Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Over a matter of days in late September, Stef Lhermitte watched via satellite as a new, massive ***** formed along the edge of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier.
Just last year that glacier shed a Manhattan-sized slab of ice. But that particular... ...
Gone, obviously. Tom Scocca:
Using our advanced technology, it is possible to look up the beaches in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Sea Level Rise Viewer, and to imagine what will happen if we visit them, or try to visit them, in the future—when the sea levels have risen three feet, or six ...
In the deep middle of the remote Arctic Ocean, things are amiss.
With the passage of summer, the ice — diminished by the warm season — is expected to regrow as frigid temperatures envelope the Arctic.
But, this year, it's not. ... ...
A grim dose of climate change news has arrived, and top scientists are urging us to deal with it — now.
The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the global agency tasked with providing objective analys... ...
There is no political issue more pressing than the official inaction on climate change. With time running out to avert hundreds of millions of deaths and global migration, food, disease, and water chaos, with 73% of US voters believing in climate change (albeit with a mere 57% Read the rest
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The UN's International Panel on Climate Change is an interdisciplinary expert body comprised of leading scientists who study climate change; they issue periodic reports summarizing the best peer-reviewed science on climate change and making recommendations as to what must be done to avert the most catastrophic outcomes; their latest report is the gravest yet, ...
A UN report compiled by a coalition of international climate experts has warned that “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” are required if global warming is to be limited to just 1.5°C. The report also sets out some of the dire consequences for both humanity and life on Earth if that ...
Cities like Los Angeles, New York, London, Madrid, and Paris have all acknowledged the bubble-like hotter temperatures within their cities, known widely as the Urban Heat Island effect.
Though some cities have tried a couple of different ways t... ...
There's no doubt that hurricanes are complicated beasts with complex origins.
But following the Atlantic's extremely active 2017 hurricane season, a group of scientists at Princeton University's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory have identi... ...
Sea ice in the Arctic has just about melted to its lowest point of 2018, and this reinforces a trend of dwindling ice atop the globe — where the climate is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the planet.
As of last week, it'... ...