Hurricanes now get stronger Faster

Rowan researcher documents 50-year trend in hurricane escalation due to climate change

Share For decades, climate scientists have warned that greenhouse gas emissions are causing worsening and more frequent severe weather patterns, with many studies focusing on trends since the start of the Industrial Revolution. New research by Rowan University climate scientist Dr. Andra Garner indicates that there have been great […] Click here to view original … Read more

Sydney smashes 1 October heat record

Sydney smashes 1 October heat record as Victoria fights bushfires

Sydney Airport’s mercury got up to 36.9C and Penrith’s peaked at 37.3C on the city’s hottest start to October ever. Sydney has endured its hottest ever start to October on record as fire danger warnings were issued across NSW – and as two bushfires threatened campers and towns in […] Click here to view original … Read more

Climate breakdown has begun

Earth just had its hottest summer on record, U.N. says, warning "climate breakdown has begun"

“Our planet has just endured a season of simmering — the hottest summer on record. Climate breakdown has begun,” Click here to view original web page at www.cbsnews.com

Summer of 2023 hottest recorded

Summer of 2023 hottest recorded in ‘wake-up’ call to cut carbon emissions

The summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded, as the climate crisis and emerging El Niño pushed up temperatures and drove extreme weather across the world. In June, July and August – the […] Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com

Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted

Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted in ‘deeply concerning’ sign for sea levels

In West Antarctica, a region considered particularly vulnerable to warming with an ice sheet that could push up global sea levels by several metres if it collapsed, the study found warming at twice the rate suggested by climate models. […] Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com

2022 – ocean heat sea level hit record high

NOAA Climate report: ocean heat and global sea level hit record high

The 33rd annual State of the Climate report for 2022 has been released, and it reveals last year saw global sea level and ocean heat both reach record highs. Spearheaded by scientists […] Click here to view original web page at winknews.com

10 records broken in July-August

Climate: 10 records broken in July-August 2023

“The era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived,” declared UN Chief António Guterres on 27 July. And with good reason: a number of climate-related records were broken in July and August 2023. The extremes reached are becoming “ […] Click here to view original web page at unric.org

Off-the-charts records

‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?

The global heating seen to date was entirely in line with three decades of scientific predictions. Being proved right was cold comfort, they said, as their warnings had so far been largely in vain. Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com

Zero-degree line – another record broken

Zero-degree line at record height above Switzerland as heat and fire hit Europe

In recent decades “anthropogenic climate change has caused the altitude of the zero-degree line to rise significantly in every season”, the service said, noting that successive records for the indicator had all been set in the past 10 years. Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com