Summer Quote by Heidi Cullen

“Bjerknes had come up with equations capable of describing the behavior of the atmosphere. The state of the atmosphere at any point could be…

— Heidi Cullen

“Sahel’s rainfall, thanks to El Niño. During an El Niño event, the Sahel is typically expected to experience a drought, whereas during a La…

— Heidi Cullen

“mechanisms of weather predictions are very similar to those of climate predictions. So if we’re comfortable trusting local forecasters’ predictions about weather, we should…

— Heidi Cullen

“The instrument Keeling built, the gas chromatograph, works by passing infrared (IR) light through a sample of air and measuring the amount of IR…

— Heidi Cullen

“The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) synthesized the results from eighteen climate models used by groups around the…

— Heidi Cullen

“In the past 100 years alone, the region experienced three devastating droughts. The first stretched from 1910 to 1916; the second stretched from 1941…

— Heidi Cullen

“The climate models showed that greenhouse gas emissions had contributed to an increase in such summers, from one in 1,000 years to at least…

— Heidi Cullen

“ozone and particulate matter contribute to 8,800 deaths and $71 billion in health care costs every year. The connection with global warming is nothing…

— Heidi Cullen

“The goal was to build a model that represented the climate system. This was no small task. Weather models are concerned only about what’s…

— Heidi Cullen

“Giannini discovered that ocean temperatures helped regulate the strength of the African monsoon. What was even more fascinating was how each ocean played a…

— Heidi Cullen

“Using satellites capable of measuring cloud cover from space, Chiang showed that there was an increase in high clouds during El Niño years. Specifically,…

— Heidi Cullen

“Another issue, called the single-action bias,2 is the human habit of taking just one action in response to a problem in situations where multiple…

— Heidi Cullen