Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 727 of Weather Break.
Hurricanes are driven by energy they extract from warm sea surface temperatures in the tropics in the autumn.  As the planet heats up due to Global Warming, some researchers have begun to wonder what will happen to hurricanes as oceans get progressively warmer.  In general, this [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 715 of Weather Break.
Doesn’t a vacation to someplace tropical sound nice? Especially in the winter, wouldnt you like to pack your bags and head south to a warm beach or golf resort or whatever? Sounds expensive, right, and a long ways to go.   However, if certain [...]

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Here at Weather Break we’ve decided to rebroadcast some of our classic episodes about Global Warming.  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 the greenhouse [...]

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Late last year, 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 goals–it [...]

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With President Obama preparing to go to Copenhagen for the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in December, here at Weather Break we’ve decided to rebroadcast some of our classic episodes about Global Warming.  Every gas in the atmosphere has “sources” (i.e., processes that add that [...]

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