sealevelrise
In the next couple of years, everyone on Earth will lose a second of time but when exactly this happens is now being influenced by human-driven climate change. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second - called a "negative leap second" - around 2029, a study in the journal Nature said Wednesday. Without global warming, however, this time change would likely have happened three years earlier in 2026. "This is an unprecedent...
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We already know that 2023 was the hottest year on record by a significant margin. But a new report from the UN’s meteorological agency reveals how many other symptoms of climate change were off the charts last year. “Climate change is about much more than temperatures,” says the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)’s secretary-general Celeste Saulo. “What we witnessed in 2023, especially with the unprecedented ocean warmth, glacier retreat and Antarctic sea ice loss, is cause for particular concern.” The WMO’s latest State of the Global Climate report takes stock of numerous indicators of t...
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Back-to-back storms lashed the US Northeast in January, leaving coastal homes in tatters. Rental properties in Hampton, New Hampshire, owned by Haim Levy were hammered by nearly 60 cm of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and causing him to evacuate tenants to safer ground. “I put them in hotels and everything. So it was brutal, for everybody. And at the apartment I have no floors; I have nothing,” says Levy. “It's not fun.” Many scientists who study the intersection of climate change, flooding, winter storms and sea level rise agree the kind of damage Levy experien...
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