Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models: Potential climate-related impacts on future crop yield are a major societal concern. Previous projections of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project’s Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison based on the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 identified substantial climate impacts…
According to Boris Johnson the Cop26 success is six out of ten. Success, here we talk about limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5C, among a few others things. But, can the world not tackle climate change – limiting the warming, if this particular event fails? The Hype Of course it would be optimal if…
The Guardian: Pope Francis has urged world leaders to take “radical decisions” at next week’s global environmental summit in a special message recorded for BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. Leaders attending the Cop26 conference in Glasgow must offer “concrete hope to future generations”, the pontiff said. Teaser image Filippo Monteforte/AFP
In this brief presentation Professor Rahmstorf explains the most important facts and data on global warming, including from the 2021 IPCC report. Rahmstorf is a leading climate scientist and winner of the American Geophysical Union’s Climate Communication Prize.
Films A discussion of sea level, what it is, how it is determined and factors that influence sea level at various locations on the earth https://archive.org/details/howlevelissealevel From the 1973 movie Soylent Green. RELATED The Climate Warnings Films from the 1980s https://climatestate.com/2019/07/19/the-climate-warning-from-the-early-1980s/ The Climate Warnings in 1969 and 1977 (published in The New York Times) https://climatestate.com/2019/06/25/the-climate-warnings-in-1969-and-1977-published-in-the-new-york-times/
The study “Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate” found that the climate warmed 0.25C during the last decade, resulting in increased rainfall and heat extremes. Abstract Over the last decade, the world warmed by 0.25 °C, in-line with the roughly linear trend since the 1970s. Here we present updated analyses showing…
Twenty three reports from various agencies offer candid descriptions of how climate change is already affecting the federal government’s work and the various threats the U.S. is facing. Impacts include increases in floods and droughts, more pests and disease affecting America’s food supply, while affordable housing is increasingly at risk from both extreme weather events…
We interviewed Eric Rignot, Donald Bren Professor and Chancellor Professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine and Senior Research Scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The 6th IPCC Report and Sea Level Rise Chris Machens: Hello Eric, back in 2015 I’ve asked you about…
A new study concludes that our planet is dimming, a response likely due to rising temperatures. Warmer oceans seem to be generating fewer bright clouds, in turn less sunlight is reflected back into space – a feedback. Measurements of data spanning two decades, of the reflectance or albedo of Earth based on the earthshine that illuminates the Moon…
Ice shelves buttress glaciers – a new mechanism involving rift dynamics suggests ice shelfs could retreat faster than previously modeled. SciTechDaily: “The thinning of the ice melange that glues together large segments of floating ice shelves is another way climate change can cause rapid retreat of Antarctica’s ice shelves,” said co-author Eric Rignot, UCI professor…
Poland announced in 2020 a long term plan for phasing out coal by 2049. Coal has become increasingly expensive to mine in Poland, the industry now relies on government subsidies, taking nearly all of the annual €1.6 billion government energy sector support. Poland accounts for 30% of the European Union’s annual consumption of coal As…
Keynote speech at gridXdays – the conference on energy, sustainability and technology presented by gridX – from climate scientist and communicator, Stefan Rahmstorf. At the current rate we will pass 1.5 °C warming before 2040, but with decisive action we can still prevent this.