April 17, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Scientists believe the exceptionally long winter this year is due to a weakened jet stream, which normally holds back icy Arctic air. “The jet stream is powered by the temperature difference between the Arctic and mid-latitudes. The warming Arctic weakens the jet stream”. ...
Read More...April 16, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Eight Florida children are suing the state of Florida and Gov. Rick Scott for violating their constitutional rights by “perpetuating an energy system that is based on fossil fuels”. “The plaintiffs are asking the state of Florida to adhere to its legal and moral ...
Read More...April 14, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New research shows that a “boundary that divides the humid eastern U.S. and the dry western Plains appears to have shifted 140 miles to the east over the past century due to global warming. Scientists say it will almost certainly continue shifting in ...
Read More...April 13, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The state of Louisiana is “proceeding with ambitious plans to redirect the Mississippi River and rebuild some of its rapidly vanishing wetlands — but even this massive intervention may not be enough to save the most threatened lands from fast rising seas”, scientists concluded in ...
Read More...April 12, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Builders and urban planners around the world are turning to floating and amphibious architecture in the hopes of making individuals, communities, and possibly even cities more resilient to sea level rise. “Some new buildings, including a number of homes in Amsterdam, are designed ...
Read More...April 11, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – New research “provides strong evidence that one of the long-predicted worst-case impacts of climate change — a severe slow-down of the Gulf Stream system — has already started”, which means catastrophic East Coast flooding could get much worse. “The system, also known as ...
Read More...April 10, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new analysis by the University of New Hampshire has found that “by 2020, nuisance flooding (flooding that happens in the course of normal high tides) could account for 160 million vehicle-hours of delays up and down the East Coast – a dramatic ...
Read More...April 09, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A Harvard professor and a team of 50 graduate students have spent two and a half years developing new ideas that they hope will make Miami Beach resilient to sea level rise. Some of these ideas include “giant, concrete water-holding cisterns in ...
Read More...April 07, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Recently uncovered documents show that Shell had a sweeping view of climate change risks decades ago, before most of the general public was aware that it existed. In 1998, Shell researchers wrote an internal memo about future scenarios that could harm their business. It suggested ...
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