Excerpts from the AGU 2017 Fall Meeting summary presentation of the Climate Science Special Report, the Fourth National Climate Assessment. First part on U.S. xtremes, second part discusses sea level rise. SpeakersDavid R Easterling, NOAA AshevilleRobert E Kopp, Rutgers University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Full summary presentation2017 Fall Meeting – U23A: Climate Science…
Bill McGuire (University College London) speaks about responses from the Earth crust in this 2016 lecture. He wrote a book on the subject, available at https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Publications/Bookshop/Search?k=waking&sortexpr=Publication%20Date%20Desc An astonishing transformation over the last 20,000 years has seen our planet flip from a frigid wasteland into the temperate world upon which our civilization has grown and thrived.…
In this 2015 talk, David Reay from the University of Edinburgh talks about nitrogen, and how it effects climate change. Watch the full lecture https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_w5t832ln Nitrogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen
From the rising seas that flood our cities, to bleached coral and more frequent and ferocious hurricanes, we must take action to combat climate change now. The longer we put it off, the harder it will be to protect ourselves.
Cornell University – 2017 Climate Change Seminar by Prof. Charles Geisler (Development Sociology). Recorded at Cornell University – February 12, 2018, part of Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge seminar series. More info http://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/events/ClimateChangeSem.php Related Sampling bias in climate–conflict research https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0068-2
Europe is so cold now that the Arctic appears to be a warm escape https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/28/europe-is-so-cold-now-that-the-arctic-appears-to-be-a-warm-escape Rare hurricane winds bury Greenland station in driftsHurricane-force winds battered NSF’s Summit Station, atop the Greenland ice sheet, over the weekend, with maximum sustained winds of 82 mph and gusts reaching 145mph https://twitter.com/NSF_OPP/status/968876728788619265
Nor’easter Grounds Flights, Halts Trains and Floods Boston https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-02/nor-easter-grounds-flights-leaves-thousands-without-power
Climate change and national security panel discussion from the World Affairs Council on May 3, 2005. Then NASA chief James Hansen outlined the state of global climate change research. In late 2005, however, Dr. Hansen’s ability to voice his concerns about global warming was severely compromised by NASA public affairs officials. After he called on…
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl Social and economic wastes resulting from continued drought in the midwestern dust bowl and efforts of the federal government in attempting to…