Tag: global warming

The sea off the north coast of Greenland is usually so frozen that is is considered as the 'last ice area'. An area that would not be affected by global warming. However, this ice has started to break up; this happened twice this year, while it has never happened before.

According to the 28th annual State of the Climate report, 2017 was the third warmest year on record for the globe, behind 2016 and 2015. The planet also experienced record-high greenhouse gas concentrations as well as rises in sea level, while Arctic maximum sea ice coverage fell to a record low. 

The American Meteorological Society published its "State of the Climate in 2017", reporting that the sea level last year was the highest annual average since 1993. The sea level has increased for the sixth consecutive year. As for the Arctic, sea ice extent continued to see low levels.

The Great Barrier Reef could be hit with repeat coral bleaching events every two years by 2034 under current greenhouse gas pollution rates, according to a new report by Climate Council, revealing that accelerating climate change has driven a 54% increase in the number of marine heatwave days each year.

Persistent warm temperatures around the world last month made for the 5th warmest June ever and the first half of the year the 4th warmest for the planet, according to NOAA’s monthly analysis. The average global temperature in June was 1.35 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 59.9 degrees.

Future global warming may eventually be twice as warm as projected by climate models, while sea levels may rise six metres or more, even if the world meets the 2°C target, according to a new international research from 17 countries published last week in Nature Geoscience.

The GHG footprint of LNG is worse than this of the current conventional fuels, argues Mr. Panos Zachariadis, Technical Director of Atlantic Bulk Carriers Management. With this respect, LNG should be viewed only as a SOx and NOx compliant fuel and those that invest in it 'should proceed on these grounds', he notes.

An international study lead by the Technical University of Denmark finds that the bedrock below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is rising surprisingly fast which reveals an very fluid Earth Mantle. The unexpectedly fast rate of the rising earth may increase the stability of the ice sheet against catastrophic collapse due to ice loss.

New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and collaborators discovered that most marine life in marine protected areas will not be able to handle warming ocean temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Marine protected areas aim to protect threatened marine life from the effects of fishing and other activities

The very active North Atlantic hurricane season, major monsoon floods in the Indian subcontinent, as well as the continuing severe drought in parts of east Africa contributed to 2017 being the most expensive year on record for severe weather and climate events, according to the WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2017.