High Stakes as International Climate Conference Begins #COP24

2018, Climate Change, Europe, Global, Policy, Project, Solutions1 Comment

A major international climate conference kicked off Sunday in Poland. #COP24 https://www.npr.org/2018/12/03/671243911/high-stakes-as-international-climate-conference-begins At COP24 countries will finalize the Paris Agreement Implementation Guidelines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1gyNmyCKc Teaser image by Czarek Sokolowski, a power plant near Katowice, Poland, the host city for a major global climate conference that began on Dec. 2, 2018. It is the most important climate…

Actual Climate Change Expert explains Climate Science to People

2018, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Communication, Cryosphere, Flood, Global, Hydrosphere, Impacts, Ocean Heat Content, Oceanography, Precipitation, Sea Level Rise, Storms, USA1 Comment

Kevin Trenberth, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), gave this public lecture at Ohio State on September 27, 2018, the event is titled, “Changes in extremes with climate change.” Host: Lonnie Thompson https://geography.osu.edu/events/dr.-kevin-trenberth-changes-extremes-climate-change This year’s Bownocker Medal will be awarded to Dr. Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Trenberth…

U.S. General talks Challenge of Sea Level Rise, Climate and Security Nexus

2018, Adaptation, China, Climate Change, Communication, National Security, Policy, Solutions, USALeave a comment

In this episode of The Climate and Security Podcast, host Dr. Sweta Chakraborty talks to General Gerald “Gerry” Galloway, USA (Ret) about the delicate relationship between “natural” and “national” security, how lessons and solutions from the Mississippi River Basin can inform the Mekong Delta and vice versa, examples of nation-wide community reliance, solar power for…

Solving Extinction, Health & Climate: Central Roles Food & Agriculture

2018, Emissions Reduction, Farming, Health, Project, SolutionsLeave a comment

Professor David Tilman (University of Minnesota), a leading expert in the fields of ecology, evolution and resource competition, gives the keynote lecture for the 2018 ONE Network event for staff and graduate students across the University of Oxford. http://www.one.ox.ac.uk/events/one-event-181113.html Video via Environmental Change Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfATHJ54qXw

The buried U.S. Climate Report, Trump ‘I don’t believe it’

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President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed a study (Climate Science Special Report) produced by his own administration, involving 13 federal agencies and more than 300 leading climate scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impact of climate change. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/26/politics/donald-trump-climate-change/index.html Read the report here https://nca2018.globalchange.gov Kyle Kulinski Show: Climate Change Report Swept Under The RugA new US…

They talk about our Climate Crisis #WeDontHaveTime

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Part of We Don’t Have Time Climate Emergency Plan, streamed November 24, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHeE3Z6SdVg First speaker Ingmar Rentzhog, the second speaker is Per Espen Stoknes https://twitter.com/estoknes Watch the full stream here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHeE3Z6SdVg A crucial discussion about transformation and how to expand the movements for climate action. The first ever Climate Seminar by We Don’t Have…

The Club Of Rome Climate Emergency Plan

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The Club of Rome Climate Emergency Plan, a collaborative call for climate action. Read the Club Of Rome Climate Emergency Plan here https://www.clubofrome.org Speaker Anders Wijkman, co-president of the Club of Rome between 2012 and 2018, is chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, and member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority…

Farming + Land use Cause 24% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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November 8, 2018 – Pete Smith of University of Aberdeen presents “Agriculture, Climate Change, and Biodiversity.” Farming will Negatively impact BiodiversityFarming + Land use Cause 24% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions What can we do about it? Learn more about the Raymond and Beverly Sackler U.S. – U.K. Scientific Forum at http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-forum/

Expert explains Great Barrier Reef Coral Bleaching

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Prof Terry Hughes is the director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville. He was awarded the 2018 John Maddox Prize for his “courageous efforts in communicating research evidence on coral reef bleaching to the public”. He has also been awarded the Darwin Medal…

Plan B: They want to Flood the Desert

2018, Africa, China, Climate Change, Climate Engineering, CO2 Sequestration, Emissions Reduction, Project, Solutions, USALeave a comment

The idea is “risky, unproven, even unlikely to work,” according to Y Combinator. But if it did work, it could slow climate change. By James Rainey. Imagine flooding a desert half the size of the Sahara. Using 238 trillion gallons of desalinated ocean water to do the job. Creating millions of 1-acre-square micro-reservoirs to grow…

Did a Greenland Asteroid Cause Abrupt Warming Last Ice Age?

2018, Abrupt Climate Change, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geomorphology, Glaciology, Greenland, Holocene, Ice Cores, Ice Sheets, PleistoceneLeave a comment

We report the discovery of a large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. From airborne radar surveys, we identify a 31-kilometer-wide, circular bedrock depression beneath up to a kilometer of ice http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173 Hiawatha Glacier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha_Glacier Sources Discovering a massive meteorite crater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ9maLsIcts Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact in the…

Permafrost Melt Fires may Accelerate Greenland Melt

2018, Climate Feedbacks, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geosphere, Greenland, Ice Sheets, Pedology, Permafrost, SoilLeave a comment

Dr. Nikolaos Evangeliou on climate change and wildfires (Oslo, August 2018). Evangeliou works at NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research http://nilu.no “If larger fires would burn, they would actually have a substantial impact on melting,” Stohl said. And, there’s a greater chance of such fires, if more of Greenland’s permafrost melts and exposes peat…