Data Munching | We can't turn a blind eye to climate change when sea surface temperatures rise
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Data Munching | We can't turn a blind eye to climate change when sea surface temperatures rise

Hindustan Times  

Much has been written about how 2023 was the warmest year in the world in recorded history. On January 11, data from Copernicus Climate Change Service of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts confirmed that 2023 was the warmest ever year on record and by a massive margin. Sea surface temperatures — the temperature of the ocean’s surface layer — across the world averaged at around 20.89°C over 2023. By itself, this number may not describe much, but what stands out is that this was a deviation of 0.69°C over what the world saw between 1982 and 2011 — the long period average of 20.20°C as calculated by the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyser, which compiles global sea surface temperature data, as observed by the NOAA Optimum Interpolation SST V2. Thus sea surface temperatures have a cascading effect — but that's what a crisis looks like, not a single catastrophe, but a series of very unfortunate events.

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What climate records were broken in 2024?
2 weeks, 1 day ago

What climate records were broken in 2024?

Al Jazeera  

This year, 2024, is set to become the hottest on record, surpassing the previous high in 2023, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The agreement aimed to have countries work towards reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, with a goal of limiting the global average surface temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels and striving to keep it …

Dwindling Antarctic sea ice driving more storms, study warns
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Dwindling Antarctic sea ice driving more storms, study warns

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Dwindling Antarctic sea ice is driving more storms in the Southern Ocean, a new study …

The climate future: We're entering a world of falling GDP and overheated seas
4 weeks, 1 day ago

The climate future: We're entering a world of falling GDP and overheated seas

Live Mint  

Sitting down to write this newsletter, I was thinking about a way to introduce it that would chime in with the fact that we are in December. According to the November data of the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the average global surface temperature was 1.62 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels. View Full Image In May, a working …

World is on track for a ‘catastrophic’ rise in temperature, UN report says
2 months, 1 week ago

World is on track for a ‘catastrophic’ rise in temperature, UN report says

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The world is on track for a “catastrophic” 3.1 degrees Celsius of global warming over …

Damning climate change report reveals how records were smashed for greenhouse gas concentrations, global temperatures and sea level rise last year - as experts warn '2023 will linger long in the memor
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Damning climate change report reveals how records were smashed for greenhouse gas concentrations, global temperatures and sea level rise last year - as experts warn '2023 will linger long in the memor

Daily Mail  

A damning climate change report has confirmed that 2023 was a year of new climate records. The report, titled State of the Climate, shows that greenhouse gas concentrations were the highest on record last year, with carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reaching their highest measured atmospheric levels. It highlights six key climate change records that were smashed in …

The oceans are weirdly hot. Scientists are trying to figure out why
4 months, 4 weeks ago

The oceans are weirdly hot. Scientists are trying to figure out why

NPR  

The oceans are weirdly hot. “This could be contributing to the warm temperatures we’ve seen in the last couple years,” says Andrew Gettelman, a climate scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and one of the authors of the forthcoming study. Recent research suggests that the answer is “No.” “I was very skeptical of the warming effect,” says Dessler, who is …

Earth’s ‘greatest natural wonder’ faces existential threat from hottest ocean temperatures in 400 years
5 months ago

Earth’s ‘greatest natural wonder’ faces existential threat from hottest ocean temperatures in 400 years

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Great Barrier Reef, the largest living ecosystem on Earth, is facing an existential threat, …

A look at the fight against global warming
7 months, 2 weeks ago

A look at the fight against global warming

Hindustan Times  

Heatwaves pose a recurring challenge to lives across the globe, as the climate crisis intensifies and there are frequent and myriad disruptions to the global atmospheric circulation system. There is global consensus about the fact that the climate crisis is caused by human activity; and to address the challenge, countries across the globe adopted the Paris Climate Agreement at COP21 …

Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat
8 months ago

Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat

BBC  

Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat Getty Images Excessive phytoplankton growth can choke the sea surface with a jelly-like layer of slime known as "sea snot" as ocean temperatures increase Record ocean temperatures suggest the seas are warming faster than expected, and the impacts will be felt from polar ice shelves to coastal cities across …

