Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 602 of Weather Break.
Global Warming has become — no pun intended — a heated debate, especially in the United States.  Some folks says that society needs to make big changes to how it uses energy in order to reduce the impact of climate change.  Other people say that the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 596 of Weather Break.
Climate change and global warming have become — no pun intended — heated topics of debate in the United States in recent years.  There are legitimate scientific questions and issues on both sides of the discussion about whether or not human activity is contributing to the [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 582 of Weather Break.
For most of the last few hundred years, overall the planet has been getting warmer–a phenomenon that is known as Global Warming.  As the planet gets warmer, the height of the oceans starts to rise.  This happens for a couple of reasons.  Part of the story [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 575 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, we started talking about Snowball Earth–the idea that the entire Earth (including the tropics!) has been buried under snow and ice several times over the last few billion years.  The so-called Snowball Earth hypothesis is quite controversial, in part because most of [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 574 of Weather Break.
Remember the movie “The Empire Strikes Back”?  I think that one of the best planets we ever saw in the “Star Wars” movies was the ice planet of Hoth.  Hoth was the new hideout of the rebels in the movie, and it was a planet completely [...]

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