Gov. Jerry Brown: We entered a New Climate & Weather Era

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Policy, USALeave a comment

During a press conference with the California state’s emergency officials Governor Jerry Brown provided an update on the destructive northern California wildfires, and talked about the peculiar connections established by climate change. California wildfires roar into ‘uncharted territory,’ fueled by climate change https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/02/carr-fire-california-wildfires-get-worse-gov-jerry-brown-says/887646002/ Watch the full press conference recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLGJCisTK0c

Global Warming Affecting Summer Heat, Surprises Scientists

2018, Arctic Circle, Asia, Canada, Climate Change, Communication, Europe, Extreme Weather, France, Germany, Global, Health, Heat Stress, Heat wave, Impacts, Northern Hemisphere, UK, USALeave a comment

Scientist point to the manifestation of a persistent heat spell in many parts around the globe, this summer. Climate expert and science editor for Axios, Andrew Freedman https://twitter.com/afreedma speaks about the climate-weather teleconnections with CBSN anchor. Release via https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-in-soil-dirt-making-climate-change-worse-study-says

Expert: Climate Change is a National Security Nightmare

2018, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Communication, Conflict, Economy, Energy Security, Food Security, Impacts, National Security, Policy, Society, Water SecurityLeave a comment

Paul Ross https://twitter.com/paulross from http://talkradio.co.uk / https://twitter.com/talkRADIO talks with climate scientist Mike Mann https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann about the ongoing heat wave, and elaborates on security implications.

He wrote a Story on the Worst Scenarios of Climate Change

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The Uninhabitable Earth is a New York magazine article by American journalist David Wallace-Wells published on July 9, 2017. The long-form article depicts a worst-case scenario of what might happen in the future due to global warming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uninhabitable_Earth Release at NYMag The Uninhabitable Earth http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html Scientists explain what New York Magazine article on “The Uninhabitable…

PODCAST Experts Discuss the ongoing Global Heatwave

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Excerpts of a recent ‘On Point’ podcast, recorded July 26th 2018 on WBUR radio https://goo.gl/rBhTQd More context http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/2018-global-heat-so-far #HEAT#GLOBAL Speakers Jeff Ray, meteorologist at CBS News in Dallas/Fort Worth Paolo Ruti, chief of the World Meteorological Organization’s World Weather Research Programme Jack Cushman, managing editor and reporter at Inside Climate News Rachel Licker, senior climate…

Tracking Global Carbon Cycle CO2 Emissions from Space

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A Tale of Three Continents: Record carbon dioxide growth during the 2015 El Niño, presented by Kevin Bowman (NASA). Originally presented at the Fall AGU 2017 conference on Thursday, December 14, 2017. Release via NASA Scientific Visualization Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICL9MZHCPw4 Carbon cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle #NASA #CarbonCycle #ElNino

Experts Discuss Recent Heat Waves and Atmospheric Changes

2018, Arctic Amplification, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Climate Feedbacks, Communication, Extreme Weather, Global, Heat Stress, Heat wave, Impacts, Jet Stream / Polar Vortex, Northern Hemisphere, Polar Amplification, Science Talk, TemperatureLeave a comment

The impacts of global warming are now ‘playing out in real-time’. Mike Mann (Penn State), Jennifer Francis (Rutgers), and Noah Diffenbaugh (Stanford), discuss the recent heat waves around the globe, and how it connects with the jet stream pattern, moderated by Markeya Thomas of Climate Signals. Read the conversation summary at ClimateSignals.org https://goo.gl/dK9gku Latest article…

The 5 Big Climate Unknowns

2018, Abrupt Climate Change, Atmosphere, Chemistry, Climate Change, Climate Feedbacks, Deglaciation, Geomorphology, Geosphere, Global, Methane Hydrate, Ozone, Ozone Layer, Science Talk, Sea Level Rise, Seismicity, VolcanologyLeave a comment

Climate unknowns include the rate of sea level rise, ozone loss, how the Gulf Stream will react and what it possibly means, the Earth’s response, and the potential for extra methane release from methane clathrates, stored at continental margins. There are many more climate unknowns, for example elaborated in this article https://thinkprogress.org/what-are-the-unknown-unknowns-of-global-warming-1438d934bdee 0:04 #1 Ozone…