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Report: Spring could arrive three weeks earlier due to climate change
October 19, 2015

By the end of the century, spring could arrive almost three weeks earlier in parts of the United States according to a report published recently in Environmental Research Letters by UW-Madison scientists and collaborators.

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Heat waves hit heat islands hardest
September 28, 2015

Extreme summers like that of 2012 — which saw record temperatures in cities across the U.S. — may be atypical, but experts say they will return, especially as the planet warms under climate change. And as they do, cities will be especially vulnerable.

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The Science And Effects Of Climate Change
September 17, 2015

WORT community radio in Madison presented interviews on September 17 and 24, 2015 of Drs. Vimont and Notaro of CCR and Dr. Patz of SAGE regarding climate change, natural variability, and resulting health impacts.

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Climate Change in Wisconsin, With Gardening Implications
September 1, 2015

Dr. Michael Notaro presented "Climate Change in Wisconsin, With Gardening Implications" to the Mount Horeb Gardening Club on September 1, 2015. He gave an overview of the greenhouse effect, global and local historical trends in climate, future climate projections for Wisconsin, and implications to gardening in our state.

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Understanding El Niño: Q&A with climate scientist Dan Vimont
August 25, 2015

With forecasters predicting that the developing El Niño could rival the strongest on record, we asked associate professor Dan Vimont to explain the weather phenomenon and its potential effects.

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Regional and global forcing of glacier retreat during the last deglaciation
August 21, 2015 | Nature Communications

Feng He and Zhengyu Liu are coauthors on a recent paper in Nature Communications investigating the mechanisms for the global scale glacier retreat during the last deglaciation. The study shows while insolation, ice sheets and ocean circulation modulated glacier responses regionally, global scale glacier retreat is most likely related to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations during the last ice age termination, which implies that the current worldwide glaciers are prone to melting away due to anthropogenic carbon emissions.

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Three NCAR Scientists Named AGU Fellows
August 13, 2015

Former CCR scientist Bette Otto-Bliesner was one of three scientists who were recently named Fellows of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for advancing Earth science and related fields.

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Holloway focuses 2015 Energy Summit on air and energy
June 19, 2015

"How air quality and energy affect each other is the single biggest story no one is hearing about,” says Tracey Holloway, UW-Madison professor of environmental studies and chair of this year’s Energy Summit, which will take place on Tuesday, October 13.

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Wisconsin engineers contribute to Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam discussion
June 11, 2015

To its home country, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam represents a crucial source of hydropower. But to Sudan and Egypt, Ethiopia's neighbors downstream on the Nile, the dam — known as GERD, and expected upon completion in 2018 to be Africa's largest — looks like a threat to agriculture and to Egypt's own power-generating Aswan High Dam.

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