Climate Letter #986

A new report on the current flooding in parts of South Asia.  River flooding is especially acute in Bangladesh and the surrounding region that includes Nepal and northern India.  Hundreds of villages have been submerged or stranded; more than 24 million people somehow affected.  “Millions have been forced to camp on any patch of dry land they can find.”

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Review of an important new study of the way permafrost in Alaska is thawing (NY Times).  Permafrost contains an abundance of decayed plant matter, some of which will be converted to CO2 or methane upon thawing.  Scientists can now estimate that globally these emissions can contribute a full one degree C to global warming over the next several centuries.  The article is widely instructive about the nature of permafrost.
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A report on the dying off of vast amounts of kelp around the world (Associated Press).  This feature story is based on a number of scientific studies and interviews, very instructive.  The damage is in many ways comparable to that being done to coral reefs, which gets much more coverage, and for at least one big reason that is the same—the warming of ocean waters.
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A report on how lakes are heating up around the world (Deutsche Welle).  A whole variety of undesirable effects are laid out in this article, the worst of which is complete evaporation.  Water temperature increases in lakes often exceed that of atmospheric change.
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The widening disparity between air temperatures over land and oceans.  This post has a fascinating chart produced by NASA.  As Joe Romm says, it’s too bad we live on land.  Notice how the disparity increases incrementally mostly during times when the overall average is rising, but not when there is an extended pause.
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New answers are found for why trees die during a long drought.  It’s not just because of the shortage of water, they also literally starve to death due to an unavoidable reduction of carbon intake.  We also get a warning related to the observed slowdown in the time of recovery needed by trees following periods of drought.
Carl

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