Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It’s 20 years since we started blogging on climate here on RealClimate (December 10, 2004). We wanted to counter disinformation about climate change that was spreading through various campaigns. The Keeling curve, highlighted with the release of important climate reports and climate summits.

2004

Real Climate

MAY 12, 2025

Fjords and mountains in Northern Norway The Arctic Councils Arctic Monitoring and assessment Programme ( AMAP ) recently released a Summary for PolicyMakers Arctic Climate Change Update 2024. It is one of several stock taking exercises on the regional and global states of Earth’s climate.

Sea Level

Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern Europe.

Sea Level

Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

The suit, which was filed in 2015, alleges that RWE’s historic GHG emissions—amounting to approximately 0.38% of GHG emissions since the Industrial Revolution—have materially contributed to climate change and, specifically, to the accelerated melting of mountain glaciers near Lliuya‘s hometown.

Climate Change

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. The researchers were surprised to find that the loss of water on the continents has grown so dramatically that it has become one of the largest causes of global sea level rise.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

The IPCC compiles scientific insights on climate change, informing policymakers and the public about risks and possible actions. In essence, combined with climate models, they provide a way to envision the consequences of different actions or inactions. What Are Future Climate Scenarios? Lower-emission scenarios (SSP1-2.6)

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Moreover, changes in the Arctic have a huge impact on weather patterns north of the equator, including polar vortex disturbances, changes to ocean currents, and extreme heat domes. Shrinking Greenland ice sheet and mountain glaciers also contribute to accelerating sea level rise. in Arc2024 ).

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Whats the point of a beach adventure if you cant even go into the ocean? In 2022, ninety of Texas beaches tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria (poop!), How does raw sewage end up in our oceans and rivers? miles into the Pacific Ocean near Ocean Beach. San Francisco City and County v.

Clean Water Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China. In previous posts, Ive explained what the IPCC is, why this assessment cycle is crucial , and highlighted its role in climate action. Marine CDR lacks long-term observational data and has potential ecological risks.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China. In previous posts, Ive explained what the IPCC is, why this assessment cycle is crucial , and highlighted its role in climate action. Marine CDR lacks long-term observational data and has potential ecological risks.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

MARCH 27, 2025

By Bob Berwyn Earth has lost enough soil moisture in the last 40 years to change the planets spin and shift the location of the North Pole, according to a new study published today in Science that tracks how human activities have disrupted the global water cycle.

Ocean

Real Climate

JULY 31, 2025

0 % ~ 96% (impact of T on saturation vapor pressure) Adverse effects of increase Increased heat waves, sea level rise, etc. Indeed, it’s clear that the vast majority of the increase is due to climate change itself (warming the atmosphere and increasing the saturation vapor pressure).

Atmosphere

New Scientist

JULY 14, 2025

This is probably due to warmer ocean temperatures. “We We know what’s causing the warming of sea surface temperature: the emission of greenhouse gases. This dynamic occurs because of how the ocean temperatures that fuel the storms interact with other factors, such as wind shear, to decide their ultimate intensity, he says.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This blog was written by Michele Conrad, advisor to Ocean Conservancy on achieving priority fish conservation and ecosystem goals on the West Coast. As a former state ocean policy manager, Michele represented the State of Washington on the Pacific Fishery Management Council for 15 years before starting her own consultancy.

Ocean

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Unseen and Unprotected: The Ongoing Struggle of Climate Refugees in the United States by Isaiah Gonzales and Professor Siu Tip Lam I. Introduction As climate change accelerates, environmental disasters will leave millions homeless. Historical Background of Climate Change The scientific consensus on climate change is undeniable.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

JUNE 6, 2025

That rose to an average of 37 days a year by 2020 , according to tide gauge monitors by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The cobblestones along the town’s waterfront once were flooded a handful of times a year.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As the climate crisis advances unchecked, the work of federal agencies dedicated to protecting our health and the places where we work, play, worship, produce food, energy, and shop has become critical and are now at great peril. In this post I will focus on Project 2025’s ill-advised designs for NOAA. OAR plays a major role in the U.S.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JULY 25, 2025

And that’s a really important question to answer, since it has a total of 24 feet of sea-level rise still locked up in its icy mass. Everyone was always focused on the ice, since the, like, ’60s: “What can the ice tell us about climate? That means massive migration, totally changes the surface of the planet.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

Accountability for past emissions should be a critical part in addressing climate change. Here, Ill describe the data currently available to quantify these emissions, what they tell us about the drivers of climate change, and how we can achieve accountability for its harms moving forward. Who are the Carbon Majors?

