THESE ARE THE MELTING GLACIERS THAT MIGHT SOMEDAY DROWN YOUR CITY, ACCORDING TO NASA...
This NASA Earth Observatory image obtained July 27, 2012, shows a massive ice island as it broke free of the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland. (Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory via AFP)
New York City has plenty to worry about from sea level rise. But according to a new study by NASA researchers, it should worry specifically about two major glacier systems in Greenland’s northeast and northwest — but not so much about other parts of the vast northern ice sheet...
Read moreGLOBAL WARMING IS KILLING THE LARGEST ANIMAL ON OUR PLANET. DEATH BY KILLER ALGAE...
Vreni Häussermann of the Huinay Scientific Field Station photographs one of hundreds of whales that washed up in Chilean Patagonia in 2015. Photo by Keri-Lee Pashuk
When 343 Sei whales died from a harmful algal bloom in Chilean Patagonia, they opened a window into the effect changing climate is having on marine mammals, our oceans, and us'...
Read moreMY HEROES! A MUST WATCH VIDEO...
How do we tell the story of 10 years of climate journalism in 5 minutes?
Watch this video for how we did it, with the help of filmmaker Bob Madey....
HOW A NORTH CAROLINA METEOROLOGIST ABANDONED HIS CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICISM...
I became a broadcast meteorologist for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1981, and have worked there ever since...
Read moreTHE CLIMATE CRISIS? IT’S CAPITALISM, STUPID!
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The real culprit of the climate crisis is not any particular form of consumption, production or regulation but rather the very way in which we globally produce, which is for profit rather than for sustainability...
Read moreBATTERED BY EXTREME WEATHER, AMERICANS ARE MORE WORRIED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE...
A home is surrounded by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey in Spring, Texas. Photograph: David J. Phillip/AP
After months of intense hurricanes, heat waves, and droughts, a survey finds a record number of Americans worried about climate change...
Read moreMY GRANDDAUGHTER WILL BE 35 IN 2050. I GRIEVE THAT SHE WILL KNOW SILENT AND EMPTY PLACES...
Former Greens leader Christine Milne with her granddaughter Eleanor, August 2017. Photograph: Karen Brown/Karen Brown Photography
Australia’s white lemuroid possum became my symbol for habitat loss and global warming that will send one-third of species to extinction by mid-century...
Read moreSEA LEVELS ARE ALREADY RISING. WHAT'S NEXT?
A man walks through floodwaters from Hurricane Irma in Bonita Springs, Florida. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK WILSON, GETTY
Climate change is battering coasts with storms and floods, but we still haven’t grappled with the risks of what’s to come...
Read morePARIS AGREEMENT: TRUMP'S CLIMATE EXIT RISKS U.S. ECONOMY, WORLD'S WELFARE...
Trump said the United States won't be bound by any of the treaty's obligations while he backs out of the Paris Agreement. The crowd outside the White House for the announcement wasn't pleased. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
The U.S. backing out of its climate change commitments threatens to lock in prolonged and dangerous warming, raising the cost for future generations...
Read moreTHOUSANDS OF SCIENTISTS ISSUE BLEAK ‘SECOND NOTICE’ TO HUMANITY...
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In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire “warning to humanity”...
Read moreBEGINNING TO PENETRATE BEYOND THE HYDRA-HEADED GLOBAL WARMING DELUSIONS. PART 4...
Introduction
The first three essays in this Hydra-Headed Meta-Delusion series explain massive delusions that affect the entire world and more particularly the USA. The first massive delusion is exposed as the world’s belief that through the Paris Accord it has addressed the most pressing and pervasive crisis humanity has yet faced, i.e., rapid and disastrous climate heating and runaway climate destabilization. The demonstration of the Tinkerbell-Effect points to the delusions that those who supposedly are working to stabilize climate suffer from. That group is not the political group administering the US political system that many are supposedly “resisting,” but the vast majority of the world who believe that we are moving toward climate stabilization. Evidence shows however that technological developments and current efforts to reduce or mitigate greenhouse gas pollutants are trivial compared to the dramatic and immediate reductions in fossil fuels required.
