Part of the panel discussion at COP24 in Katowice (Poland) December 4, 2018, on climate risks, as part of the IPCC Special Event: Unpacking the new scientific knowledge and key findings in the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C. Watch the full panel here https://unfccc-cop24.streamworld.de/webcast/sbsta-ipcc-special-event-unpacking-the-new-scienti Read the summary report here https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
The fatal conditions set to continue. Learn more about Australi’s record heatwave https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/from-tennis-players-and-the-elderly-to-trains-bats-and-fish-this-is-how-the-heatwave-is-affecting-australia Source https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/311306273061353/
Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold Snaps https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02022018/cold-weather-polar-vortex-jet-stream-explained-global-warming-arctic-ice-climate-change Temperatures are rising much faster in the Arctic than the global average (“Arctic Amplification”). https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1086714347399700480 Broward County declares cold weather emergency https://news.google.com/?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of…
Australian Bureau of Meteorology 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXBkNyl2piw The past 4 days are in Australia’s top 10 warmest days on record https://twitter.com/BOM_au/status/1085354246369882114 CNN 2018 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/weather/2018/01/07/australia-sydney-hottest-day-van-dam.cnn New Scientist 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8gBRT4T7Q0 Sydney weather breaks new record with summer the hottest on record (2017) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-01/sydney-summer-the-hottest-on-record/8315672 CNN 2016 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/01/08/australia-bush-fires-sater-seg-cnntoday.cnn Heatwaves in Australia FairFax Media 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdUbG2gEEq4 CNN 2014 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2014/01/15/pkg-mulcahy-aus-extreme-heat.seven-network
Anthony Janetos talks at the Glen Gerberg Weather and Climate Summit, about the 4th US National Climate Assessment, January 19, 2019. Read the report summary here https://nca2018.globalchange.gov National Climate Assessment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Climate_Assessment Watch the full panel recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDjGP-_CXq0
A pair of new studies released on Monday share a same ominous message — that our planet’s ice is melting at an alarming rate, which is bad news for global sea levels. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/14/world/climate-change-antarctica-ice-melt-twin-studies/index.html Narration by Cormac Bren Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0284-4 Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass…
Jim White (University of Colorado Boulder) talks January 17, 2019 about past and future climate progress, at the Weather and Climate Summit 2019. The talk is titled, “A look back and forward: 30 years of crying in the wildness.” Source: StormCenter Communications https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw5SFTJktTM
November 8, 2018 – Tim Lenton of University of Exeter presents “Tipping Points in Climate and Biosphere Function”. Lenton is co-author of the most discussed climate study from 2018, Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 Tipping Points in Climate & Biosphere Functions Lenton is co-author of the most discussed climate study from…
The world is facing the increased risk of political confrontations between major powers, which is hindering solutions to challenges like climate change, according to the The WEF report, called the Global Risks Report 2019. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/16/davos-founders-warn-of-rising-tension-between-the-worlds-superpowers.html Read the report https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2019 Extreme Weather Lack of Climate Action top Davos Global Risk The world is facing the increased…
In ca 2012, as part of the Discover the Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series at the University of California, climate researcher Eric Rignot (NASA/JPL) outlined our understanding of changes in the major cryosphere hotspots in Antarctica and Greenland, in his talk titled “Response of the Great Ice Sheets to Climate Warming”. Read about his newest…
Marshall Burke (Stanford University) discusses the impact of climate change on human behavior with Russ Altman (January 2019). Obscured behind the better-known impacts of climate change are a host of potentially more serious effects global leaders have yet to reckon with. Via Stanford University School of Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0DfR0FEZdU
On June 29th, 1988, the House Science, Space and Technology subcommittees held a joint hearing on the threat of global warming. James Scheuer, Jessica Mathews, and Daniel L. Albritton discussed how to act on climate change on an international scale. Current Drought and Global Warming https://www.c-span.org/video/?3246-1/current-drought-global-warming