips Montana Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 03:46 PM PST  FIRST PERSON | MISSOULA, Mont. -- The weather forecasters claimed that this will be the coldest, extended temperatures to hit Missoula in 40 years. The National Weather Service says that in the next few days, we'll see temperatures as low as minus-5 to minus-30 with wind chills in the minus-20 to minus-30 ranges. If the current temperatures are any indication, we'll be in for a wild ride. It gets dark up here early with the sun setting before 5 p.m., so when I went to milk the goats yesterday, I was met by single-digit temperatures and absolutely frigid conditions. Full Story | Top |
| Drowned polar bear scientist gets $100k settlement Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 03:12 PM PST JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has retired as part of a settlement with a federal agency he says tried to silence him to protect its political goals. Full Story | Top |
| Arctic air spreads cold, snow from Rockies to Great Lakes Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 02:35 PM PST  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A powerful Arctic cold front blanketed the western and central United States on Wednesday, dropping heavy snow on the Colorado Rockies across to the Great Lakes and bringing frigid temperatures across the region. Some mountain locations west of the Continental Divide could see up to 3 feet of snow before the system moves on, said Jim Kalina, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder, Colorado. The cold snap sent bitter chills across many areas of the U.S. west, and the storm stretched across the Dakotas to northeastern Minnesota where up to 3 feet of snow could fall along the north shore of Lake Superior, the weather service said. "We haven't seen a cold snap this early in the year that has lasted so long for 30 or 40 years," said Luke Robinson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Missoula, Montana. Full Story | Top |
| Climate Scientist: 2 Degrees of Warming Too Much Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 02:23 PM PST  NEW YORK — Famed climate scientist and activist James Hansen has said it before, and he'll say it again: Two degrees of warming is too much. International climate negotiators agreed in the Copenhagen Accord, a global agreement on climate change that took place at the 2009 United Nations' Climate Change Conference, that warming this century shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. But in a new paper published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, Hansen and a cadre of co-authors from a wide array of disciplines argue that even 2 degrees is too much, and would "subject young people, future generations and nature to irreparable harm," Hansen wrote in an accompanying essay distributed to reporters. The new study is a departure from the typical climate science paper, both for the wide variety of fields represented in the list of co-authors, which includes economist Jeffrey Sachs, as well as for the policy implications it raises, something climate scientists tend to shy away from. Full Story | Top |
| Santa's Workshop Opens, a Wilmington Middle School PAC Fundraiser and More Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 01:59 PM PST  1. Your 3-day Local Forecast: According to the National Weather Service, Thursday will be cloudy, with a high near 50. Expect a calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph in the morning. There is a 40 percent chance of Full Story | Top |
| Scientist reprimanded over emails settles case Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 01:11 PM PST JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has retired as part of a settlement with a federal agency. Full Story | Top |
| Winter Weather is Coming: Expect Cold, Fog, Snow This Week Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 11:58 AM PST  Winter weather is on its way: The National Weather Service has issued a h Full Story | Top |
| Event Cancellations & Delays Due To Weather Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 11:11 AM PST Complete list of event cancellations, closures and delays due to weather. Full Story | Top |
| How to Draw Two Opposite Conclusions From the Same Climate Change Report Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 10:47 AM PST  Both The New York Times and Politico published stories this week based off a climate change report from the National Academy of Sciences titled "Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises," but somehow came to very different conclusions about what the report means. Politico opens by warning readers that, according to the report's findings, global warming is happening, and we'll start to really, really notice it soon: Climate change isn't just a problem facing future generations, a new scientific report warns, saying the planet could suffer serious and abrupt climate threats in the next few years or decades — leaving nations with a narrow window to adapt. Times contributor Andrew C. Revkin concluded, on the other hand, that climate change effects are not imminent: Full Story | Top |
| The Real Truth About Tornadoes (Op-Ed) Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 10:00 AM PST  The authors contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Rather, the larger numbers come from improved detection and reporting of weak tornadoes, particularly EF0 tornadoes, where "EF" refers to the enhanced-Fujita scale used by the National Weather Service (NWS). Full Story | Top |
| Beyond Shellfish, Ocean Acidification is Bad for People (Op-Ed) Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 09:56 AM PST Lisa Suatoni is a senior scientist in the Oceans Program at NRDC. This Op-Ed was adapted from a post to the NRDC blog Switchboard. Suatoni contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The climate change debate is finally arriving at this third stage, with unsettling predictions about populations displaced by sea-level rise, drought and storm damage, etc. But when it comes to "the other carbon problem," ocean acidification, the discussion remains stuck between steps 1 and 2. Full Story | Top |
