June 08, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New research indicates that the climate may be more sensitive to CO2 than previously thought, suggesting that worst-case scenarios models may need to be revised upwards. Much of the new data is based on the role of clouds and their warming abilities, ...
Read More...June 06, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – In May 2020, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels hit the “highest monthly value ever recorded”, despite emissions reductions related to the coronavirus. The readings hit an average of just over 417 ppm, which is more than at “anytime in 3 million years”. To read ...
Read More...June 04, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – As the government backs a growing number of mortgages on homes in the path of floods, fires and extreme weather, taxpayers could lose billions of dollars from climate-related property damage. On top of the growing risk, fewer homeowners are purchasing flood insurance ...
Read More...June 03, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The melting permafrost in the arctic caused the collapse of a storage tank that had been stable for decades, resulting in a massive fuel leak in Siberia. Putin has declared a state of emergency as 21,000 tons of diesel fuel spilled into the ...
Read More...June 01, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Climate change has caused a shortage of summer nutrients resulting in a “50% decline in North East Atlantic plankton over the past 60 years”. Researchers have found that larger, nutritious plankton are being replaced by “tiny plankton of poorer food quality”. These ...
Read More...May 30, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study of seafloor ripples has found that some of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves can retreat six miles per year, faster than melting observed by satellites. “As global warming speeds up the Antarctic meltdown, the findings “set a new upper limit ...
Read More...May 28, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study found that existing mangroves and coral reefs could shield around 8.5 million coastal residents from tropical storms and sea level rise. These findings “underscore the need for worldwide conservation and restoration of these natural resources” with a particular focus ...
Read More...May 26, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – According to a new study, “in 2019 an area of older, carbon-rich tropical forest the size of a football field was lost every six seconds”. Brazil accounted for a third of the losses and Australia saw “a sixfold rise in total tree ...
Read More...May 25, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study has found that melting glaciers and ice caps not only raise sea levels, but also reduce the drinking water supply in remote glacial regions. “Of all the regions studied by the researchers, Alaska lost the most ice, followed by ...
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