Please find links below to some aspects of climate change and extreme weather that were in the news today…
Why the Earth’s past has scientists so worried about sea level rise https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/07/09/why-the-earths-past-has-scientists-so-worried-about-sea-level-rise/?postshare=7481468187471127&tid=ss_tw-bottom
Marshall Islanders Set To Become Climate Refugees Before International Law Can Catch Up http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marshall-islands-climate-refugees_us_577e7996e4b01edea78cc4bc?utm_hp_ref=climate-change
Southwest USA Extreme Heat June 2016 http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/southwest-us-extreme-heat-june-2016#/.V4FdAPhe-HQ.twitter
Double Shock of El Niño, La Niña Could Affect 100 Million http://www.climatecentral.org/news/el-nino-la-nina-affect-100-million-people-20506
Threatened by climate change, Mozambique’s Beira bets on urban renewal http://news.trust.org/item/20160708105817-a0kuz/
A new first-of-a-kind study works out how many of the deaths in Paris and London are down to the heatwave being intensified by human-caused climate change https://www.carbonbrief.org/study-links-heatwave-deaths-london-paris-climate-change?utm_content=buffer51e56&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
How a single word sparked a four-year saga of climate fact-checking and blog backlash https://theconversation.com/how-a-single-word-sparked-a-four-year-saga-of-climate-fact-checking-and-blog-backlash-62174
The recent temperatures experienced over the past three decades in Australia, New Zealand and surrounding oceans are warmer than any other 30-year period over the past 1,000 years http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00781.1
Should the US help this island from oblivion? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/should-the-united-states-save-tangier-island-from-oblivion.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Closing the Pacific Rainfall Data Void https://eos.org/project-updates/closing-the-pacific-rainfall-data-void
In NC, dangerous delays and delusions on sea-level rise http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article88567407.html?platform=hootsuite
Coastal Cities, Critical Infrastructure Unprepared to Face the Rising Tides of Climate Change https://robertscribbler.com/2016/07/08/coastal-cities-critical-infrastructure-unprepared-to-face-the-rising-tides-of-climate-change/