Sea levels rose faster than expected in 2024
A NASA analysis showed a surprising rise in sea levels in 2024. Last year’s rise was driven by unusually strong ocean warming combined with the melting of land ice such as glaciers. As a result, Hawaii, for example, is sinking 40 times faster than scientists had previously thought, with some parts of the island chain sinking at a rate of 0.6 millimeters per year, but others are in much worse shape.
36 Ways to Stop Global Warming
In recent years, scientists have proposed many ways to curb global warming, such as: spraying diamond dust, working with glaciers, reflecting sunlight, alternative energy, and working with human and farm waste.
Deadly Heat: Global Organizations Sound Alarm
Over 20 years, heat-related mortality has increased by 30%. In July 2024, more than 120 people died from heatstroke in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Climatologists and doctors have found that heat waves in Europe in 2023 caused the death of over 47.6 thousand residents of all 35 European countries between June and October 2023. The number of heat-related deaths in Europe could triple by the end of the century.
Mars’ gravitational pull may influence Earth’s climate
Every 2.4 million years, Mars tugs on Earth so hard that it reshapes the ocean floor. New geological research suggests that Mars’ gravity pulls Earth closer to the sun in cycles lasting millions of years, warming our climate.
NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise in Pacific Islands
NASA analysis shows irreversible sea level rise in Pacific islands as climate change rapidly changes a region of the world home to millions of people. Over the next 30 years, Pacific island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and Fiji will see sea levels rise by at least 6 inches (15 centimeters), according to an analysis by NASA’s Sea Level Change Science Group. That level of rise would occur regardless of whether greenhouse gas emissions change in the coming years.
Satellite data proves climate change is a climate crisis
ESA’s Sentinel-1 detects retreating Arctic glaciers. As Arctic temperatures rise, glaciers that end at sea, particularly in places like Svalbard, are retreating rapidly and calving at a rapid rate. Arctic sea ice has also retreated to near-historic minimums in the Northern Hemisphere this summer, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
Redistribution of the Earth’s water balance – desertification of southern Russia and Europe and filling of lakes in deserts
The director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research warned that precipitation, the source of all fresh water, can no longer be relied upon: the global water cycle has been disrupted for the first time in human history. Russian scientists have warned that deserts are gradually taking over southern Russia. Jim Skea, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that deserts could appear in southern Europe; climate change has intensified droughts in Europe. Their formation will be caused by global warming. Satellites have taken photographs showing how the sands of the Sahara Desert are filling with water.
30 previously unknown species of invertebrates and insects discovered on thawed glaciers of the Central Caucasus
Scientists have discovered 30 previously unknown species of invertebrates and insects in areas of the Central Caucasus glaciers that have thawed due to global warming. According to the press service of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a total of 438 species of invertebrates live in the areas studied.
Spain suffered from DANA
The rushing water turned narrow streets into death traps and created rivers that tore through homes and businesses, sweeping away cars, people and everything else in their path. The floods destroyed bridges and left roads unrecognizable. With record-breaking temperatures across the Mediterranean and a year’s worth of rainfall in a matter of hours, Spain was hit by a weather phenomenon known as DANA. A freak weather phenomenon known as DANA caused catastrophic flooding in Valencia, Spain in late October 2024. More than 155 people were killed and dozens more were missing in what meteorologists are calling one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory.
The tsunami impacts in Russia include coastal areas of Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Island and Primorye
Climate change could trigger giant, deadly tsunamis from Antarctica, a new study warns. Sediment shifting beneath the Antarctic seabed could trigger giant tsunamis due to rising ocean temperatures. Fourteen cities and dozens of towns in Russia are vulnerable to tsunamis across three regions of the Far East, with powerful waves capable of hitting their coasts at speeds of up to 1,000 kilometres per hour.
The current year 2024 has broken the heat records of the previous year
NASA considers the summer of 2024 to be the hottest to date. July 22, 2024, was the hottest day on record, according to a NASA analysis of global daily temperature data. July 21 and 23 of this year also exceeded the previous daily record, set in July 2023. These record temperatures are part of a long-term warming trend caused by human activity, primarily greenhouse gas emissions. Crimea recorded its hottest day on record.
