Ars Technica: New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought. Results imply Earth may be more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously known. In a paper recently published in Science, Professor Nele Meckler of the University of Bergen and colleagues argue that the climate between around 35 and 60 million years ago may have been…
An international team of scientists, from Texas A&M University, the University of Southampton and the Swiss University ETH Zürich, led by the University of St Andrews, published their findings in the study, Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives. The international team pulled together data collected over the last 15 years using high-tech laboratory techniques. The combined data spans the…
Flood basalts and mass extinctions – ancient hyperthermals as analogs for anthropogenic climate change. Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) and mass extinctions are considered to be hyperthermals – usually associated with flood basalt eruptions.[2] Phases of rapid global warming, known collectively as hyperthermals.[1] Flood basalts are a subset of large igneous provinces (LIPs), the terms flood basalt…
Rapid changes in the long-frozen soil are raising concerns about a surge of planet-warming greenhouse gases as the permafrost thaws. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16012019/permafrost-thaw-climate-change-temperature-data-arctic-antarctica-mountains-study SOURCES Permafrost is warming at a global scale https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08240-4#Fig4 How Nitrogen Contributes to Permafrost Carbon Dynamics https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-nitrogen-contributes-to-permafrost-carbon-dynamics Adding Depth to Our Understanding of Nitrogen Dynamics in Permafrost Soils https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JG004518 Unexpected future boost of methane…
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), speaks October 2018 at the 50th Anniversary Summit of the Club of Rome, Aurelio Peccei Lecture, in Rome. The talk is titled, “Climate, Complexity, Conversion”. The talk briefly discusses the 2018 landmark study, “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene” https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 , delves into societies…
Chaos Computer Congress 2018 / 35C3, How Data Scientists can help to avoid a sixth global extinction As humans have a large negative impact on ecosystems all around the globe, we are approaching a major extinction event in which around 70% of all species will go extinct. This talk will give an introduction to a…
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…
The EPA, as part of the National Dialogue on Climate Action, hosted a public lecture on health and climate change presented by Prof. Hugh Montgomery. The EPA’s Climate Change lecture series has been running since late 2007, bringing a range of Irish and international speakers to The Mansion House in Dublin to update Irish audiences…
In the first installment of his inspiring three part series at the University of Sheffield, Dr. Aaron Thierry explores the risks and realities of climate change along with our place on Earth in the pursuit of an answer to the question; must we change? Part 1: https://climatestate.com/2018/10/05/aaron-thierry-explores-the-risks-and-realities-of-climate-change-part-1-must-we-change/Part 2: https://climatestate.com/2018/10/06/young-scientist-can-we-change-avoid-catastrophic-consequences/Part 3: https://climatestate.com/2018/10/06/will-we-change-courage-in-the-anthropocene/ @You Tube Part 1:…