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Stephen Riser and a team of UW researchers are helping to lead an effort to monitor the Southern Ocean
Stephen Riser, from the School of Oceanography, is a chief scientist of an expedition to better understand the Southern Ocean by dropping robotic floats around Antarctica to monitor carbon dioxide uptake. He and other UW researchers are currently two-thirds of the way through a month long voyage.
Read more at UW TodayUW Applied Physics Lab scientists--Steele, Stern and Schweiger--talk about their approach to sharing climate science in a lunch time conversation with Jerry Lange, Seattle Times.
"For years now, climate scientists have seen explaining their work as a way to help the public make good decisions in response to global warming — without politics."
Seattle Times article by Jerry LangeEric Steig was mentioned in The Washington Post
Eric Steig, of the Earth and Space Sciences department was mentioned in The Washington Post about the current destabilization of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
Read more at The Washington PostPCC Graduate Twila Moon talks about mapping Greenland glaciers
Glaciers and ice sheets move in unique and hard to map patterns as observed by satellite images that help map the speed of flowing ice in Greenland, Antarctica and mountain ranges around the world. Twila Moon, a graduate of the PCC, talks about using this evidence to help map out glaciers in Greenland. With the new database, she can study the movements of more than 240 glaciers, which comprise nearly all of the outlets from the ice sheet.
Read more at The University of BristolThe Program on Climate Change: Moving Forward
by Miriam Bertram, LuAnne Thompson and Greg Quetin LuAnne Thompson opened our PCC-sponsored gathering “Where do we go from here?” on Thursday, Nov. 17 with a quote by Winston Churchill: “It’s not always enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what is required.” John Kerry shared that call to arms the day before, as part of his remarks at the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Read moreOn being a climate scientist
By LuAnne Thompson Director, University of Washington Program on Climate Change Walters Professor of Oceanography, Adjunct Professor Physics and Atmospheric Sciences This past week has been a whirlwind and I feel like I am finally catching my breath and wanted to share my reflections on what role the Program on Climate Change should play both on and off campus over the next year.
Read moreWatch it and share it--DiCaprio's Before the Flood
The powerful, beautiful, horrifying story of our time.
Watch on YouTubeCarbon storage in WA state forests is too small and too risky to play a serious role fighting climate change
Richard Gammon, Emeritus Professor, UW Department of Chemistry, UW School of Oceanography Steven Emerson, Professor, UW School of Oceanography The scientific community is almost universally in agreement that climate change (and ocean acidification) are severe threats that demand a rapid response, with putting a price on fossil fuel CO2 emissions being a top priority. Far and away the single biggest contributor to climate change is CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion.
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