A Worsening Situation
01) HEALTH
• Scientifically Proven: Air Pollution Harms Health
• Climate change is a growing global health crisis
02) IMPACT
• Wallace Broecker, 87, Dies; Sounded Early Warning on Climate Change
• Climate Extremes Index Trending Upward
• Welshpool Town Council declares 'Climate Emergency'
• Evidence For Global Warming Passes Physics' Gold Standard
• 12 signs we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
• Out Of Real Excuses, Deniers’ Arguments Gosar off the Rails
• The Other Kind of Climate Denialism
• Why climate change is an 'all-encompassing threat'
• Climate study warns of vanishing safety window—here’s why
• Al Gore Compares Climate Change To Civil War, Could Spur ‘End Of Civilization’
03) MITIGATION
• Proposal for U.N. to study climate-cooling technologies rejected
• Solar geoengineering offers potential to halve global warming, scientists say
• Could geo-engineering help reverse climate change?
• Scubalike technology could suck carbon dioxide from smokestacks
• Geoengineering debate shifts to UN environment assembly
• Climate change: geoengineering could help, says new study
• Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people
• COP24: Text adopted, ambitions abandoned
• Fighting climate change: Explaining three top proposals
• Global tensions holding back climate change fight, says WEF
• Human Beings Are Susceptible to 'Boiling Frog' Phenomenon, Climate Scientists Warn
• Showcasing the 1,000 best cleantech solutions
06) NATURE
> Water/Ice: Oceans, Poles, Glaciers, Permafrost
• Ocean warming is accelerating faster than thought, new research finds
• Global warming of oceans equivalent to an atomic bomb per second
• Oceans soaking up carbon 4 times faster than the 1980s
• Heatwaves sweeping oceans ‘like wildfires’, scientists reveal
• Earth’s sea levels are due for a dramatic rise, scientists warn
• US faces fresh water shortages due to climate change, research says
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• Melting Arctic ice is now pouring 14000 tons of water per second into the ocean, scientists find
• UN Report Warns 'Locked In' Arctic Temperature Spikes Will Unleash Global Sea Level Rise
• The Arctic is shifting to a new state-locked in for 15 degrees warming this century warns UN report.
• Daily Bucket Saving Earth: "Scientists fear Arctic heating could trigger a climate ‘tipping point’."
• Sharp rise in Arctic temperatures now inevitable – UN
• It's Official: There's Nothing We Can Do Now to Stop Arctic Temperature Rise
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• Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood
• Study of Antarctic sea ice collapse warns of potential 10-foot sea rise
• Antarctica is ticking TIME BOMB and could unleash 20 FEET global sea level rise - WARNING
•• “[article mentions] Google’s interactive [predictive sea level rise map] FireTree [>] FireTree Flood Maps...Dynamic maps of sea level rise. Will global warming affect you?”. Also, if all the ice melts, latest revised estimates of total sea level rise is currently 216’’.
•• “Once all ice is melted and added to the global oceans our seas would rise by 216 feet”
•• [Nat Geo] What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted
•• [Sci Alert] This Unsettling Animation Shows What Earth Would Look Like if All The Ice Melted
•• What is my elevation? Other elevation apps
•• This map shows how climate change affects extreme weather around the world
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• Rain is melting Greenland’s ice, even in winter, raising fears about sea level rise
• Permafrost is warming worldwide, says new study
• Climate change is roasting the Himalaya region, threatening millions
• One-third of Himalayan glaciers are already lost to climate change
• Scientists struck by New Zealand's vanishing postcard glaciers
• Receding Chilean glacier a sign of accelerating climate change
> Air
• Climate Change Increasing Air Pollution Across Globe: Study
• Time to see air pollution as a human rights threat: U.N.
• Methane rise adds to climate threat
• Atmospheric methane is rocketing and the climate change implications are huge
> Land: Forest, Savannah, Island
• Rising CO2 levels destroying African savannah, scientists warn
• Iconic Forests Reaching Climate Tipping Points in American West, Study Finds
• Swiss forests under attack from bark beetle
• Sinking island in the Sundarbans Delta
> Food
• The fruit and vegetable produce at risk if climate change continues, warn experts
• Warming oceans are hurting seafood supply—and things are getting worse
> Industry
• The 9 Industries That Will Be Most Screwed by Global Warming
08) Trump
• Trump tweets climate change skeptic in latest denial of science
• Greenpeace hits back at Trump tweet on climate change denial
• Plain Talk: Trump wins 'dumbness competition' on climate change
• NY Times Davenport: On Climate Change, Trump Hunkered Against ‘Facts...Science’
• Trump's new climate panel is a waste of time and money
• Trump's Plan To Destroy NASA Science Laid Bare In FY2020 Budget
• Creation of a panel disputing climate change causes White House infighting
• Trump's 2020 Budget Will Cripple Climate Change Science in 3 Major Ways