Today in climate change (6 July 2016)

Please find links below to some aspects of climate change and extreme weather that were in the news today…

Why is Antarctic sea ice expanding when climate change is causing the world to warm? http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/121622/expanding-antarctic-sea-ice-linked-natural-variability

Constraining and enabling factors to using long-term climate information in decision-making http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14693062.2016.1191008?journalCode=tcpo20

Southeast Asian Fires Emitted Most Carbon Since 1997 http://www.climatecentral.org/news/southeast-asian-fires-most-carbon-1997-20491?utm_content=buffer8bee9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

This new Antarctica study is bad news for climate change doubters https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/07/05/this-new-antarctica-study-is-bad-news-for-climate-change-doubters/

Ancient ocean temperatures may finally prove how dinosaurs died http://www.wired.co.uk/article/dinosaur-mass-extinction-volcanoes

New research: climate may be more sensitive and situation more dire https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jul/05/new-research-climate-may-be-more-sensitive-and-situation-more-dire?CMP=share_btn_tw

Can New York Be Saved in the Era of Global Warming? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/can-new-york-be-saved-in-the-era-of-global-warming-20160705

Research finding: Education is the key to action on climate change http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/6RtBCeg2kgKfEUMby64LgK/Climate-change-is-an-education-issue.html

One in five Americans expressed discontent at the relative silence from candidates around climate change https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/05/climate-change-voters-2016-election-issues?CMP=share_btn_tw

Warming unlikely to limit chances of UK soggy summers http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36704400

Weekly cycles in peak time temperatures and urban heat island intensity http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/7/074003

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