"Sea Level Rise Now" News Digest

Parts of Siberia are Hotter than Washington, with Temperatures Nearly 40 Degrees Above Average – The Washington Post

May 23, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

May 23 2020

Article Synopsis – Siberia has experienced extreme heat waves this year, with parts of Western Siberia reaching temperatures 40 degrees F above average. This warmth is “already having repercussions on Arctic ecosystems, with unusually large Siberian wildfires already burning this year, snow cover plummeting unusually quickly ...

May 20, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

May 20 2020

Article Synopsis – A new report finds that climate change in the deep oceans could be 7 times faster by mid-century and have major impacts on wildlife. Species will be forced to move to cooler areas and could become “disconnected from other species they rely ...

May 18, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

May 18 2020

Article Synopsis – Health experts in Australia estimate “mortality records have substantially underreported heat-related deaths caused by climate change by at least 50-fold”. “This new analysis suggests Australia’s heat-related mortality is around 2 percent. If the world’s emissions remain the same, by 2080 Australian cities could ...

May 16, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

May 16 2020

Article Synopsis – Unusually warm air combined with clear skies in the arctic over the North Pole could jump-start the summer melt season this year. The Central Arctic is seeing above-freezing temperatures “about one month earlier than average this week”. The clear skies exacerbate the ...

May 15, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

May 15 2020

Article Synopsis – Scientists have discovered that the Denman Glacier on East Antarctica, which holds 1.5 m (5 ft) of potential sea level rise, has been retreating above and below the water line. “From 1996 to 2018, the grounding line along the western flank of ...

May 14, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

May 14 2020

Article Synopsis – A team of 106 experts was surveyed regarding their sea level rise forecasts for 2100 and 2300 under two different emissions scenarios. Their methods largely followed the same approach as the IPCC, and they had similar results. The next IPCC report, the ...

May 13, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter

May 13 2020

Article Synopsis – A strong new study recreates the profile of global sea level for the last 65 million years based upon deep sea sediments. It confirms and slightly refines the key benchmarks of sea level stability for the last 10,000 years and the huge ...