November 08, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Surveys of 12 islands surrounding Pohnpei in Micronesia have shown that not only have some completely disappeared, but that most others have shrunk over the past decade. Several more are likely to disappear within the coming decade. Sea levels in this region have been ...
Read More...November 07, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The city of Miami voted to pass a $400 million bond that will be used to help the city adapt to climate change, among other projects. The voters also elected former commissioner Francis Suarez who has vowed to make “Miami the most resilient city in ...
Read More...November 06, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New research shows that climate warming reduced the mass of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet by half in as little as 500 years, indicating the Greenland Ice Sheet could have a similar fate. The Cordilleran Ice Sheet covered large parts of North America during the ...
Read More...November 04, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration’s position on climate change, 13 federal agencies unveiled an exhaustive scientific report that says humans are the dominant cause of climate change. Over the past 115 years global average temperatures have increased 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, leading to record-breaking weather ...
Read More...November 03, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Hundreds of millions of people around the world face their cities being inundated by rising seawaters if latest UN warnings that the world is on course for 3C of global warming come true. Data from the Climate Central group of scientists analyzed by Guardian journalists shows ...
Read More...November 02, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Those of us who accept that science is real must have the courage to acknowledge that the costs of mitigating and adapting to climate change will be high. The path we are on leads to ad hoc, yet massive, expenditures to simply maintain ...
Read More...November 01, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New NASA maps show that Greenland is shrinking, and it’s happening at a much quicker pace than scientists had previously thought. A team of NASA scientists together with collaborators from over 30 institutions published the most accurate high-resolution maps of Greenland’s bedrock and coastal seafloor, using data from NASA’s OMG campaign. While ...
Read More...October 31, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A warm, unstable Antarctic vortex has caused the hole in Earth’s ozone over Antarctica to shrink to the smallest size since 1988. These conditions help fend off certain cloud formations in the lower stratosphere that can deplete the ozone. Scientists say the hole’s smaller size ...
Read More...October 30, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New research suggests that wind patterns around the coast of Antarctica may help drive warm water up from the seafloor and into the cavities below East Antarctica’s Totten Ice Shelf, causing it to melt from the bottom up. If all the ice ...
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