Nearly half of the increases in ocean temperature between 1865-2015 occurred in just the past 20 years, a rate which is steadily getting quicker, a new study published Monday reveals.
Category: Climate Change
Scientists have made the surprising discovery that giant melting icebergs could actually be slowing global warming.
From seabirds to whales to antelopes to starfish, animal die-offs across the globe are raising alarm about the deadly impact of climate change on the world’s ecosystems and their vulnerable inhabitants.
Arctic Ocean ice levels are in decline and now a new time lapse by US scientists is showing how large ice packs which survive more than one summer are becoming less frequent occurrences.
Source: 25 years of Arctic ice melting in one minute (TIMELAPSE VIDEO) — RT News
‘Biblical’ flooding in the UK has forced hundreds of evacuations, while fatal storms in U.S. have killed at least 43 people
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Meanwhile, a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows this year’s Arctic temperatures are the warmest on record. The report found some areas of the Arctic experienced temperatures more than 5 degrees warmer than average. It also found “extensive” melting across more than 50 percent of Greenland’s ice sheet. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, NOAA chief scientist Richard Spinrad warned: “The Arctic is warming twice as fast as other parts of the planet.”
The Project tracked down the scientist behind the graph Bolt keeps using on his show. ‘He has a message for you.’
Source: Waleed Aly takes on Andrew Bolt over climate change: ‘Let me nip this in the bud’
Sting operation uncovers two prominent climate sceptics available for hire by the hour to write reports on the benefits of rising CO2 levels and coal
Source: Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science | Environment | The Guardian
How appropriate that federal parliament is to resume on February 2, Groundhog Day, as the Australian public will be facing their 4th election in a row based on climate change policies. In 2006 southern Australia was in the grip of a prolonged drought, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was released and the Stern Review on…
Source: Groundhog Day – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The fate of 70 million people rests on the Mekong river. With crucial UN climate talks in Paris next week, John Vidal journeys down south-east Asia’s vast waterway and meets people affected by climate change, dams, deforestation and urbanisation
Source: The Mekong river: stories from the heart of the climate crisis | Environment | The Guardian
Devastating droughts, mass migrations and rampant xenophobia are only a preview of the dystopia to come
Source: After the great unraveling: A harrowing glimpse of the world that awaits – Salon.com
Earth’s temperature is heading towards its highest for three million years. We must move to zero emissions – and it can be done without closing down our economy
We need to talk about coal. Not emission reduction strategies, the advantages of hyper-supercritical coal-fired power stations or the architecture of global climate agreements. Coal.
The Turnbull government has quietly committed Australia to support decarbonising the world economy as one of the goals for this month’s global climate summit in Paris, a move that has drawn applause.
Source: Paris 2015: Australia’s quiet climate commitment to decarbonise the economy
Recently, a study published by NASA scientists in the Journal of Glaciology made the surprising claim that Antarctica is gaining more ice than it has lost. The study, led by Jay Zwally, a NASA glaciologist, claimed that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began …
Source: Truth Behind NASA Study Claiming Antarctica Is Gaining Ice AnonHQ
Peter Boyer examines the Abbott “experiment’s” pervasive culture of climate skepticism and pronounces the main lesson to be: “never do this again”.
The Earth’s climate has hit a dangerous milestone.
Source: Global warming passes critical one degree mark – Climate Council
The commitments nations have made ahead of the Paris climate talks already have the world on track to face ‘dangerous’ climate change.
President Obama announced Friday that his administration has rejected TransCanada’s bid to build the Keystone XL pipeline, ending a seven-year fight and handing a major victory to the climate movement.
The campaign against President Obama’s climate plan is way out of step with voters.
Source: Republicans Are Going To Hate This Chart | Mother Jones
Three quarters of Australians believe climate change is happening, but conservative voters are more likely to believe it is a natural phenomenon.
The Australian taxpayers’ controversial relationship with climate science contrarian Bjorn Lomborg finally came to an end last week, writes Graham Readfearn.
Source: Bjorn Lomborg’s Climate Consensus Project finally bites the dust
Another year is declared the warmest on record. How fried must we be before the denialists open their eyes?
