Remembering Helmut Kohl’s Call for Climate Action (1995)

2017, Europe, Germany, PolicyLeave a comment

Today Helmut Kohl died, aged 87, he was chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998, and responsible to reunite Germany’s eastern and western parts. Back in 1995 he called for CO2 reductions, at a United Nations conference. Related Helmut Kohl, Chancellor Who Reunited Germany, Dies at 87 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/world/europe/helmut-kohl-german-chancellor-dead.html German: Der schwarze Riese http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/zum-tode-helmut-kohls-der-schwarze-riese-a-1152559.html Release via…

Trump to doomed U.S. Islanders don’t Worry about Sea Level Rise

2017, Climate Change, USALeave a comment

Trump tells Tangier Island mayor not to worry about sea-level rise https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/14/trump-tells-tangier-island-mayor-not-worry-sea-level-rise/394688001/ Reporter’s notebook: Visiting the disappearing Tangier Island http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/09/us/weather-tangier-island/index.html Dems target Trump’s Mar-a-Lago with flood insurance bill https://www.eenews.net/eedaily/2017/06/13/stories/1060055931 Trump doesn’t believe in climate change, but it’s going to drown Mar-a-Lago https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/18/15601016/trump-climate-change-mar-a-lago-sea-level-rise Expert explains Future Sea Level Rise (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAPPq43iRLs

5 Surprising Climate Change Effects

2017, Climate Change, CommunicationLeave a comment

Yoda, Luke and C3PO explain surprising climate change effects. Climate Change May Increase Volcanic Eruptions https://www.livescience.com/25936-climate-change-causes-volcanism.html Predictions Implicit in “Ice Melt” Paper and Global Implications http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2015/09/21/predictions-implicit-in-ice-melt-paper-and-global-implications Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming could be dangerous http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/acp-16-3761-2016.html Jim Hansen: Hell Will…

Vanishing Arctic Ice and Amplification

2017, Arctic Amplification, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Climate Feedbacks, Communication, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Jet Stream / Polar Vortex, Polar Amplification, Sea Ice, USALeave a comment

While heat waves and more intense storms have been directly linked to a warming Earth, new research is exploring possible impacts of an Arctic that is warming at twice the pace of the rise in global temperatures. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, discusses new research and efforts to understand this controversial aspect of climate change in…

Warlike Climate Mobilization

2017, Adaptation, Climate Change, Communication, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Farming, Policy, Project, SolutionsLeave a comment

The Climate Mobilization Victory Plan, written by Ezra Silk, is a policy document that tangibly demonstrates how the U.S. could eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, contribute to a global effort to restore a safe climate, and reverse ecological overshoot through a massive WWII-scale mobilization. http://www.postcarbon.org/the-climate-mobilization-victory-plan-foreword The Victory Plan (PDF) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByftlCTrJRYVejBuYUZkM1dKcms/view The Climate Mobilization…

Atmospheric Oxygen Decline threatens Humanity’s Existence

2017, Model, Oxygen, Paleoclimatology, StudyLeave a comment

Study: There has been a clear decline in the volume of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere over the past 20 years. A recently proposed model predicts a non-linear decay, which would result in an increasingly rapid fall-off in atmospheric oxygen concentration, with potentially devastating consequences for human health. We predict that humans may continue to survive…

The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum 56 Mil yrs ago (PETM)

2014, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Communication, Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, Paleoclimatology1 Comment

January 30, 2014 – Deep Time, Global Change and YOU lecture series:Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago & What it Means for Us.Presented by Dr. Scott Wing, Smithsonian Institute Human greenhouse gas emissions will alter conditions on earth for thousands of years. The past event that best mirrors current warming occurred 56 million years ago…

Florida plans to abandon Property to the Sea (Sea Level Rise)

2017, Adaptation, Climate Change, Communication, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, USALeave a comment

One idea likely to be both controversial and expensive: demolishing properties and returning developed areas back to nature. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article155213369.html B-Roll: Miami Sea Level Flooding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4DIkVDIDS0 Sea level rise Key West https://twitter.com/ed_hawkins/status/872749253185220608 The Perfect Tide: Sea Level and the Future of South Florida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGuQKv4gPU U.S. GDP by State https://www.bea.gov/iTable/drilldown.cfm?reqid=70&stepnum=11&AreaTypeKeyGdp=1&GeoFipsGdp=XX&ClassKeyGdp=naics&ComponentKey=200&IndustryKey=1&YearGdp=2016&YearGdpBegin=-1&YearGdpEnd=-1&UnitOfMeasureKeyGdp=levels&RankKeyGdp=1&Drill=1&nRange=5 Sound effects http://Soundmorph.com Expert explains Future Sea…

The Article from 1912 predicting Climate Change due to Coal burning

2017, Climate Change, Coal, Communication, Dirty Energy, HistoryLeave a comment

A 1912 news article ominously forecasted the catastrophic effects of fossil fuels on climate change https://qz.com/817354/scientists-have-been-forecasting-that-burning-fossil-fuels-will-cause-climate-change-as-early-as-1882 Patreon http://patreon.com/ClimateState Paypal https://climatestate.com/support-future-climate-change-coverage Goal Consumption Affecting Climate https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19120814.2.56.5 Popular Mechanics 1912 https://archive.org/stream/PopularMechanics1912/Popular_Mechanics_03_1912#page/n85/mode/2up 300 PPM 1911 https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/ghgases/Fig1A.ext.txt Milankovitch cycles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles 1911 United Kingdom heat wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_United_Kingdom_heat_wave UK weather: Heatwave timeline, 1911-2014 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2014/jul/18/heatwave-weather-summer-temperatures The New York Times 1911 on Heatwave…

Large Underwater Methane seeping Structures can collapse

2017, Arctic, CH4 Methane, Climate Change, Communication, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geosphere, Greenhouse Gases, Hydrosphere, Methane Hydrate, Oceanography, Pedology, PermafrostLeave a comment

For the first time, underwater pingos have been found, outside of the permafrost regions. Domes of frozen methane may be warning signs for new blow-outs https://cage.uit.no/news/domes-of-frozen-methane-may-be-warning-signs-for-new-blow-outs/ Related Waking the Giant: Climate Force and Geological Hazards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xndhx7KpSU0 Gas Blowouts on the Yamal and Gydan Peninsulas http://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2015/12/gas-blowouts-on-the-yamal-and-gydan-peninsulas View of the methane seeps in the Arctic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oTFjWBiP4E Leaking…