Tree rings record changing snowpack, research finds

Greg Pederson sees the recent publication of his research on snowpack declines in the West as a prime opportunity to reiterate the difference between climate and weather in this record-setting wet spring.
Pederson, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Bozeman, was the lead author of a paper published last week in Science magazine detailing the decline in snowpack observed by examining tree rings from the watersheds of the Columbia, Missouri ... Full Story »

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by Glenn LaBauve - Jun. 19, 2011

A very well written review of what is happening now with explainations of the difference between weather and climate.

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