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Study Provides Evidence That Low-Level Clouds Act as Positive Feedback to Climate Change

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Low-level stratiform clouds—which play an important climatic role because of their net cooling effect on the global climate—appear to dissipate as the ocean warms, thereby enhancing the warming (i.e., a positive feedback), according to a new study of the NE Pacific by researchers from the University of Miami and UC San Diego.

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We Are ALL Tongan

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But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis. Today all 3000 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands have been relocated as they become the first climate change refugees. They were “placed.&#. Mine too of course.

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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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The largest greening BUAs are Pearl River Delta (PRD), Tokyo, Yangtze River Delta (YRD), Miami, Beijing, Chicago, Seoul, Tianjin, São Paulo, and Osaka. Of the 841 cities studied, 325 showed significant greening with more than 10% of greening BUAs. 101 of these are located in China.

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Study Links Accelerating Uplift of Greenland to Accelerated Melting of Ice

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A study by a team of researchers from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami found that the acceleration of upward vertical motion of the rocky margins of Greenland indicates that accelerated ice loss in western Greenland started in the late 1990s.

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Hawaii responds to global warming threat against Waikiki beach

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Climate scientists have issued frequent warning about the effects of rising sea levels from global warming on cities such as Miami and New York. that may suffer the effects of climate change could be Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, according to a 2017 report by the Hawaii Climate Commission report, which showed.

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World's largest solar powered boat reaches Cancun for climate change conference

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Last week they arrived in Miami for a promotional stop, and they are now in Cancun for the UN Climate Change. The TÛRANOR PlanetSolar is a large 100% solar powered "multi-hull" catamaran boat that's on an around the world trip.

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New Study Shows that Sea Level Rise Resulting From Collapse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Would be Non-Uniform; Some Regions to See Levels Much Higher Than Previously Predicted

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Recent projections of sea-level rise after a future collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (for example, the Fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report) assume that meltwater will spread uniformly (eustatically) across the oceans once marine-based sectors of the West Antarctic are filled.

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