Marine Ice Sheets Decisive in Global Warming Acceleration – Technology Networks

The intensity and rate of melt during the penultimate ice melting was much higher than previously thought, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications. According to conclusions of the study, in this climate change scenario, the instability…

Marine Ice Sheets Were Decisive In The Acceleration Of Global Warming – Eurasia Review

The intensity and rate of melt during the penultimate ice melting was much higher than previously thought, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications. According to conclusions of the study, in this climate change scenario, the instability…

OPINION | ART HOBSON: Tipping points signal the catestrophic threats of global warming – Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Mother Earth has finally awakened most of us to the reality of global warming. As epic wildfires, unprecedented flooding, record heatwaves and devastating droughts strike around the world, extreme weather dominates the news. For one example, the world’s fifth most-populous…

Africa: Climate Change Crisis Nonacceptance – AllAfrica – Top Africa News

Portland, USA — Many people around the world, especially those among the political far-right, do not accept the climate change crisis. Over the years their thinking, behavior, and policies dismissing climate change have largely continued and impaired global efforts to…

Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s’ Helps Scientists Develop Test

In Scotland there’s a woman who can smell changes in body odor corresponding to the presence or onset of Parkinson’s disease. Keeping with Scotland’s decorated history of medical discoveries, this “curse and a benefit” is now being used to develop a fast test for Parkinson’s that involves simply scraping a cotton ball over the back […]

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Every tenth of a degree counts: Scientists sound alarm as number of climate tipping elements rises

While some tipping points may have been crossed or are close to being crossed, more would be crossed as the planet warms, says study  

Comment: Facing up to crisis: Inaction on global warming is a form of Russian roulette – Times Colonist

Heat records are being broken — in some cases shattered by several degrees — around the world, including in England this summer, in northern India in March and April, and in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest during June 2021. “I…

Global warming is the strongest in 7000 years – Earth.com

Tree rings are one of the best natural archives of past growing conditions because trees are sensitive to local climate factors, such as precipitation and temperature. In warm, wet years, tree growth rings are usually wider while they are narrower…

Dangerously large Arctic sea ice extent

Arctic sea ice extent was 5.88 million km² on August 21, 2022, larger in extent than in any of the years from 2010 through 2021 at this time of year, as illustrated by the image below.  At first glance, one…

Sustained and intensified lacustrine methane cycling during Early Permian climate warming – Nature.com

Age and stratigraphic constraints Samples were collected from the Lucaogou Formation at the Jingjingzigou section along the southern margin of the Junggar Basin (Fig. 1 and Supplementary Fig. 1) for zircon U-Pb and geochemical analyses. The Lucaogou Formation can be subdivided into…