Read moreCHINA HAS PLEDGED TO STOP THE SALE OF ALL PETROL AND DIESEL CARS...
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China is looking to join the growing number of countries setting bans in place for vehicles that run on fossil fuels...
Read moreA HUGE PLUME OF MAGMA IS BULGING AGAINST ANTARCTICA...
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The frozen continent may hide a column of red-hot magma straining toward the surface...
Read moreWE’RE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING PREPARED FOR THE RISING WATERS...(book review)
The shoreline in Miami, a low-lying city threatened by rising sea levels. (Joseph Michael Lopez/For The Washington Post)
Some of humanity’s most primordial stories involve flooding: The tales of Noah, and before that Gilgamesh, tell what happens when the water starts to rise and doesn’t stop...
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Editor's Pick:
Conservatives probably can’t be persuaded on climate change. So now what?
One more round of “messaging” won’t do it...
Read more27 WAYS A HEAT WAVE CAN KILL YOU — A DIRE WARNING FOR A WARMING PLANET...
“What we’re understanding is that the human body is actually very sensitive to heat, and that suggests pretty much everybody’s at risk,” said Camilo Mora, who led new research into the health risks from hot weather. Credit: Michael Brown/Getty Images
New research in health and climate change suggests people are more susceptible to heat-related death than once thought. ‘It’s not just the elderly. It’s everybody...
Read moreWE CAN BRIGHTEN CLOUDS TO REFLECT HEAT AND REDUCE GLOBAL WARMING. BUT SHOULD WE?
Ever-higher temperatures are melting the ice sheets faster than projected. Sea level is rising. International efforts to reduce greenhouse gases are taking longer than expected. It’s a nightmare scenario that could soon demand an emergency response. What to do???
SKEPTICAL SCIENCE: NEW RESEARCH, OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 5, 2017...
The graph is from paper #80.
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below...
Read moreONE NATION, TWO TRIBES: OPPOSING VISIONS OF US CLIMATE ROLE ON SHOW IN BONN...
The alternative US dome – which is marked with the hashtag #wearestillin – is the biggest pavilion at the climate talks. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA
Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the Paris accord – but other Americans are standing with the world to help fight the ‘existential crisis’ of global warming...
Read moreTHERE WILL SOON BE FLOODS OF CLIMATE REFUGEES: WILL THEY GET ASYLUM?
“This notion of humanitarian visas, legal pathways, and temporary protection are policy options that we are encouraging states to use.” [Photo: andrej67/iStock]
New Zealand is considering creating a new visa for people fleeing environmental disasters brought on by climate change...
Read moreMAPPING HOW TO FEED 9 BILLION HUMANS, WHILE AVOIDING ENVIRONMENTAL CALAMITY...
Yesterday The Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation unveiled an ambitious plan to protect and connect 50 percent of the world’s land area as part of a broader effort to curb global warming, stave off the global extinction crisis, and ensure food availability for the planet’s growing human population...
Read moreREPORTING ON DEVASTATION: A PUERTO RICAN JOURNALIST DETAILS LIFE AFTER MARIA...
Blue tarps cover roof after roof in some neighborhoods, and more than half the residents of Puerto Rico remain without power seven weeks after the storm. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images
The aftermath of the hurricane went from unreal to surreal as 3.4 million people tried to cope without power or water amid a slow government response...
Read moreTHE CLIMATE HAS CHANGED BEFORE. BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT – LOOK AT THE ARCHEOLOGICAL RECORD...
Sandstorm at the lighthouse Rubjerg Knude in North Jutland, Denmark Photograph: Redphotographer/Getty Images/iStockphoto
A major new report states unequivocally that humans are changing the planet. Archaeology puts those changes into context – and explains why action is crucial...
Read moreTHIS HYPNOTIZING ANIMATION SHOWS THE INCREDIBLE TREND OF GLOBAL WARMING...
