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Eco Crash News, 2018: Observing Our Rapidly Shifting Seasons and Ecosystems
CHANGING WEATHER,
&
CHANING WORLD,
NEWS
2018
December 16, 2018
The transitions between seasons, their basic character, their timing, temp, and humidity transitions have all changed. The directions from which the seasonal winds blow have changed. These changes are reverberating through and disrupting webs of life that wrap around the whole planet.
Blooming, feeding, mating, and migration patterns of all living things are changing around the world.
Here we track the obvious and the subtle human affects on Nature. The club and the knife, if you will.
LAST MONTHS' CLIMATE NEWS: October through December 2017
Updated
December 16
HEALTH & FITNESS, and CLIMATE
Are the Lunatics Running the Asylum?
Organic food worse for the climate?
December 13
ECO-CRASHING ANTARCTIC ICE NEWS
Increasing Antarctic Snowing Replacing a Third of Increasing Ice Loss
Snow over Antarctica buffered sea level rise during last century
December 12
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: END of COLD ARCTIC
Global Ramifications
Arctic Report Card Documents 'Cascading Effects' Of Warming Ocean Temperatures,
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: WEATHER, WATER, and MASSIVE GROWTH
THE PAST
Past: 41% Sierra & Rocky Mountains Snow Pack Loss since ‘82
Future: 79% of That Gone by 2100 (see research below)
Last 35 Years: As Snow Disappears, the Sierras and Rockies Are Shrinking
December 11
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: WEATHER, WATER, and MASSIVE GROWTH
THE FUTURE
79% Drop in Sierra Snowpack by 2100
California’s Current Irresponsible Population at Risk?
Why’s Our Corporate Leadership Growing our Population into Disaster?
GREED
Sierra Snowpack Could Drop Significantly by End of Century
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: END of COLD, PERMAFROST
All Alaska-North Canadian Infrastructure at “Immediate” Risk
Study: Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century
December 5
FISH NEWS: End of Spring-Run Chinook Draws Near
No Genetic Reserve in Fall-Run Salmon Populations
Human Actions Impact Wild Salmon's Ability to Live, let Alone, Evolve
ECO-CRASHING OCEAN NEWS
Waterworld on the Way
Greenland Ice Sheet Melt 'Off the Charts' Compared with past Four Centuries
November 29
ECO-CRASH NEWS
Fourth National Climate Assessment,
U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, November 2018.
ECOCRASH NEWS
More Coordinated Global-Scale Heatwaves in Our Future
Global Regions Increasingly Suffering, and to Suffer Simultaneous Hot, Dry Conditions
ECOCRASHING NEWS
Climate Research, 2018: Extreme Heat Expanding with the End of Cold
Extreme Heat Increasing in Both Summer and Winter
ANTHROPOCENE
Interdependence of Ecosystems Could be Our Ultimate House of Cards
Global Warming Increases the Risk of an Extinction Domino Effect
November 28
FISH, WATER, OCEANS, ICE, & PEOPLE
Melting Southern Continent Delivers Global Climate & Ocean Surprises
Antarctic Melting Slows Atmospheric Warming and Speeds Sea Level Rise
ECO-CRASH NEWS
Massive Climate Study Finds Massive Climate Problems
Greenhouse Gasses Triggering More Changes Than We Can Handle
November 13
CLIMATE CHANGES DRAMATICALLY UNDERESTIMATED
Statistical Reanalysis Reveals-Explains Anomalous Weather Trends
Overlooked Precipitation Trends Reveal underestimated Global Risks
November 1
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
77% of Wilderness GONE
October 29
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
Digital Food For Thought
DIRECT to RESEARCH:
Bitcoin can push global warming above 2 degrees C in a couple decades,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, October 29, 2018.
October 25
CLIMATE CHANGING NEWS
Expect Extreme Weather
OU meteorologist expects severe drought and heavy rain events to worsen globally
October 24
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS
Devils Hole in Amagosa Desert Points to Dry Future
Climate change: US desert areas to become even drier
HEALTH, FITNESS, & CLIMATE
End of Sleeping Sickness?
Zambezi Too Hot for Tsetse Flies
October 19
SUM of all FEARS POLL
Government Corruption & Environmental Destruction
The Corporate Growth Machine of Death Recognized and Feared by Citizens
October 18
CLIMATE CHANGING RAPIDLY NEWS
More Permafrost Problems
Arctic greening thaws permafrost, boosts runoff
October16
ANTHROPOCENE
Mammalian Collapse Continues
Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis
HEALTH & FITNESS
BEER-O-POCOLYPSE?
