ClimateProgress covered the jet stream connection on Monday: It will be unseasonably chilly in the eastern part of the United States this week, due to a peculiar weather pattern that’s causing deep waves in the jet stream. One of those big waves is bringing cool air down from the northeast Pacific and the Arctic. This…
Missed an item this week? Review the news and posts covered by ClimateState during the week 28, 2014. July 7, 2014 Bad news about rising sea levels as quickening Antarctic winds lead to faster ice melt New mechanism uncovered, causing potentially rapid Antarctic Glacier melt Rose-colored glasses: Antarctic sea ice is the Mail on Sunday’s…
Rupert Murdoch, recently gave an interview to Sky News Australia. When it comes to climate impacts, according to Murdoch we just have to move a bit inland and the worst is a temperature rise of 3 degree and a modest sea level rise of six inches. However, according to the IPCC (representing the best science…
The famous Bell Telephone Hour clip, with the all knowing Dr Frank Baxter explaining a very modern understanding of climate science in 1958. Enlightening and infuriating. Bell Telephone Science Hour Frank Capra warns of Global Warming (1958) 1958 – Frank Capra warns of Global Warming In 1958, Director Frank Capra made a movie for Bell…
Frank Capra directed (from 1952–1956), the famous Bell Telephone Science Hour specials from the 1950s. The series highlighted the then-emerging research on climate change, and the birth of solar energy technology, and what it all meant – below the fold. Related Bell Laboratory Science Series: Our Mr. Sun (1956) Educational Film
Most people probably know Easter Island and the theory by Jared Diamond about the environmental destruction there, however the opposite example is called Anuta, and shows that a sustainable life with nature is possible – not just an utopian dream. A BBC documentary from 2009 outlined how Anuta is a contrasting example to the environmental…
In the March edition of our Big Question video series, David Archer of the University of Chicago joins Booth professors Jesse Shapiro and Jane Risen to discuss why the public’s view of global warming is so far from the scientific consensus.
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A new massive report on global warming says dangers will worsen as the climate changes. Related IPCC Climate Change Report The Five Key Points IPCC Report: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis IPCC Report: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability New York Times: Climate Study Puts Diplomatic Pressure on Obama