Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

Yet surprisingly, in an over-reach move, the Trump administration last month ended funding for the BRIC program that he signed into law in his first term in 2018. This will leave communities less prepared even as disasters are mounting and as the Atlantic hurricane season, which starts June 1, is just a handful of weeks away.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

Water circulation in the Atlantic Ocean has slowed to its weakest recorded level, and global warming is the likely cause thats according to a new study in the journal Nature. It could also raise sea levels along the United States East Coast. Circulating water in the Atlantic serves as a kind of a heat exchange for the planet.

2018

Circle of Blue

APRIL 1, 2025

If all of Greenlands ice melted, sea level would rise about 24 feet. From 1992 to 2018, some 3,541 cubic kilometers of water 935 trillion gallons poured off Greenland, or the equivalent of 12 years of the Mississippi Rivers flow into the Gulf of Mexico. And melting is fast increasing.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

It shows, for example, that both the strength and rapid intensification of hurricanes are increasing, that the intensity and duration of drought and extreme precipitation are increasing , that sea level rise and coastal flooding are increasing , and that wildfires are increasing in frequency and size.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

[PaEN] -- Keep PA Beautiful Celebrating 35 Years Of Supporting Community Improvement Across Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- WGAL: Sara Mueller Has A Passion For Outdoors, Educating Next Generation At Wildlife Leadership Academy -- PA Wilds Accepting Nominations For PA Wilds Champions Until April 7; Awards Celebration July 24 -- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership, (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Million Planted Since 2018 [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Life Depends On Protecting The Natural World, Federal Rollbacks Are Threatening Our Future - By Michael Kensinger, Juniata Valley Audubon Society [PaEN] -- TribLive: Flight 93 Memorial Supporters In Somerset County Step Up Fundraising As Potential Job Cuts Loom -- Gov. .:

Conservation

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

LA Times climate columnist Sammy Roth reread the Laudato Si encyclical , and was struck by his nuanced discussion of extreme weather and sea level rise, and the need to phase out fossil fuels making it almost certainly the most famous climate essay ever written. In that way, we just lost one of the most impactful climate communicators.

Earth Day

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

My top 3 impressions up-front: The sea level projections for the year 2100 have been adjusted upwards again. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100. And here is the key sea-level graphic from the Summary for Policy Makers: Source: IPCC AR6, Figure SPM.8.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. Storm surge overwash in Charlestown barrier-strip island due to nor’easter storm in March 2018. Hilton Head is fast becoming a prominent test case of rising sea levels and intense coastal storms heralded by climate change.

Sea Level

Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Sea surface temperature trend 1993 – 2018, from European Atlas of the Seas. 2018) Observed fingerprint of a weakening Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation, Nature 556: 191-196. 2022), Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise, Nature Clim. 44: 1919-1927. Rahmstorf, S.,

Cooling

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

By comparing these two data sets, scientists can determine the probability that human activities are responsible for observed changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, sea level rise, and other climate change indicators. A study of a 2018 South African drought found that climate change made it three times more likely.

Climate Change

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

There was a workshop in 2018 (that I attended) to discuss how one might go about doing something better – updating the data, improving quality control, and using models to better connect local or regional signals to the global means. and, like many of us, had found the then-current literature somewhat unsatisfactory. van der Meer, C.R.

Sea Level

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The global mean sea level has increased by 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, and the rate of increase has accelerated and is now about 3.7 A thermal expansion explained 50% of sea level rise during 1971–2018, while ice loss from glaciers contributed 22%, ice sheets 20% and changes in land water storage 8%.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. California has experienced a significant increase in the extent of forest fires in recent decades, with a fivefold increase in annual burned area from 1972 to 2018.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

California Governor Jerry Brown in Bonn for the 2018 climate summit. They are often left to deal with climate effects on the ground, from wildfires to sea level rise to drought, and they can provide a political bulwark of sorts even as U.S. Photo credit Alexandra Gay, member of the UCLA Law delegation that year.

Climate Change

Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

We have discussed the statistics on tropical cyclones in previous posts here on RealClimate: ‘ Climate Change and Tropical Cyclones (Yet Again) ’ (2008) and ‘ Does global warming make tropical cyclones stronger? ’ (2018). Support for the warm-area-connection? References R.E. 635-645, 2009. Blunden, T.

