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Winter comes to the Carolinas!

So far for the month of December, according to the National Weather Service the average high temperature in Charleston through Dec. 21 is 66.0 degrees Farenheit – usually, the average high for the entire month is 61 degrees. The average daily temperature – the average of all the high temperatures and all the low temperatures [...]

Posted by Jessica Whitehead on 22 Dec 2008 at 10:53 am under Coastal Climatology | Link

Changes on the horizon

In President-elect Obama’s recorded address to the Governors’ Global Climate Summit, hosted Nov. 18-19 by California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, Obama lays out the climate change issues he plans on addressing in the new presidential administration. There are two main ideas that he stresses:

A new federal carbon dioxide (CO2) cap and trade system, with the goal [...]

Posted by Jessica Whitehead on 15 Dec 2008 at 5:59 am under Climate policy FYI | Link