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Sea Level Rise: The Past As An Indicator Of The Future

Energy Innovation

New research focused on the mechanisms and rates of how snow and ice is lost to the ocean from the land, along with studies of past climates offer new insights into how much sea level may change in the coming years. Both approaches utilize computer models to further explore the relationship between sea level and climate.

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How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

Planet Pulse

We can see wildfires burning greater areas, heatwaves becoming more frequent and more deadly, hurricanes stronger and more damaging, the sea level rising, floods increasing, droughts getting stronger. The impacts are already here. So if that’s the case, why aren’t we acting?”.

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Students find obscure law that could make university fossil fuel investments illegal

Grist

They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise.

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference. Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” Credit: Province of BC / Flickr CC Peterson Academy did not respond to DeSmog’s request for comment.

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2019 is Another Data Point in the Constellation of Hot Data

Green Market Oracle

Nine of the ten warmest years have all occurred in the last decade and the five warmest years have all occurred in the past five years (NOAA's current global average yearly heat rankings: 1st: 2016, 2nd: 2015, 3rd: 2017, 4th: 2018, and 5th: 2014). In 2019 we saw heatwaves break records all around the world.

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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

“And a quarter are in zones that are highly vulnerable to sea level rise and severe storms,” she added. The organization first launched in 2014; it currently has a pop-up space in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood, while the team continues to look for a permanent home. dedicated to the climate crisis.

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Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes

Grist

All that rain is significant because the melting of the Greenland ice sheet — like the melting of other glaciers around the world — is one of the most important drivers of sea level rise. It happened again in the winters of 2013-2014 and in 2020-2021, when tens of thousands of reindeer died on Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula.