A NASA analysis of global temperatures shows the world was warmer than normal during all three months of the 2015-2016 winter, and February’s average temperature was significantly above its normal average… “The anomalies in global temperatures seen over the past two years have been remarkable,” said New Jersey State Climatologist David Robinson, who teaches at Rutgers University. “With most every month, a new record of some sort is established. This may be for overall global warmth, a maximum global monthly anomaly, or a monthly record or string of monthly records.”
Archives for March 2016
Student-run Biotech Start-up Earned a $500,000 Commitment from Foundation Venture Capital Group
Visikol Inc., a student-run biotech startup from Rutgers, has gained a commitment of up to $500,000 in funding towards commercialization of its technology from Foundation Venture Capital, LLC. Named after its product Visikol, a biological clearing agent used in scientific and medical research, the company was founded by two current Rutgers doctoral students, CEO Michael […]
OPINION: WHEN WATER UTILITIES ARE SOLD, THE CUSTOMERS SHOULD BENEFIT
The debate is joined. Should municipality X sell its water system to another entity, and thus reap the benefits of that sale for its taxpayers? Or should the municipality sign an operations contract with another entity, with an upfront payment to the m…
Union County Extension honored with community health awards
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Union County has a mission of fostering community health and nutrition by sharing science-based information with the public, and its efforts have been recognized with two recent awards. The Union County Extension is…
Exceptionally warm February produces lowest snow cover in 14 years
February was extremely warm – the warmest such month on record by a landslide. Global temperature was 2.43 degrees higher than average, according to NASA, which was the largest temperature departure on record for any month in any year since 1880… The Global Snow Lab analysis is based on satellite data but it is not purely automated, says David Robinson, professor of geography at Rutgers. “A trained expert scrutinizes a multitude of sources, primarily visible satellite data but they also look at surface observations and even Web cameras in some places,” he said.
Marco Rubio Spits On Miami Mayor’s Ringing Endorsement
Every candidate for political office enjoys, no cherishes, endorsement from popular politicians, especially if they are from the same state. It is a different story though if the politician seeking the highest office in the land is a Republican more indebted to big money donors than they are a popular politician. One may have imagined Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio (FL) would have offered up a, at least, reciprocal acknowledgement to Miami mayor and Cuban immigrant Tomás Pedro Regalado that in accepting his ringing endorsement, he would address climate change threatening the state of Florida. Rubio reciprocated by fundamentally spitting on Regalado’s endorsement on the national stage by denying climate change exists… That continued warming trend has, according to another study, caused “the rate of sea level to increase faster than at any time during the 20th Century, or the previous 2,800 years.” The latest study was led by Bob Kopp, a Rutgers University climate scientist, who was joined by nine colleagues from several leading American and global universities. They concluded, unsurprisingly, that “the anomalous 20th-century rise on global warming is the only cause of such a drastic sea level rise.”
Climate Change Takes from the Poor, Gives to the Rich, Study Finds
Fish and other important resources are moving toward the Earth’s poles as the climate warms, and wealth is moving with them, according to a new paper by scientists at Rutgers, Princeton, Yale, and Arizona State universities. “What we find is that natural resources like fish are being pushed around by climate change, and that changes who gets access to them,” said Malin Pinsky, professor of ecology & evolution in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
Rising sea levels don’t interest debate moderators (editorial)
The Democratic candidates for president were given four questions about climate change and rising sea levels during their debate in Miami Wednesday, mostly because 21 Florida mayors actually sent a letter that coerced the moderators into asking them… This lack of engagement doesn’t surprise Robert Kopp, the renowned Rutgers climate scientist, but he is puzzled about one thing: “I think they’re eager to address it – not just the audience, but the candidates, who brought it up in earlier debates without prompting,” he said. “They just aren’t asked about it.”
Recreating Rutgers tomato took some sleuthing
A few weeks ago, we heard from listeners whose curiosity and appetite were piqued by a story we aired about limited seed availability for a new New Jersey tomato – the Rutgers 250, which is based on a tomato developed by Rutgers back in 1934. NewsWorks…
4-H youth from 13 N.J. counties learn about leadership
A group of 41 4-H members from 13 counties will be participating in the Discover the Leader in You! 4-H Leadership Conference being held Saturday on the George H. Cook Campus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick in Middlesex County. The conference pr…