Megaboulders, shocking Evidence for Future Climate

2017, Extreme Weather, Geodynamics, Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Impacts, Oceanography, Paleoclimatology, Pedology, Pleistocene, Sea Level Height, StormsLeave a comment

Climate-change warnings include rising seas and wild weather shifts. But giant flying boulders? That’s heavy http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/11/28/oceans Super Typhoon Shoved Car-Size Boulders Onto Philippine Beaches https://www.livescience.com/49201-haiyan-waves-moved-giant-boulders.html How did these giant boulders get here? http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/how-did-these-giant-boulders-get-here Peter Sinclair’s interviews via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-r1RLlYa6A Music composed by Piotr Wojtowicz aka ThePianoMan007 https://soundcloud.com/thepianoman007/i-saw-you-there

Fiji moves 40 villages Inland in light of Rising Seas

2017, Adaptation, Climate Refugees, Migration, PolicyLeave a comment

Fiji plans to move more than 40 villages to higher ground to escape coastal floods and is also working on ways to help future migrants from other Pacific island nations as sea levels rise, Fiji’s attorney general said. http://news.trust.org/item/20171117103442-72wi4 Glacier calving footage by rqmondo Teaser image https://pixabay.com/en/beach-woman-sea-swing-blue-coast-2858720 Sound effects http://TrailerMusicAcademy.com

Australia Heatwave Threatens Blackouts may Shatter 130yrs Record

2017, Australia, Extreme Weather, Heat wave, ImpactsLeave a comment

Australia Record Heat 2017 http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/australia-record-heat-2017 Heatwave health alert issued for southern Tasmania as 130yo record set to fall. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-21/weather-health-warning-for-southern-tasmania/9174300 Power plant failures push Victoria’s energy grid close to the edge in November heat http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/5077208/were-just-two-days-into-a-heatwave-and-our-grid-is-already-on-the-edge

Experts: Permafrost + Gas Hydrates in Arctic, Greenland SLR, Security

2017, Abrupt Climate Change, Arctic, Arctic Circle, Climate Change, Climate Feedbacks, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geosphere, Greenland, Pedology, Permafrost, Sea Level Rise, SoilLeave a comment

In this panel, Vladimir Romanovsky (University of Alaska Fairbanks), talks about thawing permafrost. Anders Levermann (PIK) 12:30 ,talks about Greenland’s contribution to sea level rise, David Titley (Ret. U.S. Navy Admiral, now Pennsylvania State University) 23:38 , talks about security, with a subsequent panel discussion 33:34 . Video via Earth Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFe3GOCBZO8

Schellnhuber: Unavoidable, Many have to Migrate (~1.4 Billion affected by rising Sea 2060)

2017, Climate Change, Communication, Policy, Sea Level RiseLeave a comment

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany speaks at the Impacts World 2017 conference. Title: Avoiding the Unmanageable, Managing the Unavoidable: A Slogan Revisited Hans Joachim Schellnhuber: Unavoidable Many have to Migrate Hans Joachim Schellnhuber: Unavoidable Many have to Migrate Watch the full Opening plenary with other speakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlFSIA0T1Wk

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Communicate Health Issues

2017, Air Pollution, Climate Change, Communication, Health, Policy, SolutionsLeave a comment

Film star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke at the COP23 UN climate conference on Sunday, November 12, 2017. Schwarzenegger held a keynote at a COP23 Presidency event on health and climate called “Health Actions for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement”. He underlined the importance of also speaking to the health issues related…