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.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

These scenarios are used in climate models to simulate various outcomes based on emissions trajectories, helping researchers assess climate system responses to different forcings. One of the primary applications of IPCC scenarios is in global climate modeling. Studies show that high-emission scenarios like SSP5-8.5

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

In videos and Congressional testimony , Wright portrays himself as a truth teller, while falsely claiming that climate scientists and renewable energy advocates are deceptive. Advances in attribution science also show that climate change is contributing to worsening some types of extreme weather.

Fossil Fuels

New Scientist

JULY 29, 2025

Sign up More from New Scientist Explore the latest news, articles and features Environment We are undergoing unprecedented loss of freshwater across the planet News Environment Record marine heatwaves may signal a permanent shift in the oceans News Environment Why we urgently need to talk about geoengineering Leader Environment Climate scientists urge (..)

Deforestation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 10, 2025

AAS: How did you come to be a climate scientist? AAS: How have weather and climate scientists stepped up in fighting cuts to federal agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and others? AAS: Tell us about your role in organizing the epic 100-hour weather and climate livestream.

Climate Scientist

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

1) People are feeling the impacts of climate change and footing the bill The impending arrival of Danger Season is a stark reminder that climate change impacts are already devastating communities worldwide, intensifying many kinds of extreme weather events, driving sea level rise, and harming human health.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Each storm made history in its own right: Beryl was the earliest Category 5 storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, Helene broke rainfall records in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and destroyed tens of mountain communities, and Milton was the second fastest intensifying storm since 1979.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Extreme climate-related disastersincluding heatwaves, storms, droughts, wildfires and floodingare worsening, taking a fearsome toll on people, the economy and ecosystems. Accelerating sea level rise, ocean acidification and loss of major ice sheets also continue apace, with profound consequences for the planet.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

With ocean surface temperatures more than 2 degrees Celsius above normal in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, Helene was able to rapidly intensify to a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall in Florida. As my colleague Dr. Marc Alessi noted last year: Helene was an example of what hurricanes will look more like in the future.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

Law

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

Subscribe Top Posts & Pages Using the pollution load index to evaluate rooftop harvested rainwater metal(loid) contamination in environmental justice communities If Energy Star goes away, finding energy efficient appliances will be harder. Here are some tips Can solar and geothermal energy help a church and its neighbors wean off fossil fuels?

Recycling

Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate. It’s also urgent because the oceans act like a flywheel, making sure that cuts in emission of greenhouse gases will have a lagged effect on global warming. Climate scientists can help policy-makers by explaining the risks and opportunities.

Climate Change

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

Atmosphere

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday. The 1,300-page paper is the most comprehensive, up-to-date report yet on the physical science of climate change, synthesizing the findings of thousands of recent publications.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

APRIL 5, 2023

New research of seafloor formations near Norway includes findings that keep climate scientists awake at night.

Climate Scientist

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. By Judy Fahys A question has bothered climatologist Park Williams during the decade he’s been probing drought in the Southwest.

Climate Scientist

Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

More and more climate scientists are supporting experiments to cool Earth by altering the stratosphere or the ocean

Climate Scientist

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The SWOT mission, as its called, will measure weekly changes in the world’s major rivers, lakes, wetlands, and oceans. For oceans, the satellite will track small-scale currents and eddies that transport nutrients, salt, and heat. Scientists have identified 468 of these transboundary groundwater basins.

2022

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. 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!) Figure SPM 8.

Sea Level

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet. As climate scientists predict, more rain is hitting Chicago in the form of intense storms. Now, though, climate is changing rivers, lakes and oceans, forcing a renegotiation of our relationships to those bodies of water.

Climate Change

Earthava

JULY 16, 2024

As of 2024, there are over five trillion pieces of plastic garbage in the world’s oceans. Climate scientists, environmentalists, conservationists, and marine biologists all agree: that something has to be done, quickly. The post Benefits of Using Compostable Packaging for a Greener Future appeared first on Earthava.

Climate Scientist

Inside Climate News

AUGUST 8, 2024

By Amy Green, Lisa Sorg Tropical Storm Debby, a plodding, waterlogged system that has already saturated four southeastern states, bears many characteristics of a warming planet, climate scientists say. It’s reminiscent of other catastrophic tropical cyclones that have battered the United States over the past eight years.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

Climate-related extremes are occurring with increased frequency, intensity and duration. This is true for a wide variety of impacts, including heat extremes on land and in the ocean, floods, regional drought, and wildfire. Climate-related extremes already threaten public health and the environment.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2024

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are responsible for weather forecasts and severe storm warnings, information we likely take for granted. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe asserts that talking about climate change is the most important thing we can do.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Through greenwashing ads, disinformation campaigns, attacks on scientists, and production of fake scientific evidence, the industry has engaged the playbook of deception to undermine climate action.

Sea Level

Physics World

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As the material breaks down over time, it releases vast quantities of microscopic particles – which due to their small size and low density, can be transported across the globe by winds and ocean currents.

Atmosphere

Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.

Ocean

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The 24-month study process begins with the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, a team of scientists operating within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But it cannot predict the future. Click To Tweet. Here’s how that works. Their task is to assess what the rivers might do.

2015

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 21, 2021

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.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

The El Niño–Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ) is one of the most significant, but variable, climate patterns in the world. This tropical Pacific Ocean phenomenon affects weather in South America, Australia, Asia, and beyond. Researchers are also studying how ENSO will be affected by climate change.

Climate Change

Physics World

APRIL 26, 2022

The discovery by Ladislav Skrbek at Charles University and colleagues could help climate scientists to better understand the flow of heat through Earth’s atmosphere, and may also lead to better designs of heat exchangers.

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Sharma is also a faculty member in the Department of Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and holds a joint appointment as a climate scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.

Atmosphere

A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

For climate scientists, the war in Ukraine came at the worst possible time as the media attention they would have hoped for surrounding the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was urgently diverted to the breaking news story of Russia invading Ukraine. By Anders Lorenzen.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 18, 2021

Maybe only when Texas freezes over, or the ocean is on fire, or heat waves cook marine life, or wildfires and floods around the world occur will they listen”- and still, nothing.We Amplify voices of local activists and climate scientists.

Climate Change

Breezometer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A senior hurricane researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , Eric Blake has studied atmospheric changes for two decades, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and Colorado State University, respectively. Eric Blake.

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