The hard truths of climate change–by the numbers
Jeff Tollefson – Nature, 9/18/19
Nature documents the scale of the climate challenge in an infographic that explores energy use, carbon dioxide pollutions and issues of climate justice. Although most countries have pledged to curb greenhouse gas emissions sharply, the data show…
READ FULL ARTICLE
Climate change: How do we know?
Earth Sciences Communication Team – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, last updated 4/30/20
The evidence for rapid climate change is compelling: global temperature rise, warming oceans, shrinking ice sheet, glacial retreat, decreased snow cover, sea level rise, declining arctic sea ice, extreme events, ocean acidification…
READ NASA'S CLIMATE FACTS
A look at past and future climate change in less than a minute
E360 Digest – Yale Environment 360, 2/18/19
For visual learners: Two new videos visualize how drastically global temperatures have changed since 1900–and how they will likely continue to change up to 2100. The visualizations, created by Antti Lipponen of the Finish Meteorological Institute, depict 200 years of climate change in less than a minute…
SEE CLIMATE VIDEOS
The heat we fear may already be here
Nick Carne – Cosmos 5/11/20
In some places, heat and humidity beyond what the human body can tolerate is emerging ahead of projections, a new study in the journal Science Advances suggests…
READ FULL ARTICLE
Unchecked global warming could collapse whole ecosystems, maybe within 10 years
Bob Berwyn – InsideClimate News, 4/8/20
A new study shows that global warming is about to push temperatures beyond the tolerance of thousands of animals at the same time. As some key species go extinct, entire ecosystems like coral reefs and forests will crumble, and some will collapse abruptly, starting as soon as this decade, a new study in the journal Nature warns…
READ FULL ARTICLE
Eleven of 12 hottest years have occurred since 2000, new report warns
Isabelle Gerretsen – UK Independent, 4/22/20
Eleven out of the 12 hottest years to date have all occurred since 2000, according to a new report by the European Union’s climate monitoring service. 2019 was the hottest year on record for Europe after scorching heatwaves led to record-breaking temperatures in February, June and July, scientists said in the annual European State of the Climate report…
READ FULL ARTICLE
Evidence for man-made global warming hits ‘gold-standard’: scientists
Alister Doyle – Reuters, 2/25/19
Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a “gold standard” level of certainty, scientists wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change based on 40 years of measurements…
READ FULL ARTICLE