November 29, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The world’s major fishing nations – Canada, Russia, China, the U.S., the EU, Japan, Iceland, Denmark, and South Korea – have reached a deal to ban commercial fishing in the central Arctic Ocean for at least 16 years. It covers an area ...
Read More...November 28, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – This stunning video explores the landscape of Greenland and shows some of the effects of climate change and how the scientists are studying it. It gives a brief overview of climate change and sea level rise and also touches on how future storms ...
Read More...November 27, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – One of the largest credit rating agencies in the country, Moody’s Investor Services Inc., is warning U.S. cities and states to prepare for the effects of climate change or risk being downgraded. Ratings from agencies such as Moody’s help determine interest rates on bonds for ...
Read More...November 25, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The glaciers of Pine Island Bay, two of the largest and fastest-melting in Antarctica, act as a plug holding back enough ice to pour 11 feet of sea-level rise into the world’s oceans — an amount that would submerge every coastal city on ...
Read More...November 24, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Scientists in Colorado are publishing alarming new research showing future storms will be bigger, more frequent, and more intense, which is catching the attention of the United States military. The studies detail how large, long-lasting storms called mesoscale convective systems — which can be ...
Read More...November 23, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – As glaciers continue to melt from global warming, a new study finds that this can change the surface pressure and increase volcanic activity. It is uncertain how quickly the volcanic activity will increase, as there appears to be a lag time between ...
Read More...November 22, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Due to climate change, including rising temperatures, more and more methane is bubbling up from lakes, ponds, rivers and wetlands throughout the world. The release of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — leads to a further increase in temperature, thus creating a ...
Read More...November 21, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study finds that missing temperature data from the arctic, not a so-called climate change hiatus, explains the apparent slowing of global warming from 1998 to 2012. The seeming pause in rising global temperatures had been used as evidence by climate skeptics to suggest ...
Read More...November 20, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article synopsis – One of the fathers of climate science, James Hansen, is spearheading a litigate-to-mitigate campaign that encourages a wave of lawsuits against governments and fossil fuel companies that are delaying action on the growing, mortal threat of global warming. The former NASA scientist says the campaign is ...
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