But are these two climate extremes equally detrimental for coral survival?
The New York Post column by two climate science denialists claimed that "the ice caps aren't melting".
In the 2014-2015 budgethethe government combined two climate research funding programs, cutting $21.7m in the process.
The initiative by the two climate vulnerable groups before the start of negotiations raises the political temperature in Paris.
This post is a tale of two climate conferences, and a forecast for a substantial risk of climate confusion later this week.
So far 12 rich countries, led by the UK, Germany, Japan and the US, have pledged $6.1bn to two climate investment funds administered by the World Bank.
The report, on the group's Web site, environmentamerica.org, is an independent analysis of precipitation data from 1948 to 2006 that was vetted by two climate scientists.
Two climate sceptic MPs have accepted an offer from a group of scientists for a briefing ahead of the release of Australia's post-2020 emissions targets.
In the end, there are two climate threats: one created by increasing human vulnerability to calamitous weather, the other by human actions, particularly emissions of warming gases, that relentlessly shift the odds toward making today's weather extremes tomorrow's norm.
The panel's assessments of climate change underpinned negotiations leading to two climate treaties, the latest of them the Kyoto Protocol, which calls for cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases.
Scientists from Noaa and World Weather Attribution ran a statistical analysis of past rainfall and used two climate models to determine how heavy downpours have changed along the US gulf coast in the past 100 years.
