Ocean Warming Is ‘Greatest Hidden Challenge of Our Generation’ #3DEdition

2016, Climate Change, Communication, Hydrosphere, Marine Life, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, OceanographyLeave a comment

A new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report, Explaining ocean warming: causes, scale, effects and consequences, sets out the most recent and comprehensive review to date on this topic and shows a complex story of change in the ocean. By the International Union for Conservation of Nature http://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-warming-climate-change-1998229846.html Report “Explaining ocean warming: causes,…

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/

Sea level rise estimates doubled

2016, Antarctica, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, EAIS, Impacts, Region, Sea Ice Melt, Sea Level Height, Sea Level Rise, Southern Hemisphere, WAISLeave a comment

Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney from The Washington post, recently reported on updated sea level rise projections. Sea levels could rise nearly twice as much as previously predicted by the end of this century if carbon dioxide emissions continue unabated, an outcome that could devastate coastal communities around the globe, according to new research published Wednesday. The main reason? Antarctica. Scientists…

Ice sheets may be hiding vast reservoirs of methane

2016, Antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Circle, Climate Feedbacks, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Greenhouse Gases, Hydrosphere, Ice Sheets, Methane (CH4), Methane Hydrate, Oceanography, StudyLeave a comment

The study indicates that under the frigid weight of Barents Sea Ice sheet, which covered northern Eurasia some 22 000 years ago, significant amounts of methane may have been stored as hydrates in the ground. As the ice sheet retreated, the methane rich hydrates melted, releasing the climate gas into the ocean and atmosphere for…

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…

AGU 2015: Eric Rignot – Ice Sheet Systems and Sea Level Change

2015, Climate Change, Communication, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Freshwater, Glaciology, Hydrology, Hydrosphere, Ice Sheets, Oceanography, Sea Ice, Sea Level Height, Sea Level RiseLeave a comment

Scientific Discipline Cryosphere Speaker Eric Rignot (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Abstract Modern views of ice sheets provided by satellites, airborne surveys, in situ data and paleoclimate records while transformative of glaciology have not fundamentally changed concerns about ice sheet stability and collapse that emerged in the 1970’s. Motivated by the desire to learn more about…