Global Warming Could Worsen Australia, India Droughts

Global warming may have spawned a new type of El Nińo in the central Pacific and this could worsen the droughts in Australia and India, a new study by researchers in South Korea and the United States has found. While the conventional El Nińo is a warm body of water stretching across the tropical eastern

Climate Change Cuts World Food Outlook

Global warming will cut into world grain yields and result in less food being available in the developing world in 2050, a think-tank said on Sept. 29, calling for aggressive action to boost food output. “Climate change increases child malnutrition and reduces calorie consumption dramatically,” said a report from the International Food Policy Research Institute,


Beautiful Fall Coming?

The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station

Four Degrees Either Way Is A Big Deal, Says Expert

Climate change skeptics like to point out that if the weatherman can’t predict the weather with much accuracy, how can scientists be sure that global warming is actually happening? The answer is that putting together a weather forecast involves many often conflicting short-term variables. Analyzing climate trends over the long term is much easier, because


ACC Forum To Discuss Climate Change

David Barber used to be a skeptic. Barber has spent almost 30 years studying sea ice in the Arctic region. For the first 10 years he thought that changes he was observing in the ice, and the effects they had on the Arctic ecosystem, were as a result of natural variability. He was not convinced

Natural Trend Or Global Warming?

During the win-ter months the one thing I probably hear the most in regard to global warming and climate change is “how can it be so cold if we are experiencing global warming?” or “we just broke a record low, where’s global warming now?” At first glance these comments kind of make sense. After all,


More Ice Cover Equals Bad Science

Since nearly everyone has just had a holiday this week I thought I would give weather school a holiday and instead touch on a weather item that, to be frank, has gotten me a little upset over the last month or so. Maybe it’s my fault for listening to some of these syndicated radio talk

Climate warming means food shortages: study

The warming climate is likely to put stress on crops and livestock alike and could cause serious food shortages for half the world’s population, U. S. researchers predicted Jan. 8. The worst effects will be in the regions where the poorest people already live – the tropics and subtropics, the researchers wrote in the journal