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Why Half a Degree of Global Warming is a Big Deal: NYT
The New York Times has an article today explaining the significance of the new UN Report on the impact of climate change. Example: Portion of the world population experiencing severe heat waves at least once every five years will increase from 14% to 37%.
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In Scotland, structures dating to the Stone Age are under threat from erosion as sea levels rise
New York Times story with amazing photographs.
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Rising coastal waters threaten salt-marsh sparrows
Tender hatchlings are prey to the rising tides. From the New York Times.
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Amazing Interactive Application Brings Climate Change Home in a Personal Way
Check out this interactive application from the New York Times: "How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?"
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Arresting Climate Change Was Within Our Grasp….
A very important report on a huge setback to efforts to stop climate change during the first Bush presidency.
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Antarctic Experts Report Acceleration of Ice Loss
A Washington Post story on a new report in the journal Nature. The changes are largely driven by the West Antarctic ice sheet, "Nations have a short window — perhaps no more than a decade — to cut greenhouse-gas emissions if they hope to avert some of the worst consequences of climate change."
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U.S. Catholic Institutions Following Pope’s Lead on Climate Change
From the New York Times: Letter: Heeding the Pope on Climate Change
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Pope Francis Urges Oil Executives to Take Action on Climate
From the New York Times: "Pope Tells Oil Executives to Act on Climate: 'There Is No Time to Lose'
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Nutritional Value of Rice Threatened by Climate Change
Rice, a food staple for millions of people around the world, is less nutritious when grown in an environment with higher CO2 levels. Read the Washington Post story here.
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Leaked UN climate report sees “very high risk” of significant planetary warming
From the Washington Post: A draft United Nations climate science report contains dire news about the warming of the planet, suggesting it will likely cross the key marker of 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, of temperature rise in the 2040s, and that this will be exceedingly difficult to avoid.
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EPA Director questions whether global warming is necessarily a bad thing
In a TV interview, EPA Director Scott Pruitt says humans have flourished before in warm periods, and it's "arrogant for us to say that we know what [the ideal surface temperature] should be in 2100." Washington Post story is here.
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Doomsday clock edges closer to midnight
Citing looming threats of nuclear war and global warming, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today that they had moved the minute hand of their Doomsday Clock to two minutes before midnight— "30 seconds closer to catastrophe." You can read their statement here.
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Scientists find that direst climate change predictions are the most accurate ones
The Washington Post reports on a new statistical study by Carnegie Institution for Science scientists, published in the journal Nature.
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New York Times offers climate change newsletter
The New York Times has started a new climate change newsletter. It's free. Click here to find out more.
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Congress refuses to replace ailing polar satellites monitoring global warming
The Republican majority in Congress has blocked a U.S. sea-ice monitoring program that supplies data to scientists worldwide about the world's dwindling sea ice levels. Story here.
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Alaska’s permafrost is thawing
Permafrost is ground that remains frozen year after year. This article in the New York Times predicts that Alaska's permafrost could be gone by 2050. Bloomberg reports that he thawing permafrost has buckled segments of the Alaska Highway, the key artery connecting the state with Canada and the northwestern U.S.
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