By Kevin Tsai To many people Antarctica is nothing more than a vast expanse of snow and ice, a frozen and inhospitable continent. For scientists interested in understanding climate change and the composition of the universe, Antarctica is a promising place for making discoveries that could not be made anywhere else on Earth. An example […]
Historic Data, Data Rescue
NOAA’s Climate Scientists Predict the Future by Looking at the Past
January 23, 2010
Raymond McIntyre Climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are going back over the records of meteorologists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The intent is to feed the information gathered by these unsung climate heroes into a pair of supercomputers and then to compare yesterday’s climate with today’s. They hope to […]
The cost of NOT collecting historic weather data
November 20, 2009
By Gerald Hawkins The raging waters of Mother Nature can render our world helpless, leaving homes destroyed, families ruptured, and the environment damaged. A flood can ruin an entire region in a matter of minutes. China, Istanbul, and the Philippines have recently lost huge numbers of lives to flooding. How could historical weather data make […]