24 October 2023, Reuters: Meltdown of West Antarctic Ice Sheet unavoidable, study says. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet will continue to melt this century regardless of how much the world slashes planet-warming emissions, research from the British Antarctic Survey has found, … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Impacts Observed & Projected
14 September 2023, The Conversation: How rising water vapour in the atmosphere is amplifying warming and making extreme weather worse. This year’s string of record-breaking disasters – from deadly wildfires and catastrophic floods to record-high ocean temperatures and record-low sea ice in Antarctica – seems like an acceleration … Continue reading →
13 September 2023, The Conversation: Devastatingly low Antarctic sea ice may be the ‘new abnormal’, study warns. For most of us, Antarctic sea ice is an abstraction – something far away we may have seen on a documentary. But the radiant … Continue reading →
5 September 2023, Copernicus CLIMATE BULLETINS UPDATE: Record high global sea surface temperatures continue in August. Global* average sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have been consistently high over the past five months, and remained at record high levels for the time … Continue reading →