Suez Canal shutdown shows the vulnerability of the global economy to extreme events
Skeptical Science,
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters…
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters…
A critical global shipping node – Egypt’s Suez Canal – was reopened on Monday, March 29, six days after being shut down when…
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Aqua/MODIS/Jeff…
The reason for the giant 2015 dust storm in the Middle East was climate change, not the Syrian conflict, and more could follow.
In August 2015, a dust storm blanketed large areas of seven Middle East nations in a haze…
The recent dust storm in the Middle East (Sepember 2015) was publicized in the media as a sign of an impending 'Dust Bowl.' Its…