Multi Meter Sea Level Rise, Antarctic Sea Ice & Ice Melt Acceleration

2019, Antarctic Amplification, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Glaciology, Ice Sheets, Ocean Heat Content, Oceanography, Polar Amplification, Sea Ice, Sea Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise, StudyLeave a comment

A pair of new studies released on Monday share a same ominous message — that our planet’s ice is melting at an alarming rate, which is bad news for global sea levels. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/14/world/climate-change-antarctica-ice-melt-twin-studies/index.html Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0284-4 Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017 https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/01/08/1812883116…

Climate Tipping Points Existential Threat to Our Life Support Systems

2018, 2019, Abrupt Climate Change, Biosphere, Climate Feedbacks, Impacts, Science Talk, TemperatureLeave a comment

November 8, 2018 – Tim Lenton of University of Exeter presents “Tipping Points in Climate and Biosphere Function”. Lenton is co-author of the most discussed climate study from 2018, Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 Tipping Points in Climate & Biosphere Functions Lenton is co-author of the most discussed climate study from…

Extreme Weather + Lack of Climate Action top Davos Global Risks Report 2019

2019, Climate Change, Communication, Economy, Europe, Policy, Report, SolutionsLeave a comment

The world is facing the increased risk of political confrontations between major powers, which is hindering solutions to challenges like climate change, according to the The WEF report, called the Global Risks Report 2019. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/16/davos-founders-warn-of-rising-tension-between-the-worlds-superpowers.html Read the report https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2019 Extreme Weather Lack of Climate Action top Davos Global Risk The world is facing the increased…

How do We react to Rising Temperatures? Human Conflict?

2019, Air Pollution, Climate Change, Conflict, Disease, Health, Heat Stress, Impacts, Psychology, USALeave a comment

Marshall Burke (Stanford University) discusses the impact of climate change on human behavior with Russ Altman (January 2019). Obscured behind the better-known impacts of climate change are a host of potentially more serious effects global leaders have yet to reckon with. Via Stanford University School of Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0DfR0FEZdU

Jessica Mathews talks about Irreversible Climate Risks (1988)

1980s, Biosphere, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, EnergyLeave a comment

On June 29th, 1988, the House Science, Space and Technology subcommittees held a joint hearing on the threat of global warming. Here the segment of Jessica Mathews’s (World Resource Institute) statement. Current Drought and Global Warming https://www.c-span.org/video/?3246-1/current-drought-global-warming Jessica Mathews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Mathews Watch from this hearing:

Daniel L. Albritton (NOAA) explains 1988 the Greenhouse Effect

1980s, Atmosphere, Chemistry, Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Gases, Methane (CH4), Policy, USALeave a comment

On June 29th, 1988, the House Science, Space and Technology subcommittees held a joint hearing on the threat of global warming. Here the segment of Daniel L. Albritton’s (Director Aeronomy Laboratory NOAA) statement. Current Drought and Global Warming https://www.c-span.org/video/?3246-1/current-drought-global-warming D. L. Albritton’s research https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/76163582_D_L_Albritton Watch from this hearing