Source: The GOP’s war on security: How their climate denialism endangers us all – Salon.com
The Science Guy breaks it down.
Source: The 5 Things You Need To Know About Climate Change, According To Bill Nye
Warming of 1.5 to 2 degrees above current levels could lead to unstoppable sea level rise, say scientists.
New analysis from the Climate Action Tracker group has found that India, now the world’s third largest emitter of carbon, is likely to easily outstrip the pledge it made ahead of a key United Nations summit in December this year.As a fast-growing source of emissions, India’s progress on cutting carbon will be increasingly vital in coming decades if the world is to achieve its aim of limiting the rise in average global temperatures to two degrees or less.
Source: India Tipped To Exceed Paris Climate Targets | newmatilda.com
The UK’s head climate advisor has slammed Australia’s efforts to reduce green house gas emissions, labelling targets sad and a disgrace.
Source: Global Warming: Is the Weather Bureau misleading us? | Climate change
Newman, whose term as chairman of PM’s business advisory council has expired, repeatedly questioned climate science in columns for the Australian
Source: Climate sceptic Maurice Newman not reappointed as government adviser | Australia news | The Guardian
Appropriately dubbed the “new Mr Coal” by an excited Andrew Bolt on his weekly Channel Ten slot yesterday, the new Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, Josh Frydenberg averaged a lie every 3.5 minutes as he raked over the Abbott Government’s legacy on climate change and coal.
Source: Four Lies In 14 Minutes: Josh Frydenberg And His Andrew Bolt Report Porkies | newmatilda.com
A leading climate skeptic organization is worried that “pagan forms are returning to the Church.”
Source: Conservative Group Blasts the Pope: “Paganism” Has “Entered the Church” | Mother Jones
Rigorous new research provides more proof that the world is continuing to warm and claims of any slowdown are unequivocally illusory.
Source: Global warning slowdown an illusion — the world is heating up
And the West Coast’s massive drought isn’t going away anytime soon.
Source: 2015 Will Probably Be the Hottest Year on Record | Mother Jones
Distinctive ‘cross-checking’ tradition helps explain extraordinary accuracy in 21 stories about dramatic sea level rises between 7,000 and 18,000 years ago
We’re Obliterating Global Temperature Records, and There’s No End in Sight 
2015 and 2016 could be the hottest years on record due to climate change and a powerful El Niño.
Source: We’re Obliterating Global Temperature Records, and There’s No End in Sight | Mother Jones
In the Mediterranean climate of California, with its warm, wet winters and hot, dry summers, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains plays a critical role. It serves as a natural water storage system that feeds waterways and reservoirs during the dry summer months.
Source: The 2015 Sierra Nevada Snowpack Is At A 500-Year Record Low | IFLScience
A huge El Niño on the horizon bodes ill for drought and forest fire.
Source: ‘Godzilla’ El Niño: time to prepare for mega-droughts
If we burn all the fossil fuels, all the ice will eventually melt.
Source: New Study: Waterworld Is Definitely Going to Happen | Mother Jones
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has been caught on tape joking about low-lying islands being swamped by rising seas in a 23-second exchange that risked offending Indigenous people, ethnic leaders and Australia’s Pacific neighbours in one fell swoop.
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report Thursday showing that July was Earth’s hottest month on record. Nine of the 10 hottest months since record keeping began in 1880 have occurred since 2005. Climatologists also expect 2015 to be the hottest year on record. This news comes as scientists from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory released a report that shows that global warming has worsened the California drought, now entering its fourth year. This new study is the first to estimate the extent to which rising temperatures are affecting the loss of moisture from plants and soil, and suggests that within a few decades continually increasing temperatures and resulting moisture losses will push California into a permanent drought by 2060. We discuss the report and the impact of the findings with the study’s lead author, Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Despite all the scientific evidence, many people in Australia and around the world are still sceptical about climate change and its man-made origins. Andrew Denton believes that comedy—with its power to reach our common humanity—might be able to move the debate forward.
Source: Comedy joins the climate change debate – The Science Show
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