We’ve reached a point where we have a crisis, an emergency

2014, 2018, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, IPCC, Policy, Science Talk, SolutionsLeave a comment

David Spratt (Breakthrough Institute), speaks 2014 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology about climate change, myths, and realities. His latest 2018 report “What Lies Beneath” with a foreword by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber can be read here https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/publicationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Qm3o9vD5k For more visit http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/08/take-unprecedented-action-or-bear.html “We’ve reached a point where we have a crisis, anemergency, but people don’t…

Is THIS Graph the only one needed to act on Global Warming?

2018, Air Pollution, Atmosphere, Chemistry, Climate Change, Climate Feedbacks, CO2 Emissions, Communication, Global, Greenhouse Gases, Health, Impacts, Model, StudyLeave a comment

Studies point to cognitive impairments at carbon dioxide levels believed possible by the end of this century, additional observation informed models tend to project higher warming scenarios, further research points to the possibility of self-reinforcing feedbacks in the climate system – again affecting the outcome of current unmitigated releases of heat-trapping gases to Earth’s atmosphere.…

Go 100 % Clean Energy

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Electric Car, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Jet Stream / Polar Vortex, Policy, SolutionsLeave a comment

Mike Mann (Penn State), Kim Cobb (Georgia Tech), Michael Brune (Sierra Club), Andrew Freedman (Axios), connect the dots on our current summer weather and climate. CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-in-soil-dirt-making-climate-change-worse-study-says NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news-netcast/video/nightly-news-full-broadcast-august-7th-1294277187944 Democracy Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hh-jREctTo

Hothouse Earth Researchers explain Climate Threshold

2018, Climate Change, Communication, Drought, Emissions Reduction, Extreme Weather, Heat wave, Impacts, IPCC, Policy, Solutions, Storms, WildfireLeave a comment

Earth Could Spiral Into A ‘Hothouse’ State Even If We Reduce CO2 Emissions, Warns New Report https://www.inquisitr.com/5019576/earth-could-spiral-into-a-hothouse-state-even-if-we-reduce-co2-emissions-warns-new-report Read the study paper http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/31/1810141115 The Climate State of the Holocene and Anthropocene (Rates of Change) https://climatestate.com/2018/08/08/the-climate-state-of-the-holocene-and-anthropocene-rates-of-change Sources RT: Climate Change academic Professor Katherine Richardson on Paris Agreement surviving Trump’s America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw2JoKRFTjc Channel 4 News: Climate change: How…

How Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds was inspired by Red Tide Algae Bloom

2015, Algae blooms, Impacts, Nitrogen, OceanographyLeave a comment

In this 2015 talk, David Reay from the University of Edinburgh talks about nitrogen and red tides, and explains how it inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 The Birds film. Watch his entire lecture on Nitrogen and Climate Change. Blame Hitchcock’s Crazed Birds on Toxic Algae https://www.livescience.com/17713-hitchcock-birds-movie-algae-toxin.html In the summer of 1961 hundreds of birds attacked the…

HFCs and Methane Emissions are Growing Again

2016, Atmosphere, Chemistry, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Policy, Science Talk, SolutionsLeave a comment

2016 presentation overview of the science and the latest findings on black carbon by Drew Shindell, Chair of the CCAC SAP and Professor of Climate Science at Duke University, and A. R. Ravishankara, Professor of Chemistry and Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, who gives an overview of the latest findings on methane and HFCs.…

Methane Mitigation Opportunities

2018, Emissions Reduction, Policy, SolutionsLeave a comment

Esteemed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) experts, Drew Shindell (Duke University & Science Advisory Panel Chair) and Klimont Zbigniew (IIASA), present the newest knowledge on SLCP emissions, sectors, and mitigation opportunities. From the perspective of what we’ve learned since the publication of the 2011 UNEP & WMO Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone, the…

CO2 May Make Earth +10-15ºC Hotter, Like Early Paleogene

2018, Bacteria, Biosphere, Climate Proxies, CO2 Emissions, Global, Impacts, Life forms, Microbiology, Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, Paleoclimatology, Pleistocene, Study, Temperature, Temperature Reconstruction, Trees, WildlifeLeave a comment

University of Bristol: A new study led by scientists at the University of Bristol has warned that unless we mitigate current levels of carbon dioxide emissions, Western Europe and New Zealand could revert to the hot tropical climate of the early Paleogene period – 56-48 million years ago. The Atlantic: They were strange days at…

Fire tornado’s sighted in California, England, Australia Strongest tornado in California’s history

2018, Australia, Europe, Extreme Weather, Impacts, UK, USA, WildfireLeave a comment

A tornado? Scary. Wildfire? Horrific. A tornado made out of fire? Just about the most terrifying thing Mother Nature can whip up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/08/03/californias-carr-fire-may-have-unleashed-the-most-intense-fire-tornado-ever-observed-in-the-u-s California’s Viral Fire Tornado Has Scientists Searching For Answers – Fire tornados are among the rarest weather phenomena on Earth, and this vortex had the added distinction of possibly being the strongest…