Scientists recently discovered that once the snow melts in the Earth's northern forests, the surface releases a significant amount of heat into the overlying atmosphere that influences global weather systems.
But it has inspired other schemes, including a Stanford University study of how protein chains fold in on themselves and a global weather-forecasting model at the Rutherford Appleton Lab in Britain.
Yet in 1998 America's Federal Reserve cut rates as the global economic weather darkened, even though the domestic economy was still growing healthily.
These large warm and cold, high and low sea levels are slow-developing and long-lasting, and will certainly influence global climate and weather for the coming summer and into next fall.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said that their analysis of temperature data from a global network of weather stations indicated that the average temperature for 2012 was 0.57C above the 20th Century average.
Al Gore and other eminent scientists now tell us that global warming causes cold weather.
Whirlpool ( WHR - news - people )'s ability to weather the global sales slump, leading it to beat Wall Street's forecast.
If these economies can pull through, and if Japan's imports pick up, the resulting boost in regional demand will make it easier for the others to weather a global downturn.
Most researchers are extremely reluctant to attribute any single weather event to global warming.
For all this happy news, will the region weather the next global dip better than before?
As I have documented in prior columns, global warming is creating ideal weather that is producing record crop yields.
"When it comes to TV, where Twitter is particularly strong is grabbing the conversation, or facilitating the conversation, " said Curt Hecht, chief global revenue officer for the Weather Co.
Serious salad and sandwich eaters may have noticed that human global warming-induced cold weather across North America this past winter has severely impacted their availability and cost, even raising concerns about their endangerment.
No one can even forecast global, national or regional weather conditions that will occur months or years into the future, much less climate shifts that will be realized over decadal, centennial and longer periods.
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And weather forecasters can analyze global atmospheric conditions to provide greater accuracy as a unified team.
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Meteorologists fear that extremes of weather may increase as global temperatures slowly rise.
Because of bad weather, droughts, global warming, political violence in Africa, this is an advantageous time to make a farmland investment.
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Howard Archer, chief U.K. economist for IHS Global Insight, said the adverse weather could hit most sectors of the economy if people couldn't get to work or shops.
All of this is happening despite clear evidence from the best scientists that global warming is already causing extreme weather events and it's only likely to get worse.
Today Argo provides the first-ever global-scale, all-weather subsurface observations of the oceans, an unprecedented dataset for researchers studying the temperature, salinity, and circulation of the global oceans and how these change over periods ranging from days to decades.
And the question the reporter always asks is, is this global warming or is this just regular weather?
He recently teamed with troubled Sirius XM Radio and Garmin, maker of global-positioning displays, to beam weather data to automobiles--a potentially large but still nascent market.
Volkswagen, a much larger company that can lean on its higher-margin luxury brands and strong global operations, has been able to weather the storm more easily by cutting prices and taking market share from weaker rivals like Fiat, Peugeot, Ford Motor and General Motors.
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There is nothing in our weather that has not been changed by global warming.
Are you terrified by the melting polar ice cap, rising sea levels, extreme weather, and other growing threats from global warming?
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Vertex labs are packed with workstations that tap 112 Pentium chips in parallel, capable of crunching 110 gigaflops per second, roughly the same computing power used to produce the National Weather Service's two-week global climate model.
At the same time Gore drones on and on with character assassinations, straw man arguments and out-of-context weather anecdotes, more than two dozen global warming experts will join Watts discussing the science Al Gore hopes we will overlook.
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More than 2000 deployments per year are required to maintain the two global arrays, which are an essential part of the Global Climate Observing System, providing crucial data for weather forecasts and information on the heat content of the oceans.
Thanks to new crop hybrids, irrigation and other technological advances, global food production has consistently risen despite the vagaries of weather patterns.
Next, Pyle focuses on global warming in New Orleans and how the change in weather patterns may contribute to the dangerous rise of mosquito and termite populations.
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