While heat waves and more intense storms have been directly linked to a warming Earth, new research is exploring possible impacts of an Arctic that is warming at twice the pace of the rise in global temperatures. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, discusses new research and efforts to understand this controversial aspect of climate change in…
The Climate Mobilization Victory Plan, written by Ezra Silk, is a policy document that tangibly demonstrates how the U.S. could eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, contribute to a global effort to restore a safe climate, and reverse ecological overshoot through a massive WWII-scale mobilization. http://www.postcarbon.org/the-climate-mobilization-victory-plan-foreword The Victory Plan (PDF) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByftlCTrJRYVejBuYUZkM1dKcms/view The Climate Mobilization…
Study: There has been a clear decline in the volume of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere over the past 20 years. A recently proposed model predicts a non-linear decay, which would result in an increasingly rapid fall-off in atmospheric oxygen concentration, with potentially devastating consequences for human health. We predict that humans may continue to survive…
January 30, 2014 – Deep Time, Global Change and YOU lecture series:Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago & What it Means for Us.Presented by Dr. Scott Wing, Smithsonian Institute Human greenhouse gas emissions will alter conditions on earth for thousands of years. The past event that best mirrors current warming occurred 56 million years ago…
One idea likely to be both controversial and expensive: demolishing properties and returning developed areas back to nature. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article155213369.html B-Roll: Miami Sea Level Flooding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4DIkVDIDS0 Sea level rise Key West https://twitter.com/ed_hawkins/status/872749253185220608 The Perfect Tide: Sea Level and the Future of South Florida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGuQKv4gPU U.S. GDP by State https://www.bea.gov/iTable/drilldown.cfm?reqid=70&stepnum=11&AreaTypeKeyGdp=1&GeoFipsGdp=XX&ClassKeyGdp=naics&ComponentKey=200&IndustryKey=1&YearGdp=2016&YearGdpBegin=-1&YearGdpEnd=-1&UnitOfMeasureKeyGdp=levels&RankKeyGdp=1&Drill=1&nRange=5 Sound effects http://Soundmorph.com Expert explains Future Sea…
Head of the SAP, Drew Shindell, talks about why a near-term climate goal is important, the main message the article aims to convey, why governments should adopt a near-term goal, and whether reducing near-term warming can prevent climate tipping points. The Climate and Clean Air Coalition’s Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) published an article in Science…
A 1912 news article ominously forecasted the catastrophic effects of fossil fuels on climate change https://qz.com/817354/scientists-have-been-forecasting-that-burning-fossil-fuels-will-cause-climate-change-as-early-as-1882 Patreon http://patreon.com/ClimateState Paypal https://climatestate.com/support-future-climate-change-coverage Goal Consumption Affecting Climate https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19120814.2.56.5 Popular Mechanics 1912 https://archive.org/stream/PopularMechanics1912/Popular_Mechanics_03_1912#page/n85/mode/2up 300 PPM 1911 https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/ghgases/Fig1A.ext.txt Milankovitch cycles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles 1911 United Kingdom heat wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_United_Kingdom_heat_wave UK weather: Heatwave timeline, 1911-2014 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2014/jul/18/heatwave-weather-summer-temperatures The New York Times 1911 on Heatwave…
NASA’s OMG and Operation IceBridge missions are investigating the thinning of Greenland’s ice sheets from both above and below. Visit http://science.nasa.gov for more.
June 6, 2017, by Jeff Masters and Maximiliano Herrera from Wunderground. The last week of May 2017 and first week of June brought one the most extraordinary heatwaves in world history to Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The mercury shot up to an astonishing 53.5°C (128.3°F) at Turbat, Pakistan on May 28, making it…