The climate changed before Yes, but each time the event is connected to wiping out the majority of species on Earth, or creating conditions in the Ocean which killed off life.Further reading Climate change is a natural cycle This is true for the past, and like in the past, climate change is connected to changes…
Yesterday Obama delivered a historic speech about national security and climate change, at a US coast guard academy. Additionally the White House released a report, which summed up the conclusions from security experts on climate change. Today, if you go to Google News and type in “climate change”, you get something like below picture, 593 media articles on…
Excerpt from 2015 speech, watch full speech. White House Report: The National Security Implications of a Changing Climate https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/20/white-house-report-national-security-implications-changing-climate What They’re Saying: Military Leaders Respond to the President’s Call to Battle Climate Change https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/05/21/what-they-re-saying-military-leaders-respond-president-s-call-battle-climate-change Remarks by the President at the United States Coast Guard Academy Commencement United States Coast Guard Academy New London, Connecticut Transcript…
In 1896, Svante Arrhenius published below study on the greenhouse effect, the required carbon dioxide gas concentrations for change, and temperature variations deriving from mean, and processes in the climate system which draw down CO2, and the effects of CO2 on the climate on geological times, and elaborated on possible timescales of climate change. Arrhenius estimated based on the CO2 levels at…
United States During the 1970s and 1980s, when many nuclear reactors were first built, most operators estimated that seas would rise at a slow, constant rate. During Superstorm Sandy waves came close to reaching the Salem 1 nuclear reactor at Lower Alloways Creek, New Jersey. While it’s not clear how many current plants will still…
2014, TED Talk: Sea level is rising for the first time in thousands of years. Oceanographer John Englander, author of “High Tide On Main Street” explains why it is unstoppable, regardless of efforts to be ‘green’ and sustainable. Using powerful images, he encourages us to embrace the new reality that the shoreline is moving, that…
Peering into the thousands of frozen layers inside Greenland’s ice sheet is like looking back in time. Each layer provides a record of not only snowfall and melting events, but what the Earth’s climate was like at the dawn of civilization, or during the last ice age, or during an ancient period of warmth similar…
Eric Rignot from UC Irvine discusses Observing Antarctic Glaciers. This talk was part of The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on September 9, 2013. Related Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from…
By Daniel L. Kuester, U.S. Naval War College Public Affairs Feb. 4, 2015 NEWPORT, R.I. – Author, researcher and marine biologist Jeremy Jackson gave a presentation titled “Sea Level Rise is Dangerous” at U.S. Naval War College (NWC), Feb. 3, addressing environmental changes and the implications of those events on people. “The threats to the…