Climate Scientists on “Don’t Look Up:” It’s Infuriating, Soul-Sucking and On-the-Nose
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2022
UCS climate scientist reviews "Don't Look Up," an allegory for climate inaction.
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Climate scientist finds new way to measure the Earth’s ability to offset carbon emissions
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 9, 2023
Plants that currently take up a quarter to a third of humanity’s carbon emissions might not be … Continue reading Climate scientist finds new way to measure the Earth’s ability to offset carbon emissions Their study is the first to find the temperature-carbon dioxide release relationship at the landscape level.
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What Do Climate Scientists Tell Their Kids about the Future?
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Earth911 Podcast: Coastal Flooding in 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick
Earth 911
AUGUST 10, 2021
Listen to “Earth911 Interview: Coastal Flooding In 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick” on Spreaker. The post Earth911 Podcast: Coastal Flooding in 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick appeared first on Earth911.
A climate scientist on the planet’s simultaneous disasters, from Pakistan’s horror floods to Europe’s record drought
Environmental News Bits
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Pakistan’s climate chief has said one-third … Continue reading A climate scientist on the planet’s simultaneous disasters, from Pakistan’s horror floods to Europe’s record drought.
The Rate of Global Warming During Next 25 Years Could Be Double What it Was In The Previous 50, a Renowned Climate Scientist Warns
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen urged Congress decades ago to act on climate change. Now he says he expects reduced aerosol pollution to lead to a steep temperature rise.
Using Science for Equitable Policies: A framework for climate scientists
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 23, 2021
Climate science is having its moment. With the recent administration changes, climate change is getting attention at the national level through much-needed bold and ambitious federal policy developments. “We
Climate scientists reconsider the meaning and implications of drought in light of a changing world
Environmental News Bits
APRIL 20, 2022
But rather than add … Continue reading Climate scientists reconsider the meaning and implications of drought in light of a changing world. The colors illustrate the unprecedented drought blighting the region. In some areas, conditions have blown past severe and extreme drought into exceptional drought.
A Climate Scientist Watches a Movie about Apocalypse
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2022
Reflections on the film, "Don't Look Up.".
No, There’s No Scientific Conspiracy About Climate Change
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Among the host of conspiracy theories out there, a perennial one depicts climate science as a global hoax perpetuated by scientists. There are thousands of climate scientists around the world, which is an awful lot of people for a secret conspiracy.
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FSU climate scientists receive Department of Energy funding to study greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
But as peatlands are lost to overextraction and affected by a warmer climate, the impact on these natural carbon scrubbers remains … Continue reading FSU climate scientists receive Department of Energy funding to study greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands
Supercomputer Will Help Decide whether to Block the Sun
Scientific American
JULY 7, 2023
A new supercomputer is helping climate scientists determine whether injecting human-made, sun-blocking aerosols into the stratosphere would also alter thunderstorms and rainfall
A science-based move to climate change adaptation
Real Climate
OCTOBER 27, 2021
However, I would argue that the climate research community has not had a visible presence during any of these meetings. Climate scientists can help policy-makers by explaining the risks and opportunities. It’s also important to use the best information in the right way, and climate scientists can help with that.
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Confronting the Climate Crisis with Scientist Activism: the Essential Role of Rule Breakers
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 19, 2023
When scientists do engage in activism, they should expect resistance, but they may also face disproportionate repercussions–a chilling reality that must also change or we risk sidelining this important group of latent activists. One recent example in the news is front of mind for many climate scientists. It’s understandable.
The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
Real Climate
AUGUST 9, 2021
Climate scientists are inordinately excited by the release of a new IPCC report (truth be told, that’s a bit odd – It’s a bit like bringing your end-of-(seven)-year project home and waiting anxiously to see how well it will be received).
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More Heat This Weekend–More Inequities of Keeping Cool
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 13, 2021
As more high temperatures are forecast in the next few days, two of our climate scientists explain how people of color in four cities--Fresno, CA, Miami, FL, Mobile, AL, and Shreveport, LA--are at risk from the effects of urban heat islands.
James Hansen Warns of a Short-Term Climate Shock Bringing 2 Degrees of Warming by 2050
Inside Climate News
MAY 26, 2023
The famed researcher publicly released a preliminary version of a paper-in-progress with grim predictions of short- and long-term warming, but not all climate scientists agree with its conclusions.
Stroud Water Research Center Honors Dr. Michael E. Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, At The Water's Edge Gala On Nov. 3
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, With 2022 Stroud Award For Freshwater Excellence -- Northeast PA Environmental Partners Announce Award Recipients, Recognition Dinner Nov. Related Articles: -- Stroud Water Research Center Honors Dr. Michael E.
A Climate Scientist Is Evaluating the U.S.'s Spy Programs
Scientific American
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
President Joe Biden named an expert on paleoclimatology to a White House intelligence panel
Egypt's Climate Scientists Hope for 'Actions, Not Just Words' at COP27
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Four Egyptian researchers spoke about how they’re contributing to the fight against climate change as their country hosts the COP27 global climate summit.
For Online Disinformation and Hate, X Marks the Spot
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
But a year later, according to one study , climate scientists and advocates are abandoning the platform, with nearly half of those who posted most on related topics becoming inactive after the final takeover.
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Scientists dig into wildfire predictions, long-term impacts
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 29, 2023
Wildfires are an ancient force shaping the environment, but they have grown in frequency, range and intensity in response to a changing climate. Scientists are working on several fronts to better understand and predict these events and what they mean for the carbon cycle and biodiversity.
Global Warming Could Drive Pulses of Ice Sheet Retreat Reaching 2,000 Feet Per Day
Inside Climate News
APRIL 5, 2023
New research of seafloor formations near Norway includes findings that keep climate scientists awake at night.
