Climate Change Is Causing Sea Levels to Rise Faster than Most Forecasts
Ocean Science impact the two-fifths of the Earth’s population who live near coastlines. Insured property worth trillions of dollars could face even greater danger from floods, superstorms and tidal surges. The research suggests that countries will have to rein in their greenhouse gas emissions even more than expected to keep sea levels in check.
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“It means our carbon budget is even more depleted,” said Aslak Grinsted, a geophysicist at the University of Copenhagen who co-authored the research. Economies need to slash an additional 200 billion metric tons of carbon equivalent to about five years of global emissions to remain within the thresholds set by previous forecasts, he said.
Maxwell Bernstein | January 27, 2021
British researchers have combined satellite data and numerical models to show that Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tonnes of ice each year, according to the study and the Washington Post. Since the 1990s, ice loss has risen by 57%, from .8 to 1.2 trillion tonnes of ice each year due to the losses from mountain glaciers, Antarctic and Greenland ice shelves. Since 1994, Earth has lost a total of 28 trillion tonnes of ice.
To put this amount of energy into context, William Colgan, an ice-sheet expert said in an interview with the Washington Post, “That’s like more than 10,000 ‘Back to the Future’ lightning strikes per second of energy melting ice around-the-clock since 1994…That’s just a bonkers amount of energy.”
WORCESTER With less than a week before residents 75 or older become eligible to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, city councilors said they have been getting anxious phone calls from residents about the process, and they don t know what to tell them.
At-large Councilor Donna Colorio said that since Monday, when Gov. Charlie Baker announced the change to the state s phased vaccine rollout that will allow the seniors to get vaccinated, she has heard from many elderly residents. She said they are scared and confused, and wanted to know who they can call, or where they can go. She said many residents who have trouble getting out are concerned they will be passed over.
Maxwell Bernstein | January 27, 2021
British researchers have combined satellite data and numerical models to show that Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tonnes of ice each year, according to the study and the Washington Post. Since the 1990s, ice loss has risen by 57%, from .8 to 1.2 trillion tonnes of ice each year due to the losses from mountain glaciers, Antarctic and Greenland ice shelves. Since 1994, Earth has lost a total of 28 trillion tonnes of ice.
To put this amount of energy into context, William Colgan, an ice-sheet expert said in an interview with the Washington Post, “That’s like more than 10,000 ‘Back to the Future’ lightning strikes per second of energy melting ice around-the-clock since 1994…That’s just a bonkers amount of energy.”
Climate change is making baby sharks smaller, undernourished and exhausted
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN
Epaulette shark (Hemiscyllium ocellatum) (CNN)Baby sharks are being born smaller, undernourished and exhausted as climate change warms the world s oceans, researchers say.
Researchers examined the effects of warming temperatures on the growth, development and physiology of the Great Barrier Reef s epaulette sharks, testing embryos and hatchlings in waters up to 31 degrees Celsius (87.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
The research team found that in warmer waters, shark embryos grew faster and used their yolk sac their only source of food in this developmental stage quicker.
The creatures hatched earlier, were born smaller, and needed to feed straight away, but lacked energy, researchers from Australia s ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University and the University of Massachusetts said Tuesday.