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Confronting the Effects of Coastal Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

Environmental science major Kris Freyland sees the effects of climate change up close. The project draws on Watson’s research in climate change “adaptation, annotation, and mitigation.” The threat of climate change impacts us all, even those who don’t study its consequences.

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Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study

A Greener Life

As the impacts of climate change are felt more acutely with each passing year, new research suggests that the future costs of emitting CO2 today may be much higher than previously calculated. The “ climate module ”: How will the climate be altered by those emissions ? How fast will sea levels and temperatures rise?

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South Greenland at a Crossroads

Ocean Conservancy

Competition and cooperation ensued, but eventually the maritime Inuit were better suited to a cooling climate than the farming Norse, and Greenland became an Inuit homeland. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Today, Greenland is often in the news in relation to climate change.

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California’s Thirsty Future: The Role of Vapor Pressure Deficit in Our Changing Climate and Drought

Union of Concerned Scientists

California is no stranger to the impacts of climate change. 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. Incremental changes in vapor pressure deficit due to climate change are linked to interrelated threats.

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Ask a Scientist: ‘Danger Season’ Summers Disproportionately Harm Disadvantaged Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

Not only has much of what climate scientists have been warning about come to pass, many of the extreme weather events the planet is now experiencing are worse than they expected. “To To some extent, our predictions have been conservative,” Penn State University climatologist Michael E. Those impacts do not affect everyone equally.

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Desalination and Alternative Water Supply and Efficiency

Vermont Law

Some environmentalists also look favorably upon seawater desalination; they want to conserve the Earth’s freshwater for other species and other beneficial use. serious progression of climate change. rising sea-levels. Basing the price on thirty years of project performance, which relies on both fluctuating water.

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Geology: Examining the Planet’s Physical Processes

Environmental Science

Most scientists, stuck with the models of Newtonian Physics, calculated how long it would take for the Earth to cool to current temperatures. This follows global mean sea level for accurate readings for a variety of functions. Geology may also become more of an applied science and become absorbed into environmental conservation.