Prequel to Chasing Ice - an hour long NOVA program
Posted by Matt Owens March 19, 2013
This is definitely worth seeing, even if you've already seen the movie!
Watch Extreme Ice on PBS. See more from NOVA.
A Radical Plan - ideas for sustainability, walkability, and livability.
Take Action - links to action groups.
Sea Level Rise - a bottom-line summary, plus links to posts.
Favorites
Wicked warming: U.S. report paints dire picture if emissions continue rising (2013_Jan)
What the models don't show: excluded feedbacks (2013_Feb)
The rise of rogue superstorms (2012_Nov)
Temperatures are rising all around us: looking at 5-year trends around the world (2013_Jan)
Modern food supply under assault (2012_Nov)
Is Dallas done for? And what about the rest of the country? (2013_Jan)
Arctic sea ice nosediving (2013_Mar)
Lukas to meteorologists: megadrought danger is real (2013_Jan)
"Current trends in energy supply and use are patently unsustainable – economically, environmentally and socially."
-Nobuo Tanaka
Executive Director, International Energy Agency
2010
-Nobuo Tanaka
Executive Director, International Energy Agency
2010
Lots of Links (to external sites)
- 9 Ways To Prove Joe Stiglitz Is Right About Climate Change Hurting The Economy
- A Determination of the Cloud Feedback from Climate Variations over the Past Decade - Science (2010); Dessler
- A Little Bit Greener - little things to help make the world a better place
- AGU Position Statement
- AlGore.com
- Annual Energy Outlook 2013 - Energy Information Administration
- APS Position Statement
- Arctic Sea Ice - News and Opinion
- ASLO
- Berkeley Lab Earth Sciences Division - Climate Analog Tracker
- Big Ice | Photos | Greenland 2006
- Big Ice | Photos | Greenland 2007
- Big Ice | Photos | Greenland 2008
- Big Ice | Photos | Greenland 2009
- Big Ice | Photos | Greenland 2009 Jakobshavn Isbrae
- Big Ice | Photos | Greenland 2010
- C40 Cities: Climate Leadership Group
- Carbon Footprint Calculator | Climate Change | US EPA
- Carbon Dioxide Emissions | Climate Change | US EPA
- Chesapeake Climate Action Network
- CIMSS Satellite Blog
- Circle of Blue WaterNews
- Climate & Energy | Grist
- Climate Access | sharing what works
- Climate Change | Climate Central
- Climate Change: The Next Generation: Arctic Ice “Rotten” to the North Pole, scientist says
- Climate Change: The Next Generation: Hansen warns of planetary emergency at Greenpeace meeting; Maslowski says sea ice will disappear this decade if current trend continues
- Climate Change: The Next Generation: Michael Mann warns island nations evacuation needed within a decade
- Climate Change: The Next Generation: NSIDC bombshell: Thawing permafrost feedback will turn Arctic from carbon sink to source in the 2020s, releasing 100 billion tons of carbon by 2100
- Climate Change: The Next Generation: Rare storms causing havoc in Argentina
- Climate Change: The Next Generation: Record Arctic Snow Loss May Be Prolonging North American Drought
- Climate Change: The Next Generation: Sudden spikes in global food prices to 'become the norm"
- Climate Change: The Next Generation: USA's heavy rain events rising due to climate change
- Climate Denial Crock of the Week
- Climate Progress - News, Opinion, Politics
- Climate | Business Spectator
- ClimateSight
- Climbing into the Greenland Ice Cap
- Cryosphere Today - [Gone Tomorrow]
- Damn the Matrix | Or why the world is going to hell
- Discovery of Global Warming (by Spencer Weart)
- Energy Action Coalition
- Exploding iceberg in Antarctica! - YouTube
- Gardeners Sharing Their Harvest With A Community Food Pantry
- Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network
- Global Progress | Better Place (Battery Exchange Stations)
- Global Warming Photography
- Great Lakes Statistics
- Huge ice island breaks from Greenland glacier - YouTube
- Ice Shelf Disintegration Animation
- Ice-Blog
- International Association of Sedimentologists
- It's Burning
- Living on Earth: PRI's Environmental News Magazine
- Modeling Sea-level Rise and Surge - USGS
- Moms Clean Air Force - Fighting for Our Kids' Health
- NASA Astrobiology: Life in the Universe
- National Interagency Fire Center
- Nature's Climate Change Journal
- NCDC - National Climatic Data Center
- NOAA
- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Perspective on Abrupt Climate Change
- North Pole webcams
- Official google.org Blog: Making sense of science: introducing the Google Science Communication Fellows
- Old Weather, Crowdsourcing Data from Ships' Logs
- Open Mind | Science, Politics, Life, the Universe, and Everything
- Oxfam International
- Paul Gilding - Independent writer & advisor on sustainability.
