Notices tagged with climatechange, page 14

Impressive time series of global atmospheric CH4 levels for the last 1000 years.

https://www.methanelevels.org/

#ClimateChange #methane #GHG

USA, China, Russia, Australia, Canada fail to fulfill Paris Agreement goals. Leading to +5 °C warming!

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07223-9

#ClimateChange #ParisAgreement

Our op-ed on the critical Brazilian elections and the impact it can have on the Amazon and climate science in general has been published by Mongabay.com

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/amazon-and-climate-science-threatened-if-bolsonaro-elected-brazils-president-commentary/

#PleaseBoost #Amazon #Environment #ClimateChange #Bolsonaro #EleNao #Brazil

A fascist candidate might win next elections and the Amazon forest is at risk.

"This is not just a Brazilian problem. Amazonia’s huge carbon stocks in the vegetation and in the soil put this region at the center of global concerns about a “runaway greenhouse” because any substantial release of Amazonia’s carbon stocks would make it difficult to control global warming".

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/amazonia-and-the-setbacks-of-brazils-political-moment-commentary/

#ClimateChange #Brazil #Bolsonaro #EleNão

Europe is planning to build miniature CO2-monitoring satellites to determine whether nations are meeting pledges to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06963-4

#ClimateChange

The #Anthropocene magazine is Future Earth journal. You can read the story in the following article by Andrew Revkin:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/697198

I personally hesitate about the use of the 'Anthropocene' term because of two main reasons:

1- When did the Anthropocene start? Is there a stratigraphic marker we can use?
Read:
http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/26/3/article/i1052-5173-26-3-4.htm

2- 'Anthropo' means human. Are all humans to blame for this geological change?
Read: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/697198

#geology #ClimateChange

The #Anthropocene magazine is now a reality. You can read the story in the following article by Andrew Revkin:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/697198

I personally hesitate about the use of the 'Anthropocene' term because of two main reasons:

1- When did the Anthropocene start? Is there a stratigraphic marker we can use?
Read:
http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/26/3/article/i1052-5173-26-3-4.htm

2- 'Anthropo' means human. Are all humans to blame for this geological change?
Read: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/697198

#geology #ClimateChange

Esto resume bastante ben a "situación"

#climatechange #fuckingourselves #nature

vía @jaywink (na súa instancia propia) pero non sei cómo ligalo aquí.

Wet season's precipitation rate 💦 in the northern Amazon rainforest has been increasing in the last 30 years due to warming ♨️ of the Atlantic Ocean, study finds.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/sep/12/warming-oceans-are-changing-the-worlds-rainfall

#ClimateChange

El Niño is getting stronger due to #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/aug/29/global-warming-is-intensifying-el-nino-weather

via @rms

Our recent study on #BlackCarbon light absorption over central Amazonia was published today on ACP :oa:

The significant increase of black and brown carbon during El Niño 2015/6 shows how the atmosphere can be affected if warmer and drier conditions are more prevalent in the future.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12817-2018

#AirPollution #ClimateChange #BiomassBurning #AtmosphericScience #EarthSystemScience