By Carol Rasmussen 19 September 2017(Jet Propulsion Laboratory) – A NASA study has located the Antarctic glaciers that accelerated the fastest between 2008 and 2014 and finds that the most likely cause of their speedup is an observed influx of warm water into the bay where they’re located.The water was only 1 to 2 degrees […]
By Amy Graff 10 October 2017 (SF Gate) – Raging wildfires across Northern California generated thick plumes of smoke that spilled across the greater Bay Area Monday morning and gave rise to dangerous air quality throughout the region. The smoky haze was especially thick Monday morning, lightened in the afternoon and evening and returned heavy […]
By Lynda V. Mapes 9 October 2017 (The Seattle Times) – Scientists have been hauling survey nets through the ocean off the coasts of Washington and Oregon for 20 years. But this is the first time some have come up empty.“We were really worrying if there was something wrong with our equipment,” said David Huff, […]
By Zeke Hausfather 5 October 2017 (CarbonBrief) – Scientists have been making projections of future global warming using climate models of increasing complexity for the past four decades.These models, driven by atmospheric physics and biogeochemistry, play an important role in our understanding of the Earth’s climate and how it will likely change in the future.Carbon […]
By Eillie Anzilotti 4 October 2017 (Fast Company) – Since 2012, the Economist Intelligence Unit, the research arm of the Economist group, has compiled a yearly assessment of the ability of 113 countries to feed their populations. This year, the Global Food Security Index recorded a slip in food security for the first time after […]
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Matthew Cutler and Seth Rosenthal 27 September 2017 (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication) – Para leer el reporte en español, haga clic aquí.This report focuses on a critical demographic in the United States – Latinos. Currently 17% of the U.S. population (more than 58 million people) and the second-largest racial/ethnic group […]
By Chris Mooney 22 September 2017 (The Washington Post) – More and more, we are learning that climate change can lead to some pretty strange and counterintuitive effects, especially when it comes to the wintertime.For instance, scientists have pointed out for a number of years that warmer seas, and a wetter atmosphere, can actually fuel […]
18 September 2017 (Met Office) – Following three record years for global surface mean temperature in 2014-2016, the observed recent slowdown in average global temperature has ended.The slowdown in the rise of average global temperature had been observed in the recent temperature record, but with the last three record years, this slowdown has ceased.Prof Stephen […]
By Ben Sanderson 4 October 2017 (RealClimate) – Millar, et al.’s recent paper in Nature Geoscience has provoked a lot of lively discussion, with the authors of the original paper releasing a statement to clarify that there paper did not suggest that “action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is no longer urgent“, rather that 1.5ºC […]
By Jennifer Chu 20 September 2017 (MIT News) – In the past 540 million years, the Earth has endured five mass extinction events, each involving processes that upended the normal cycling of carbon through the atmosphere and oceans. These globally fatal perturbations in carbon each unfolded over thousands to millions of years, and are coincident […]
