August 03, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images.Article Synopsis – July 2019 has been officially pronounced “the warmest month the world has experienced since record-keeping began more than a century ago”. It was so hot that fires raged across the Arctic, droughts spread across Asia and Africa, and temperature ...
Read More...August 02, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab.Article Synopsis – Researchers at MIT are exploring using wave energy to produce self-growing sandbars, islands and beaches to “help coastal communities threatened by climate change”. These submerged bladders respond to wave energy the same way that natural sandbars do, helping to ...
Read More...August 01, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.Article Synopsis – On Thursday, August 1st, the Greenland ice sheet lost 12.5 billion tons of ice, setting a single day record for volume loss. On Wednesday, the ice sheet lost 10 billion tons of ice. The amount of ice lost on ...
Read More...August 01, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: J David Ake/AP.Article Synopsis – Negative emissions technology, like carbon capture and forest restoration, will be important for reducing the CO2 in the atmosphere, but will not replace our need to drastically reduce our emissions. These technologies will need to be relied upon to ...
Read More...July 31, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study shows that water management systems across the country are not equipped to handle extreme rainfall events associated with climate change. This can cause flooding and risks to health and infrastructure from standing water. To read the actual article click ...
Read More...July 30, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Australian Scenics/Getty Images.Article Synopsis – In a leaked report, scientists warn that “it will be impossible to keep global temperatures at safe levels unless there is also a transformation in the way the world produces food and manages land”. The report states that “peat ...
Read More...July 27, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – This is my Op-Ed about why the melting of the ice sheet in Greenland is ground zero for global sea-level rise, and something every South Floridian needs to pay attention to. “The extra heat now stored in the ocean means that sea level can ...
Read More...July 26, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: European Space Agency.Article Synopsis – The historic heat wave that brought the hottest weather ever recorded to Paris, London, Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany is now moving north towards the Arctic. This could “promote a widespread and significant melt event” in a region already ...
Read More...July 26, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Clint Spencer.Article Synopsis – There’s a growing consensus among climate scientists that the next 18 months will be critical in dealing with the global crisis of climate change. According to the IPCC report, “global emissions of carbon dioxide must peak by 2020 to keep the ...
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