A sign for extreme change is when storms destroy ancient landmarks, unearth 1 million old foot prints (See video above) or reveal pottery from the Iron Age and Romano-British time. Now they discovered ancient forest stumps. The BBC explains: Geologists believe extensive forests extended across Mount’s Bay in Penzance between 4,000 and 6,000 years ago. The shifting sands have also revealed…
The Vision Prize is an online survey of scientists about climate risk. It’s an impartial and independent research platform for incentivized polling of experts on important scientific issues that are relevant to policymakers. Some of theirprevious survey results have found that about 90 percent of participating scientists believe that humans are the primary cause of…
America’s natural gas system is leaky and in need of a fix, new study finds A review of more than 200 earlier studies confirms that U.S. emissions of methane are considerably higher than official estimates. Leaks from the nation’s natural gas system are an important part of the problem. This finding has important implications for…
By Michael E. Mann via HuffingtonPost: An interesting new paper by Matthew England and colleagues just published in the journal Nature Climate Change tosses another hat in the ring when it comes to explanations of the so-called “hiatus” or “pause” (I prefer “speed bump”) in global warming. As I have discussed previously, the fact that global surface temperatures have not increased…
BBC: New research suggests that the main system that helps determine the weather over Northern Europe and North America may be changing. The study shows that the so-called jet stream has increasingly taken a longer, meandering path. This has resulted in weather remaining the same for more prolonged periods. The work was presented at the…
CNN weather anchor Chad Myers explains why the world has seen such extreme weather lately. Related The UK Response to Climate Change (UK Storms, Floods, Extreme Weather) Feb, 2014
The recent exceptional onslaught of extreme weather in the past months in the UK raise question regarding the response and how to deal with climate change. Lord Stern: Flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change http://t.co/tyV0qln7TU — Svein T veitdal (@tveitdal) February 14, 2014…
In February 2014 remains of the earliest humans were found at a beach in UK Norfolk, which just last year saw record storms. In the meantime ancient coastal landmarks are destroyed by the forceful power of rising seas. UK storms and floods show climate change is upon us – Lord Stern Author of influential 2006 report…
Published on Feb 13, 2014 Senior Scientists discuss the potential for sudden disruptions of human and natural systems as a consequence of climate change.