Mario Sánchez Nevado
A cool — and frightening — illustration of rising temperatures and CO2 levels...
Read moreTHE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD DIDN’T GO NEARLY FAR ENOUGH—CAN BONN DO BETTER?
Children are seen during a climate march prior to the opening session of the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference 2017 in Bonn, Germany. (Reuters / Wolfgang Rattay)
If negotiators are going to meaningfully combat the climate crisis this week, they’ll need to forget about pleasing fossil-fuel corporations...
Read moreCOP23 TO SHOW BUSINESS IS IMPLEMENTING THE PARIS AGREEMENT...
This year has been tumultuous for those grappling with climate change. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose and Nate have devastated North America and the Caribbean. Parts of South America and South Asia has faced flooding chaos, while parts of Europe faced sweltering heat waves. Antarctic sea ice hit a record low while temperature records were set in Australia. The costs of unchecked climate change are once again clear to all...
Read moreBIG MEAT AND BIG DAIRY'S CLIMATE EMISSIONS PUT EXXON MOBIL TO SHAME...
‘Solutions exist; they just need to be urgently implemented.’ Photograph: Alamy
It is time to stop the dairy and meat giants from destroying the climate and shift our support to making our small farmers, herders and ranchers resilient...
Read moreO SAY CAN YOU SEE ICE…
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Some concerns about continued monitoring of sea ice by remote sensing were raised this week in Nature News an article in the (UK) Observer: Donald Trump accused of obstructing satellite research into climate change. The last headline is not really correct, but the underlying issues are real...
Read moreBREATHING FIRE...
Views of San Francisco's skyline are smoke-filled on the morning of Oct. 9 as multiple wildfires burn in Mendocino and Sonoma counties. Credit: Amy Graff/SF Gate
As climate change fuels large wildfires, the pollution they're releasing is making Americans sick and undermining decades of progress in cleaning the air...
Read moreCHURCH OF ENGLAND SHOULD LEAD ON CLIMATE CHANGE BY DIVESTING FROM EXXONMOBIL...
ExxonMobil knew about the risks of climate change in the 1970s, yet misled the public for decades, say Anglican clergy asking the church to stop investing in the oil and gas company. Photograph: Matt Brown/AP
Anglican clergy, including five bishops, broadcaster Richard Coles and Olivia Graham, call on the church to support the aims of the Paris climate agreement by divesting from fossil fuel companies...
Read moreSYRIA SIGNS PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT AND LEAVES US ISOLATED...
Syria’s surprise decision to sign the Paris climate agreement comes against the background of a brutal civil war. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Syria’s decision means America will be the only country outside the landmark deal if it follows through with Donald Trump’s vow to leave...
Read moreHOW TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WOUND UP RELEASING DIRE CLIMATE REPORT...
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Government scientists issue 477-page report on climate change
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Calls this the warmest period in modern civilization’s history
THE CLIMATE RISKS WE FACE...
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Since the dawn of the industrial age, humans have been pumping increasing amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning coal, oil and gas...
Read moreDONALD TRUMP ACCUSED OF OBSTRUCTING SATELLITE RESEARCH INTO CLIMATE CHANGE...
Earth’s sea ice has shrunk dramatically in recent years. Photograph: David Goldman/AP
Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe...
Read moreA CLIMATE SCIENCE REPORT THAT CHANGES MINDS? DON’T BET ON IT...
The La Tuna Canyon brush fire burned above Burbank, Calif., this year. The Trump administration on Friday released a report on climate change that left no doubt about its causes. Credit Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration published a report Friday on climate change from its own scientists that left no doubt about its grim reality and its causes.
So now what?
Read moreAT VATICAN, ‘TENETS OF FAITH’ SEEN AS CRUCIAL IN CLIMATE CHANGE EFFORT...