How climate change could be driving ‘killer’ cold outbreaks in oceans
8 months, 3 weeks ago

How climate change could be driving ‘killer’ cold outbreaks in oceans

CNN  

CNN — It’s not just ocean heat that’s affecting marine life – new research shows extremely cold events are welling up and causing mass mortalities. But even as ocean temperatures climb, extremely cold upwelling events — when strong winds and ocean currents bring pockets of cold water up to the surface, replacing the warm water that was there — are …

The accelerating chaos of the climate crisis
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The accelerating chaos of the climate crisis

Live Mint  

The World Meteorological Organization’s annual State Of The Global Climate reports serve as an important snapshot of the different indicators for a warming world. During the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world’s nations had agreed to work together to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. According to the report, in 2023, the global average temperature was …

Study says 2023’s crazy Atlantic ocean heat, low Antarctic sea ice give glimpse of much hotter world
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Study says 2023’s crazy Atlantic ocean heat, low Antarctic sea ice give glimpse of much hotter world

Associated Press  

Off the charts “crazy” heat in the North Atlantic ocean and record-smashing Antarctic sea ice lows last year are far more severe than what Earth’s supposed to get with current warming levels. A study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society charted the North Atlantic sea temperature and the Antarctic sea ice halfway across the globe against long-accepted computer …

Study says 2023's crazy Atlantic ocean heat, low Antarctic sea ice give glimpse of much hotter world
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Study says 2023's crazy Atlantic ocean heat, low Antarctic sea ice give glimpse of much hotter world

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Off the charts “crazy” heat …

Data Munching | The numbers don’t lie: the Earth is warming, and rapidly
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Data Munching | The numbers don’t lie: the Earth is warming, and rapidly

Hindustan Times  

Earth is running a fever, and the latest temperature readings aren’t offering much comfort. Last week, climate data released by Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, better known as C3S, presented another warning about the impending climate crisis hovering over humanity — for the first time in recorded human history, 12 consecutive months saw temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial …

Data from sea sponges suggest the world has overshot a climate limit, new study says
11 months ago

Data from sea sponges suggest the world has overshot a climate limit, new study says

CNN  

CNN — Using sponges collected off the coast of Puerto Rico in the eastern Caribbean, scientists have calculated 300 years of ocean temperatures and concluded the world has already overshot one crucial global warming limit and is speeding toward another. “The big picture is that global warming, and the urgent need for emission reductions to minimize the risk of dangerous …

2023 was officially the hottest year on RECORD - with global temperatures close to the 1.5°C limit, scientists warn
1 year ago

2023 was officially the hottest year on RECORD - with global temperatures close to the 1.5°C limit, scientists warn

Daily Mail  

Scientists are increasingly linking extreme weather events with the warming of the planet, which is being largely caused by carbon emissions from fossil fuels. Pictured, a man pulls a bag of goods salvaged from a building as he wades through floodwaters on August 5, 2023 in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province south of Beijing, China A man cools off at a temporary …

2023: The year that broke climate records
1 year, 2 months ago

2023: The year that broke climate records

Hindustan Times  

“Since June, the world has experienced unprecedented heat on land and sea. Every day from July 31 to August 31 saw global average sea surface temperatures exceed the previous record of March 2016. August, as a whole, saw the highest global monthly average sea surface temperatures on record across all months, at 20.98°C, and was well above average for August, …

Climate scientists warn nature's 'anaesthetics' have worn off, now Earth is feeling the pain as ocean heating hits record highs
1 year, 4 months ago

Climate scientists warn nature's 'anaesthetics' have worn off, now Earth is feeling the pain as ocean heating hits record highs

ABC  

Satellites, ships and buoys monitoring the Earth have captured a significant rise in global ocean temperatures since the early 1980s. Georgia Institute of Technology climate scientist Annalisa Bracco said what made this year's ocean temperatures especially "peculiar" were how widespread the heat was. Dr Bracco said it was "very plausible" these warm ocean temperatures aided extreme weather events in 2023, …

