Global warming keeps on keeping on

A new paper finds no statistical evidence that global warming slowed down in recent years or that it’s sped up just yet
What this analysis shows us is that the Earth continues to warm apace. Furthermore, we shouldn’t get excited about any given year that is cold or warm, or think it’s showing that global warming is slowing down or speeding up. Rather, this paper reminds us that long-term trends are what matters. And the long-term trends are speaking loudly. This latest study is just another nail in the coffin of the lie that global warming ended.


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If you are interested to read the paper, find it here

Cricket and Global Warming - What's the connection?

Cricket is one sport which is heavily dependent on weather. Once it starts raining, the game has to be suspended right away and the pitch needs to be covered for the game to resume, once the rain stops and weather clears. People who follow the game can recall countless matches which has been interrupted due to rain and then resumed with a different targets, often changing the results. Many times, the game doesn't even resume because the conditions are not conducive to bring it to a logical end.


With the kind of money riding on this sport, it is kind of surprising that climate change is hardly on the agenda in international board meetings of global administrators.


Read this article for a good account of this topic


http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/04/19/rain-stopped-play-cricket-ignores-climate-threat/

The Point of No Return?

I was reading this article which is a little old (publised in Aug 2015) but the facts are nevertheless scary and relevant.


It starts with recounting some of the recent (again, reference 2015) events and how it points to a point of no return.

• In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,000 people
• In Washington state's Olympic National Park, the rainforest caught fire for the first time in living memory
• London reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit during the hottest July day ever recorded in the U.K.; The Guardian briefly had to pause its live blog of the heat wave because its computer servers overheated
• In California, suffering from its worst drought in a millennium, a 50-acre brush fire swelled seventyfold in a matter of hours, jumping across the I-15 freeway during rush-hour traffic. Then, a few days later, the region was pounded by intense, virtually unheard-of summer rains.
• Puerto Rico is under its strictest water rationing in history as a monster El Niño forms in the tropical Pacific Ocean, shifting weather patterns worldwide.

The article then develops facts and figures to establish that the worst predicted impacts of climate change are starting to happen - and much faster than climate scientists expected.


Read the rest of the article here

G7 fails to support Paris climate accord

The US delegation is reviewing their position and that has caused the G7 minister to stall their agreement. Now, a year ago, all the energy ministers issued strong statement in the support of the accord.


US president Donald Trump has expressed a desire to withdraw from the Paris agreement and early exchanges on climate between Trump administration officials and other leaders are being watched carefully.


Souce : http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/04/10/g7-fails-agree-paris-climate-statement-us-turns-spoiler/

NASA Reveals New Discoveries on Oceans Beyond Earth During Science Briefing

Understanding Earth's climate

Jim Schultz from NASA's Langley Research Center has written a nice article explaining earth's climate. Check it out here


Langley has been working for nearly 50 years to understand the complex systems driving changes to Earth's atmosphere and the environment that it sustains, devising better ways to measure and monitor those changes so that the resultant data can be translated into meaningful knowledge.

Money and Carbon Emissions

Across the U.S., state-level carbon emissions are higher in states where income is more highly concentrated among the wealthiest residents, according to a new study by two Boston College researchers.

 

See the full article here

 

Some highlights from the article:

• A one percent increase in the income share of the top 10 percent of a state's population results in tons of additional carbon emissions 
• Spending power drives carbon-intensive consumerism. But so do the political clout and economic power of the wealthiest individuals, according to Jorgenson and Schor, whose analysis with co-author and BC graduate student Xiaorui Huang employed established economic models that assess the political and economic influence of individual wealth on society.

 

Featured Articles from NASA

Throughout its long history, Earth has warmed and cooled time and again. Climate has changed when the planet received more or less sunlight due to subtle shifts in its orbit, as the atmosphere or surface changed, or when the Sun’s energy varied. But in the past century, another force has started to influence Earth’s climate: humanity.


Catch some of the featured article at the link below:


https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/

Human Activities Vs Vocano

Some people argue that what's the point in spending so much money on climate control when all the volcanic ashes spurted out by the volcanoes every year will emit enough carbon dioxide to cancel the effect of whatever I do.


Here are some facts:


Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes each year. Large, violent eruptions may match the rate of human emissions for the few hours that they last, but they are too rare and fleeting to rival humanity’s annual emissions. In fact, several individual U.S. states emit more carbon dioxide in a year than all the volcanoes on the planet combined do.

Read more here:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities