December 26, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Black Gum trees, some of the oldest trees in eastern North America, are dying off from sea level rise, along with countless other species of plants and animals. From flying insects to forests to primate populations, research this year has uncovered an ...
Read More...December 25, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – According to a new report, 75% of coastal states are not prepared to deal with sea level rise, and the most vulnerable have “the least amount of protective infrastructure in place”. With “Two-thirds of the U.S. population living in coastal counties, and ...
Read More...December 23, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – “2018 was filled with new evidence and warnings about the risks of climate change, and may be remembered as a turning point, for better or worse, in the fight to cap global warming. Compelling new evidence shows we will speed past a ...
Read More...December 22, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – “Climate scientists warn that 2019 may be the warmest year on record largely as the result of a possible El Niño event exacerbated by man-made global warming.” According to NOAA, there is a “90 percent chance that El Niño will form and ...
Read More...December 21, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study shows that Greenland’s ice sheet, the largest single driver of global sea level rise, is melting at an unprecedented rate. “Today, Greenland’s ice sheets are melting at a rate 50% higher than pre-industrial levels and 33% above 20th-century levels.” ...
Read More...December 20, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Two new studies have concluded the supposed global warming hiatus was “fueled in part by incomplete data and erroneous projections that have since been corrected”. Though it has long been obvious that “if there had been any blip in the trends it ...
Read More...December 19, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The accelerated loss of ice in Antarctica, which has the potential to raise global sea levels by 70 meters (230 feet), could be the beginning of the process of collapse of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet. “If that is the case, the world ...
Read More...December 18, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new study has found that between 2005-2015 the Arctic lost 447 billion tons of ice per year, or 14,000 tons of water per second. The rate of arctic ice loss has tripled since 1986. Arctic ice loss adds over a millimeter to ...
Read More...December 15, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Leading economists and climate scientists say the recent agreements at the U.N. climate talks are not ambitious enough to prevent catastrophic global warming. The most recent IPCC report states that “even 1.5C of warming would cause sea level rises, coral reef die-off, extinction ...
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