Rising Arctic temperatures will impact global economy. Scientists monitor Arctic transformation under climate change
Scientists from the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI RAS) have discovered a harmful increase in the biological productivity of remote Arctic lakes due to global warming. Scientists have discovered plumes of smoke that periodically appear in the vicinity of Bennett Island in the East Siberian Sea. This may indicate the presence of an active volcano and a tsunami threat to Arctic villages in Yakutia. As the ice melts, new shipping routes will appear, changing the global economy. Rapidly rising temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic will affect international shipping and coastal communities around the world.
The southernmost continent, Antarctica, is warming and blooming
The remains of a 90-million-year-old rainforest have been discovered beneath the ice of Antarctica. Now, warmer temperatures are melting glaciers and the meltwater is allowing seeds to begin to germinate. Antarctica is in the grip of one of the world’s fastest climate changes. Its melting ice could contribute to sea level rises of up to 5 metres. Where the ice disappears, it leaves behind barren land. By the end of this century, land the size of a small country could emerge from beneath the ice. Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier has earned its nickname “Doomsday Glacier” for its potential to flood coastlines around the world if it collapses.
Melting Glaciers: Andes, Altai, Alps and China May Be Completely Ice-Free
Isotopic analysis of rocks near the Andes glaciers has shown that these glaciers have become smaller than at any time in the Holocene, which indicates significant warming in the tropics. Scientists have recorded a violent bloom of blood-red algae Chlamydomonas nivalis on glaciers in the Altai Mountains this year, which leads to their more active melting and may be an indicator of climate change. Small glaciers in northwest China will disappear by the middle of the 21st century. The China Daily newspaper, citing local scientists, reports that the disappearance of glaciers is inevitable, and this should be expected “regardless of the climate scenario and the amount of precipitation.”
Melting polar ice caused by climate change is redistributing the Earth’s mass and increasing the length of the day
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to understand how melting ice, depleting groundwater and rising sea levels are shifting the planet’s rotation axis and lengthening the days.
Climate is changing the Earth’s flora and water bodies
Decreasing oxygen levels in water pose a critical threat to nature and society on Earth. On average, lakes around the world will experience unprecedented climate conditions by the end of this century. Warming Arctic regions are causing toxic algae blooms. A NASA study found that tundra vegetation will be taller and greener by 2100.
The earth’s crust is unstable
The Earth is starting to shake because of global warming. Tectonic plates are moving apart regardless of warming: the giant tectonic plate under the Indian Ocean is splitting apart, the Dead Sea Fault in the Middle East is moving about twice as fast, or 0.2 inches (0.4 cm) per year, while the San Andreas Fault in California is moving about 10 times faster, about 0.7 inches (1.8 cm) per year.
The Arctic and Antarctica continue to melt rapidly, revealing ancient things hidden beneath the ice
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Ice and snow are melting, and Arctic sea ice is thinning and retreating. This means that algae living on the bottom of the sea ice are getting more sunlight, leading to an annual summer bloom once there is enough light. Erebus, located on Antarctica’s Ross Island (separated from the mainland by McMurdo Sound), is the southernmost active volcano on Earth; the second-tallest on the sixth continent, at 3,794 metres.
June 2024 was the hottest on record on the planet. Summer 2023 is the hottest in 2,000 years (or 10,000 years)
Last June was the hottest month on record and the 13th month in a row to set a monthly temperature record, according to new data released by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. For 12 months in a row, the average global temperature has been 1.5°C higher than in the pre-industrial era. The average sea surface temperature in June was 20.85°C, which is also the highest value in the entire period of observation.
Global warming or Ice Age? Dangerous games of carbon dioxide
According to research by experts from the University of Colorado Boulder, more and more fresh water has been entering the Arctic Ocean over the past two decades. If this trend continues, the freshening of the North Atlantic could disrupt ocean currents, the authors of the study fear. During the last ice age, the Earth experienced the highest increase in CO2: 14 parts per million in just 55 years. Deep beneath the ice of Antarctica, a giant river system has been discovered that existed 40 million years ago.
