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flooding — Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis, writing in the Washington Post, illustrate the reality of the flooding threat from rising seas. They open with a description that lays it out in rather stark terms … The old city of Dubrovnik, clinging to the Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea, is one major […]

Study: Climate Change is threatening our History

This entry was posted in Climate Change science study and tagged climate flooding historical sites rising seas on October 18, 2018 by Dave

1.5 — It is here. The long anticipated IPCC 1.5 C Special report #SR15 report has been formally issued. Here are the links that take you directly to the alpha source and so bypass all of the press articles. The press release Frequently Asked Questions The Summary For Policy Makers (SPM) The full […]

IPCC Special Report on 1.5 C

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science study and tagged 1.5 climate IPCC on October 9, 2018 by Dave

bbc — In the not too recent past the BBC has managed to make a complete hash of their climate change reporting. Last August 2017 Al Gore was in the UK promoting the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth”. The BBC quite rightly interviewed him on the BBC’s Radio 4 flagship program “Today”, a slot […]

BBC reporting on Climate Change

This entry was posted in Climate Change media news science and tagged BBC bias climate on September 18, 2018 by Dave

rainfall — On a planet where we are increasing the amount of greenhouse gases, both the atmosphere and also the ocean become warmer. The rather obvious consequence is of course the the melting of ice and rising sea level, but other things also happen. Tropical Cyclones, (also known as Hurricanes) which are […]

Warming Oceans are changing rainfall patterns

This entry was posted in Climate Change news science study and tagged Amazon climate rainfall study on September 14, 2018 by Dave

climate — Climate Denial is the rejection of what is now a well established observational fact – our climate is warming and all the fossil fuel greenhouse gases we are pumping into the atmosphere are causing it. Regardless of the tribal GOP stance on the topic, the vast majority do accept that […]

What can you do about Climate Avoidance? – Top 10 tips

This entry was posted in Activism Climate Change news psychology science and tagged action climate climate avoidance top 10 on September 12, 2018 by Dave

Hothouse — A paper has appeared in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) that is attracting a lot of media attention. Titled “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene” it lays out a possibility that we face a runaway climate hothouse. Note the word I’ve underlined. Many of the […]

What does the alpha source for “Hothouse Earth” actually tell us?

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science study and tagged Anthropocene climate feedback hothouse on August 8, 2018 by Dave