This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jan Ellen Spiegel
Some Americans appear increasingly ready to give up their gas cars for electric vehicles. But are the country’s electric grids prepared for them?
The question is a critical one…
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How We Roll: Study Shows We're More Lone Wolves Than Team Players…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. This post has separate sections for: Climate Change, Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Mitigation, and Other Papers.
Climate change mitigation
Climate change communication
Perception of public opinion on global…
Problems
Australia is the worlds’ largest exporter of coal, selling thermal coal for electricity generation and coking coal for smelting world-wide. In 2017 its export of this commodity was valued at over $40 billion, most of it produced in Queensland and New…
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How a Few Small Fixes Could Stop Climate Change
"We have to act fast,…
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The world could transition entirely to cheap, safe renewable energy before 2050:…
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Climate change impacts
Mankind
Potential impacts of climate change on dengue fever…
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
A series of authoritative governmental and nongovernmental analyses over more than three decades lays a strong foundation for concern over climate change implications for national security.
Most recently, the national intelligence community –…
Just like last year, I travelled to Vienna to participate in the General Assembly of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) held from April 8 to 12. Different to 2018, I'll (try to) add to this blog on a daily basis,…
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How global warming is permanently…
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We’re gobbling up the Earth’s resources at an unsustainable rate
Petroleum Field…
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Climate change
Uncertainty in climate projections and time of emergence of climate…
This is a re-post from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
At a recent House congressional hearing on legislation aimed at addressing homelessness, Rep. Sean Duffy, a Wisconsin Republican, introduced an amendment aimed at demonstrating how addressing climate change could increase…
Scientists have today revealed that thanks to new radar imaging system, a 20 km-wide asteroid is on a probable collision course with earth and they calculate it has an 85% probability of striking the planet between 23-25 August, 2046. Observers…
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Earth Hour 2019: switch off your lights, and become an innovator
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Climate change communication
The growth of climate change misinformation…
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bud Ward
The ambitious, and some would say wholly unrealistic and impractical, Green New Deal (GND) pending as a non-binding “sense of the Senate” resolution deserves credit for having raised the visibility…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy Dunne
An international research programme has uncovered data that could transform scientists’ understanding of the Atlantic Ocean current – a circulation pattern that plays a central role in determining weather across the…
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk
Energy use is the biggest cause of climate change, and it’s the first place to enact meaningful strategies to lower greenhouse emissions. It’s also a smart angle for talking…
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Tim Flannery: people are shocked about climate change but they should be…
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Climate change impacts
Mankind
Impact of ambient temperature on hospital admissions for…
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Michael Svoboda
Like journalists, opinion writers, and TV newscasters and commentators, political cartoonists were quick to respond to the Green New Deal (GND) climate change initiative put out in early February by…
This is the new Basic rebuttal to the myth 'Holistic Management can reverse Climate Change'. There's also an Advanced rebuttal.
The Myth:
Holistic Management can reverse Climate Change “Holistic management as a planned grazing strategy is able to reverse desertification and sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide into…
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Students globally protest warming, pleading for their future
Students attend a…
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Estimates of Decadal Climate Predictability from an Interactive Ensemble Model…
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bud Ward
Wally Broecker, photographed around 2010 (Credit: Bruce Gilbert, via Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
The climate science community has lost one of the real titans of its field.
Geochemist Wallace Broecker –…
Heat has been accumulating to the Earth's climate system quite steadily for decades. This has not prevented the apparent slowdown of warming seen in global mean surface temperature (GMST) since 1998 to become one of the pet claims for climate…
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Rain Is Triggering More…
