Please find below some links to important climate change news for this week…
Australia is blowing its carbon budget, projections reveal https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/05/australia-is-blowing-its-carbon-budget-projections-reveal
Landsat comparison of Semenova Glacier in 1998 and 2016 http://blogs.agu.org/fromaglaciersperspective/2016/12/01/semienova-glacier-kyrgyzstan-area-volume-velocity-decline/
Kiribati: Climate Change and Migration – Relationships Between Household Vulnerability, Human Mobility and Climate Change http://collections.unu.edu/view/UNU:5903
Climate scientists condemn article claiming global temperatures are falling https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/03/climate-change-scientists-house-panel-global-temperatures-misleading
Climate countdown: is Australia on track to avoid catastrophe? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2016/dec/05/climate-countdown-is-australia-on-track-to-avoid-catastrophe
Can we blame climate change for thunderstorm asthma? https://theconversation.com/can-we-blame-climate-change-for-thunderstorm-asthma-69564?utm_content=bufferb51ff&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
An Unusually Warm Arctic Year: Sign of Future Climate Turmoil? http://ht.ly/HHyv306PTgW
Extreme rainfall risks could triple in the U.S. under climate change, scientists warn https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/05/extreme-rainfall-risks-could-triple-in-the-u-s-under-climate-change-scientists-warn/?postshare=5021480973262071&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.c01182da520b
Polar Sea Ice the Size of India Reportedly Vanishes in Record Heat https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/polar-sea-ice-the-size-of-india-reportedly-vanishes-in-record-heat/?wt.mc=SA_Twitter-Share
We did it again! November is hottest on record https://thinkprogress.org/satellites-hottest-november-on-record-93fa59887f09#.qk6lbdoqq
Why the thawing arctic matters, and how to communicate it http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/news-events/thawing-arctic-matters-communicate-talk-eli-kintisch-award-winning-correspondent-science-magazine/
Sea ice extent in Arctic and Antarctic reached record lows in November https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/06/arctic-antarctic-ice-melt-november-record?CMP=twt_gu
Greenland Once Lost Nearly All Its Ice—and Could Again https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/greenland-once-lost-nearly-all-its-ice-and-could-again/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_ENGYSUS_NEWS
Climate change could render Sudan ‘uninhabitable’ http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/07/africa/sudan-climate-change/
Climate shenanigans at the ends of the Earth: why has sea ice gone haywire? https://theconversation.com/climate-shenanigans-at-the-ends-of-the-earth-why-has-sea-ice-gone-haywire-69485
Climate change will bring more frequent and fierce rainstorms to cities like Houston https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/boomtown-flood-town/?wt.mc=SA_Twitter-Share