Miriam Jones speaks at the Permafrost Collaboration Team Meeting, October 10, 2017. https://www.iarpccollaborations.org/events/7798 Video via IARPC Collaborations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOyLef1t4IU Related Bølling-Allerød warming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B8lling-Aller%C3%B8d_warming
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California Gov. Jerry Brown delivers a blunt climate change message in Germany http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-jerry-brown-climate-change-20171108-story.html Meeting of the Conference of Presidents open to all members with Jerry BROWN, Governor of California: extracts from the statements Audio via http://www.audiovisual.europarl.europa.eu/Assetdetail.aspx?id=0c644194-f893-44fd-bd9d-a82501249365
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TV host and science educator, Bill Nye, talks about older climate deniers ‘aging out,’ and the rise of scientifically-literate people emerging to combat climate disruption. More at https://climateone.org Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-glLIcb9cE
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On the eve of the COP23 UN Climate Talks, the Pacific Climate Warriors and 1000s of people from around the world used their bodies, their culture and their spirits to demand an end to the era of fossil fuels, and a rapid, just transition to renewable energy for all. More on this story at 350…
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Two of the frozen continent’s fastest-moving glaciers are shedding an increasing amount of ice into the Amundsen Sea each year. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/climate/antarctica-glaciers-melt.html
GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Scripps CO₂ Program 2017 – Animation created by https://twitter.com/kevpluck Teaser image via https://pixabay.com/en/warming-global-environment-nature-2370285
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Paul Hessburg, Research Landscape Ecologist, USDA-Forest Service talks at Restoring the West Conference 2017. Context: More than a century of forest and fire management of Inland Pacific landscapes has transformed their successional and disturbance dynamics. Regional connectivity of many terrestrial and aquatic habitats is fragmented, flows of some ecological and physical processes have been altered…
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Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice…
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Island major threatened of sea level rise, explains climate change.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conjunction with the National Dialogue on Climate Action, hosted a public lecture on the challenging issue of the communication of climate change on 26 October 2017. Video by EPA Ireland https://www.youtube.com/user/EPAIrela… The speaker, Professor Chris Rapley CBE, is Professor of Climate Science at University College London and has specialised…
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In this opening lecture of the Environmental Change Institute’s MSc in Environmental Change and Management, Professor Yadvinder Malhi discusses the emerging concept of the Anthropocene. In his lecture he explores the history of the concept, how it is used in disciplines ranging from the Earth system sciences, geology, ecology, social sciences and in the wider…
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His presentation (3/22/2017), titled “The big picture on energy and climate,” discusses the dynamics of how money, jobs, national security, ethics and the environment influence perceptions and decisions about energy. The presentation was sponsored by several Lycoming College organizations including: Clean Water Institute, Center for Energy and the Future, Outdoor Leadership and Education program, and…
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