Extreme weather events and other disasters, and what to do were discussed in the late 50s and 70s, including the consideration of climate change (1958), or more broadly pollution (1972). This short presents a compilation of historic disaster documentary style film footage. Climate Change 1958: The Bell Telephone Science Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AXBbuDxRY Your Chance to Live:…
After the Cold War, climate change was the driving force behind unusual political cooperation between secret services in the United States and in Russia. This documentary tells of unknown research projects, but also of surprising friendships. The amazing and unknown story of how American secret services partnered with their erstwhile Russian adversary, Russia’s main military…
There are 32 million gallons worth of mercury, or the equivalent of 50 Olympic swimming pools, trapped in the permafrost. For context, that’s “twice as much mercury as the rest of all soils, the atmosphere, and oceans combined. And it could be released. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/02/05/the-arctic-is-full-of-toxic-mercury-and-climate-change-is-going-to-release-it Ambarchik: Research on permafrost at the Siberian arctic coast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhGcJnRgzy4…
An epic rainstorm sent mud and debris coursing through Montecito neighborhoods and left rescue crews to scramble through clogged roadways and downed trees to search for victims. The deluge that washed over Santa Barbara County early Tuesday was devastating for a community that was ravaged by the Thomas fire only a few weeks earlier. In…
Footage of Bomb Cyclone Grayson during January 4th ,2018 from New Jersey and Boston. Climate scientist Jim Hansen on winter superstorms https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/acp-16-3761-2016.pdf VideoZeke Orzech https://twitter.com/Zeke_ONWS Boston https://twitter.com/NWSBoston/status/948950967424356359MBTA Transit Police https://twitter.com/MBTATransitPD/status/949006234618925056Brian J. Ward https://twitter.com/ClimateStateDE/status/949089045837213696Virginia Pitcher https://twitter.com/kelkelly/status/949071051740377088CBSWUSA9Jeff Frame https://twitter.com/VORTEXJeff/status/948949110345928704NASA SpoRT https://twitter.com/NASA_SPoRTNWS Caribou https://twitter.com/NWSCaribou/status/949075415469101056 MusicPiotr Wojtowicz aka ThePianoMan007 https://soundcloud.com/thepianoman007/here-and-now and https://www.youtube.com/user/fucer007
Footage of Bombcyclone Grayson during the early morning hours, from New Jersey. Climate scientist Jim Hansen on winter superstorms https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/acp-16-3761-2016.pdf VideoZeke Orzech https://twitter.com/Zeke_OCBSWUSA9Eric Holthaus https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/948805308763254784 MusicPiotr Wojtowicz aka ThePianoMan007 https://soundcloud.com/thepianoman007/here-and-now and https://www.youtube.com/user/fucer007
A powerful Nor’Easter is forming off the East Coast of the U.S., while temperatures in Florida outpace those in Anchorage, Alaska. Meanwhile powerful storms swept through western Europe, France, the U.K., Ireland, Netherlands, and Germany. One difference are the rather mild temperatures in Europe compared to U.S. Arctic cold. The storm Eleanor sweeps France with…
Cyclone’ to blast East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/01/02/monster-storm-to-blast-east-coast-before-polar-vortex-uncorks-tremendous-cold-late-this-week Animation of low-level wind speed showing the development of the massive circulation https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/948311209970978822 Hansen: Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/acp-16-3761-2016.pdf Midweek snow and arctic cold on the way https://www.njtvonline.org/news/uncategorized/wrath-winter-midweek-snow-arctic-cold-way All day Thursday meteorologists are going to be glued…
The Thomas Fire ranks as the third-largest in California’s history with 267,500 acres burned, could become largest on record. Video footage by Mike Eliason https://twitter.com/EliasonMike NWS Los Angeles GOES 16 visible (red band) imagery shows smoke from the #ThomasFire flowing over the Channel islands https://twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/942183115321200641 Thomas Fire Likely to Become Largest in California History https://robertscribbler.com/2017/12/17/thomas-fire-likely-to-become-largest-in-california-history…