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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Everybody knows that winter is the coldest season of the year, but what’s the coldest day of the week? At first, the question might seem nonsensical, but, since human activity has a strong weekly cycle, perhaps so too should the temperatures. On weekdays, when humans burn [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 528 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, we talked about the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the greenhouse effect. As much as global warming and the greenhouse effect are debated in the news these days, it’s hard to believe that actually we’ve understood the basics of how [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 527 of Weather Break.
Just last week, President Obama and the leaders of most of the world’s largest car companies announced that they had reached an agreement on increasing the fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks sold in the United States. Increasing fuel efficiency standards serves two important [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 457 of Weather Break.
Everybody knows that winter is the coldest season of the year, but what’s the coldest day of the week? At first, the question might seem nonsensical, but, since human activity has a strong weekly cycle, perhaps so too should the temperatures. On weekdays, when [...]

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