Spot On – Rising Seas in South Florida (PBS 2014)

2014, Anthropocene, Climate Feedbacks, Deglaciation, Hydrosphere, Sea Level Height, Sea Level Rise, USA2 Comments

PBS: Flood-prone South Florida considers proactive investment against rising seas March 19, 2014 (with Transcript). White House starting to make bigger climate change push – will help protect #SWWater if successful, but … http://t.co/OA7EX3OhgQ — Jonathan Overpeck (@TucsonPeck) March 21, 2014 Visit the new White House climate website https://climate.data.gov

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Global Warming Speeds Up Methane Emissions from Freshwater

2014, CH4 Methane, CO2 Emissions, Flood, Freshwater, Global, Hydrosphere, Pedology, Soil, Study, SwampsLeave a comment

By Tim Radford (Climate News Network): Scientists think the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere from freshwater ecosystems will increase as the climate warms, triggering further warming. LONDON, 20 March – British scientists have identified yet another twist to the threat of global warming. Any further rises in temperature are likely to accelerate the release of methane from…

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EU could afford to lead international climate action

2014, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Europe, Policy, StudyLeave a comment

Late-comers face a clear trade-off between lower short term costs and higher transitional challenges PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) 03/19/2014 (Translation: Artikel in Deutsch) – This week, the heads of the EU member states will meet in Brussels to discuss the adoption of a 40 percent greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030. Despite…

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Is Misinformation About the Climate Criminally Negligent?

2014, Denial, Ecocide, Policy2 Comments

Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent? By Lawrence Torcello, Rochester Institute of Technology The importance of clearly communicating science to the public should not be underestimated. Accurately understanding our natural environment and sharing that information can be a matter of life or death. When it comes to global warming, much of the public remains…

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Why is there no Manhattan Project to Tackle Climate Change?

Clean Tech, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Policy, Wind PowerLeave a comment

We must overcome short-termism, inconvenient truths and cuts to R&D and find the Brunels of low carbon technology By Tom Delay (The Carbon Trust): Here’s a thought. If necessity is the motherhood of invention how come we are so far away from the wholesale deployment of low carbon energy technologies that can redeem humanity from…

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The Pentagon’s Guide to Overcoming Climate Change Denial

2014, Denial, National Security, Science TalkLeave a comment

By Brian Merchant (Motherboard): Those who actively deny that climate change is a scientifically-established reality have never really been able to square one simple fact: The nation’s military leadership is in unified agreement that climate change is real, and also that it poses a clear and present danger to the troops. The Pentagon’s thinking is revealed plainly and publicly in its own 2014…

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Join Oxford University, BOINC Research Project To Assess Weather Anomalies

2014, Extreme Weather, Precipitation, UK1 Comment

ClimatePrediction a University of Oxford project, recently launched an experiment to help better understand the impacts of precipitation on UK weather. The goal is to determine whether global warming made this winter’s extreme deluge more likely to occur, or not. Live Results Signup How to join the climateprediction.net experiment -> Getting Started http://www.climateprediction.net/getting-started/ Climate Prediction…

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