Did a Greenland Asteroid Cause Abrupt Warming Last Ice Age?

2018, Abrupt Climate Change, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geomorphology, Glaciology, Greenland, Holocene, Ice Cores, Ice Sheets, PleistoceneLeave a comment

We report the discovery of a large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. From airborne radar surveys, we identify a 31-kilometer-wide, circular bedrock depression beneath up to a kilometer of ice http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173 Hiawatha Glacier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha_Glacier Sources Discovering a massive meteorite crater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ9maLsIcts Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact in the…

Permafrost Melt Fires may Accelerate Greenland Melt

2018, Climate Feedbacks, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geosphere, Greenland, Ice Sheets, Pedology, Permafrost, SoilLeave a comment

Dr. Nikolaos Evangeliou on climate change and wildfires (Oslo, August 2018). Evangeliou works at NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research http://nilu.no “If larger fires would burn, they would actually have a substantial impact on melting,” Stohl said. And, there’s a greater chance of such fires, if more of Greenland’s permafrost melts and exposes peat…

Experts: Contributing Factors to California’s Mega Wildfires

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Drought, Extreme Weather, Impacts, Science, USA, WildfireLeave a comment

  The Camp Fire in Northern California, which started Thursday, is the state’s most destructive fire ever… https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/666951838/megafires-more-frequent-because-of-climate-change-and-forest-management Video Sources LACounty Fire PIO https://twitter.com/LACoFDPIO LACoFireAirOps https://twitter.com/LACoFireAirOps Nick Valencia Abandoned cars, burned forests. This is what the aftermath of sheer terror looks like in Paradise https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/1060959189831483392 Raw footage of Camp Fire evacuees, devastation in Paradise and…

California now in Perpetual Fire Season, Will Get Worse! Thanks to Global Warming

2018, Extreme Weather, Impacts, USA, Wildfire1 Comment

Northern California blaze quadruples in size, levels Paradise, a town of 30,000; other fires rage near Los Angeles https://www.timesofisrael.com/massive-california-fires-destroy-town-malibu-ordered-to-evacuate Sources Climate Scientist: California Wildfires Are Faster, Stronger, Deadlier & Will Continue to Intensify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9KlVhAEVm0 As I told @BBCWorld News back in October, California no longer has a “fire season”. They have a perpetual fire season:…

Hugh Montgomery: Are Humans Like a Virus on Planet Earth?

2018, Anthropocene, Biosphere, Climate Change, Communication, Disease, Europe, Health, History, Impacts, Science TalkLeave a comment

The EPA, as part of the National Dialogue on Climate Action, hosted a public lecture on health and climate change presented by Prof. Hugh Montgomery. The EPA’s Climate Change lecture series has been running since late 2007, bringing a range of Irish and international speakers to The Mansion House in Dublin to update Irish audiences…

Can We Build a Giant Ocean Wall to Stop Sea Level Rise?

2018, Adaptation, Antarctica, Climate Change, Climate Engineering, Greenland, Project, Solutions, WAISLeave a comment

Is unavoidable sea level rise an engineering problem, do we have the capabilities for a technological fix? John C. Moore from the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland presents these ideas in his October 2018 talk, “Stopping the flood – Can we engineer ice sheets and save the homes of a billion people?” Open…

Are We Becoming too Dumb to Solve the Big Problem of Climate Change?

2018, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Global, Health, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, StudyLeave a comment

Recent studies suggest that various pollution sources contribute to the decline of cognitive abilities, IQ scores, human intelligence. Could this trend potentially affect our collective efforts to combat climate change? Support Climate State on Patreon http://patreon.com/ClimateState Sources Video narrated by Cormac Bren – Sound and Music by Epic Stock Media http://epicstockmedia.com – Additional video material…

On Permafrost Thaw

2018, Arctic, Arctic Circle, Biosphere, Climate Feedbacks, CO2 Emissions, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Environment, Geosphere, Impacts, Methane (CH4), Microbiology, Pedology, Permafrost, Science Talk, Soil, VirusesLeave a comment

The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow: Dr. Katey Walter Anthony: What’s Happening to the Permafrost? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fetZbsIH_yk France 24: Could thawing permafrost unleash long-gone … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8pSo3_0gkk Yale Climate Connections: Permafrost: The Tipping … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgybStZ4g Neanderthal extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_extinction Sound effects by Boom Library https://www.boomlibrary.com Music by Epic Stock Media http://epicstockmedia.com Further reading Neanderthals Could Have Been Killed…