Discovery: Past Global Warming was more Extreme, Temperatures of 12–14C, today equivalent is around 1–2C

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…

Audio: Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica

CarbonBrief recently published a guest article by Robert M. DeConto, Pamela Pearson, and David Pollard, called Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica. Here is now a text-to-speech conversation for people who like to listen to it. Visit Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica to follow…

Antarctic & Greenland Melt Accelerates Sea Level Rise

In this talk from October 2019, Eric Rignot suggests the possibility of 4 meters of sea level rise per century. Just extrapolating based on Antarctic marine glaciers retreating would yield the figure Notes a new model with results in the ballpark Notes the figure is in agreement with past sea level rise estimates Not mentioned…

Arctic Ocean Anomalies

‘Atlantification’ of Arctic sea tipping it towards new climate regime https://www.carbonbrief.org/atlantification-arctic-sea-tipping-towards-new-climate-regime Scientists are keeping a close eye on the Beaufort Gyre https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-01-06/scientists-are-keeping-close-eye-beaufort-gyre In a Spin: New Insights into the Beaufort Gyre https://eos.org/editors-vox/in-a-spin-new-insights-into-the-beaufort-gyre SUPPLEMENTAL North Atlantic Ocean Sea Surface Salinity Anomaly Maps North Atlantic Ocean Sea Surface Height Anomaly Maps North Atlantic Ocean Sea Surface Temperature…

Extinction Events in Earth History and Today

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…