Jerry Brown, the governor of California, underlined the importance of religious leaders’ involvement in climate change efforts. Credit Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Religious leaders need to tell congregations that global warming can affect not just the environment, but also the spread of diseases and other threats to human health, participants said at a Vatican conference on Saturday on climate change, an issue that has been a priority of Pope Francis...
Read moreHARRISON FORD SLAMS GLOBAL WARMING SKEPTICS FOR FAILING TO BELIEVE IN SCIENCE...
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‘If we don’t stop the destruction of nature, nothing else will matter’...
Read more2017 SKS WEEKLY CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING NEWS ROUNDUP #44...
Coal-fired power plant in Wyoming
Editor's Pick: There’s a huge gap between the Paris climate change goals and reality.
Current pledges are about a third of what’s needed...
Read moreIS IT TOO LATE TO SAVE THE WORLD? JONATHAN FRANZEN ON ONE YEAR OF TRUMP'S AMERICA...
‘As the ice shelves crumble and the Twitter president threatens to pull out of the Paris accord’, Franzen reflects on the role of the writer in times of crisis...
Read moreARE ANTARCTICA'S ICE SHEETS NEAR A CLIMATE TIPPING POINT?
“Parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to already be in substantial decline. If that continues, it’s not a matter of how much, but how fast sea level will rise,” climate physicist Carl-Friedrich Schleussner said. Credit: Jeremy Harbeck/NASA
Nearly all coal emissions need to stop by 2050 to avoid accelerating ice loss that could lead to 4 feet of sea level rise this century, scientists say...
Read moreTHE MOST POWERFUL EVIDENCE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS HAVE OF GLOBAL WARMING...
Hurricane forecasters look closely at ocean temperatures. Sea surface temperatures above 78 degrees, shown here in yellow, orange and red, are sufficiently warm to fuel hurricanes. Credit: NOAA
The oceans hold the story of a planet warming as fossil fuels are burned. Here is what scientists have discovered, in four charts...
Read moreWE HAVE NOW ENTERED THE STATE OF out of control and now OUT OF CONTROL AND NOW IRREVERSIBLE GLOBAL WARMING!
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You most likely have seen the news about the global warming aggravated weather like hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Marie or the horrible wildfires in northern California and the west coast. In this blog we have repeatedly provided good science informing that you that until we reverse our suicidal fossil fuel burning habits, global warming aggravated climate consequences (like what you are seeing almost everyday in the news,) will continue to increase in frequency, severity and scale...
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ANTARCTICA'S WINDS INCREASING RISK OF SEA LEVEL RISE FROM MASSIVE TOTTEN GLACIER...
Along the coast of East Antarctica, surface winds are projected to intensify this century due to warming caused by increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Credit: NASA
The little-studied glacier in East Antarctica holds enough ice to raise global sea level by more than 11 feet...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE TO AFFECT 10 MILLION AMERICANS BY 2075, CBO WARNS...
Mobile homes in a flooded neighborhood in Bonita Springs, Florida, on Sept. 12, 2017. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
Ten million Americans will be "substantially affected" by climate change by 2075, causing government disaster spending to jump, the Congressional Budget Office projected Thursday. But, instead of trying to cut carbon emissions, the federal government could make coastal residents bear more of the financial risks for living there, the office said...
Read moreGET SET FOR THE UN CLIMATE TALKS IN BONN...
Throughout the year, the global community has projected a sense of calm determination in response to the US president’s contempt...
Read moreMASSIVE GOVERNMENT REPORT SAYS CLIMATE IS WARMING AND HUMANS ARE THE CAUSE...
Hurricane Harvey delivered record rainfall to East Texas. Many scientists believe that climate change helped to make the storm wetter. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
It is "extremely likely" that human activities are the "dominant cause" of global warming, according to the most comprehensive study ever of climate science by U.S. government researchers...
FROM MIAMI TO SHANGHAI: 3C OF WARMING WILL LEAVE WORLD CITIES BELOW SEA LEVEL...
How Shanghai would look with a rise of just 2C: the UN warned this week of a potential 3C scenario. Photograph: Nickolay Lamm/Courtesy Climate Central
An elevated level of climate change would lock in irreversible sea-level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people, Guardian data analysis shows...
