2003 Climate Change Ocean 
Circle of Blue
JULY 25, 2025
Instead, a significant portion of the water taken from underground flows off the land through rivers and on to the oceans. Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 10, 2025
Danger Season is well underway, yet the Trump administration continues to hack away at federal agencies that help us predict and survive fires, heat waves, and storms made more extreme by climate change. My first memory of a major hurricane was Hurricane Isabel making landfall in North Carolina in 2003. It would set us back.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Climate impacts as human rights violations It’s widely accepted that climate change is the cause of human rights violations for millions of people, including their rights to adequate housing, healthy working conditions, safe drinking water, education, and a healthy environment.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Sea levels are rising.
Real Climate
MARCH 4, 2021
Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns.
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Purported updates to these series were themselves plagued by arithmetic errors which negated their conclusions ( Laut, 2003 ). If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. 801-812, 2003. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali , vol. 11-21, 2022.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 20, 2023
The lightest lines are from the earliest projections, the lightest grey being from 1977, and the darker colors are later with the black line being from 2003. Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s
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