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Zurich-based scientist Sonia Seneviratne says she may no longer contribute to UN climate panel assessment reports because she's frustrated policy makers continue to fail to act on the research and conclusions.
Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paradoxical phenomenon is thought to be caused by relatively cold plumes of fresh water derived from melting beneath the Antarctic ice shelves. This melt water has a relatively low density, so it accumulates in the top layer of the ocean. The cool surface waters then re-freeze more easily during Autumn and Winter. This explains the observed peak in sea ice during these seasons, a team from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in De Bilt says in its . Cl...
UpdatedThu, Apr 1, 2021 at 10:27 am ET Replies(3) (Shutterstock) OLD BRIDGE, NJ —Marshy areas such as Old Bridge, Cape May and Leeds Point are seeing the fastest sea-level rise along the entire coast of New Jersey, even faster than sea levels are rising in New York City, according to a new Rutgers study published March 23 in Nature Communications. The study was led by scientists Jennifer Walker and Robert Kopp at the Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. The Rutgers study looked at six sites along the Eastern seaboard: Connecticut, New York City, Cheesequake State Park...
POLITICO ‘Garbage’ models and black boxes? The science of climate disaster planning Scientists warn that the data may be too unreliable to guide the precautions that governments, businesses and retirement fund managers must take in the coming decades. Firefighters set a backfire to protect homes and try to contain a California wildfire. | David McNew/Getty Images Link Copied A new breed of data-crunching consultants has emerged to help big corporations and federal agencies assess the long-term dangers they face from climate change — everything from flooding risks for electrical substati...
Global Warmingâs Deadly Combination: Heat and Humidity A new study suggests that large swaths of the tropics will experience dangerous living and working conditions if global warming isnât limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. A farmer in Peukan Biluy village in Aceh, Indonesia, part of the region that could become uninhabitable if global temperatures rise too much. Credit...Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA, via Shutterstock March 8, 2021 Hereâs one more reason the world should aim to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal of the international Paris Agreement: It will help keep the tro...