Extreme heat waves cause deadly heat stress and fires around the world
Unbearable temperatures exceeding 40° and 50° are increasingly observed in many parts of the world, paralyzing society and creating a serious threat to the health and well-being of people. One of the main consequences of global warming is extreme weather events, which include, in particular, periods of abnormally high temperatures in winter, heat waves in summer. They can cause severe heat stress for the human body, against which background already existing diseases are most often exacerbated.
Global warming tipping point could trigger ice age
Temperatures in Western Europe could fall by 5 to 10 degrees Celsius over the course of the century. While this may sound good in an era of rising temperatures around the world, such a climate event would have devastating consequences for agriculture. As one climate scientist told Inside Climate News, it would be like “trying to grow potatoes in Northern Norway.” According to Slate, other places (such as Norway) will simply become too cold for human habitation.
New natural sources of greenhouse gases and associated climate control technologies
Layers of methane are locked under permafrost in Arctic regions, but if they were released it could cause problems for the rest of the world. Researchers also discovered intense methane emissions deep in the Baltic Sea. Methane can be a real problem for the environment. The greenhouse gas, made up of carbon and hydrogen and about 80 percent more potent than carbon dioxide, occurs naturally in sedimentary layers of the seafloor and is responsible for about 30 percent of global temperature rise.
Climate control technologies and critical points of no return are on the agenda
Experts examined the problem of so-called critical points, in which the behavior of natural systems changes in an unpredictable way. According to one hypothesis, if the atmosphere overheats, the collapse of the Gulf Stream and the death of the Amazon forests, an important carbon dioxide sink, are possible. The threshold is unknown, but as noted in the report, the likelihood of crossing it increases.
The Government of the Russian Federation has approved an action plan for adaptation to climate change. February was the warmest on record
The message on the approval of the national action plan for the second stage of adaptation to climate change was published on the website of the Government of the Russian Federation. February 2024 on Earth became the warmest on record. Sea ice on both the top and bottom of the planet continued to decline in 2024.
Global warming leads to a change in the speed of rotation of the Earth and a change in the length of the day
The melting of polar ice leads to a change in the planet’s rotation speed, which in turn affects the global calculation of time, a study from the University of California showed, reports the scientific journal Nature. Geophysicists from the University of California have found evidence that the slowing rotation of the Earth’s core, combined with the melting of the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers, will lead to the fact that in 2029, humanity will have to shorten, rather than increase, the length of the day for the first time.
The Arctic could become ice-free in the 2030s, Antarctica and Greenland are melting at record rates
The Arctic will be ice-free within a decade during the summer months. A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder says the Arctic could become ice-free in August or September as early as the 2020s or 2030s. The Arctic could then remain ice-free for nine months of the year, as predicted by worst-case climate scenarios. This is largely due to the fact that sea ice, which reflects solar radiation, melts into the open ocean, which absorbs solar radiation.
Global warming has accelerated 4 times compared to expectations and the Paris Agreement
Faster warming in the Arctic will result in a global temperature rise of 2° being reached 8 years earlier than if the region had warmed at the global average, UCL researchers have found. The Arctic is currently warming almost 4 times faster than the global average.
2023 was the warmest year on record
According to NASA analysis, the average surface temperature of the Earth in 2023 was the highest on record. Global temperatures last year were about 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period (1951-1980), scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York reported.
Antarctica: Humanity still has time to prepare for rapidly rising sea levels
Antarctica’s glaciers are melting at a catastrophic rate, but humanity still has time to prepare for rapidly rising sea levels. An international team of oceanologists has discovered that quite strong and warm currents move through large cracks in the bases of Antarctic sea glaciers, which accelerate the process of melting of these ice masses, preventing the continental glaciers of Antarctica from quickly “sliding” into the sea. The retreat of Antarctic glaciers due to rising summer temperatures has led to the melting of ancient mosses. Fossil mosses, buried under ice for several thousand years, became accessible to microorganisms and became a source of the greenhouse gas methane.
