The Changing Climate

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  Oxygen-Free "Dead Zone" as Big as Scotland Discovered in Arabian Sea

  Inverse - Kevin Litman-Navarro

  In the Gulf of Oman, the water is still. But tranquility isn’t always a positive sign — in fact, the gulf is less Garden of Eden than it is …

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  Sea Level Rise in the SF Bay Area Just Got a Lot More Dire

  WIRED - Matt Simon

  Sea levels are rising. But the San Francisco Bay Area has another problem: It's sinking. By 2100, it could lose 165 square miles to the sea. If you …

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists

  The Washington Post

  The sun won’t rise at the North Pole until March 20, and it’s normally close to the coldest time of year, but an extraordinary and possibly historic thaw swelled over the tip of the planet this weekend. Analyses show that the temperature warmed to the melting point as an enormous storm pumped an …

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  Scientists Predict King Penguins Face Major Threats Due To Climate Change

  NPR - Merrit Kennedy

  Seventy percent of the world's king penguin population could face threats to its habitat by the end of this century, according to a new scientific model. The researchers say the problem is that the animals' primary source of food is moving farther away from places where the penguins can breed. …

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  Yes, global warming will be bad. But these scientists say it won’t reach the worst-case scenario.

  The Washington Post

  In the new study in the journal Nature, Peter Cox and Mark Williams of the University of Exeter and Chris Huntingford of the United Kingdom’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology attempt to recalculate the “equilibrium climate sensitivity,” a highly influential metric that describes how much the planet …

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says

  Forbes - Jeff McMahon

  The level of carbon now in the atmosphere hasn't been seen in 12 million years, a Harvard scientist said in Chicago Thursday, and this pollution is rapidly pushing the climate back to its state in the Eocene Epoch, more than 33 million years ago, when there was no ice on either pole. "We have …