Huge Heat Rise at Both of Earth's Poles Alarm Climate Scientists

Heatwaves at both of Earth's poles alarm climate scientists

Startling heatwaves at both of Earth's poles are causing alarm among climate scientists, who have warned the "unprecedented" events could signal faster and abrupt climate breakdown. Temperatures in Antarctica reached record levels at the weekend, an astonishing 40C above normal in places.

Riskiest Spot for Rising Seas Is 50 Miles from the Ocean

Riskiest Spot for Rising Seas Is 50 Miles from the Ocean

The county most at risk for coastal flooding is not in Florida, North Carolina or New Jersey, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It's not even on a coast. It's Cowlitz County, Wash., population 102,000, about 50 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean on the Columbia River.

Rising Seas Could Menace Millions Beyond Shorelines, Study Finds

Rising Seas Could Menace Millions Beyond Shorelines, Study Finds

As climate change raises sea levels, storm surges and high tides will push farther inland, a team of researchers says. As global warming pushes up ocean levels around the world, scientists have long warned that many low-lying coastal areas will become permanently submerged.

Climate Crisis Coming Home to Roost in North Carolina

New state report: The climate crisis is coming home to roost in NC | NC Policy Watch

Hot days, warm nights. Heavy rains, no snow. A greater risk of wildfires and hurricanes, droughts and floods. Released this week, the 236-page North Carolina Climate Science Report paints a dim picture of the new normal that will likely unfold through the century's end.

Just Don't Call It Climate Change

Conservative States Seek Billions to Brace for Disaster. (Just Don't Call It Climate Change.)

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is about to distribute billions of dollars to coastal states mainly in the South to help steel them against natural disasters worsened by climate change. But states that qualify must first explain why they need the money.

New Flood Insurance Maps Drawing Critical Reaction in NC

New flood insurance maps drawing critical reaction in NC

After years of updating flood hazard data, North Carolina and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been rolling out the latest Flood Insurance Rate Maps, or FIRMs, for communities along the coast - but some state and local officials are cautioning residents against relying too heavily on the new documents when assessing risk.

Rising Seas Could Affect Three Times More People by 2050 Than Previously Thought

Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows

Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world's great coastal cities.

Sustained Greenland Ice Sheet-Ocean Observing System

The Case for a Sustained Greenland Ice Sheet-Ocean Observing System (GrIOOS)

Rapid mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet is affecting sea level and, through increased freshwater discharge, ocean circulation, sea-ice, biogeochemistry, and marine ecosystems around Greenland. Key to interpreting ongoing and projecting future ice loss, and its impact on the ocean, is understanding exchanges of heat, freshwater, and nutrients that occur at Greenland's marine margins.

Summit Focuses on Climate Risks, Response

Summit Focuses on Climate Risks, Response | Coastal Review Online

HAVELOCK - Adapting to living with rising seas, larger, slower, rain-dumping coastal storms, flooding and extreme heat is going to take forward thinking, collaboration and money. "The planning for resilience, there's no right way to do it," said Jessica Whitehead, chief resilience officer of the recently formed North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resilience.

Retired General Frames Climate Change Risks as a National Security Risk

Retired General Frames Climate Change Risks | Coastal Review Online

WILMINGTON - Retired Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney does not sugarcoat it. "Climate change is a national security threat," he said. His message aboard the Battleship North Carolina Tuesday took his audience on a verbal tour that spanned the globe and circled back to Wilmington, a city facing the effects of sea level rise and more frequent, stronger hurricanes.

Everything HUGE We Found Out About Climate Change in 2018

Sorry To Be A Bummer But Here's Everything Huge We've Found Out About Climate Change In 2018

In October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body dedicated to reporting climate change science to the world, released its Fifth Assessment Report. The report warned global leaders that capping global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures would require unprecedented changes and a reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.

U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy

U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd: , our email newsletter. WASHINGTON - A major scientific report issued by 13 federal agencies on Friday presents the starkest warnings to date of the consequences of climate change for the United States, predicting that if significant steps are not taken to rein in global warming, the damage will knock as much as 10 percent off the size of the American economy by century's end.

New UN Climate Change Study Warns We Are Running Out of Time to Control Greenhouse Gases

Grim Forecast From U.N. On Global Climate Change

Some of the world's top climate scientists have concluded that global warming is likely to reach dangerous levels unless new technologies are developed to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Edward Osborne Wilson, Oracle for Our Times

Oracle for Our Times

Pardon me for taking the part of a latter-day Thomas Malthus, a party pooper if there ever was one. Let's play one more time the "most urgent book to read" game. Construct your most devastating characterization of the perils of our times, then ask: what one book should you take with you to the proverbial...

Good for Business -- World's Largest Shipping Company Heads Into Arctic As Global Warming Opens The Way

World's Largest Shipping Company Heads Into Arctic As Global Warming Opens The Way

Maersk, the world's largest container line, is about to test the frigid waters of the Arctic in a trial of shorter shipping lanes that could become viable as warmer temperatures open up the Northern Sea Route. On or around Sept.

The Atlantic Ocean is Invading the Arctic - and Winning

The Atlantic Ocean is invading the Arctic - and winning

The big picture: The Arctic is warming at a faster rate than any other region on Earth, and scientists have been documenting sweeping changes to the native ecosystems in this vast region. The fastest warming area of the Arctic is a remote expanse of stormy waters located north of Europe and Asia: The Barents and Kara Seas.

Evolving Understanding of Antarctic Ice‐Sheet Physics and Ambiguity in Probabilistic Sea‐Level Projections

Evolving Understanding of Antarctic Ice‐Sheet Physics and Ambiguity in Probabilistic Sea‐Level Projections

Mechanisms such as ice‐shelf hydrofracturing and ice‐cliff collapse may rapidly increase discharge from marine‐based ice sheets. Here, we link a probabilistic framework for sea‐level projections to a small...Recent ice‐sheet modeling papers have introduced new physical mechanisms-specifically the hydrofracturing of ice shelves and the collapse of ice cliffs-that can rapidly increase ice‐sheet mass loss from...

Macron to Award US Climate Scientists 'Make Our Planet Great Again' Grants

Macron to award US climate scientists 'Make Our Planet Great Again' grants

French President Emmanuel Macron will award U.S. climate scientists with grants to conduct research in France for the remainder of President Trump Donald John Trump House Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for 'serious case of amnesia' after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don't want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE 's current presidential term.

Most Dire Climate Change Predictions, Warns New Study, Are Also the Most Accurate

Most Dire Climate Change Predictions, Warns New Study, Are Also the Most Accurate

Climate change is occurring at a faster rate than has previously been predicted, according to a new study which suggests that the most extreme estimates of the effects of global warming are likelier than more optimistic predictions.

World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice

World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice | BioScience | Oxford Academic

© The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com...Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, penned the 1992 "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" (see supplemental file S1).