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Cloud blanket warms up melting icecap
Cloud blanket warms up melting icecap Ominous clouds over the icecap near Kangerlussuaq in Western Greenland. Image: Nikolaj F. Rasmussen via Flickr New study shows that up to 30% of the Greenland icecap melting is due to cloud cover that is helping to raise temperatures − and accelerate sea level rise. LONDON, 30 January, 2016 – Researchers have […]
2015: record hot or not?
2015: record hot or not? With the 2015 lower troposphere temperatures in, NASA and NOAA have declared without any caveats or doubts, that 2015 was the warmest year since records began. This short post updates my charts that compare satellite with surface thermometers temperatures. The differences between the two methodologies are in fact tiny and subtle. […]
How ‘Natural Geoengineering’ Can Help Slow Global Warming
How ‘Natural Geoengineering’ Can Help Slow Global Warming An overlooked tool in fighting climate change is enhancing biodiversity to maximize the ability of ecosystems to store carbon. Key to that strategy is preserving top predators to control populations of herbivores, whose grazing reduces the amount of CO2 that ecosystems absorb. As natural wonders go, perhaps the […]
Stephen Hawking Warns Humanity: Leave Earth Before the Ruling Class Destroys It
Stephen Hawking Warns Humanity: Leave Earth Before the Ruling Class Destroys It (ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — Humanity’s future is in peril thanks to so-called advancements in science and technology, claims Professor Stephen Hawking, who cited “nuclear war, global warming, and genetically-modified viruses” as deadly threats to our existence. Hawking described various “things that could go wrong” to an audience of hundreds attending […]
Climate change slows onset of next ice age
Climate change slows onset of next ice age Relic of the last ice age: Jökulsárlón, one of Iceland’s glacial lakes Image: Kenneth Muir via Wikimedia Commons The planet’s inexorable warming means there will be no new ice age for at least the next 100,000 years, scientists say. LONDON, 18 January, 2016 – Human beings have not just […]
British Columbia First Nations’ Failing Fisheries
British Columbia First Nations’ Failing Fisheries Climate change means marine creatures are migrating—away from First Nations’ territory. Seafood has sustained the First Nations of British Columbia for millennia. The annual migration of Pacific salmon, in particular, is lifeblood. Each year, millions of salmon swim and leap their way up major river systems such as the Fraser and […]
The View From Far Above: How Earth Changed in 2015
The View From Far Above: How Earth Changed in 2015 From raging forest fires to dwindling snowmelt to the extraordinary birth of new ocean islands, sometimes the best way to witness planetary happenings — and to gain perspective on them — is from high above. Below are satellite images and aerial photos from the NASA Earth […]
Coast Today, Toast Tomorrow
Coast Today, Toast Tomorrow Slumping shorelines, roving rivers, and exploding islands — five coastlines that I’m sure were here yesterday. Volcanic eruptions have repeatedly built and destroyed the island of Krakatau. Photo by buitenzorger, Creative Commons licensed. As sure as waves hitting a beach, coastlines are subjected to subtle changes. Sand shifts with each wave, tides […]
One County’s Global Warming Failure
One County’s Global Warming Failure Exclusive: Even communities where many citizens agree that global warming is a threat to humankind – and have the money to take action – find that the politics of doing something can be complicated and seemingly insurmountable, like the case of Arlington, Virginia, reports Robert Parry. The difficulty of the United States and […]
A Shaky Promise on Global Warming
A Shaky Promise on Global Warming The Paris climate conference produced an international agreement for curtailing global warming, but resistance from some leaders, particularly Republicans in the U.S., makes the prospect for its implementation doubtful and thus dangerous, writes Lawrence Davidson. Paris was certainly 2015’s center for ticking bombs. The year was bracketed by major […]
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind? A new documentary shows planning options to mitigate a new climate, but questions about the global South are largely ignored. Climate change is a global process that plays out on the ground in dramatically different ways based on where, and how, we live on that […]
East Coast Celebrates Christmas With Warmest Weather On Record
East Coast Celebrates Christmas With Warmest Weather On Record It was just 10 months ago that Boston smashed its all time snowfall record, and the US was blanketed in freezing weather from west to east as the Polar Vortex unleashed cold air for the second year in a row. It was so cold, the GDP […]
Ukraine’s Looming “19 Fukushimas” Scenario
Ukraine’s Looming “19 Fukushimas” Scenario With all the action in Syria, the Ukraine is no longer a subject for discussion in the West. In Russia, where the Ukraine is still a major problem looming on the horizon, and where some 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees are settling in, with no intentions of going back to what’s left […]
Arctic methane emissions persist in winter
Arctic methane emissions persist in winter Summer and winter, wet and dry, high and low, the Arctic tundra continues to emit methane. Image: Bureau of Land Management (Delta WSR) via Wikimedia Commons Methane, a key greenhouse gas, is released from Arctic soils not only in the short summer period but during the bitterly cold winters […]
Warming lakes speed up methane emissions
Warming lakes speed up methane emissions A fishing trip on Lake Tanganyika ends: The reduced productivity caused by warming may cut the amount of food available to fish. Image: Worldtraveller via Wikimedia Commons The world’s lakes are heating up fast, threatening the fish on which millions depend and rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions. LONDON, 21 December, 2015 – […]