Even frozen Antarctica is being walloped by climate extremes, scientists find
1 year, 5 months ago

Even frozen Antarctica is being walloped by climate extremes, scientists find

Associated Press  

Even in Antarctica — one of the most remote and desolate places on Earth — scientists say they are finding shattered temperature records and an increase in the size and number of wacky weather events. The continent “is not a static giant frozen in time,” they said, but instead feels climate change’s wrath and extremes “sporadically and unpredictably.” Anna Hogg, …

Ocean heat record smashed amid ‘hot tub’ temperatures
1 year, 5 months ago

Ocean heat record smashed amid ‘hot tub’ temperatures

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Global ocean temperatures have reached a record high, prompting warnings of serious consequences for the …

World’s oceans set new temperature record as global warming intensifies
1 year, 5 months ago

World’s oceans set new temperature record as global warming intensifies

Al Jazeera  

The average ocean temperature has beat seasonal records since April of this year. The world’s oceans have set a new temperature record with the potential to threaten Earth’s climate, marine life and coastal communities. The temperature of the oceans’ surface hit 20.96 degrees Celsius on Friday, according to European Union climate observatory data. “While there are certainly short-term factors, the …

Ocean currents vital for distributing heat could collapse by midcentury, study says
1 year, 5 months ago

Ocean currents vital for distributing heat could collapse by midcentury, study says

Associated Press  

A system of ocean currents that transports heat northward across the North Atlantic could collapse by mid-century, according to a new study, and scientists have said before that such a collapse could cause catastrophic sea-level rise and extreme weather across the globe. “There are large uncertainties in this study, in many prior studies, and in climate impact assessment overall, and …

World hits record land, sea temperatures as climate change fuels 2023 extremes
1 year, 6 months ago

World hits record land, sea temperatures as climate change fuels 2023 extremes

India Today  

The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea. As envoys gathered in Bonn in early June to prepare for this year's annual climate talks in November, average global surface air temperatures were …

World hits record land, sea temperatures as climate change fuels 2023 extremes
1 year, 6 months ago

World hits record land, sea temperatures as climate change fuels 2023 extremes

Hindustan Times  

The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea. As envoys gathered in Bonn in early June to prepare for this year's annual climate talks in November, average global surface air temperatures were …

Marine heatwaves ‘catastrophic’ for ocean life, say scientists
1 year, 6 months ago

Marine heatwaves ‘catastrophic’ for ocean life, say scientists

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Marine heatwaves have a “catastrophic” effect on ocean ecosystems, leading to the devastation or replacement …

Global warming now more likely to breach 1.5°C threshold by 2027, scientists warn
1 year, 7 months ago

Global warming now more likely to breach 1.5°C threshold by 2027, scientists warn

The Hindu  

For the first time ever, global temperatures are now more likely than not to breach 1.5°C of warming within the next five years, the World Meteorological Organization said on May 17. With a 66% chance of temporarily reaching 1.5°C by 2027, "it's the first time in history that it's more likely than not that we will exceed 1.5°C," said Adam …

Satellite image reveals how global ocean ocean is hotter than ever
1 year, 8 months ago

Satellite image reveals how global ocean ocean is hotter than ever

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Satellite imagery released on Monday has provided visual evidence of new findings that the global …

900m at risk from rising sea levels with ‘unthinkable consequences’
1 year, 10 months ago

900m at risk from rising sea levels with ‘unthinkable consequences’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “And rising seas threaten the very existence of some low-lying communities and even countries.” Mr Guterres cited research by …

Climate Crisis: World’s oceans hit record high heat in 2022
1 year, 11 months ago

Climate Crisis: World’s oceans hit record high heat in 2022

Live Mint  

When we think of the climate crisis, the first thing we usually think of is the way that global air temperatures are rising. As has been amply demonstrated by climate science, it’s the oceans that first absorb the excess heat generated by our burning of fossil fuels like oil and coal. The paper, Another Year Of Record Heat For The …

UN weather report: Climate woes bad and getting worse faster
2 years, 2 months ago

