Electric vehicles use half the energy of gas-powered vehicles
Jan 29, 2024 · Even a coal-fired power plant is less wasteful than a car engine. The electricity that charges EVs has to come from somewhere. It would be correct to point out that some types of electricity generation are also grossly inefficient, especially coal.
Category 5 Super Typhoon Man-yi hits the Philippines
Nov 16, 2024 · Super Typhoon Man-yi (called Pepito in the Philippines) made landfall on Catanduanes Island in the Philippines at 9:40 p.m. local time on Saturday, Nov. 16, as a category 4 storm with 150 mph winds, less than eight hours after peaking as a category 5 storm with 160 mph winds and a central pressure of 923 mb, as determined by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC).
Four ways climate change likely made Hurricane Helene worse
Sep 27, 2024 · After a spectacular burst of rapid intensification, Hurricane Helene made landfall just east of the mouth of the Aucilla River, about 10 miles west-southwest of Perry, Florida, at about 11:10 p.m. EDT Thursday. Top sustained winds were estimated at 140 mph, making Helene a Category 4 hurricane at landfall.
Warming world, deadly problem: Heat-related deaths are surging
Oct 7, 2024 · Cue Ball (L) and Roni (2nd L), who are both unhoused, make their way toward a market amid a heat wave on July 24, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. Extreme heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes combined in an average year in the U.S. Unhoused people are at an especially high risk of heat-related illness or death.
Don’t get fooled: Electric vehicles really are better for the climate
Nov 6, 2022 · You may have heard the myth that electric vehicles are just as bad for the climate — or worse — than gas-powered cars and trucks. One common myth claims that the climate-warming pollution caused by manufacturing electric vehicle batteries cancels out the benefits.
Does recycling actually help the climate?
Feb 13, 2024 · Myth: “Reduce,” “reuse,” and “recycle” are equally beneficial. Plastics can only be recycled a finite number of times at best, sometimes only once, due to structural and composition breakdowns during the recycling process. This process involves melting, during which the material loses its integrity and gathers contaminants.
Eye on the Storm - Yale Climate Connections
Welcome to “Eye on the Storm” … Weather Underground Co-Founder Dr. Jeff Masters and his long-time meteorologist and writer colleague, Bob Henson, now are both regular contributors to Yale Climate Connections, offering the kinds of timely and authoritative weather and climate analyses that have gained them many thousands of followers worldwide.
Major landfalling hurricane threat setting up for Florida’s west coast
Oct 5, 2024 · Tropical Depression 14 formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico’s Bay of Campeche at 11 a.m. EDT Saturday, and less than three hours later, it was upgraded to Tropical Storm Milton. Update: Milton has intensified to hurricane strength more quickly than expected, with top sustained winds of 80 mph as of 2 p.m. EDT Sunday.Milton is forecast to become a major hurricane by Monday evening and ...
Jeff Masters, Bob Henson, Author at Yale Climate Connections
Jan 10, 2025 · Jeff Masters, Ph.D., worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. After a near-fatal flight into category 5 Hurricane Hugo, he left the Hurricane Hunters to pursue a safer passion - earning a 1997 Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan.
The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021
Jan 11, 2022 · [en Español] The year 2021 made an indelible mark in the annals of weather history. Not only did it feature the most extreme heat wave in history – the late June heat wave over western North America that smashed all-time records by unprecedented margins – it also had four weather mega-disasters costing over $20 billion each, tied with 2017 for the most such disasters on record.