Hurricane Harvey Landfall Stormchaser Compilation (August 26, 2017)

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Reed Timmer https://twitter.com/ReedTimmerAccu Jeff Piotrowski https://twitter.com/Jeff_Piotrowski and https://www.pscp.tv/Jeff_Piotrowski Harvey Slams Ashore in Texas; Catastrophic Flood Threat Still to Come https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/harvey-slams-ashore-texas-catastrophic-flood-threat-still-come For live coverage visit https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/reports-over-160-000-without-power-as-harvey-rages-over-texas/70002563 or at https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-harvey-texas-impacts Hurricane Harvey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey References INTENSE eye wall of category 4 Hurricane Harvey from Rockport, TX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP5_wav6QZo Jeff Piotrowski https://www.pscp.tv/Jeff_Piotrowski

Major Hurricane Harvey Takes Aim – Forecast Texas (August 25, 2017)

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The Washington Post: Harvey forecast to slam Texas coast as major hurricane with ‘devastating’ flood potential https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/24/rapidly-strengthening-harvey-forecast-to-slam-east-texas-as-major-hurricane-and-stall Reuters: Hurricane Harvey strengthens, threatens U.S. with most powerful storm in 12 years https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-harvey-nhc-idUSKCN1B409K Wunderground: Dangerous, Rapidly Intensifying Harvey Expected to be a Major Hurricane https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/dangerous-rapidly-intensifying-harvey-expected-be-cat-3-landfall Levi Cowan on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/Meridionaljet/videos Bloomberg: Hurricane Harvey Has All the Ingredients…

Scientist Explains Climate Ice Core Proxies (2017)

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This talk by Lonnie G. Thompson, focuses on glaciers as recorders and early indicators of climate change. The ongoing widespread melting of high-elevation glaciers and ice caps, particularly in low to middle latitudes, provides strong evidence that a large scale, pervasive and in some cases, rapid change in Earth’s climate system is underway. On Thursday…

The Nansen Ice Shelf

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NASA scientists and ice sheet modelers, Ryan Walker and Christine Dow, traveled to a remote location on the coast of Antarctica to investigate how tides affect the movement and stability of the Nansen Ice Shelf, a 695-mile extension of ice protruding into Antarctica’s Ross Sea. Relatively understudied, Nansen’s manageable size lends itself to becoming a…

Antarctic Volcanoes Waking up?

2017, Climate Feedbacks, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geodynamics, Geomorphology, Geosphere, Glaciology, Ice Sheets, Seismicity, Study, Subglacial Lakes, VolcanologyLeave a comment

Nearly 100 Volcanoes Discovered Beneath Antarctica’s Ice http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/08/14/volcanoes-under-antarctica A new volcanic province: an inventory of subglacial volcanoes in West Antarctica http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/rbingha2/48_2017_Vries.pdf Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet This is in addition to 47 already known about and eruption would melt more ice in region affected by climate change https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/12/scientists-discover-91-volcanos-antarctica How a melting ice…

NASA Laser Reveals Miles of Greenland Ice Loss

2017, Climate Change, Climate Visuals, Communication, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Glaciology, Greenland, Ice SheetsLeave a comment

What if you could measure a glacier in such detail that you could visualize its surface in 3D? And what if you could compare that view with data from one, two, even 20 years ago? NASA airborne campaigns like Operation IceBridge have been measuring Greenland and Antarctica’s glaciers and ice sheets with a range of…

Little Algae creates Huge Melt Feedback on Greenland Ice

2017, Algae blooms, Biosphere, Climate Change, Communication, Cryosphere, Education, Expedition, Glaciology, Greenland, Ice Sheets, MicrobiologyLeave a comment

Algae responsible for large albedo feedback on Greenland’s frozen surface, not only soot and dust. We believe gathering measurements from the surface of Greenland ice is fundamental to advancing our understanding of the melting Arctic. http://darksnowproject.org Video via https://www.youtube.com/user/greenman3610 Dark Snow 2017 Update “Am I really seeing that?” is a common sensation here, as below,…

Tell the Climate System Stories Again

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Ever since scientists first began to explain the evidence that our climate was warming — and that human activities were probably to blame — people have been questioning the data, doubting the evidence and attacking the scientists who collect and explain it. Ben Santer: Fighting Trickle Down Ignorance https://climatecrocks.com/2017/07/10/ben-santer-fighting-trickle-down-ignorance Related The Relentless Attack on Climate…