UN weather report: Climate woes bad and getting worse faster

Associated Press  

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Earth’s warming weather and rising seas are getting worse and doing so faster than before, the World Meteorological Organization warned Sunday in a somber note as world leaders started gathering for international climate negotiations. “The latest State of the Global Climate report is a chronicle of climate chaos,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “We must …

Mother Earth needs collective climate action, now
2 years, 4 months ago

Mother Earth needs collective climate action, now

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY News has been coming thick and fast. If global warming drives temperatures above 2 degrees Celsius, the East Antarctic ice sheet could melt, pushing up sea level by many meters. The total loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet would raise the sea level by 5 meters. As for the Greenland ice sheet, which could cause a …

Mother Earth needs collective climate action, now
2 years, 4 months ago

Mother Earth needs collective climate action, now

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY News has been coming thick and fast. If global warming drives temperatures above 2 degrees Celsius, the East Antarctic ice sheet could melt, pushing up sea level by many meters. The total loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet would raise the sea level by 5 meters. As for the Greenland ice sheet, which could cause a …

Warmer Years Ahead, Warns Climate Body as Global Temperature Could Breach 1.5°C Threshold in 5 Years
2 years, 8 months ago

Warmer Years Ahead, Warns Climate Body as Global Temperature Could Breach 1.5°C Threshold in 5 Years

News 18  

As unprecedented heat conditions continue to take a massive toll on people, the World Meteorological Organization has warned that the situation might get worse as it strongly predicts at least one year between 2022 and 2026 could be the warmest surpassing the last record set in 2016. “The annual mean global near-surface temperature for each year between 2022 and 2026 …

It’s Not Too Late to Stop Mass Extinction in the Ocean
55 years ago

It’s Not Too Late to Stop Mass Extinction in the Ocean

Wired  

A quarter of a billion years ago, things were not going well on planet Earth. Back then the planet was in the middle of the worst mass extinction event ever—much worse than the one that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago. “These environmental changes are also happening in the modern ocean today,” says Penn, a research associate …

Extreme heat waves in oceans become ‘new normal’, threaten marine life, study warns
2 years, 11 months ago

Extreme heat waves in oceans become ‘new normal’, threaten marine life, study warns

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Excessively warm ocean temperatures caused by climate change are the “new normal,” according to a …

Ocean temperatures ‘relentlessly increasing’ due to climate crisis
2 years, 11 months ago

Ocean temperatures ‘relentlessly increasing’ due to climate crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The ocean heat content is relentlessly increasing, globally, and this is a primary indicator of human-induced climate change,” said …

Global warming to make extreme coastal events far more common: Study
3 years, 4 months ago

Global warming to make extreme coastal events far more common: Study

India Today  

Extreme coastal events happening every 100 years currently are expected to occur, on average, every year by the end of this century due to global warming, according to a study. The researchers predict that because of rising temperatures, extreme sea levels along coastlines globally will become 100 times more frequent by the end of the century in about half of …

Ocean currents are slowing down due to climate change
3 years, 10 months ago

Ocean currents are slowing down due to climate change

CNN  

CNN — Remember the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which a catastrophic series of global disasters strike after climate change causes the world’s ocean currents to stop? “Both surface warming and the increased water cycle, increased rainfall and the ice melt are all a consequence of global warming” across parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, he said. An increase …

Climate Change Tracker: The global ocean heated up to record levels in 2020
3 years, 11 months ago

Climate Change Tracker: The global ocean heated up to record levels in 2020

Live Mint  

In the first week of 2021, 2020 was declared the joint-warmest year ever recorded, tying with 2016 for this dubious distinction. Prepared by a team of scientists from the US, China and Italy, the report states that not only was 2020 the hottest year on record for the global ocean, but also that the five hottest years have occurred since …

Earth's Ice Sheets Track the Worst-case Climate Scenarios for Sea-level Rise in Future
4 years, 4 months ago

Earth's Ice Sheets Track the Worst-case Climate Scenarios for Sea-level Rise in Future

