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Nor'easters slamming New England are growing more powerful

New Scientist

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.

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What Scientists on Greenland’s Ice Sheet Are Learning about Our Changing Climate

Scientific American

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. Jeffery DelViscio/ Scientific American Feltman: Wow, yes, that does sound very complicated [laughs] but also very cool. Did the team end up actually getting what they were after?

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What’s Up With Water – April 16, 2018

Circle of Blue

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. East Coast to the North Atlantic, where it cools, sinks and then moves south.

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Dear Climate Movement: They’ve Come for Our Climate Science. We Have to Stop Them.

Union of Concerned Scientists

The planned cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to news reports , are not the equivalent of trimming but of sawing a whole tree down to the ground. This NOAA graph shows observed sea level from 2000-2018, with future sea level through 2100 for six future pathways.

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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

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

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

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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). Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces.