How Global Warming can impact the World’s Ocean Circulation #AMOC #THC #3DEdition

2016, Abrupt Climate Change, Climate Change, Communication, Freshwater, Hydrosphere, Impacts, Northern Hemisphere, Ocean Currents, Oceanography, Southern HemisphereLeave a comment

Read the full article here http://e360.yale.edu/feature/will_climate_change_jam_the_global_ocean_conveyor_belt/3030/ Support more Climate State coverage: Paypal email: donate@ClimateState.com Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ClimateState Related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_blob_(North_Atlantic) Study: 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/

A potential future world scenario, driven by rapid regional changes

2016, Abrupt Climate Change, Adaptation, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Communication, Conflict, Deglaciation, El Nino, Emissions Reduction, Food Security, Impacts, National Security, Ocean Currents, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Sea Level Height, Sea Surface Temperature, Solutions, Temperature1 Comment

As someone who follows the climate topic for several years, I’ve to conclude that we are still far away from taking climate change seriously. Around 10 years ago there were rather minor groups of concerned scientists and bloggers, while the media was giving “a balanced view” to the so called deniersphere. This went on for…

Why 2°C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous

2015, Climate Change, Communication, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Freshwater, Glaciology, Hydrosphere, Ice Sheets, Ocean CurrentsLeave a comment

Recently, James Hansen the former director of NASA GISS published new study findings about future sea level rise, ice melt, and temperature changes, as well as the possible implications for future climate. Above video highlights a part of a talk Hansen held on December 1, 2015 at the Paris climate change conference (COP21). The take…

Everything you need to know about Mass Extinction, Sea Level Rise and Amplification

2014, Abrupt Climate Change, Anoxic Event, Antarctic Amplification, Anthropocene, Arctic Amplification, Chemistry, Cretaceous, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geomorphology, Jurrasic, Mass Extinction, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Stagnation, Ocean Stratification, Oceanography, Oxygen, Paleoclimatology, Permafrost, Permian, Polar Amplification, Sea Level Height, Sea Level Rise, Seismicity, Triassic, Volcanology1 Comment

Wikipedia: A flood basalt is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that coats large stretches of land or the ocean floor with basalt lava. Flood basalt provinces are often called traps, which derives from the characteristic stairstep morphology of many associated landscapes. Related Greenland ice sheet collapse, triggered ancient sea…

Why is Antarctic sea ice expanding?

2014, Antarctic Amplification, Antarctica, Climate Feedbacks, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Hydrosphere, Ice Sheets, Ocean Currents, Ocean Stratification, Ocean Temperature, Sea Ice, Sea Ice Melt, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Temperature, Southern Hemisphere, StudyLeave a comment

By Laura Naranjo (NSIDC), first published January 31, 2014. In the following  an edited version, reposted here with permission. Antarctic sea ice is ruled by very different systems than Arctic sea ice. The reasons behind this increase are complex, and several recent studies show that scientists are still trying to understand them. Ice and wind Atmospheric…

New mechanism uncovered, causing potentially rapid Antarctic Glacier melt

2014, Antarctic Amplification, Antarctica, Atmosphere, Climate Feedbacks, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Glaciology, Hydrosphere, Ice Sheets, Impacts, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Polar Amplification, Sea Level Height, Sea Level Rise, Sea Surface Temperature, Southern Hemisphere, Temperature, WAISLeave a comment

An Australian-led research team found that sea levels may rise much faster than previously predicted by models, because changes by disruptive westerly winds, weren’t taken into account. Conservative estimates so far, projected irreversible melting in the course of a few centuries, depending on the temperature increase. Related Each degree of global warming might ultimately raise…

With further Arctic Amplification, How fast will Greenhouse Gas emissions accelerate in the Arctic Circle?

2012, 2013, Arctic, Arctic Amplification, Arctic Circle, Atmosphere, Climate Feedbacks, CO2 Emissions, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Freshwater, Greenhouse Gases, Hydrosphere, Methane (CH4), Methane Hydrate, Model, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Stratification, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Permafrost, Polar Amplification, Region, Sea Ice, Sea Level Height, Sea Surface Temperature, Soil, Study, Temperature, YearLeave a comment

Introduction to Methane Hydrate “Methane Hydrates and Contemporary Climate Change” (2011) IDENTIFICATION This post “A Mechanism for Shallow Methane Hydrate Dissociation”, explores possible mechanism which could release vast quantities of shallow Methane Hydrate into the ocean and atmosphere.       CH4 Release The following studies explore the release of CH4 emissions in the Arctic region. OBSERVATION…

The Antarctic Half of the Global Thermohaline Circulation is Collapsing

2014, Antarctica, Ocean Currents, Ocean Stratification, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Study9 Comments

By FishOutOfWater (DailyKos): The largest source of the coldest water in the world’s oceans ceased producing Antarctic Bottom Water in 1976. The surface water around Antarctica, which has be been freshening since the 1950’s, formed a lid of low-density water stopping the overturning process in the Weddell sea near the coast of Antarctica. The Weddell…

NASA: Perpetual Ocean

2013, Climate Visuals, Hydrosphere, Ocean Currents, Oceanography34 Comments

This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decemeber 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience. This visualization was produced using NASA/JPL’s computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate…