Global Warming Archives - The Westside Story

New report projects annual carbon emissions will reach an all-time high in 2018

Dec 5, 2018

Global carbon emissions are projected to reach an all-time high in 2018, according to a new report from the Global Carbon Project. For the prior three years, increases in carbon emissions had slowed considerabl...

Trump administration agencies issue new, dire climate change warning

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Nov 23, 2018

Environment, Science

The fourth National Climate Assessment report was released Friday, and warns that damage from climate change is already occurring across the US, according to the Washington Post. The congressionally mandated re...

Landmark UN report warns of climate crisis just two decades away

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Oct 9, 2018

Environment, Science

A new UN report has issued the most dire warning yet over climate change, saying the world has only about 12 years to limit rising temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to The Guardian. Warming beyond ...

Large wind power projects could compound global warming

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Oct 4, 2018

Environment, Science

Wind power alone may not be quite the antidote to climate change it may seem, according to one new study. Research published in the journal Joule shows that large-scale turbine projects cause their own warming,...

New research suggests even Paris climate targets could raise sea levels 20 to 30 feet

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Sep 24, 2018

Environment, Science

New research shows that warmer climates in earth's past, even with the moderate warming allowed for by the Paris agreement, have corresponded with sea levels 20 to 30 feet higher than those of today, according ...

Migration to deeper waters may not save many species from declining coral reefs

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Jul 22, 2018

Environment, Science

A new study has cast doubt on one theory of how marine species could survive the current decline of coral reefs stemming from climate change and human activity, according to Science News. About half of the w...

A brutal heat wave is pushing Americans toward consensus on climate change

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Jul 11, 2018

Environment, Science

Record-breaking temperatures are fueling a shift in the American public’s views toward climate change, according to the latest in a series of public opinion surveys, described in a report by The Guardian. Th...

Rising bedrock could slow Antarctic ice sheet loss, says study

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Jun 22, 2018

Environment, Science

A new study, published this week in Science, shows that as ice sheets in Antarctica melt and reduce their weight on the bedrock, it is rising, and lifting the remaining ice out of the warming seawater. The proc...

Insect species, crucial to ecosystems, are highly vulnerable to global warming

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May 21, 2018

Environment, Science

New research has shown how a warming planet could lead to widespread disruption of insect habitats, with half becoming unsuitable by 2100, even with current carbon reduction pledges. The more ambitious Paris ac...

New study links warming Arctic temperatures to extreme winter weather elsewhere

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Mar 15, 2018

Environment, Science

A new analysis of temperature data, from as far back as 1950, has linked rising temperatures in the Arctic warming since the 1990s to more common extreme cold and heavier snowfall in other parts of the world. T...

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