Sea Level

Co-Authors: Doug Marcy, Gregory Dusek, John J. Marra, Matt Pendleton (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services1, NOAA Office of Coastal Management2, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information3, The Baldwin Group, Inc.) [ Full paper with charts and references is at the NOAA site in PDF. The following is […]

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Alabama Rep with Rocks in his Head blames Rocks for Climate Change

Juan Cole

Alabama representative for the 5th district Mo Brooks sits on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and spent his time harassing climate scientists at a hearing. He blamed sea level rise on rocks falling into the sea from coastal erosion. Sea levels are rising in part because surface ice is melting owing to of […]

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Scientists tackle melting Antarctic Glacier that could raise sea Level 2 Feet

AFP

London (AFP) – Britain and the United States on Monday launched a research programme billed “the most detailed and extensive examinations of a massive Antarctic glacier ever undertaken” to gauge how quickly it could collapse. Teams from Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) will visit the Thwaites Glacier […]

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How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria

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By Jane Palmer | ( Mosaic) | – – The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change. Christmas is a big deal in Puerto Rico – celebrations traditionally run from November to February – but festivities are in scant supply […]

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Seas Rising ever Faster as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels (NASA Image)

Juan Cole

Image via NASA NASA’s Earth Observatory writes: “Global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data. This acceleration has been driven mainly by increased ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, and it has the potential to double the total […]

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Sea Level Rise Speeding up as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels

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TeleSur | – – The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet pouring ever more water into the oceans. Sea level rise is accelerating and could reach 66 centimeters by century’s end, in line with United Nations estimates and enough to cause […]

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No, Trump, Ice isn’t growing at Poles, and Yes, we are Boiling the Earth

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Associated Press did a useful fact check of Trump’s bizarre assertions on climate change in the interview with his friend Piers Morgan. Since Trump is not good with reading books and the like, it may be helpful to reply to his falsehoods with graphs. TRUMP: […]

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Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

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By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | – – With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling report on people displaced by climate change. EURACTIV France reports. Since 2008, about 26 million people have been displaced each year due to natural disasters. The figure for 2016 was […]

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Climate Emergency: Heat Trapping Gases make largest Jump in recorded history

Juan Cole

TeleSur | (Informed Comment) | – – Carbon dioxide or CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have reached unprecedented high levels, a United Nations watchdog group reports, warning that urgent measures are needed to achieve the targets set by the Paris climate agreement and avoid cataclysmic changes in the earth’s climate conditions. “Concentrations of carbon dioxide […]