Report Says IPCC Needs to Address Melting Permafrost
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released a report early Tuesday morning that recommended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) address the impact of warming permafrost and the large volume of methane and carbon dioxide that will be emitted from the ground if permafrost continues to melt.… Read More
Doha Talks: EU Weakened Over New Emissions Targets
The European Union will enter crucial global climate talks that begin next week with a weakened bargaining position because it has already met its targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions eight years ahead of time and has no plans to put more ambitious cuts on the table.… Read More
Ben Strauss on Rising Seas & the Fate of New York on PBS
As NYC residents rebound from Hurricane Sandy, many anticipate future disasters and how the city will cope with rising seas.… Read More
32-Foot-Plus Waves From Hurricane Sandy Topple Records
After reviewing wave height data, the National Weather Service office in Philadelphia has determined that the significant wave heights recorded at two buoys, one of which was near the entrance to New York Harbor, set records for the largest waves seen in this region since such records began in 1975.… Read More
Rising Sea Level May Trigger Groundwater Floods
In a report released Sunday in Nature Climate Change, Kolja Rotzoll and Charles Fletcher predict that in some areas, freshwater bubbling up from underground could more than double the flooding caused by intruding seas alone. “If the underground water table is already close to the surface, it’s going to come out, Rotzoll said.… Read More
U.S. Military Warned to Prepare for Climate Change
An expert report, prepared for the intelligence community by the National Academy of Sciences, warns that the security establishment is going to have start planning for natural disasters, sea-level rise, drought,epidemics and the other consequences of climate change. … Read More
Aerial Pictures Show Hurricane Sandy’s Destruction
"Sandy taught us yet again that not all Cat-1 hurricanes are created equal: the superstorm's enormous fetch over the Atlantic produced storm surge and wave erosion of historic proportions," said USGS Director Marcia McNutt. "We have seized this opportunity to gather unique data on a major coastline-altering event." … Read More
Lack of Hurricane Warnings May Help Homeowners
Michael Barry of the Insurance Information Institute told Climate Central that Hurricane Sandy will likely force state insurance regulators and insurance companies to think about how to price the impacts of future high impact post-tropical storms like Sandy, even as meteorologists argue about the last one.… Read More
