Tag Archives: Sea level rise

In this presentation of Climate Matters.TV ~ Part 2, at COP 22, Marrakech, Stuart Scott (UPFSI) talks with Prof. Peter Wadhams (Emeritus Prof. of Ocean Physics, Cambridge University) and Ms Maria Pia Casarini Wadhams (Dir. Italian Institute of Polar Geography / Editor of IL POLO Journal), about indigenous Arctic communities ...

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr. Anders Levermann Greenland: There have been a number of studies showing what the long-term sea level rise from Greenland will be, and it turns out that there is a threshold in the Greenland ice dynamics and the Greenland ice melting, ...

Elon Musk covers climate change in 12 minutes Okay, Elon Musk stutters quite a bit, sometimes stumbling over words and funnily enough is quite difficult to listen too, yet his understanding and way that he views climate change is really quite amazing. Instead of doing the usual association to the more ...

The National Trusts Organisation and the International Polar Foundation presented on Culture on the Move: Sea Level Rise, Cultural Heritage and Climate Mobility, at the UN COP 22, Marrakech – When communities are displaced by climate change, we discover the many ways in which cultural heritage intersects with climate mobility. ...

Monitoring of the world’s water resources is challenging due to limited large scale observations, particularly a lack of observations of water beneath the land surface. NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission provides an unprecedented view of the regional net terrestrial water balance, with global coverage, over a now ...

US Center Presenter from Shell Oil Company, US, speaks on Shell’s Global Adaptation process in terms of Climate Change risks, operational hazards and challenges at facilities around the world, at COP 20, Lima. In terms of Risk Assessment for the global group, we started by brainstorming in ‘think-tank’ sessions, how ...

Presenters from Korea Adaptation Centre for Climate Change (KACCC) speak on Korea’s Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation efforts, including International Cooperation for Adaptation, at COP 20, Lima, Peru. Currently the degree of climate change on the Korean Peninsula is greater than the global average, even with Korean Government’s strong commitment, ...