ICSUSA Climate Science Research Library

Used in an ICSUSA column: According to an article in Science [6 September 2024], a hailstone study is planned to use disdrometers and other instruments in spring 2025, with over 100 scientists in 11 states participating.

Used in an ICSUSA column: “Things are happening that have not happened before.” [Washington Post, March 27, 2024.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: Without that accuracy, our GPS may not be able to guide us to Starbucks or that Supercharger. [Nature, 27 March, 2024.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: The results of the study indicate that the summer of 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years [NYTimes 15 May 2024].

Used in an ICSUSA column: Technology available now, right now, could significantly increase the amount of electricity that the U.S. grid can handle [CleanTechnica, April 10, 2024, Steve Hanley.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: “Mental health clinicians are seeing more patients come in with symptoms of climate change anxiety, alsocalled eco-anxiety, eco-grief, or climate doom, and they are not always sure what to do about it” [Yale Sustainability, March 13, 2023].

Used in an ICSUSA column: According to Sarah Lowe, a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health, “Climate anxiety is fundamentally distress about climate change and its impacts on the landscape and h …

Used in an ICSUSA column: Climate Fresk, which began in 2018, has become “adopted by private and public organizations to spur people to take environmental action.” [NYTimes August 20, 2023.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." — John Muir [EcoWatch July 25, 2023]

Used in an ICSUSA column: The National Renewable Energy Laboratory [NREL] recently completed a study that shows that it would take less than 1% of the land in continental U.S., or less than that used today by the fossil fuel industry, to meet these clean power goals of 100% carbon free …

Used in an ICSUSA column: This includes the goals of: “1) Decarbonize electricity production; 2) Electrify everything and, where not possible, switch to other clean fuels like hydrogen; 3) Improve efficiency and reduce waste; and 4) preserve and increase natural and artificial carbon r …

Used in an ICSUSA column: ” Michigan’s grid, rated among the worst in the nation, frequently falters.” [The Daily Climate 2/27/23.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: Take for example a new report, “New Energy Outlook” by the respected firm of BloombergNEF [New Energy Finance: January 10, 2023].

Used in an ICSUSA column: “A ‘totally insane’ warm spell is upending winter around the world.” [The Washington Post, January 5, 2023].

Used in an ICSUSA column: This is the first of two major projects “under the state’s first-of-its-kind renewable energy and transmission program”. [nawindpower.com Nov. 30,2022].

Used in an ICSUSA column: This is part of the state’s “goal of having 70% of its electricity powered by renewables by 2030”. [Press Republican 12/2/22].

Used in an ICSUSA column: One third of the country is underwater and this huge country of 230 million people is suffering “a calamitous monsoon season on steroids.” [Climate News; newsletter@e.independent.co.uk September 2, 2022].

Used in an ICSUSA column: 40% of Americans live in counties in the United States that experienced climate disasters in 2021 [Washington Post 1/5/22].

Used in an ICSUSA column: According to Dr. James Elsner, a professor at Florida State University, he has “found that tornado power, estimated using damage path characteristics, increased at a rate of 5% per year from 1994 to 2016” [NYTimes 12/19/21].

Used in an ICSUSA column: “That, folks, is what an EV revolution looks like.” [Steve Hanley, CleanTechnica September 21, 2021].