Tropical cyclones, which are called hurricanes in the Atlantic, are one of the most destructive weather phenomena. This presentation will explore the links between climate and tropical cyclones, with a focus on how hurricanes and tropical cyclones have changed in the past, and what we think they will do in the future. http://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/events/ClimateChangeSem.php Speaker: Gabriel…
Nearly 50,000 members of the Self-Defense Forces, police and firefighting services were taking part in searches for people https://goo.gl/smVVjQ & https://goo.gl/7KDWtD The Guardian https://goo.gl/9sMkd7 Japan 2018 CNN https://goo.gl/eH67Rh Japan 2017 https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/08/asia/japan-floods-and-landslides/index.html Japan 2015 CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/12/asia/japan-floods/index.html Tokio news https://goo.gl/MW8V1b Global warming may be twice what climate models predict Past warming events suggest climate models fail to…
‘Wild card’ volcanic activity may add to climate change-induced sea level rise https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/volcano-antarctic-ice-melting-pine-island-glacier-sea-level-climate-change-global-warming-a8423131.html Evidence of an active volcanic heat source beneath the Pine Island Glacier https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04421-3 Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/12/scientists-discover-91-volcanos-antarctica NASA Antarctic Mission Operation ICE Bridge 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxog-aa_jo South Pole Volcano Eruption – Mt. Erebus Blasting Massive Molten Lava https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUy8vtk6OgE…
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Most accurate climate models predict greatest warming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egg1VqKEh5E
Global Average Temperature vs Temperature Extreme
Global Warming, What You Need To Know, with Tom Brokaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptNL780RWLI
Weather Underground https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Minimum-Temperature-426-C-1087-F-Oman-June-26-2018-New-World-Record
Presentation by Peter Clark from Rutgers University, Sea-level Rise Over the Next 100 to 10,000 Years in Response to Global Warming: An Update to IPCC AR5 (April 2018).
Excerpt of Peter Gleick’s talk at the 2018 Saint Louis Climate Summit. You can watch the full 35 minutes presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLmV_Ybbyc
Carbon Brief asked attendees at The International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions 2018, in Gothenburg, “What needs to happen for negative emissions to become a reality at scale?” https://www.carbonbrief.org/negative-emissions-scientists-meet-sweden-first-international-conference
In this eight part film Denis Postle provides a thought provoking view on Earth and our society. Do we have a Future? What kind of Future? What could get in the way? Can we learn to think and feel like a Planet? This collection of eight videos are a loving confrontation by the Planet of…
Excerpt from a lecture with Bill McGuire from 2016. Watch the full lecture here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWGlzHC2ss
Atlantic Ocean heat transport might lead to hot European summers goo.gl/GRMq63 Warm summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04071-5
“I believe in building a better future for our children, which requires offering them a planet that is still habitable in 25 years,” he says. Macron is confident that “one day” the U.S. will recommit to the Paris climate agreement. After all, as he says in the address, “there is no Planet B.” https://grist.org/briefly/the-french-president-gave-america-the-climate-change-speech-that-trump-never-will Full…
Detecting Population and Energy Usage Dynamics from Space: Air Quality and Nightlights presented by Steve Platnick. Originally presented at the Fall AGU 2017 conference on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. Published by NASA Scientific Visualization Studio April 23, 2018.
Victorville in Southern California suddenly submerged by tumbleweed. And this wasn’t the first town! Study: Climate change may reshuffle western weeds http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-farm-scene-western-weeds-020609-2009feb06-story.html Tumbleweed footage by James Quigg with the Victor Valley Daily Press http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/20180416/tumbleweed-takeover-high-winds-leave-neighborhood-overrun Thomas footage by Mike Eliason https://twitter.com/EliasonMike Australia town consumed by ‘hairy peänic’ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35600546 Hundreds of homes in Montecito … http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-thomas-fire-ledeall-20171216-story.html Tumbleweed…
European Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič’s keynote speech at the Energiewende 2018 conference in Germany Berlin, April 18, 2018.
For more conference talks visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb7H8cqwr_Wnhx2X5xuV5ag/videos or https://www.energiewende2018.com or https://twitter.com/greensofa_betd
This press conference was part of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, and delved into some future climatic prospects for Canada and many European countries, including weather, hydro logical potentials, and geo-morphological activities https://client.cntv.at/egu2018/pc6
For more selected 2018 talks from EGU visit https://egu2018.eu/webstreaming.html
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