Washington Post: “A powerful winter cyclone — the same storm that lead to two tornado outbreaks in the United States and disastrous river flooding — has driven the North Pole to the freezing point this week, 50 degrees above average for this time of year. From Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning, a mind-boggling pressure drop was recorded… Continue Reading
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Paper – 58 million trees in California may be victims of drought
Newsweek: “The past four years of punishing drought have badly hurt California’s forests. Rain was scarce, the days were too hot, and this year’s wildfire season was the worst anyone has seen in years, burning up nearly 10 million acres across the West. For the first time, a team of researchers has measured the severity of… Continue Reading
Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress
Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress. Ronald O’Rourke, Coordinator Specialist in Naval Affairs. December 21, 2015. “The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about, the region’s future. The United States, by virtue of Alaska, is an Arctic… Continue Reading
Witnessing Climate Change Everywhere
MIT Technology Review – Witnessing Climate Change Everywhere – “On an Instagram account called everydayclimatechange, the photographer James Whitlow Delano curates pictures that document causes and effects of global warming and responses to it.” Continue Reading
Pew – 15 striking findings from 2015
“Every year, we look back at our research to select the most memorable facts that illustrate important trends shaping our world. At Pew Research Center, the topics we analyze range from the specific subjects of video gaming and family caregivers to broader areas like political attitudes, global climate change and religious affiliation.” Continue Reading
NOAA Releases Arctic Report Card 2015
“On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 NOAA [released] the latest scientific observations of the Arctic environment at a press conference hosted by the American Geophysical Union at its Annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The Arctic is on the front lines of global climate change, warming more than twice as fast as lower latitudes. Now in its… Continue Reading
Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Rising Seas 2015
Union of Concerned Scientists: “Sea levels are rising as global warming heats up the planet. The risks of tidal flooding and storm surge have grown significantly. In the U.S., sea levels are rising fastest along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico. The growing consequences of climate change threaten communities up and down the U.S.… Continue Reading
UN Adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Conference of the Parties Twenty-first session Paris, 30 November to 11 December 2015.FCCC/CP/2015/L.9/Rev.1. 12 December 2015. “Welcoming the adoption of United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in particular its goal 13, and the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the third International Conference on… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Aviation Finance, Climate Information, Medicaid Financing
Aviation Finance: Observations on the Effects of Budget Uncertainty on FAA, GAO-16-198R: Published: Nov 19, 2015. Publicly Released: Dec 8, 2015. Climate Information: A National System Could Help Federal, State, Local, and Private Sector Decision Makers Use Climate Information, GAO-16-37: Published: Nov 23, 2015. Publicly Released: Dec 8, 2015. Medicaid Financing: Questionnaire Data on States’… Continue Reading
Mainstreaming Climate Action within Financial Institutions
The World Bank: “An unprecedented number of the world’s leading financial institutions from across the globe have joined the World Bank Group and other multilateral development banks in signing onto new principles to integrate climate change into their financing and operations. All together 26 financial institutions from developing and developed countries with combined balance sheets… Continue Reading
The Global Carbon Atlas
“The Global Carbon Atlas is a platform to explore and visualize the most up-to-date data on carbon fluxes resulting from human activities and natural processes. Human impacts on the carbon cycle are the most important cause of climate change. The graphics and data sources are made available in the belief that their wide dissemination will… Continue Reading
The first worldwide air map
“As the UN Summit on Climate Change ramps up in Paris, Plume Labs, a maker of environmental software for health and well being, announced today the launch of its World Air Map, a live map of air pollution around the world. The data revolution can help policymakers cut air pollution and communities take back control… Continue Reading
