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Sea Level Data Confirms Climate Modeling Projections Were Right

Projections of rising sea levels this century are on the money when tested against satellite and tide-gauge observations, scientists find.

16 Feb 2021

Farmers and Scientists Unite for Pint-sized Pygmies

Fifty-two pygmy bluetongues have been released on a farm in a southern area of the mid-north, 90km north of Adelaide, as part of a $400,000 Flinders University Australian Research Council Linkage project to save them from looming extinction as our climate warms.

16 Feb 2021

Rising Ocean Temperatures Could Predict Hurricane Intensity Around Bermuda

New research shows that hurricane maximum wind speeds in the subtropical Atlantic around Bermuda have more than doubled on average over the last 60 years due to rising ocean temperatures in the region.

15 Feb 2021

Report Highlights the Need to Deal with Low-Carbon Transition Risks Seriously

On February 19, the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, the United-States, will rejoin the Paris Agreement. This will kickstart a year of intensifying policy activity ahead of the United Nations Climate Change conference (COP26) in November, when countries will re-commit to their emissions reduction goals.

12 Feb 2021

Climate Scientists Study the Rapid Formation of Iodic Particles Over the Arctic

More than two thirds of the earth is covered by clouds. Depending on whether they float high or low, how large their water and ice content is, how thick they are or over which region of the Earth they form, it gets warmer or cooler underneath them.

12 Feb 2021

Ice Retreat During Last Deglaciation Matches Current Melt Rates in Antarctica and Greenland

10,000 km2 of ice disappeared in a blink of an eye from an ice sheet in the Storfjorden Through offshore Svalbard, a new study shows. This dramatic break off was preceded by quite a rapid melt of 2.5 kilometres of ice a year. This parallels the current melt rates in Antarctica and Greenland and worries the scientists behind the study.

11 Feb 2021

Statistical Tools Help Estimate Future Outcomes of Paris Agreement Targets

Earlier in 2017, statistical tools were used in a broadly-cited study to model the likely future outcomes of the global temperature targets set by the Paris Agreement.

10 Feb 2021

Better Models Needed to Gain New Insight into the Arctic Climate

It's clear that rising greenhouse gas emissions are the main driver of global warming. But on a regional level, several other factors are at play. That's especially true in the Arctic - a massive oceanic region around the North Pole which is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the planet.

9 Feb 2021

Understanding How Ice Melt Affects the Coastal Systems in Antarctica

As a coastal physical oceanographer, University of Delaware Assistant Professor Carlos Moffat has been interested in how coastal systems affect the larger climate and has worked on projects that measure the impact of the ocean on glacial ice retreat around the world for quite some time.

5 Feb 2021