- PHSC 13400: Global Warming 16 hour video course online
- POLAR SEEDS - art, sound, video, interactive
- Power Vote
- Professor Peter Wadhams on Arctic Dangers Facing us Now- YouTube
- Rapid Climate Change (by Spencer Weart)
- Rapid Response | EOSDIS - Earth Data Website NASA
- RealClimate - Climate Science News
- Reflected Near-Infrared Waves - Mission:Science
- Rutgers University Global Snow Lab
- Satellite Images and Animation - Environment Canada
- ScepticalScience.com
- Scientific Reticence and Sea Level Rise - Hansen; IOPscience; 2007.
- Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking - Salon.com
- Streets: walkability, scale, etc.
- The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica
- The Climate Lobby - Fee and Dividend Carbon Tax - sign your support
- The Green Word | News, information and opinions about environmental issues from Canada and around the world.
- Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine
- Transportation and Climate | OTAQ | US EPA
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- UCAR
- USDA
- USGS
- Virginia Alliance for a Cleaner Environment
- Walk San Diego - Enhancing the livability of communities
- Wildfire Today | News about wildfire, including brush fire, grass fire, wildland fire, and forest fire
- Wit's End: A Walk in the Dying Woods
- Wunderground - Long Range & Local | Wunderground | Weather Underground
Highlighted Research
- Behavioral dimensions of climate change: drivers, responses, barriers, and interventions
This 2011 article by Robert Gifford, Christine Kormos, and Amanda McIntyre overviews human aspects of spurring action on climate change. - Crop responses to climatic variation
This 2005 paper examines crop response to high variation in temperature and water supply, as well as extreme heat. These variables are among the finer-grain details that global climate models do not explicitly depict, and may be under-accounted for. By Porter and Semenov. - Are we heading for 6° temperature rise? - environmentalresearchweb
This 2013 article does an excellent review of the threat we face. This is not fear-mongering, this is honesty. - Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: emission scenarios for a new world
This 2011 paper by Anderson and Bows examines the numbers required to reduce emissions to various levels.
Recommended Books
- Climate Change: Biological and Human Aspects
By Jonathan Cowie, 2013 edition out now, save 20% through March. - Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming - The Illustrated Guide to the Findings of the IPCC
By Michael Mann and Lee Kump, 2008. - Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
By Lester Brown, 2012. - High Tide On Main Street
By John Englander, 2012 - Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
By James Hansen, 2010 - The Discovery of Global Warming
By Spencer R. Weart, 1st edition 2003, 2nd edition 2008. - The Future
By Al Gore, 2013. - The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
By Michael Mann, 2012
Convert carbon dioxide (CO2) weight to carbon (C) weight
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CO2/3.67 = C
or:
CO2 x 0.2727 = C
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ex: 40 GtCO2 ≈ 10.9 GtC
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1 Gt (Gigatonne) = 1 billion tonnes
1 tonne = 1,000 kg
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Also: 1 Pg = 1 Gt
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1 Pg (Petagram) = 1 quadrillion grams
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Soil specialists tend to use Pg, as they are used to working with gram units per square meter of soil area. Atmospheric specialists tend to use Gt.
Convert carbon emissions to ppm atmospheric CO2
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GtC/2.12 = ppm
To convert emissions of carbon to atmospheric ppm CO2, carbon sinks must be taken into account.
So far, terrestrial and oceanic sinks have taken up about 50% of CO2.
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ex: 40 GtCO2 emissions ≈ 10.9 GtC
10.9 GtC/2.12 ≈ 5.14 ppm CO2 before accounting for sinks
5.14 ppm CO2 x 0.5 ≈ 2.57 ppm CO2 after accounting for sinks
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