2023

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Total loss of the Greenland ice sheet, for example, would raise sea levels globally by more than 20 feet. The paper sets out an agenda for research into ways to limit glacial ice-sheet deterioration and associated sea level rise. Open Arctic sea lanes dramatically shorten shipping times from China to Europe.

Ocean

Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

So the Ditlevsens used sea surface temperatures (SST) in a region between the tip of Greenland and Britain as an indicator, based on Caesar et al. 2018 ( PDF ; I’m a coauthor on that paper). We have direct AMOC measurements only since 2004, a time span too short for this type of study. The reanalysis data show the latter is the case.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Massachusetts pointed to the loss of coastal land from sea-level rise, while the Urgenda judgments ultimately concluded that there is a serious risk that climate change will cause the human rights of people in the Netherlands to not be met. To determine what this requires, the court turns to the 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

Since 2018 we have worked together with Chevron to be a ‘Force for Good’ in our region by providing resources and opportunities for youth soccer players,” LAFC Co-President & CBO Larry Freedman said in a press release. “I

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2013, Jianli Chen and colleagues at the University of Texas, Austin showed that an eastward drift of the poles that began in 2005 is linked to melting glaciers and the associated sea-level rise. This allowed GRACE to determine the shape of the Earth and monitor changes in sea level, glaciers and groundwater.

Sea Level

Law and Environment

JUNE 8, 2022

As reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate , “[t]he ocean is essential for all aspects of human well-being and livelihood” and ocean warming, acidification and sea level rise are impacting fisheries and food production and depleting key ecosystem services.

Ocean

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. environmental programs experienced one of the highest levels of cuts to both operating budgets and staff in the country. 2018 Funding. $116 2008 Funding. 116 million. $136

2008

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Global warming is leading to sea-level rise on an unprecedented scale, according to IPCC scientists. Between 2006 and 2016 sea levels globally rose 2.5 At the same time, the seas are warmer than they used to be, which can lead to more tropical storms and a higher risk of coastal flooding. metres by 2100. (In

Law

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. chance of happening in any given year, respectively. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2018, CDI commissioned a first-of-its kind climate risk scenario analysis of California insurers, analyzing the investment portfolios of insurance companies operating in California and earning over $100 million annually in national premiums.

Climate Change

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Source: NASA (August 2018). Photo credit. Written by: Jack McCulloch. should be. [4]

Coastal Erosion

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

Sea Level

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). It was curated by Caitlín Doherty for the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, a cultural institute of the University of North Florida, in 2018. He photographed flooding in the U.S. Gideon Mendel: Drowning World is on view through Sunday, Oct.

2014

Physics World

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since March 2018, a team led by Licai Deng from the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been monitoring cloudiness, night-sky brightness, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction at “Summit C” on Saishiteng Mountain, which lies some 4200 m above sea level. Michael Ashley.

Atmosphere

Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

It was first rebuilt in 2013, was declared overfished again in 2018, and has been rebuilt again in 2021. It’s changing more than ever with rising sea levels, warming temperatures, ocean acidification, deoxygenation and more. What does this mean? The ocean is not at a stasis.

Ocean

Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

The 2018 Disaster Recovery Reform Act authorized FEMA to invest six percent of its disaster costs in resilience (a 6% set-aside from post-disaster grant funds). FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program can provide funds for disaster mitigation. had disaster declarations.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

by 2026-27 from a 2018-19 baseline. Nagpur to cut emissions by 20% Nagpur started in 2018 with the heat action plan that was first developed in Ahmedabad and has since been adopted by many cities in South Asia. Thane is in a high-rainfall zone and also faces the impacts of sea level rise. million tonnes of CO2.

Carbon Dioxide

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Some argue that environmental degradation is best understood as a threat to human security (Barnett and Adger 2007), and others focus on the inextricable ties between human well-being and the health of ecological systems to which we belong (McDonald 2018). Critical Studies on Security , 8(3), 189-202. Chicago McDonald, M.,

2011

Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

In 2018, a host of lawsuits wound their way through the courts seeking an answer, including several from localities and states alleging the responsibility of fossil fuel companies. Turning the Tide in Coastal and Riverine Energy Infrastructure Adaptation: Can an Emerging Wave of Litigation Advance Preparation for Climate Change?”

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2021

The sale follows the 2012 purchase and 2018 transfer of 16 acres of riparian land at the end of Pier 70 Boulevard by Natural Lands to DRWC. The pier and water area also afford us the opportunity to innovate and create a buffer for coastal resiliency as we plan for rising sea levels and future storms.

Sea Level