Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

the lands being slowly inundted are also causing the newly planted trees (the banks ner Avalon) to drown. An entire area around Salem NJ is overlying deep sand reav=ches in which entire forests were inundated and logged out after the 1850;s. Replanting has been a false hope because the salt water weges underlying the fresh ground water has forced the ground water to rise .

Delaware used to hve an effective "Coastal Zoning ACt" which was supposed to consider inundation due to Climte Change. This went into effect in the late 70's and the Developers fought is and , because they hired and paid for a lot of the hillbilly state legislators, they got their way. Delaware is now built up to the shoreline and almost as densely as NJ. A good storm will happen within my lifetime and wipe away many houses, but the developer will still come back and build.
I feel that, before we get too fancy about what trees to plnt qnd what riprin zones, we should make laws that say,
"If your house gets swept in a storm once, insurance will cover. If it gets swept twice, we aint payin you squat. Ya wanna rebuild, its your personal nickel. I feel that insurance is too accessible .

Abstract
Climate change and increased variability and intensity of climate events, in combination with recovering protected species populations and highly capitalized fisheries, are posing new challenges for fisheries management. We examine socio-ecological features of the unprecedented 2014–2016 northeast Pacific marine heatwave to understand the potential causes for record numbers of whale entanglements in the central California Current crab fishery. We observed habitat compression of coastal upwelling, changes in availability of forage species (krill and anchovy), and shoreward distribution shift of foraging whales. We propose that these ecosystem changes, combined with recovering whale populations, contributed to the exacerbation of entanglements throughout the marine heatwave. In 2016, domoic acid contamination prompted an unprecedented delay in the opening of California’s Dungeness crab fishery that inadvertently intensified the spatial overlap between whales and crab fishery gear. We present a retroactive assessment of entanglements to demonstrate that cooperation of fishers, resource managers, and scientists could mitigate future entanglement risk by developing climate-ready fisheries approaches, while supporting thriving fishing communities.

What would happen if the Earth’s temperature went up a couple of degrees, or if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions doubled? All signs point to terrible effects, from widespread heatwaves to negative impacts on biodiversity. Now, scientists’ predictions have unexpectedly gotten even worse.

Some recent models have even predicted temperature increases in excess of 5 degrees celcius if CO2 emissions, which are setting records, double—an increase of just 3 degrees is expected to be devastating for humanity. In a study of these recent models, researchers found a surprising reason for the change: clouds.

Climate modelers rely on a centralized set of guidelines that enables comparison among their models. The models from this generation will be used to inform this year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and shape policy decisions to mitigate climate change. The world is already worryingly close to the temperature limits set in the Paris climate agreement, so the predictions of the latest climate models come as dire news.

“Most of the differences among models in climate sensitivity come from the clouds,” said Paulo Ceppi, a co-author of the study. “And that's basically because it's really hard to simulate clouds accurately in climate models.”

Ceppi and his co-authors compared models from the two most recent generations of guidelines based on climate sensitivity, a metric that describes the amount of surface warming a doubling in CO2 emissions would produce. Their study was published last month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

While the previous generation of climate models predicted on average a climate sensitivity of 3.3 Kelvin, the authors found that the most recent models average a climate sensitivity of 3.9 K. Additionally, the ranges of climate sensitivity produced by these models grew, from between 2.1 and 4.7 K to between 1.8 and 5.6 K.

Mark Zelinka, the first author of the study, said in an email that the only dramatic change between the two generations of models was how climate warming due to cloud cover had been incorporated. He explained that clouds reflect some sunlight that hits them, and as the planet warms from CO2 emissions, cloud cover will decrease. This in turn causes a positive feedback loop and further warms the climate.

Ceppi added that clouds also have their own greenhouse effects and can act as a blanket in the same way as greenhouse gases. The strength of this property depends on how high a cloud is, adding another layer of complexity that has only recently been incorporated into models.

Just because clouds are being modeled more realistically does not make the model as a whole better, though. In a preprint under review for the journal Earth System Dynamics, researchers at the University of Exeter looked at whether high estimates of climate sensitivity made sense in the context of historical observations.

First author Femke Nijsse said she was spurred to look into sensitivity because the last IPCC report considered a likely range to be lower than what several new models have predicted.

“We were quite surprised that this new generation of models showed quite a few models with a very high sensitivity,” she said.

Nijsse and her team found that at least six current models were inconsistent with historical climate data, likely because of the new cloud modelling.

Ceppi agreed that some of the models predicting a higher sensitivity than before may be unrealistic; this presents a “bit of tension,” since these new models were designed to better represent the climate processes that occur in clouds.

“On the one hand, they should be better, but on the other hand, at least some of these models seem to produce sensitivities that are too high compared with observed temperature changes,” he said. “That's a bit of a puzzle there, that's something we need to resolve.”

While there is some disagreement among the different climate models, Zelinka stressed that the next IPCC report, scheduled for release in 2022, will take into account a number of measurements concerning climate sensitivity. Even so, differences of a Kelvin or two still lead to similar general conclusions, he said.

“In some ways we are splitting hairs when it is well known that CO2 heats the Earth and that even a small amount of global warming is—on the whole—bad for society.”

Climate Change Predictions Have Suddenly Gone Catastrophic. This Is Why

I'm sure the conservatives/tories will continue to deny this--after all, so many of their money boys are in the energy industry.

Seem? You have no idea what I think. In fact, the petroleum industry is the single largest emitter of methane on the planet. Mr. Obama required them to practice methane abatement in 2016. President Plump rescinded that executive order with an executive order of his own just last year. Protecting jobs at such a drastic cost to the next generations is an idiotic idea, and commensurate with what passes for thought in your posts.

Mr Trump is the one who is abandoning the clean water act and is "ordering" the coal industry to once again be free to pollute the water and air while market forces alone are driving coal into energy irrelevancy, (sorta like charcoal smelting iron).

I see the GOP ads are already being run on cable TV, and done in a fashion to sound like "Lies are Truth", and you peopl buy it without question.

Many coastal regions in Europe are in danger from rising sea levels

Take a look at a globe. It's a;l; one ocean, it's just got different names in different places, but it's all one body of watder, and more than three fotiny.urths of the surface is water. Athe water pumped out from low areas behind a dike doesn't bulk up in front of the dike, it joins that one great big body of water and just increases it by a minuscule amount, because in relation to the total amount of water in the one big ovean,m it's really tiny/