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Mysterious Changes in Ocean Salt Spur NASA Expedition
weather.aol.com By Live Science The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s research vessel Knorr docked before its departure on Sept. 6 to study salinity in the mid-Atlantic ocean. (NASA) By Wynne...
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Permafrost thaw will speed up global warming, study says
www.cbc.ca A polar bear wanders along the Hudson Bay. New research suggets that permafrost soils in Canada’s Arctic are melting at a rate that will significantly speed up global warming. (iStock)...
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Arctic Sea Ice Melt May Trigger Extreme European Winter
wired.com Image: Jenny Downing/Flickr By Stephen Leahy, the Guardian The record loss of Arctic sea ice this summer may mean a cold winter for the UK and northern Europe. The region has been prone to...
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Australia is so hot they had to add new colors to the weather map
washingtonpost.com As scorching temperatures persist across Australia, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology added a new color to its weather forecasting map, extending the range to 54ºC, or 129ºF, from...
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Not Even Close: 2012 Was Hottest Ever in U.S.
nytimes.com Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images A dry section of the Morse Reservoir in Cicero, Ind., in July. The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in...
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Global increase in record-breaking monthly-mean temperatures
springer.com legalbrief The last decade has produced record-breaking heat waves in many parts of the world. At the same time, it was globally the warmest since sufficient measurements started in the...
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Unprecedented glacier melting in the Andes blamed on climate change
phys.org Glaciers in the tropical Andes have been retreating at increasing rate since the 1970s, scientists write in the most comprehensive review to date of Andean glacier observations. The...
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Record snow in a warming world? The science is clear
dailyclimate.org By Marlene Cimons As the Northeast digs out from under a mammoth blizzard, it might seem easy for climate change skeptics to point to such intense storms as evidence that global...
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Arctic Soil Releases Dangerous Levels of CO2, Speeding Global Warming
scienceworldreport.com (Photo : Reuters) Global warming has caused scientists to worry as permafrost melts, releasing a vast amount of CO2 into the atmosphere and further perpetuating the problem. For...
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Wars in prospect as climate change stirs unrest, UN told
theage.com.au Imagine India in 2033. It has overtaken China as the most populous nation. Yet with 1.5 billion citizens to feed, it’s been three years since the last monsoon. Without rain, crops die and...
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Violence will rise as climate changes, scientists predict
latimes.com Death Valley in July. (David McNew / Getty Images / July 14, 2013) By Monte Morin Long before scientists began to study global warming, author Raymond Chandler described the violent...
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The Climate Is Set to Change ‘Orders of Magnitude’ Faster Than at Any Other...
theatlantic.com Some of the earliest clues scientists had that Earth’s climate has changed over time were mismatches between the fossil record and a current ecosystem. How could this palm tree have...
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Colorado climber now documenting retreat of Himalayan glaciers
denverpost.com By John Meyer The Main Rongbuk Glacier, shot in Tibet by David Breashears in 2007. When compared with the 1921 photo shot by George Mallory, below, it clearly shows how much the glacier...
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NOAA: 2012 shows climate change with record sea-level rise, Arctic melting,...
washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON — A new massive federal study says the world in 2012 sweltered with continued signs of climate change. Rising sea levels, snow melt, heat buildup in the oceans, and...
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National Heat Records Update. China Heat Intensifies
wunderground.com As of Friday August 9th, the heat wave in eastern Asia continues but in central Europe it has subsided. Some of the highlights below. Eastern China This map illustrates quite well...
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Is Siberia the Newest Hot Spot?
thinkprogress.org CREDIT: NASA Earth Observatory It hasn’t been a typical summer in Siberia. High temperatures for this time of year are usually in the mid-to-low 60s Fahrenheit, but this July they hit...
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What is the Arctic Ice ‘Death Spiral’?
tcktcktck.org Arctic sea ice in the summer. Creative Commons: Guido Appenzeller, 2011 “The record or near-records being reported from year to year in the Arctic are no longer anomalies or exceptions....
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Severe Heat Waves Are Expected to Double by 2020
usnews.com By 2100, extreme heat waves could cover 80 percent of the globe By Allie Bidwell Heat distorts the appearance of a car as a heat wave spreads across the American West on June 30, 2013 in...
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How the Climate Is Breeding More Black Swans
fool.com Here’s a definition that should send chills down the spines of investors: “An unpredictable or unforeseen event, typically one with extreme consequences.” This sums up a black swan event....
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The Big Sur Fire Is Just the Latest Sign of Longer Fire Seasons
motherjones.com A park ranger directs traffic along Highway 1 as fire burns nearby. Aric Crabb/ZUMA The fire currently burning in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, California, isn’t particularly large: As...
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