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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

Three new papers in the last couple of weeks have each made separate claims about whether sea level rise from the loss of ice in West Antarctica is more or less than you might have thought last month and with more or less certainty. 2020) or Sadai et al. But there is more.

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The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that?

Real Climate

An AMOC weakening by 15 % thus cools the region at a rate of 0.15 x 10 14 W and according to model simulations can fully explain the observed cooling trend (2). So in comparison, the cooling effect of a 15 % AMOC slowdown is over 1,000 times larger than the direct cooling effect of the Greenland meltwater. References.

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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered

Legal Planet

Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? There is another important aspect to what is sometimes called “committed warming,” “climate inertia,” or “zero emissions commitment,” an aspect I wrote about over a decade ago. As I noted in my article, that may still produce a backlash against continued climate action.

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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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Climate Change and Me

Academy of Natural Sciences

The first climate change presentation I saw was back in the 1970s when I was working for the National Weather Service. Murray Mitchell, was the top climate scientist for NWS. While that got the bulk of the publicity, Dr. Mitchell assured us that the warming of the climate would be the biggest problem in the future.

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant. Figure SPM 8.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Some of the impacts of climate change are playing out faster and with a greater magnitude than we predicted.”. While we still have those things, the facts show that climate change has transformed the months of May through October into what we are calling the Danger Season. Those impacts do not affect everyone equally.