Barley Biting the Global Warming Dust
October 9
CLIMATE CHANGING OUR AMAZING PLANET
The 2018 UN, “DUH,” Report
'Incredibly grim' UN Global Warming Report Calls for Global Action
CLIMATE CRASHING NEWS
EXTREME WEATHER, The Fun is Just Getting Started
Rutgers Predicts More Extreme Wet & Dry Weather as Warming Progresses
ECO-CRASH NEWS
One Politician Finally Admits 7 Degrees by 2100
Trump Calls 7-degree Rise by 2100
October 2
HEATED CACTUS THREATENS HUMMERS
Desert Migrations Threatened by Shifted Blooming Time
Ocotillos Early Blooming leaving Hummingbirds without Food
CLIMATE CHANGING PLANTS
Taller Plants, Now Our Hot Climate’s Thickening their Leaves?
High CO2 Thickens Plant Leaves, Triggering Runaway Greenhouse Effect?
October 1
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
Arctic Plants are Getting Rapidly Taller
Taller species are taking over in a warming Arctic
September 25th
ECO-CRASHING CONSEQUENCES
Megacity Thieves, Grouse, and Ranchers Fight over Diminishing Waters
Los Angeles reduces Eastern Sierra water deliveries because of climate change
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
UPDATED
Cooking the National Parks
National parks hotter and drier. Grim outlook for 2100
UPDATED
Sept. 25
Effects of Climate Change in National Parks Could Be Lessened
September 20th
OCEANS, ICE, & WATER, SOUTH
The Old, Cold One is Going Away. Eventually...
Moderate warming could melt East Antarctic
OCEANS, ICE, & WATER, NORTH
The End of Cold, 2018: Ice Caps Racing Away
Unprecedented ice loss in Vavilov Ice Cap
September 18th
CLIMATE CRASHING NEWS
Tropical Planet
Tropics are widening as predicted by climate models
ANTHROPOCENE
Extinct Before Discovery
New Plant Discovered in Museum Probably Extinct
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
All Aspects of Nature are Degrading Rapidly
To Save Ourselves It's Time to Rethink Our Economic System
September 11th
CORPORATE GREENERY
Greening the Corporate Growth Machine of Death
California Aims to Drop Fossil Fuels for Electricity by 2045
September 6
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
Amazing Ancient Human-Climate Interactions
Ancient farmers Deflected us from Ice Ages, Industry Now Frying Planet?
August 31
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
California Ecology Crashing as Population Continues to Explode...
California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment
ECO-CRASHING GEOLOGICAL NEWS
Drought Never Ended?
Groundwater loss sinks California land at alarming rate
August 21
MOUNTAIN SAFETY
Smoke and Fire: Two Reports
1> 1.9 million acres burned or burning, Smoke Covers Western US
2> HOT, HOT, HOT: Fire Season Just Beginning in California
August 16
CLIMATE-CRASHING NEWS
Permafrost Melt Lakes Surges Arctic Methane Release
Yet Another Hidden Trigger-Point Revealed
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
North China Plain Rapidly Becoming Uninhabitable
Along with South Asia & Persian Gulf: Deadly Heat Rising Rapidly around the World
August 15
GEO-CLIMATE CRASH NEWS
Sea Level Rise Assures Bigger Tsunamis
Climate-Driven Sea Level Rise could Multiply Force of Tsunamis
ECO-CRASH NEWS
Two New Analysis Predicts Hot Times Ahead in Short and Long Terms
Short Term: A New Form of Climate Analysis, Long Term: Crashing Through Tipping Points
August 9
ECO-CRASH-HEALTH NEWS
Heat Dangers Rising, Many Will Suffer
Research Predicts Warming Climate Will Drive Thousands to ER
ECO-CRASH NEWS
The New Normal Emerging in California
July 2018 warmest month in California history
August 4
ECO-CRASH NEWS
The Great Northern Hemisphere Heat Wave of 2018
Two Articles: Sweden Shrinking and Europe Frying
August 2
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
The Great Northern Hemisphere Heatwave of 2018
The New Normal is HERE, Until it Gets Hotter...
Record 2018 Death Valley & The Northern Hemispheric Heat Wave of 2018
August 1
WARM SOILS, MICROBES, and HEATWAVES
Two Pieces of Soil-Climate Research
1> Climate change-driven droughts are getting hotter
2> As temperatures rise, Earth's soil is 'breathing' more heavily
July 31
ECO-CRASH NEWS
Climate-Driven Antrhopocene
Record Heat, Fires Worsened By Climate Change
ECO-CRASH NEWS
Weather Changed in the US Northeast
What is causing more extreme precipitation in the northeast?
The Climate-Driven Anthropocene
Killing Ourselves and Everything Else
Heatwave deaths will rise steadily by 2080 as globe warms up
July 24
NORTH HEMISPHERE HEATWAVE
Everything Frying: Three Articles
US, Europe, & S Cal All Frying, Heatwaves, Records, & More Coming
July 19
ECO-CRASH NEWS
The Seasons Have Already Changed
A 'fingerprint' for Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Seasons
July 7
ECO-CRASH NEWS
Freak Weather Extremes
July 6
ECO-CRASH NEWS
Scorcing the Planet
Four Articles: LA & the Whole World Frying
July 5
ECO-CRASH NEWS
Climate Models Radically Underestimating Scale of Change
Global warming may be twice what climate models predict
June 18
ECO-BROADLY CRASHING NEWS
Scope & Depth of Warming Explored
Looks at Temp Models in the Past & Future
GLOBAL WARMING NEWS
Hansen is Correct
The Climate has already Radically Changed, and is Still Rapidly Changing
ECO-CRASH RESEARCH: BIRDS
Multiplex of Environmental Factors Failing
Juvenile Albatross at Risk in Warming Arctic
June 5
Seasonal Changes & Fire Triggers
The New Normal Quantified
2017: 71-K Fires, 66 Lives Lost, 18 Billion Dollars, Much More to Come
May 30
THE MOTHER OF ALL ECO-CRASH NEWS: GROWTH
Growth Drives Growing Heat Killing Clouds & Further Compounding Heating
Clouds Disappear, Heatwave & Fire Risks Grow with our Wildly Irresponsible Growth
May 28
ECO-CRASH NEWS: WATER
Identifying The Physical Problem
“...how easily we could crash Lake Mead!”
May 24
PLANETARY ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
Equatorial Activity and Milankovitch Running the Ice Ages?
A Complex Tapestry of Life and Energy Interacting?
May 23
HEALTH-FITNESS-CLIMATE
Global Warming Squeezing Rice
Health of Billions balanced on Global Warming
ECO CRASH NEWS
Already Hot Lands Getting Much Hotter
Four Degrees Rise by 2084
Corporate Growth Machine of Death Blows Paris out of the Water
May 18
CHANGING CLIMATE
Changing Odds of Crop Success
Tough winter weather devastates local cherry, blueberry crops
May 16
ECO-CRASH NEWS
A Bland Restatement of Important Facts
Climate Change Is Making Droughts Worse In The Western US
May 14
SELF-PERCEPTION and POLITICAL POLICY
THE ROOT OF OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM
&
The Big Distraction
Corruption Sloshes Back and Forth while Greed Overwhelms Nature
May 13
ECO CRASH NEWS
Autopsy of a Modern Monster Storm
May 9
ECOLOGICAL CRASH NEWS
2018 California Environmental Proctection Agency Report
May 8
NATURALLY CHANGING CLIMATE CYCLES
Longest Orbital Cycles Proven and Measured
Super-Milankowitch Cycles a Half-Billion Years Long
MAY 2
CRASHING CLIMATE CONSEQUENCES
World's Lakes Changing
Global Lake Evaporation Changing, Accelerating
THE SOUTH POLE-ANTARCTIC
Midwinter Antarctic Lakes Surprise Everyone
Freak Warm Winds Melt Snow During Antarctic Winter
April 30
The REAL Costs of "GLOBALISM"
The Corporate Engine of Planatary Death
Globacide
Science Measures the Costs of Killing the American Middle Class & Our Whole Planet at the Same Time
LOCAL EFFECTS
Climate Change "Globalized" EcoSystem Burn-Out Growing
Sophistication of Life Collapsing Everywhere: The Klamath
April 23
CLIMATE CRASH NEWS
Cal to Ride the Tiger
Weather Extremes to Lash California
Timing of Life Changing with Changing Seasons
Massive Droughts are Here, More & Bigger on the Way
April 13
ECO-CRASH NEWS
Timing and Character of Seasons have Changed
Are Still Chaning as Nature-Ecosystems-Watersheds Crash
April 10
Hotbed of Diversity-Fertility Badly Damaged, Disappearing
Indonesian Archipelago Seagrasses in Rapid Decline
CHANGED WEATHER CHANGES EVERYTHING
Timing Changes of Seasons Ripping the Timing of Life Apart
Deep Relationships Composing the "Engines of Life" are Disassembling Themselves
March 30
Sahara Desert Growing
March 29
West Greenland Melting
Fastest Seen in Historical Record
March 27
Status of Global Migrations
Land Degradation Critical
3.2 Billion in Degraded Conditions
March 21
JUST the CLIMATE FACTS?
Our Modern Scopes Monkey Trial?
Climate Science vs Corporate Greens in Court?
RATES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
When will Climate-Changed Weather Dominate?
March 20
ECO CRASH PICKING UP SPEED
Killing the Whole Planet
How Big is the Carbon Gun We're Triggering?
