May 21, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: NASA.Article Synopsis – “Sea levels are rising even more rapidly than previously predicted due to the melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. The UN Climate Panel’s last major report in 2013 predicted up to three feet by 2100. The new numbers are double ...
Read More...May 20, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: go_greener_oz/Flickr.Article Synopsis – Sea levels could rise more than two meters (6.6 feet) by the end of this century, swamping major cities such and displacing up to 187 million people. Researchers found that “under the extreme-case scenario, about 1.79 million square kilometers (691,120 sq ...
Read More...May 18, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Andrew Shepherd.Article Synopsis – According to a new study, “almost one-quarter of the ice in the West Antarctic ice sheet has been classified as unstable”. The warming ocean has been melting the ice sheet from underneath. In some areas, the ice is melting five ...
Read More...May 17, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The Tampa Bay Climate Science Advisory Panel is predicting between 1.9 and 8.5 feet of sea level rise by the year 2100 in Tampa Bay. These forecasts are 12 to 18 inches higher than the same panel predicted in 2015. This is ...
Read More...May 16, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The last twelve months have been the wettest on record since the U.S. began keeping data back in 1895. This is due to global warming: a warmer atmosphere leads to increased evaporation rates resulting in more moisture in the air and increased ...
Read More...May 15, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: LN9267 – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61438747Article Synopsis – China currently has 421,000 electric buses, with 18% of its bus fleet electrified, and is projected to rise to more than 600,000 by 2025. The U.S. currently has 300 electric buses. The rest of ...
Read More...May 14, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Illustration by Aïda Amer/Axios. Article Synopsis – “Companies across virtually all sectors of the economy, including big oil producers, are beginning to lobby Washington, D.C., to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions.” These moves are motivated by “investor and legal pressure, falling prices ...
Read More...May 13, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Karen Apricot New Orleans/Flickr/Wiki Commons.Article Synopsis – Louisiana has issued a report to help homeowners migrate inland as the seas continue to rise and land continues to sink throughout the delta. “Coastal erosion in Louisiana has been causing the state to lose about a ...
Read More...May 11, 2019 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Credit: Scripps Institute of Oceanography.Article Synopsis – The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now over 415 parts per million (ppm), higher than it has been since before the evolution of humans. Increased CO2 concentrations means increased global temperatures, more extreme weather, loss of ...
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