February 13, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A recent assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) projects sea-level rise to increase in Rhode Island by 9 feet, 10 inches by 2100. The impact of prolonged sea-level rise will be loss of life, damage to infrastructure and the built ...
Read More...February 11, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – In 2015 NASA created a mission called “OMG” to measure how quickly the Oceans are Melting Greenland. This is a comprehensive study using ships, planes, and other research tools. Overall, the data starting to come in is showing that Greenland’s west coast ...
Read More...February 10, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New data from researchers studying ice cores in Antarctica suggests a link between the climate in Antarctica, at the southernmost point of our planet, and the arctic, located in the very north. Data suggests that when the arctic would cool, the Antarctic ...
Read More...February 09, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study finds evidence that the last time Earth was as warm as it is today, cold freshwater from a melting Greenland ice sheet circulated in the Atlantic Ocean as far south as Bermuda, elevating sea levels and altering the ocean’s ...
Read More...February 08, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation announced Monday that the state has adopted official sea-level rise projections to help state agencies and coastal communities plan for the impacts of climate change, becoming one of the first states in the nation to formalize sea level rise projections. ...
Read More...February 07, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The city of Miami could look to Seattle’s past for lessons on adapting to sea level rise. A massive fire that destroyed most of Seattle in 1889 began a decades-long effort to rebuild and re-shape the city. Streets were raised by an average ...
Read More...February 06, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – By the end of the century, global sea levels could rise as much as 8.2 feet, according to a recent study. A new series of animations from the Weather Channel maps out what an eight-foot rise would look like in cities along the ...
Read More...February 05, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Researchers have developed a new method for determining the source of black carbon—a particularly nasty type of pollution that can blanket the Arctic—giving some hope that this known accelerator of climate change could be slowed. Black carbon, the soot that darkens the sea ice, ...
Read More...February 03, 2017 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The climate of the Arctic is known to oscillate wildly, but scientists say the current warming trend is so extreme that humans surely have their hands in it and may well be changing how it operates. Temperatures are far warmer than ever observed in modern ...
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