A new study of satellite data from NASA says that the overall ice sheet that covers Antarctica has been slowly thickening. However, the two sides of the continent are seeing contrasting effects: warming conditions in West Antarctica have been contributing to the retreat pof the ices sheets there, and increasing the destabilization of the glaciers.read more
While periodic heat waves can claim the lives of people that are vulnerable to such conditions, such as the very young and the elderly, a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Loyola Marymount University shows that if global warming continues unabated, regions such as the Persian Gulf will suffer prolonged heat waves that will exceed the human threshold of survivability for even the fittest of individuals. The study itself showed the usual worldwide effects that have been expected for some time, but when these climate models were applied to the Persian Gulf, it was found that the combination of the region’s low elevations, clear skies and shallow waters created prolonged heat-wave conditions that will exceed the ability of the human body to control heat exchange.read more
A new climatological study has illustrated the potential for a scenario similar to the one depicted in Whitley Strieber and Art Bell’s book ‘The Coming Global Superstorm’, where global warming will lead to a sudden drop in global average temperatures.
Researchers at Southampton University in the UK have utilized the advanced ECHAM atmospheric circulation computer model developed at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in their new study, of which found that global warming resulted in both the interruption of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), more commonly known as the North Atlantic Current, and a sharp decrease in global temperatures.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released average global temperature data for the month of August, which shows that it was the hottest August on record, and also the hottest month of 2015. This also marks this year’s summer as the hottest on record, and puts 2015 in line to be the hottest year on record.