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BombCyclone #Footage early January 4th 2018

2018, Extreme Weather, Precipitation, Snowfall, Storms, USABy Chris Machens January 4, 2018 Leave a comment

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

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Climate State’s Year 2017 in Review

2017, 2018, Climate Change, Climate State, CommunicationBy Chris Machens January 4, 2018 Leave a comment

2017 in review, is a compilation of various content from our channel, and offers a brief overview of some of the starker messages, and events we covered the past year. For links to full talks and videos see the links below. Emmanuel Macron: Make Our Planet Great Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyf0zBWwU3I Noam Chomsky on Trump Climate Policies…

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Winter Superstorms in U.S. and Europe (2018)

2018, Europe, Extreme Weather, Germany, Impacts, Storms, UK, USABy Chris Machens January 3, 2018 Leave a comment

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…

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Winter Superstorms and Global Warming

2018, Extreme Weather, Storms, USABy Chris Machens January 3, 2018 Leave a comment

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…

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It’s the year 2018

2018, YearBy Chris Machens December 31, 2017 Leave a comment

Stay positive, do something to preserve our finite planet. What is the purpose of our existence, if not to hold it accountable for the future? Climate State in 2018 Expect continued coverage of the climate crisis on our facebook page, at twitter, and on YouTube. However, we are likely to post less video content at…

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A Hacker’s guide to Climate Change #34C3

2017, Climate Change, CommunicationBy Chris Machens December 30, 2017 Leave a comment

A hacker’s guide to Climate Change – What do we know and how do we know it is a talk held at the 34C3 Chaos Communication Congress 2017, in Leipzig. Climate change has long ceased to be news to many people, but it is increasingly shaping humanity’s reality. This talk sheds light on the changes…

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The Changing Face of Solar Panels

2017, Clean Tech, Solar PowerBy Chris Machens December 29, 2017 Leave a comment

Solar power as we know it is now 178 years old. Solar panels are somewhat more recent, but they have now been a part of the international debate on environmentalism and green tech for a good while. California is now 40% solar powered on a hot day, and huge projects are taking place in every sunny spot…

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Trump: Record Cold Disproves Global Warming!

2017, Arctic, Arctic Amplification, Polar AmplificationBy Chris Machens December 29, 2017 Leave a comment

CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning caused the Arctic to warm at least twice as fast as the rest of globe, resulting in the disappearance of Arctic sea ice – which in turn weakens the polar vortex, which in turn favors cold air intrusion into lower latitudes, and vise-versa. Trump’s tweet https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/946531657229701120

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Antarctica Snow and Ice Patterns

2017, AntarcticaBy Chris Machens December 22, 2017 Leave a comment

In 2017, NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew for the ninth year over Antarctica to map the ice. This video features photographs of land ice and sea ice, shot with a handheld camera and with the Digital Mapping System (DMS), during IceBridge flights in November 2017. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/index.html Music in this video version is by W.O.W. Sound

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Thomas Fire approaches Santa Barbara

2017, Extreme Weather, USA, WildfireBy Chris Machens December 17, 2017 Leave a comment

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…

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The curious case of Guy McPherson’s Crusade against Science

2017, Climate StateBy Chris Machens December 16, 2017 2 Comments

On December 6, 2017 we reported on a copyright strike, someone pretending to be Guy McPherson files fake copyright strike. Since then we tried to reach out to Guy McPherson, trying to contact him with facebook messenger, and by email, asking him to confirm that he indeed was responsible, or suggested that he could still…

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Are the worst climate outcomes unavoidable? Are we doomed?

2017, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, National SecurityBy Chris Machens December 15, 2017 Leave a comment

At the AGU Fall Meeting 2017, Michael Mann explained why the narrative of certain doom of mankind is equal to denial, and that our actions today make a difference to what we can expect with future warming. Watch the entire panel discussion at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i2k2tpbfVk Conversation Earth content with Guy McPherson http://www.conversationearth.org/near-term-human-extinction-guy-mcpherson-218 SUPPORT CLIMATE STATE● Patreon…

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