The award winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have fought at the frontlines of climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of…
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Earth scientist Alex Gardner reveals a world of rapid change as seen through the eyes of a NASA glaciologist. Glaciers and ice sheets hold massive amounts of freshwater locked up as ice. These stores of freshwater feed water supplies that support millions of people around the world, raise global sea levels, and can even change…
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Watch the new trailer for An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. In theatres July 28, 2017. #BeInconvenient Climate Changes, Truth Does Not. A decade after AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brought climate change into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we…
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Dr. Kevin Trenberth from the National Center for Atmospheric Research will explore the role of El Niño, climate change, and other influences on the weather and climate, and their role in recent costly and unusual extremes of weather, such as record breaking temperatures, drought and wildfires in the United States and around the world. –…
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At the event How is climate impacting the Arctic, what does this mean & what can we do? hosted by The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), at the University of Alaska Fairbanks May 11, 2017. Professor of Geophysics Vladimir Romanovsky discusses the impact of Arctic permafrost thaw. Related http://permafrostwatch.org This video is an event excerpt,…
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In 2007, Denmark launched the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) to assess changes in the mass balance of the ice sheet. This video presented by Geocenter Denmark gives us a 2017 update. For more visit http://undergroundchannel.dk and http://promice.org The continuous monitoring of the ice sheet makes PROMICE a unique and important…
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The trend of oxygen falling is about two to three times faster than what we predicted from the decrease of solubility associated with the ocean warming. References Ocean oxygen decline greater than predicted (2017) http://climatenewsnetwork.net/ocean-oxygen-decline-greater-predicted/ Ocean Deoxygenation: Our Ocean’s Oxygen Supply & Demand Issue (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHGwFrqIgg Low Oxygen Hypoxia in Marine Waters (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6RJi9k_VNE Image…
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Persistent, steady rains soaking swaths of central and eastern Canada have created record precipitation levels triggering widespread flooding and put residents and governments on high alert. Lake Ontario hits record level after ‘unbelievable’ amounts of rain http://www.newyorkupstate.com/weather/2017/05/lake_ontario_levels_break_record_and_water_levels_are_still_rising.html Here are the climate science benchmarks of the Quebec floods http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/05/08/news/here-are-climate-science-benchmarks-quebec-floods Canada flood damage worsens but heavy rains…
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There are certainly many good examples when it comes to communicating climate change, climate science on the Internet, for various audiences, for example this more science focused video or segments including the topic are sometimes discussed at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. And then you have videos which just start trending, often because they…
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On Earth Day 2017, CNN hosted a talk with Bill Nye and Trump adviser William Happer Related William Happer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Happer https://skepticalscience.com/schmitt-happer-wsj.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-nye-cnn-climate-change-denier_us_58fc08a6e4b06b9cb91767f1
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Denis Hayes left Harvard after being selected by Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Hayes#Earth_Day