Climate Change News

A collection of the latest news articles and published research papers on various aspects of climate change. Last updated: Oct 8, 2022 @ 4:10 pm

Greenhouse Gases

• Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study (The Guardian – 7/5/22)

• Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels (NOAA – 6/3/22)

• Peak CO2 & Heat-trapping Emissions (Climate Central – 5/4/22)

Tropical Cyclones

• Global Warming Causes Fewer Tropical Cyclones (Scientific American – 6/27/22)

• New NOAA study finds increase in Atlantic hurricanes linked to cleaner air (AccuWeather – 5/17/22)

Plants

• Climate Change is making plants more vulnerable to disease. New Research could help them fight back (Phys.org – 6/29/22)

Bodies of Water (Oceans, Rivers, Lakes…)

• Sea level rise will affect coastal communities (ANN – 7/522)

• Changes in Gulf of Maine Waters Impact Food Web from Bottom to Top (AGU – 6/7/22)

• Scientists map Caribbean coral reefs to tackle climate change (BBC – 4/14/22)

Extreme Weather

• Rare ‘triple’ La Niña climate event looks likely – what does the future hold? (Nature – 6/23/22)

• Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change (Nature – 4/12/22)

• The role of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and ocean-atmosphere interactions in driving US temperature predictability (Nature – 3/15/22)

• Controlling future summer weather extremes still within our grasp (Penn State University – 10/31/18)

Cryosphere (Ice Sheets, Glaciers, Sea Ice…)

• Unusually large, late melt spike on Greenland in September 2022

• Glaciers vanishing at record rate in Alps after heat waves (NBC News – 7/26/22)

• Petermann ice shelf may not recover after a future breakup (Nature – 5/9/22)

• Antarctic ice-shelf advance driven by anomalous atmospheric and sea-ice circulation (Nature – 5/5/22)

• Strong tides, vanishing lakes may prove beneficial to Antarctic ice shelf (Penn State University – 4/18/22)

• Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula (Nature – 4/14/22)

• “Alarming” and “extraordinary” rate of change as the Arctic warms, NOAA report says (CBS News – 12/9/20)

General Info

• Climate Change Explainers (NOAA Research – Twitter – 6/4/22)

• Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached? (CarbonBrief – 4/29/21)

• What’s Really Warming the World? (Bloomberg – 6/24/15)

Misconceptions / Common Questions

• Clearing up common climate science confusion (Dr. Patrick Brown – Twitter – 6/23/22)