Climate

A cemetery sitting on melting permafrost tundra at the village of Quinhagak on the Yukon delta in Alaska. The scientists’ findings offer a further sign of a climate emergency. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

CLICK HERE - STUDY - Threshold sensitivity of shallow Arctic lakes and sublake permafrost to changing winter climate

theguardian.com - reuters - Matthew Green - June 18, 2019

Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.

A team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks said they were astounded by how quickly a succession of unusually hot summers had destabilised the upper layers of giant subterranean ice blocks that had been frozen solid for millennia.

FILE - In this May 23, 2019 file. Photo, tornado damage is seen in Jefferson City, Mo.  AP

kens5.com - Associated Press and TEGNA Staff - May 29, 2019

After several quiet years, the United States was threatening to break a major record for tornado activity this week as a volatile mix of warm, moist air from the Southeast and persistent cold from the Rockies clashed and stalled over the Midwest . . .

. . . The storms Tuesday were the 12th straight day that at least eight tornadoes were reported to the National Weather Service. If the service confirms that they were tornadoes, it would break the U.S. record for most consecutive days with at least eight tornadoes in each of those days . . .

. . . Scientists also say climate change is responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme weather such as storms, droughts, floods and fires, but without extensive study they cannot directly link a single weather event to the changing climate.

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Climate scientist, Katharine Hayhoe explains the impacts of temperature increases from climate change.

CLICK HERE - PBS - What's the Big Deal With a Few Degrees?

CLICK HERE - BIO - Katharine Hayhoe

CLICK HERE - NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT - HURRICANE FLORENCE (AL062018) - 31 August–17 September 2018 (98 page .PDF report)

Stacy R. Stewart and Robbie Berg - National Hurricane Center - 3 May 2019

Florence was a long-lived, category 4 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that made landfall along the southeastern coast of North Carolina near the upper end of category 1. Florence caused devastating freshwater flooding across much of the southeastern United States and significant storm surge flooding in portions of eastern North Carolina. Florence resulted in 22 direct deaths and was also associated with 30 indirect fatalities.

CLICK HERE - National Hurricane Center - 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season

CLICK HERE - National Weather Service - Historical Hurricane Florence, September 12-15, 2018