Top Climate Scientists Are Skeptical That Nations Will Rein in Global Warming
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
A Nature survey reveals that many authors of the latest IPCC climate science report are anxious about the future and expect to see catastrophic changes in their lifetime. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
Federal Water Tap, January 30: Valuing Nature: White House Publishes Natural Capital Accounting Strategy
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 30, 2023
A climate scientist is appointed to a White House intelligence advisory board. The Rundown The White House publishes a strategy for incorporating natural assets into economic accounts. EPA watchdog says the agency should better track municipal efforts to control sewer overflows.
HotSpots H2O: Ongoing Madagascar Famine Is Driven By Poverty, Not Climate Change
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Friederike Otto, one of the study’s co-authors, said that the ongoing famine highlights the risks faced by vulnerable nations, even without climate breakdown. And so [climate change] will only make things more difficult for these regions in the world.”. “We are not even adapted to the present day.
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We need to test solar geoengineering techniques soon, say researchers
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Solar geoengineering has met opposition, but dozens of climate scientists say in an open letter that more research is needed soon to understand the effectiveness of techniques to counter the planet’s warming
This Winter’s Rain and Snow Won’t be Enough to Pull the West Out of Drought
Inside Climate News
JANUARY 21, 2023
Climate scientists, though, say the 40 million people who use the river’s water should take the good news with a grain of salt. An “atmospheric river” has pummeled California with weeks of heavy rain, and the Rocky Mountains are getting buried with snow.
How comedy could help save the planet
New Scientist
APRIL 5, 2023
Climate scientists are being paired with top comedians in a new initiative aiming to drive home the message about the climate crisis. Here's why it just might work, says Bill McGuire (with help from Kiri Pritchard-McLean)
Scientists Say It’s ‘Fatally Foolish’ To Not Study Catastrophic Climate Outcomes
Inside Climate News
AUGUST 1, 2022
A new paper discusses ‘climate end games’ as the planet approaches environmental tipping points that could exacerbate other global crises like pandemics and war.
An International Institute Will Help Us Manage Climate Change
Scientific American
DECEMBER 9, 2021
A collaborative center will help climate scientists build better models for prevention and mitigation. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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“Don’t Look Up”
Real Climate
JANUARY 1, 2022
The film producers are making the climate change connections explicit, directing viewers to a climate platform to promote activism on the issue (though it’s mostly focused on individual actions as opposed to tackling more systematic problems). Listen to the scientists!” ?? ayanaeliza) December 27, 2021.
Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends.
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Four Reasons We Investigated the Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires: an Inside View of Latest UCS Report
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 15, 2023
1 – People and places are struggling with wildfire As a climate scientist living in California and witnessing the consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, my personal and professional lives often overlap. Last summer, my family and I went on a long, winding road trip through California and Oregon.
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Judge Scales Back Climate Scientist’s Case Against Bloggers
Inside Climate News
JULY 27, 2021
judge has ruled that the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute cannot be held responsible for an outside blogger’s 2012 online attack on a prominent climate scientist. By Marianne Lavelle A Washington, D.C.
New Climate Research From a Year-Long Arctic Expedition Raises an Ozone Alarm in the High North
Inside Climate News
JUNE 23, 2021
Warming of the surface of the Arctic is matched by a colder polar vortex high in the atmosphere, which is speeding the breakdown of the Earth’s shield against ultraviolet rays.
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Europe swelters as extreme heatwaves arrive unusually early this year
New Scientist
JUNE 21, 2022
Naming heatwaves, taking climate change adaptation seriously and cutting carbon emissions would help people cope with rising temperatures, says climate scientist Hannah Cloke
Stroud Water Research Center Honors Michael E. Mann, Ph.D., Leading Climate Scientist And Author
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
one of the world’s leading voices on climate change on November 3. The Stroud Water Research Center bestowed the 2022 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence to Michael E. Mann, Ph.D., The award was presented at the 20th annual The Water’s Edge gala at the Delaware Museum of Nature & Science.
Leading climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe: ‘You have the ability to use your voice’
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 3, 2021
Hayhoe says people can use their roles in their workplaces and communities to act on the climate crisis. Read the full story in The Guardian. Read more →
Should your new year's resolution be to cut your carbon footprint?
New Scientist
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Cutting your personal carbon footprint can help, but it is important to engage with others and encourage wider efforts to tackle climate change, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe Are you thinking about going green in 2022?
Drier Springs Bring Hotter Summers in the Withering Southwest
Inside Climate News
JULY 2, 2021
Like other climate scientists, he knew from research papers and worldwide storm patterns that a warming atmosphere is thirstier and sops up more moisture from oceans and the land. New research reveals a positive feedback loop with negative consequences linked to lower springtime humidity across an already parched landscape.
The Energy Department Hails a Breakthrough in Fusion Energy, Achieving a Net Energy Gain With Livermore’s Vast Laser Array
Inside Climate News
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Climate scientists, meanwhile, expressed interest but said the breakthrough must not deter the world’s ongoing quest to counter global warming. government scientists last week were able to ignite fusion with a net energy gain—a long-sought milestone in the quest for a carbon-free energy future.
HotSpots H2O: As Floods Subside, Pakistan’s Economy Is on a Knife-Edge
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
“Pakistan, which is already facing political and economic turmoil, has been thrown into the front line of the human-induced climate crisis,” a U.N. Climate scientists forecast with medium confidence that continued atmospheric warming will cause more erratic and powerful monsoons in South Asia. statement read earlier this week.
Black Figures in Environmental History
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Last year, I posted about the contributions made by Black climate scientists. Yesterday was the start of Black History Month. This year, I want to go back earlier in history to highlight the environmental contributions of three Black figures in much earlier times.
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