July 22, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Syn0psis – New research has found that a large part of the East Antarctic ice sheet collapsed just 400,000 years ago during a “relatively mild warm spell”, signaling it could be more vulnerable than previously thought. Carbon dioxide levels during that time peaked at ...
Read More...July 22, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – If atmospheric carbon dioxide levels double, a team of researchers has determined the planet will warm between 2.6 and 4.1 degrees Celsius. If current trends continue, that level of carbon dioxide will be seen “well before the end of this century”. The ...
Read More...July 21, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A letter signed by a group of large investors representing $1 trillion in assets urged “the Federal Reserve and other regulators to act on climate change to avoid economic disaster”. According to the investors, “the climate crisis poses a systemic threat to ...
Read More...July 16, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – An historic building on San Francisco’s waterfront will be raised 10 feet in an attempt to save it from rising sea levels. The building is larger than a football field and weighs 2,000 tons. The project is part of a $3.5 billion ...
Read More...July 16, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New research has shown it may be possible to accelerate rock weathering which triggers chemical processes that remove CO2 from the air. “One recent study suggests that adding finely crushed silicate rock to all cropland soil in China, India, the U.S. and Brazil ...
Read More...July 15, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study has found that the record heat and wildfires this year in the Arctic “would have been virtually impossible without human-induced global warming”. According to the researchers, the heat was made “at least 600 times as likely by human-caused climate ...
Read More...July 14, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – In a matter of decades, entire regions of the country will become uninhabitable due to sea level rise, yet there is no plan in place for dealing with the relocations. Our current methods are “reactive, expensive, and unsustainable”. We need “to develop ...
Read More...July 14, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – NOAA scientists report record levels of high tide flooding in 2019 and an extraordinary increase in flooding since 2000 due to sea level rise. In some cities, the frequency of flooding has increased fivefold. “That shift is damaging homes, imperiling the safety ...
Read More...July 14, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – According to a new study, sea level rise combined with subsidence “can drive the phenomenon of river avulsion, in which rivers rapidly change course”. The researchers write, “Overall our results indicate lowland deltas will not passively drown but instead will respond to ...
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