| Climate Change Needs an Elephant Whisperer (Op-Ed) Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 09:56 AM PST  Raghu Murtugudde is executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Forecasting System at the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. Murtugudde contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. When it comes to climate change — and communicating about it — people seem to lose sight of a simple, longstanding fact about the human mind: It is split into two parts. On one side, there is a rational rider, on the other, an emotional elephant. Full Story | Top |
| 'Science' says 'selfie' isn't Word of the Year Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 09:20 AM PST  While Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year choices often appear to be intentionally buzzy — be it "podcast," the verb "GIF," or this year's selection of "selfie" — Merriam-Webster has turned to statistics to determine its Word of the Year, removing an editorial hand from the selection. That process makes 2013's Word of the Year a fairly fitting winner: science. "Science" may seem like an odd candidate, but Webster's editor-at-large, Peter Sokolowski, suggests in a statement that it was relevant to this year's news, "A wide variety of discussions centered on science this year, from climate change to educational policy." Full Story | Top |
| Freeze Warning Issued for Bay Area Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 08:23 AM PST  The National Weather Service has issued a Full Story | Top |
| Prince Harry's Elizabeth Arden Face Cream Is A Necessity During His South Pole Trek Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 07:36 AM PST  Even royal skin isn't immune to the effects of harsh winter weather. Just ask Prince Harry, who's currently trekking in arctic conditions for the Walking With The Wounded Allied Challenge to the South Pole. Fortunately, the dashing royal is armed with some potent face cream. According to The Telegraph, Harry and the rest of his 2013 Allied Challenge team have been sent Elizabeth Arden's Eight Hour Cream, per polar guide Conrad Dickinson's request. We're sure plenty of ladies will be glad that Harry's protecting his handsome mug -- after all, he is racing in temperatures as low as minus 40 Full Story | Top |
| Wintry weather halts megaload in Eastern Oregon Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 06:57 AM PST A megaload of oil refinery equipment bound for the tar sands oil region of western Canada has been halted again in northeast Oregon. This time the problem is harsh weather, not protesters. The giant rig ... Full Story | Top |
| Climate Model of the Month: New Wall Calendar Humanizes Science Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 06:27 AM PST  The idea started as a joke at Columbia University, thrown around as a pun of climate scientists modeling themselves, not their data, in an effort to engage the public with climate change in a fresh way by humanizing the people behind the research. Science writers Francesco Fiondella of Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Rebecca Fowler of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory began throwing around the idea in early 2013 and, after weeks of ongoing chuckles, decided to look for funding and get serious about the project. "There is so much out there in climate research, but we thought a new mechanism was needed for showing people what it all means," Fowler told LiveScience. Fowler and Fiondella hand-picked a group of 13 Columbia climate scientists who represented a balance of males and females and a range of climate-research fields, from hyrdology to physics to marine science. Full Story | Top |
| How to Exercise in Cold Weather Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 05:53 AM PST Follow these tips from John Honerkamp, chief coach of the New York Road Runners organization, and the Mayo Clinic, for safely (and even enjoyably) working out in the winter. In order for your body to adjust, however, you'll have to continue braving the outdoors for your workouts. "It's key to focus on effort versus actual pace," Honerkamp says. And tweak your workouts to be a little lighter at first, to help your body adjust. Full Story | Top |
| U.N. launches Green Climate Fund with little in its coffers Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 04:00 AM PST  The Green Climate Fund, designed as the United Nations' most important funding body in the battle on climate change in developing nations, launched its headquarters on Wednesday in South Korea, but uncertainty over finances clouded the event. Rich nations, reluctant to stress their already fragile economies, have not paid up as scheduled. Now the Fund has just $40 million at its disposal, a sum promised by South Korea that must also cover administrative expenses. "The Fund is on track to start its resource mobilization next year with a rapid and substantial initial capitalization, so that we can get the money flowing to the countries in greatest need," said Jose Maria Sarte Salceda, co-chairman of the fund's board. Full Story | Top |
| Federal study warns of sudden climate change woes Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 03:56 AM PST Hard-to-predict sudden changes to Earth's environment are more worrisome than climate change's bigger but more gradual impacts, a panel of scientists advising the federal government concluded Tuesday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Dangerous Global Warming Closer Than You Think, Climate Scientists Say Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 03:01 AM PST Dangerous Global Warming Closer Than You Think, Climate Scientists Say Full Story | Top |
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