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Instead of addressing the many ways climate change threatens the countrys financial stability , his administration is pulling back safeguards in order to reward his Big Oil donors. Trump revoked that order on his first day in office, along with several others related to climate change, public health, and the environment.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the far-rights playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated. NOAA watches the oceans and coasts for you Do you like seafood? Are you taking a commercial flight today?

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2025

Overfishing, the unsustainable practice of taking too many fish out of the ocean so that there are too few left to replace themselves, results in the total collapse of fisheries, and economic devastation for surrounding fishing communities. Here are ten lesser-known responsibilities of NOAA scientists.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

Congress must resist such effortswhether through the upcoming budget process or as stand-alone legislationand protect the ability of states, municipalities, and others harmed by fossil fuel-driven climate change to hold polluters accountable through litigation and legislation.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The GreenDrill site sat on the frozen edge of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, or NEGIS, a massive, moving tongue of ice that drains 12 to 16 percent of the ice sheet into the ocean. If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet. Upended and laid atop the contiguous U.S.,

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, an honest assessment of the latest climate science will show that since 2009 the evidence has become even more compelling and dire. Climate change, driven by rising heat-trapping emissions, is already causing significant harm to peoples health and well-being and to vital ecosystems.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

Water circulation in the Atlantic Ocean has slowed to its weakest recorded level, and global warming is the likely cause thats according to a new study in the journal Nature. It could also raise sea levels along the United States East Coast. Scientists say that global warming affects ocean circulation in various ways.

2018

Circle of Blue

APRIL 1, 2025

and the Danish territory have the opportunity to capture and monetize the torrent of clean fresh water pouring off Greenland and into the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Climate change, after all, is the essential ecological factor in the presidents interest in Greenland. Both the U.S. And melting is fast increasing.

Ocean

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

President Donald Trump has moved to censor the climate crisis from federal web pages, with environmental assessments and climate adaptation reports disappearing from public sites. By 2100, the ice sheets melting is on track to increase sea levels by about one meter, and 10 meters by 2300. Alaska, Hawaii, U.S.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Do you remember the first time that climate change really entered your consciousness? Ive been working for climate solutions ever since. But as part of the climate movement, you also know that climate change is the context in which all of these crises are unfolding. We have to stop them.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

Priceless natural gifts If Carson were alive in this epoch of climate change, she would have likely added that the breath of marsh mist should stir the soul to remember how priceless a wetland is. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commercial and recreational fisheries provide 1.7

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

A government website housed on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) website–climate.gov–had “a rich trove of climate data and information,” as my colleague Marc Alessi said. It has pulled funding focused on climate science and research from universities.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

In an era when massive heat domes blanket large swaths of continents for days, wildfires burn through areas the size of small countries, and hurricanes regularly push the limits of what we once thought possible, sea level rise can seem like extreme weather’s low-key cousin. Since 1993, sea level has risen by an average rate of 3.1

Sea Level

Scientific American

JULY 31, 2025

Ensuring they’re ready to combat escalating climate change, growing political turmoil and dangerous online misinformation hasn’t made things any easier. And fluctuating glacier size has dictated global weather and sea levels for millions of years.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sea level rise presents numerous climate justice issues. Some of the venues where people are addressing the injustices of climate change are UN climate negotiations, the courts, and community organizing efforts around the world. Climate justice research can help inform these conversations.

Sea Level

Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

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. Two elephant seals in the Southern Oceans arguing about marine ice cliff instability.

Sea Level

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.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The suit claims that BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute misled the public despite clear knowledge that their products cause climate change. For more than 50 years , the fossil fuel industry has obstructed meaningful climate action. at UMass Amherst.

Sea Level