May 12 | Climate Now

Not The Weather Report

"Costa Rica’s new president [Carlos Alvarado said]... "Decarbonisation is the great task of our generation... We have the titanic and beautiful task of abolishing the use of fossil fuels in our economy to make way for the use of clean and renewable energies”"

Gross National Wisdom / Costa Rica to ban fossil fuels and become world's first decarbonised society Independent

Photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty

Climate change news for Saturday 12th of May 2018

Photo credit: Yale Environment 360/Google Earth

Alien waters / Neighboring Seas Are Flowing into a Warming Arctic Ocean

Yale Environment 360

"The “Atlantification” and “Pacification” of the Arctic has begun. As warmer waters stream into an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, new species — from phytoplankton to whales — have the potential to upend this sensitive polar environment"

California / Precipitation whiplash
and climate change threaten [state's] freshwater The Washington Post

"[In April]... the water content in the Sierra snowpack was about half its historical average... One year before the water content [was] at over 160 percent of the historical average. This swing is not new and continues California’s recent trend of climate shifts"

Agriculture / Climate Extremes and Their Trends in the World's Major Growing Regions

Earth's Future

"Anomalous temperature and precipitation conditions are shown to often occur concurrently... This leads to the confluence of a variety of climate conditions that negatively impact crop yields"

Photo credit: see #5 below

Greenhouse gas progress /

Canada takes the lead on methane emissions

Eco-Business

"Canadian regulators just released new rules aimed at reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by as much as 45 per cent over the next seven years... methane is 86 times more potent than CO2... over a 20-year period"

South American glaciers /

Satellite Reveals Troubling Retreat of Patagonian Glaciers

Ecowatch

"In a report this week, the European Space Agency revealed that between the... 2011 and 2017 Patagonia's ice fields receded at a rate of more than 21 gigatonnes —21 billion metric tons—a year, the equivalent to adding 0.06 millimeters to global sea level"

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Headline #5 photo: Wikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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