News 18  

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN’s worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers have said, highlighting flaws in current climate change models. “If we underestimate future sea level rise, then these measures may be inadequate and leave coastal communities vulnerable.” Ice sheet losses at the upper …

Oceans hit highest temperature on record in 2019
4 years, 11 months ago

Oceans hit highest temperature on record in 2019

Al Jazeera  

The ocean temperature last year was about 0.075 degrees Celsius above the 1981-2010 average. The world’s oceans last year reached the highest temperature ever recorded, and the rate at which they are warming is speeding up, according to a new study. The ocean temperature last year was about 0.075 degrees Celsius above the 1981-2010 average, the research published in the …

Antarctic ice melt could cause sea levels to rise 11 FEET per century
5 years, 2 months ago

Antarctic ice melt could cause sea levels to rise 11 FEET per century

Daily Mail  

Major cities could be decimated by rising sea levels, with millions displaced before the end of the century, scientists warn. Studying new data from the 'last interglacial', a period of high sea levels and low global ice levels, scientists believe they can predict the rate that the next global warming may set in. Melting of the ice caps in Antarctica …

More than two-thirds of the populations in China, India, Thailand are at risk due to rising sea levels
5 years, 2 months ago

More than two-thirds of the populations in China, India, Thailand are at risk due to rising sea levels

Firstpost  

Major storms that used to happen once a century will happen on average once a year in many places. “But when we use our new elevation data, we find far more people living in vulnerable areas that we previously understood.” With the global population set to increase two billion by 2050 and another billion by 2100 — mostly in coastal …

IPCC report paints catastrophic picture of rising sea levels, reality maybe worse
5 years, 3 months ago

IPCC report paints catastrophic picture of rising sea levels, reality maybe worse

Firstpost  

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the UN body responsible for communicating the science of climate breakdown – has released its long-awaited Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. Based on almost 7,000 peer-reviewed research articles, the report is a cutting-edge crash course in how human-caused climate breakdown is changing our ice and oceans and …

‘We’re all in big trouble': Climate panel sees a dire future
5 years, 3 months ago

‘We’re all in big trouble': Climate panel sees a dire future

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Earth is in more hot water than ever before, and so are we, an expert United Nations climate panel warned in a grim new report Wednesday. “The oceans and the icy parts of the world are in big trouble, and that means we’re all in big trouble, too,” said one of the report’s lead authors, Michael Oppenheimer, …

New IPCC report warns of dire threat to oceans
5 years, 3 months ago

New IPCC report warns of dire threat to oceans

The Hindu  

With representatives from nearly 200 countries at the United Nations Climate Summit underway in the United States, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the apex referee for scientific evidence on the impact of global warming — made public a special report on Wednesday that underlined the dire changes taking place in oceans, glaciers and ice-deposits on land and sea. …

Sea levels may rise much faster than previously predicted, swamping coastal cities such as Shanghai, study finds
5 years, 7 months ago

Sea levels may rise much faster than previously predicted, swamping coastal cities such as Shanghai, study finds

CNN  

CNN — Global sea levels could rise more than two meters by the end of this century if emissions continue unchecked, swamping major cities such as New York and Shanghai and displacing up to 187 million people, a new study warns. The study, which was released Monday, says sea levels may rise much faster than previously estimated due to the …

Global sea levels could rise far more than predicted
5 years, 7 months ago

Global sea levels could rise far more than predicted

Al Jazeera  

Researchers say two-metre sea level rise is possible if global temperatures warm by five degrees Celsius by 2100. Global sea levels could rise by two metres and displace tens of millions of people by the end of the century if greenhouse emissions remain unchecked, according to a new study. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said its 2013 Fifth …

Climate change impacts are growing warns UN report
5 years, 9 months ago

Climate change impacts are growing warns UN report

Daily Mail  

The World Meteorological Organisation says that the effects of global warming are accelerating. Record sea level rises, devastating floods, storms, heatwaves and wildfires were recorded as climate change impacts included in a new UN report, released today. Scroll down for video The world is seeing record sea level rises and devastating floods, storms, heatwaves and wildfires as climate change impacts …

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