December 18, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: THOMAS RUPPERT, FLORIDA SEA GRANT.Article Synopsis – As local governments start making decisions of whether to raise or abandon roads in the face of sea level rise, they fear inevitable lawsuits either way. “Experts worry that local governments teetering between the possibilities of being ...
Read More...December 17, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: CC0 Public Domain.Article Synopsis – A new study has found evidence that “sea levels in the central Indian Ocean have risen by close to a meter in the last two centuries”. If this rate of acceleration continues over the next century, “sea levels in ...
Read More...December 16, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: National Park Service.Article Synopsis – Climate change and its impacts will be one of the biggest issues we face in this next decade; this article looks at 5 key questions to ask about climate change. These questions are: Can we stop climate change and ...
Read More...December 14, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The World Meteorological Organization published a new report that found that CO2 reached 415.70 ppm in 2018, the highest it has been during human history. “Yale’s Environment 360 reports that based on current emissions, scientists estimate CO2 levels could hit 500 ppm in ...
Read More...December 13, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Goldman Sachs.Article Synopsis – An analysis by Goldman Sachs has found that climate change will lead to changing disease patterns, heatwaves, flooding, water and food shortages, and destructive weather events. They also warned that the world’s largest cities are particularly vulnerable to the effects ...
Read More...December 12, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Ian Joughin. Article Synopsis – According to an analysis by 89 scientists, Greenland is now losing more than seven times the amount of ice it was losing in the 1990s. “Since 1992, nearly 4 trillion tons of Greenland ice have entered the ocean, ...
Read More...December 11, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Rick Thoman.Article Synopsis – NOAA released its annual climate report card and its findings echo the sentiments of an essay from indigenous tribe members- “The world from our childhood is no longer here”. ” The report documents rapidly rising temperatures, vanishing sea ice and ...
Read More...December 10, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credits: NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens.Article Synopsis – Scientists have discovered that a group of glaciers in East Antarctica, once thought to be stable, have been losing ice in the past decade. Four glaciers “have lowered their surface height by about 9 feet since 2008” and ...
Read More...December 09, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Bernat Armangue/Associated Press.Article Synopsis – The U.N. climate talks in Madrid were an abysmal failure thanks to some of the largest polluters including the United States, Brazil, Australia, China, and India. The obstruction and apathy from these countries highlights the disconnect between the political ...
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