Read moreHAVE PSYCHOLOGISTS FOUND A BETTER WAY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO SAVE THE PLANET?
‘Worth protecting?’ Scientists recently published the first large-scale study of the association between social dominance and people’s environmental attitudes. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Recent studies linking people’s views on social inequality to how they think and act on environmental issues could prove crucial to changing their behavior...
Read moreWHAT IS THE NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT? THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES...
Union of Concerned Scientists
The amount of scientific research and brainpower that goes into the National Climate Assessment is kind of astonishing. Scratch that. It’s really astonishing...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE 'WILL CREATE WORLD'S BIGGEST REFUGEE CRISIS'...
Successive droughts, like those seen in sub-Saharan Africa, could cause millions to migrate to Europe. Photograph: Peter Caton/Tearfund
Experts warn refugees could number tens of millions in the next decade, and call for a new legal framework to protect the most vulnerable...
Read moreNEW ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SEND CLIMATE SCIENTISTS INTO TAILSPIN...
A series of new studies on everything from errors in calculating sea temperatures to the Earth’s ability to adapt in assimilating carbon dioxide has sent climate scientists scrambling to readjust their predictions concerning climate change...
Read moreBRITISH ANTARCTIC RESEARCH STATION TO SHUT FOR SECOND WINTER AS CRACKS IN ICE GROW...
The Halley VI research centre, run by the British Antarctic Survey, will shut down between March and November 2018. Photograph: British Antarctic Survey/PA
Having changed location earlier this year to avoid being cut off, the Halley VI station will close again over fears that the ice shelf it stands on may break...
Read moreTHERE’S A SHADY PUERTO RICO CONTRACT YOU DIDN’T HEAR ABOUT...
A car passes among dark homes as people wait for electricity to be restored after Hurricane Maria passed through on Oct. 6, 2017 in Utuado, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico experienced widespread damage, including to most of the electrical, gas, and water grid, as well as agriculture. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
National outrage has led to the cancellation of a suspicious $300 million contract doled out to a tiny Montana company that was oddly tasked with rebuilding large parts of Puerto Rico’s electric grid. A separate $200 million contract has faced little scrutiny, but may ultimately be even more scandalous for what it says about the effort to rebuild the island in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria...
Read moreTRUMP SUED, LAWYERS CLAIM DENYING CHILDREN A HEALTHY FUTURE...
Our Children's Trust
A group of children and young adults is suing President Donald Trump’s administration for denying their right to a livable environment, claiming that by not properly addressing climate concerns, the United States is taking away their right to a healthy future...
Read moreIMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HEALTH IS ‘THE MAJOR THREAT OF 21ST CENTURY’...
The health of millions of people across the world is already being significantly harmed by climate change, a major new report finds...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH...
A victim of a heat wave in Pakistan, in 2015. Credit Asianet-Pakistan/Barcroft Media, via Getty Images
Climate change has largely been defined as an environmental issue, with the worst effects decades or centuries away. But a sobering new report from a commission convened by the medical journal The Lancet, released Monday evening, could change that assessment...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE ALREADY BRINGING DISEASE, AIR POLLUTION AND HEATWAVES...
Pakistani heatstroke victims at a government hospital in Karachi, June 2015. The report found a huge increase in the number of people over 65 who are exposed to extreme heat. Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images
Heatwaves, pollution and disease are the main health issues linked to global warming but action to halt emissions would deliver huge benefits...
Read moreFIVE YEARS AFTER SANDY, ARE WE BETTER PREPARED?
Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall in the New York City region on Oct. 29, 2012, plunged Manhattan, from Midtown south to the Financial District, into darkness for several days. While much of the region’s inundated infrastructure has been repaired, many of the plans to stormproof the city are still just that — plans. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times
While much of New York City’s battered infrastructure has been repaired and even improved, most long-term resiliency measures are still years away...
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