News & Views item - February 2010

 

 

US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Launches "NOAA Climate Services" Website. (February 9, 2010)

Today NOAA (the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) went public with its NOAA Climate Services website.

 

It's slick, informative and currently runs on fumes (US$1.5 million), e.g. a news item from January 28, 2010:

 

Stratospheric Water Vapor is a Global Warming Wild Card
Thu, 28 Jan 2010
A 10 percent drop in water vapor ten miles above Earth’s surface has had a big impact on global warming, say researchers in a study published online January 28 in the journal Science. The findings might help explain why global surface temperatures have not risen as fast in the last ten years as they did in the 1980s and 1990s.

 

And two charts from the home page.