Winter 2021-22 Climate Corner Ocean Warming and Glacial Retreat To Raise Coastal US Sea Level 1 Foot By 2050 The U.S. coastline sea level is projected to rise in the next 30 years (2020 – 2050) more than in the last 100 years. Photo of flooding in Norfolk, VA in 2014. JUST IN:…
The October 31 to November 12 Glasgow, Scotland 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) received much more media coverage than an August report that provided up-to date-facts needed for the diplomats who met in Glasgow. In August, 234 scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their 6thAssessment Report. A contribution…
Fire, Ice, and Rain The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), also called the UN Climate Change Report, was released on August 9, 2021. It’s over 1000 pages long and was prepared by a working group with 234 authors from 66 countries plus 517 contributing authors. It was cleverly summarized above…
(Charlie Riedel /Associated Press) LA Dept. Water and Power Pine Tree Wind and Solar Farm Tehachapi Mt. Calif. (Irfan Khan / LA Times) Electricity costs for solar and wind have dropped by 80 and 49% respectively, since 2009. Earth Day 2021 call: California, fight climate change faster – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) Greener Energy…
Scientists from US Coast Guard Cutter Healy on NASA ICESCAPE Mission, July 2011: NASA/Katyryn Hansen. German Icebreaker Polarstern deliberately frozen in Arctic Ocean during 2019- 2020 MOSAIC scientific expedition. The facts and consequences of global climate crises are awesome, depressing, and frightening in human and planetary terms. Climate Corner reviews timely climate science and news…
The San Diego Veterans For Peace Armistice/Veterans Day ceremony was conducted with a small crew of SDVFP members and supporters plus a Blue Star family singer who performed “In Flanders Fields” as our closer. Masks were worn except when speaking and social distancing was observed throughout. Jim Brown welcomed all with a short discussion of how…