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Climate finance to top India’s agenda
Read the full article online at http://www.livemint.com “India will also focus on sustainable lifestyle issues, which found a place in the Paris agreement after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for its inclusion. New Delhi: Adaptation issues, coupled with finance and technology transfers for developing countries, will top India’s agenda at a key global […]
The Coming Public Health Disaster
Read the full article online at http://www.usnews.com “NASA scientists recently confirmed that August was the hottest month in recorded history. It tied this past July for that dubious honor. Meteorologists are linking this heat to the recent spate of extreme flooding worldwide – everywhere from Louisiana to China. However, global warming isn’t just an environmental […]
Oceans Are Absorbing Globe’s Excess Heat
Read the full article online at http://www.nytimes.com “This year is on track to be the third consecutive hottest year on record. Where does that heat go? The oceans, mostly. Ocean temperatures have been consistently rising for at least three decades. Scientists believe that global sea surface temperatures will continue to increase over the next decade […]
ARC-X – Climate Change Adaptation Website
Read the full article online at http://www.cnsnews.com “The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday launched a new website, the Adaption Resource Center or ARC-X, to help leaders of “the nation’s 40,000 communities with information and tools to increase resilience to climate change.” “Recent statistics from the Office of Management and Budget show the federal government has incurred more […]
Sea Ice at Record Lows at Poles
Read the full article online at http://www.cnn.com “For what appears to be the first time since scientists began keeping track, sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic are at record lows this time of year. “It looks like, since the beginning of October, that for the first time we are seeing both the Arctic and […]
Biofuels Worse for Climate Than Gasoline, New Study Finds
Read the full article online at http://www.ecowatch.com “A new study released by the University of Michigan in the Aug. 25 journal of Climate Change is causing a ripple through the fuel industry, as it contends that more carbon dioxide is actually released through biofuels than gasoline. Biofuels were always pegged as being more environmentally friendly because […]
NASA’s Antarctic Flyover Reveals Melting Continent
Read the full article online at http://www.nbcnews.com “NASA is conducting an airborne survey of how ice in Antarctica is responding to a changing climate. 1. The scale of Mario Tama’s aerial views of Antarctica is at once stunning and humbling — humanity can seem like an insignificant development in face of these endless landscapes. The paradox, though, […]
UN review says carbon plans fall well short of climate goals
Read the full article online at http://www.bbc.com “A UN review of national plans to cut carbon says they are well short of the levels needed to keep the rise in global temperatures under 2C. The report finds that by 2030 the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere will be some 25% above that mark. The analysis takes […]
SPACE, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE REAL MEANING OF THEORY
Read the full article online at http://www.newyorker.com “I used to be an astronaut, a spacewalker on the International Space Station. Naturally, most of my fifteen-year crew career was spent on the ground, working with engineers to get the Station built and fully crewed for scientific research, but the day-in, day-out flow of this ground work […]
Hurricane Matthew Took A Big Bite Out Of Southeastern States’ Beaches
Read the full article online at http://www.npr.org “Beaches in the Southeastern U.S. took a tremendous beating last month from Hurricane Matthew. The U.S. Geological Survey has found that the storm washed over and damaged 15 percent of sand dunes on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, 30 percent along Georgia’s coastline and 42 percent of the dunes on […]
