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Hurricane Isaias forecast to strengthen into a Category 2 storm by Saturday morning

Fri, 2020-07-31 08:35 — mike kraft
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First Methane Leak Found on Antarctic Sea Floor, Confirming Researchers' Fears

Sat, 2020-07-25 14:24 — mike kraft
First Methane Leak Found on Antarctic Sea Floor Confirms Researchers' Fears <p>The microbes aren't helping.</p> Sinead Baker, Business Insider ScienceAlert

Scientists have, for the first time, discovered an active leak of methane gas from the sea floor in Antarctica. It is a process that's likely to accelerate the process of global heating.

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Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios

Thu, 2020-07-23 09:18 — mike kraft
Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios The study found the planet is most likely to warm 4.1 to 8.1 degrees if carbon dioxide doubles from preindustrial levels. Washington Post
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Coronavirus pandemic prompts record drop in global emissions, study finds

Sun, 2020-07-12 09:48 — mike kraft

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Coronavirus pandemic prompts record drop in global emissions, study finds Lockdowns, travel bans and factory closures drive 4.6% reduction but dramatic decline falls short of efforts needed to limit global heating Valerie Yurk the Guardian

The Guardian, July 10, 2020

by Valerie York

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‘Urgent’ Need for Businesses to Adapt to Growing Threat from Climate Change, McKinsey Says

Sat, 2020-01-18 22:48 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

A dog looks out of a house flooded by Hurricane Maria, in Catano town, Juana Matos, Puerto Rico, on September 21, 2017.  Hector Retamal | AFP | Getty Images

CLICK HERE - REPORT - Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts - January 2020

cnbc.com - by Pippa Stevens - January 16, 2020

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McKinsey said trillions of dollars in economic activity and hundreds of millions lives are at risk from a changing climate.

“Much as thinking about information systems and cyber-risks has become integrated into corporate and public-sector decision making, climate change and its resulting risks will also need to feature as a major factor in decisions,” McKinsey Global Institute director Jonathan Woetzel said.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned this week that the intensifying climate crisis will bring about a fundamental reshaping of finance, with a significant reallocation of capital set to take place “sooner than most anticipate.”

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Oceans are Warming at the Same Rate as if Five Hiroshima Bombs Were Dropped in Every Second

Thu, 2020-01-16 21:43 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

CLICK HERE - STUDY - Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

cnn.com - by  Ivana Kottasová - January 13, 2020

The world's oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second, scientists have said.

A new study released on Monday showed that 2019 was yet another year of record-setting ocean warming, with water temperatures reaching the highest temperature ever recorded.

An international team of 14 scientists examined data going back to the 1950s, looking at temperatures from the ocean surface to 2,000 meters deep. The study, which was published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, also showed that the oceans are warming at an increasing speed.

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Report: Climate Change is Making Specific Weather Events More Extreme

Thu, 2019-12-12 09:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

In this photo, a wildfire rages in the hills of the Los Angeles area (2017 stock image.) (istock)

CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective

noaa.gov - December 9, 2019

A drought that parched the southwestern U.S. Extraordinary flooding in the Mid-Atlantic states. Heat waves that baked the Iberian peninsula and northeast Asia. Vanishing sea ice in the Bering Sea. 

Scientists say these remarkable 2018 extreme weather events were made more likely by human-caused climate change, in new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). 

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The Arctic May Have Crossed Key Threshold, Emitting Billions of Tons of Carbon Into the Air, in a Long-Dreaded Climate Feedback

Wed, 2019-12-11 17:47 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Permafrost, seen at the top of the cliff, melts into the Kolyma River outside Zyryanka, Russia, on July 4. Melting permafrost is altering Siberia's landscape and economy. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)

CLICK HERE - NOAA - 2019 Arctic Report Card

washingtonpost.com - by Andrew Freedman - December 10, 2019

The Arctic is undergoing a profound, rapid and unmitigated shift into a new climate state, one that is greener, features far less ice and emits greenhouse gas emissions from melting permafrost, according to a major new federal assessment of the region released Tuesday.

The consequences of these climate shifts will be felt far outside the Arctic in the form of altered weather patterns, increased greenhouse gas emissions and rising sea levels from the melting Greenland ice sheet and mountain glaciers.

The findings are contained in the 2019 Arctic Report Card, a major federal assessment of climate change trends and impacts throughout the region.

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The Climate Crisis Will Profoundly Affect the Health of Every Child Alive Today, Report Says

Wed, 2019-11-13 23:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

CLICK HERE - REPORT - The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

cnn.com - by Jen Christensen - November 13, 2019

The climate crisis is already hurting our health and it could burden generations to come with lifelong health problems, a new report finds. It could challenge already overwhelmed health systems and undermine much of the medical progress that has been made in the last century.

If the world continues to produce the same amount of carbon emissions, a child born today could be living in a world with an average temperature that's 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) warmer by their 71st birthday, according to the report, published Wednesday in the medical journal The Lancet.

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Climate Crisis: 11,000 Scientists Warn of ‘Untold Suffering’

Wed, 2019-11-06 08:44 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

A man uses a garden hose to try to save his home from wildfire in Granada Hills, California, on 11 October 2019. Photograph: Michael Owen Baker/AP

CLICK HERE - World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

Statement sets out ‘vital signs’ as indicators of magnitude of the climate emergency - Most countries’ climate plans ‘totally inadequate’ – experts 

theguardian.com - by Damian Carrington - November 5, 2019

The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists.

“We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency,” it states. “To secure a sustainable future, we must change how we live. [This] entails major transformations in the ways our global society functions and interacts with natural ecosystems.”

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