Getting closer to Jurassic Park – Harvard scientists clone mammoths
The woolly mammoth shares 99.6% of its DNA with the Asian elephant, leading scientists to believe they are well on their way to achieving their goal. “In the minds of many, this animal has disappeared forever. But not in the minds of our scientists and not in the laboratories of our company. We are already in the process of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. Our teams have collected viable DNA samples and are editing genes that will allow this remarkable megafauna to roam the Arctic again.” The long-extinct woolly mammoth will return from oblivion by 2027, according to Colossal, a biotech company actively working on the reincarnation of the ancient beast.
Glaciers in northern Greenland have shrunk by more than a third in volume, and Greenland was ice-free a million years ago
Even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the ice sheet would lose more than 110 trillion tons of ice, causing global sea levels to rise by nearly 30 cm. Greenland currently contains enough ice to raise sea levels by about 7 meters. Complete melting of the ice sheet will not happen in our lifetime, but the potential consequences for future generations will be catastrophic.
Scientists observe increased amounts of salt in water bodies
The global salt cycle in nature is disrupted, which leads to salinization of fresh water, and the distribution of salt by ocean currents plays a role in regulating surface water temperature and sea level.
The average tropopause heights of the Earth’s atmosphere have changed
The tropopause is a powerful retaining layer that prevents the vertical transport of aerosols and water vapor. The height of the tropopause is increasing due to climate change.
The Earth’s South Pole is melting and cracking, and many new faults have opened in recent years
The Glenzer-Conger Glacier collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long considered stable and not greatly affected by climate change.
Anomalous temperatures were simultaneously recorded in the Arctic and Antarctica
Simultaneous significant warming was recorded at the North and South poles of the planet – the temperature at the Antarctic Concordia station, located at an altitude of 3234 meters above sea level, reached −12.2°C the day before, which is 40°C above average.
Warming continues to accelerate on its own
The accumulation of sea salt and the seepage of warm, salty seawater under ice sheets as glaciers melt accelerate the warming process.
A database of the sea coasts of the Russian Arctic has been created, and plans include a digital model of the World Ocean
More than sixty percent of Russia is permafrost zone. More than 15 million people live in this territory, and there is an infrastructure developed that is not found anywhere else in the world on permafrost soils.
Global warming is accelerating itself
On the Pacific islands, entire cities are retreating inland under the pressure of water. Melting permafrost is changing landscapes, destroying animal habitats, releasing carbon and releasing dangerous microorganisms that have been trapped in the ice for millennia.
Extremely high temperatures occur in half of the world’s oceans
At the end of the 19th century, only 2% of the ocean surface experienced extremely high temperatures, so-called “heat waves.” In 2019, “heat waves” were already observed on 57% of the ocean surface.
The Greenland ice sheet preserves the impact crater of a two-kilometer asteroid and ancient vegetation
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second largest on Earth after the Antarctic Ice Sheet and covers 1.5 million square meters, with ice depths reaching 3,000 meters
Tropical Pacific heat waves spread to mid- and polar latitudes
Abnormal July 2021: record heat in the Northern Hemisphere and record cold in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth.
Melting ice contributes to the shift of the Earth’s poles and tropical zones
The Earth’s poles have already shifted by four meters, and this process will continue in the future. Scientists believe the reasons for the displacement are melting glaciers and excessive consumption of groundwater.
Researchers predict methane explosions, fires and thunderstorms in the Arctic and tundra
Methane explosions can affect the climate of the entire planet. Hundreds of millions of tons of methane may be hidden under the ocean floor, which is currently contained by the “cap” of the permafrost zone.
Global warming contributes to severe storms and floods
The World Meteorological Organization warns that high water temperatures are leading to rising sea levels, which in turn increases the risk of flooding.
Seasons have shifted by about 10-20 days
The Main Geophysical Observatory named after Voeikov confirmed the shift of seasons by a month due to climate change.
By the middle of the 21st century, Arctic ice may completely melt in summer
The planet’s “refrigerator” has broken down. The Arctic Ocean will be completely free of summer ice by 2030. This assumption was put forward by scientists in connection with the noticeable warming of the Arctic Ocean and the melting of Arctic ice.