Destruction in Vanuatu. Extreme typhoons like this one draw their extra strength from overheated ocean water, a common consequence of global warming. Also worth noting, “The small island nation, located about a quarter of the way from Australia to Hawaii, has repeatedly warned it is already suffering devastating effects from climate change with the island’s coastal areas being washed away, forcing resettlement to higher ground and smaller yields on traditional crops.”
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-vanuatu-residents-massive-cyclone.html
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-vanuatu-residents-massive-cyclone.html
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Further perspectives on this storm, provided by an Australian newspaper. (From what I have seen, coverage of the event by U.S. media has been scant.)
Vivid pictures of the scale of destruction in this BBC video:
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China watch. This piece of news is not at all like something you would expect to hear about from China. I take it as a sign that the country is getting really serious about making a transition to renewable energy, comprehensively so. It also reflects an unusual type of increased sensitivity toward basic social needs by a Chinese government.
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Connecting summer weather patterns to Arctic warming. Here is a good discussion about the newly-proposed theories. I am thinking, from personal memory, that here in the central U.S. we really are not experiencing as many violent thunderstorms in the summer as we once did. That lends a bit of support to the basic premise.
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A hot start for 2015. This post contains an interesting chart showing the February temperature anomaly for each latitude from the South Pole to the North. The hemispheric difference in the 60-90 degree range is truly remarkable, with the Arctic region being the one that is “special” because it is so far from the baseline.
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The meaning of Siberia’s mystery craters, from the New Yorker. Elizabeth Kolbert always has an interesting perspective on natural events.
Carl