IPCC : Accelerating Ice Melt and Rapidly Warming Oceans

The IPCC have just released the third of three special reports on the perilous state of our our climate. These were reports they pledged to produce back at the Paris COP meeting in 2015. Following the very alarming SR15 report last October and the more recent report on Climate Change and Land Use, this report focusses on our oceans and also on the mind boggling quantities of fresh water that up until recently have been safely locked away in our glaciers and ice sheets but that are now rapidly melting into the seas. This week we take a brief look at some of their headline findings and recommendations.

Research links -

https://report.ipcc.ch/srocc/pdf/SROCC_SPM_Approved.pdf

https://qz.com/1591080/glaciers-worldwide-are-disappearing-even-faster-than-we-realized/

https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/05/brutal-news-global-carbon-emissions-jump-to-all-time-high-in-2018

https://www.tyndall.ac.uk/news/strong-growth-global-co2-emissions-expected-2018

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/25/extreme-sea-level-events-will-hit-once-a-year-by-2050

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181217101759.htm

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/himalayas-glacier-melting-climate-change-global-warming-everest-a8965276.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-asia-glaciers-shrinking-himalayas-science-a8934901.html

https://research.csiro.au/slrwavescoast/extremes/causes-extreme-sea-levels/

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/new-marine-heatwave-emerges-west-coast-resembles-blob

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-set-to-rise-2-percent-in-2017-following-three-year-plateau

https://seeing.climatecentral.org/#12/31.2003/29.9189?show=lockinAnimated&level=4&unit=feet&pois=hide





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