May 9 | Climate Now

Not The Weather Report

"In four of the past five winters, the North Pole has witnessed dramatic temperatures spikes, which previously were rare. Now, in the lead up to summer, the temperature has again shot up to unusually high levels at the tip of the planet"

The new, tepid Arctic / Another extreme heat wave strikes the North Pole The Washington Post

Photo credit: By Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia - Ice Watch, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66232221

Climate change news for Wednesday 9th of May 2018

Photo credit: NOAA/climate.gov

Statistical near-impossibility / 2016 Arctic heat would have been virtually impossible without global warming NOAA

"In the fall of 2016, the Arctic experienced heat that was so extreme that one expert called it a black swan event.... the event could not have happened without human-caused global warming and sea ice loss"

Photo credit: see # 3 below

Climate/war link / Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip

Mother Jones

"February 2011: Legend has it, the spark of Syria's civil war came from a few cans of spray paint in the southwest city of Daraa... Between 2006 and 2011, over half of the country had suffered under the..."

Photo credit: Emily Michot/Miami Herald

Florida, U.S. / Three newspapers confront one challenge: Sea-level rise is real... Miami Herald

"No graver threat faces the future of South Florida than the accelerating pace of sea-level rise... Water levels could easily be 2 feet higher in 40 years. And scientists say that’s a conservative estimate"

Illustration: Claire O'Neill/The New York Times

Big, fluffy and restless / As Winter Warms, Bears Can’t Sleep... The New York Times

"As climate change leads to warmer winters, later falls and earlier springs... American black bears are changing their hibernation routines, scientists say. In some cases, bears are not hibernating... staying awake all winter"

Forests undervalued / The Cinderella of Climate Solutions World Resources Institute

"Giacomo Grassi, a scientist at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre who studies forests and climate change, offered the perfect metaphor for the problem [of under-appreciation]: forests as Cinderella"

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Article #3 photo by: "This comic was produced by Years of Living Dangerously and Symbolia Magazine."

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