Radio EcoShock: Ravaging Tide or Renewable World?

10/11/201210/11/2012 Stephen 1 Must Read, CLIMATE CHANGE/GLOBAL WARMING, ECOLOGY, Energy, ENVIRONMENT, global warming, News Alex Smith, cyclone, Daphne Wysham, Hurricane, New York, New York City, Radio, sandy, sea level, sea level rise, Storm surge, United States, University of Maryland, University of Maryland College Park, Washington

flooding of jersey shore — Flooding of New Jersey shoreline

Can big cities like New York or Washington protect against storm surge and rising seas?

I highly recommend this excellent weekly radio show: RADIO ECOSHOCK hosted by Alex Smith — Stephen

Nov 7 Show:

Mike Tidwell, author of “The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities.”

Professor J. Court Stevenson, University of Maryland, on city surge defenses around the world.

Daphne Wysham interviews German Green Parliamentarian Hermann Ott: leading the way to renewables before climate collapse.

Website: Radio Ecoshock 121107 1 hour

FREE DOWNLOAD: Download/listen to show in CD Quality (56 MB)

Extreme weather new normal with Climate Change

28/10/201228/10/2012 Stephen 1 Must Read, CLIMATE CHANGE/GLOBAL WARMING, economics, Energy, global warming, Hurricane, News, OCEAN, Science climate change, cyclone, Environment, extreme weather, global warming, Hurricane, Impacts and Indicators, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sea level, tropical, United States

Climate change plays a role in all extreme weather now – atmosphere is 0.8C hotter and 4-6% wetter – turns out small increases can have big impacts. — Stephen

Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist

By Stephen Leahy

CAIRNS, Australia, Apr 3, 2012 (Tierramérica)

Extreme weather is fast becoming the new normal. Canada and much of the United States experienced summer temperatures during winter this year, confirming the findings of a new report on extreme weather.

For two weeks this March most of North America baked under extraordinarily warm temperatures that melted all the snow and ice and broke 150-year-old temperature records by large margins.

Last year the U.S. endured 14 separate billion-dollar-plus weather disasters including flooding, hurricanes and tornados.

A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released Mar. 28, provides solid evidence that record-breaking weather events are increasing in number and becoming more extreme. And if current rates of greenhouse gas emissions are maintained, these events will reach dangerous new levels over the coming century.

Since 1950 there have been many more heat waves and record warm temperatures than in…

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Much Hotter Days and Nights for Mexico

14/12/2008 Stephen CLIMATE CHANGE/GLOBAL WARMING, Mexico, News Cancun, Mexico, sea level

chinas-badlands By Stephen Leahy*

UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 20 (Tierramérica) – Climate change will dramatically increase the number of hot, dry days in Mexico in the coming decades, while coastal regions like the Yucatán, in the southeast, will be swamped by sea levels that are half a metre higher than today, a new study has found.

By 2030, Mexico’s average daily temperature is likely to climb 1.4 degrees Celsius above what has been the average for the past 30 years. By 2090, this increase could rocket upwards by 4.1 degrees, virtually guaranteeing hot days and nights for 80 to 90 percent of the year, says the Oxford University study financed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Cold weather will become very rare in Mexico according to data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an umbrella organisation of scientists from around the world and the preeminent authority on climate change.

“Mexico is one area of the world where all the computer climate models agree,” says Carol McSweeney of the School of Geography and Environment at Oxford. Continue reading →