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Photo Credit: NSIDC NOAA and UCAR Host 20th Anniversary Celebration of NOAA's Local weather and Global Change Postdoctoral Program
NOAA's Environment Program Office and UCAR's Visiting Scientist Programs is hosting a special celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. A two-day symposium to honor and celebrate the program's success will be held on April 14-15. 2011. The event will include scheduled talks by program alumni and invited guests.
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CLIMAS Study Predicts Rising Seas Will Affect
Major U.S. Coastal Cities by 2100
According to new research led by Local weather Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) researchers at the University of Arizona, rising sea levels could threaten an average of 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100. Their recent paper in Local weather Change Letters provides the first analysis of vulnerability to sea-level rise that includes every U.S. coastal city in the lower 48 with a population of 50,
office x64,000 or more. At the current rate of global warming, sea level is projected to continue rising after 2100 by as much as 1 meter per century. Impacts from sea-level rise could include erosion, temporary flooding and permanent inundation. The researchers found that the Gulf and southern Atlantic coasts could be particularly hard hit. Miami,
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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and CPO
Co-Sponsor Local weather Change Course
Environment Change: Impacts, Solutions and Perceptions
Thursdays, 11:45–1:15, Mar. 24–Apr.14, Apr. 28–May 19
Learn about the scientific evidence for environment change, i.e., global warming? What are some of the anticipated impacts on civilization and the environment from this change? What are some of the mitigation and adaptation measures that can be taken to lessen those impacts? What are citizens' views on climate change and how does scientific information (or lack thereof) influence these views?
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Thawing permafrost will accelerate global warming in decades to come, says new study
One- to two-thirds of Earth's permafrost will disappear by 2200, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a study by researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
"The amount of carbon released is equivalent to half the amount of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere since the dawn of the industrial age," said NSIDC scientist Kevin Schaefer. "That is a lot of carbon."
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NOAA Environment Monitoring Summit
In October 2010,
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Tropical Atlantic sees weaker trade winds and more rainfall
Earth's global temperature has been rising gradually over the last decades, but the warming has not been the same everywhere. Scientists are therefore trying to pin down how the warming has affected regional climates because that is what really matters to people, and to adaptation and mitigation strategies. Their efforts,
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