CONSEQUENCES
March 14
Endless Summer Coming
Global Warming is Frying the Whole Middle East
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS
Karma Coming Quickly
Threat to the Foundation of Life
Global Warming Killing Phytoplankton
March 13
RADICAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Polar Vortex Effect
Further Quantified: Causes & Effects
March 8
PLANATARY CLIMATE CHANGE CHAOS
The End of Cold
Eco Crash News: Furthest Northern Arctic Permafrost to Melt
What's Going On?
Whole Southwest of US Undergoing Aridification
March 5
RADICAL SEASONAL CHANGE ALREADY HAPPENED
The "New Normal" Warmer, Drier, & Wetter High Sierra
Too Much or Not Enough, and it's Still Changing Rapidly
THE PROGRESS OF DESTRUCTION
Three Western Wildfire Studies
Wildfires to Worsen in the West
This BBQ is Just Getting Started!
2017 California Wildfires Have Global Impact
March 2
CHANGING ARCTIC SEASONS
Harbigner of Deadly Changes at Four Days per Ten Degrees
Feburary 27
THE ANCIENT BANTU KILLED CENTRAL AFRICA?
That's NOTHING: We Americans are Killing the whole Modern World
Feburary 21
KARMA COMES RAPIDLY
Global Weather Changes
Feburary 20, 2018
STRIPPING & COOKING THE PLANET
Lobotomizing the Web of Life
Killing the Keys to Complexity
Feburary 19, 2018
RADICAL CLIMATE CHANGES EVERYWHERE
Climate Change Hits the Ground Running
Grazing Land Increasingly Unreliable
Feburary 17, 2018
CRASHING CLIMATE NEWS
Polar Vortex Freaking Out
Polar Vortex Splits Under Warming Stratosphere
CREATING A CRISIS
Mega City Morons
Mexico City & MEGACITIES: How to Screw Everything
WATER CRISIS
California Drought-Water Crisis
Descriptions with No Analysis: Let's Fix That
CLIMATE CRASH NEWS
An Analysis of Degrading Climate and Awesome Atmospheric Beauty
Climate Impact and Fine Imagery of Glaciers, Storms, Fires, and Clouds
WARMING BLOWBACK
Massive Tibet Ice Avalances of 2016 Examined
Four Causes Discovered: Climate a Factor in Three
Feburary 14, 2018
Changing Global Weather
Warming Arctic Chilling Dixie?
Warming Arctic Allowing Frigid Air Masses South
Feburary 12, 2018
MEGACITY FILTH
Plumes of Atmospheric Filth
Human Heat & Smog Concentrations Punching Holes in Nature's Face
EVERYTHING'S CHANGING RAPIDLY
Higher-Faster
Feburary 8, 2018
Heat and Critters Marching Relentlessly North
Opossums Pushing North to the Limits of Frostbite
Feburary 6, 2018
Ozone Progress and Problems
More Problems than Progress
RADICAL CLIMATE/SEASONAL CHANGES
Planet Earth is Rapidly Changing
Nature Losing its Integrated Timing
Life no longer supporting itself
New Global Warming Problem
A Tidal Wave of Permafrost Mercury
January 31
THE CRASHING CLIMATE
We Should be Much Cooler Right Now
Humans more than a "blip" on Planet Geophysical History
January 24
EVOLVING WEATHER
More Hot Days than Expected
Recent Huge El Nino
Shifted Global Temps into New Gear
January 23
Global Temp Targets Missed?
Turtle Trouble Widespread
Flordia too, Warm Sand & Water Dooms Turtles?
January 19
CONSEQUENCES
The End of ICE
Muskoxen and Calves, Arctic Mammals, All Suffering
January 16
Happy Delta Smelt? (Nope)
January 13
WATER, FISH, & THE SEA
Killing the Salmon
Two Pieces of Research
Pesticide Runoff Killing Salmon & Orca
Overwhelmed Terrain Poisoning Overwhelmed Rivers & Sea
The Anthropocene: Genetic Salmon Genocide
"Gene-O-cide"
Shifting World of Turtles
Warming Climate Changed Aussie Turtles Female
January 9
Rockies Broken
A Desert Full of "Consumers" Depend on Colorado River Water
2017 Floods, Fires, Storms
Most Expensive Disaster Year Ever
The Biggest Tipping Point
Warming can "short-circut" Food Chains?
Humans: Salting the Earth
And the Sky, the Water, the Fields
January 4
United Kingdom’s Version of Arctic Vortex
Climate Shifting Radically Everywhere
Warming Times
January 3. 2018
Central-Northeast-Southeast US SUPERCHILL
Now a Supercharged Northeaster
Storm Formation off Coasts of Flordia, Georgia & Carolinas
&
Moving North to Atlantic New England
Earth Out of Balance
New “Temp Profile” Reveals Destructive Relationships
January 1. 2018
Aridification Baked-In
Vast Global Ecosystem Changes Underway
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