Scisnack
Facebook Twitter Vimeo RSS

Main menu

Skip to content
  • Read
    • Climate
      • Air
      • Land
      • Sea
      • Ice
      • People
      • Systems
      • Life
      • Culture
    • Archaeology
    • Earth
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Physics
    • Health
    • Society
    • Outreach
    • Expert
    • News
  • Learn
    • Video Lectures
      • 1. Cutting the Clutter
      • 2. The Active Voice and More
      • 3. Punctuation and Paragraphs
      • 4. The Writing Process
      • 5. Section by section
    • Expert Advice
      • Lynn Dicks
      • Heather Galindo
      • Dallas Murphy
      • Randy Olson
      • Joshua Schimel
      • Daniel Soule
    • Book reviews
  • Write
    • Starting a Writing Group
    • Becoming an author
    • Writing Topics
    • Meeting Overview
  • News
  • Events
    • Event: Where the Science Story Burns! (done)
    • Course: Podcasting in London (done)
    • Town hall event: EGU2014 (done)
    • Town hall event: Ocean Sciences 2014 (done)
  • Groups
    • Climatesnack
    • Archaeosnack
    • Biosnack
  • About
    • Our Objectives
    • Our Audience
    • Our Team
    • Our sponsors
  • Contact

Tag Archives: Climate change

Chew Bahir on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia is a tough and merciless...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Land, People

Did the mega-lakes of Ethiopia make us human?

Author Markus L Fischer Date January 15, 2019
Markus L Fischer
Tagged Climate, Climate change, landscapes, Modelling, Precipitation | Leave a comment |
Oceans slow down global warming but at the cost of “their health”. The oceans...
Chemistry, Sea, Society

Ocean Acidification – the evil twin of global warming

Author Maribel I. García-Ibáñez Date December 19, 2017
Maribel I. García-Ibáñez
Tagged Climate change, climatesnack, Global warming, greenhouse gases, Ocean, ocean acidification | 1 Comment |
How can such landscapes not change the local climate. Earth system models are best tools we have to study the climate and how...
Climate, Society

Politics: the forgotten climate driver

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date December 16, 2016
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged Climate change, climate change and politics, climate migration, politics, urban climate | Leave a comment |
The denial of climate science is wide spread. Most people have been confronted with...
Climate, People, Society

How to respond to climate science denial

Author Karin van der Wiel Date October 5, 2015
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged Climate change, Climate science denial, Global warming, greenhouse gases, Inoculation theory, science communication, Sticky Science, Uncertainty | Leave a comment |
As part of my paleo-climate PhD research, I did some laboratory work in Durham,...
Climate, Life, Sea

Podcast: Tiny creatures millions of years ago

Author SciSnack Date September 25, 2015
SciSnack
Tagged Climate change, Lab work, paleo-climate | Leave a comment |
  You may have come across the term COP21 or indeed heard the phrase...
Climate, People, Society, Systems

What is COP21? By a layman for a layman

Author Osgur McDermott Long Date August 10, 2015
Osgur McDermott Long
Tagged Climate Action, Climate change, COP21, Road to Paris | Leave a comment |
Nobody likes to receive negative feedback, because this usually means that you have done...
Air, Ice, Land, Life

Why negative feedback is good for the climate

Author Annemarie Eckes Date August 4, 2015
Annemarie Eckes
Tagged Climate change, feedback, Ice-Albedo feedback, silicate weathering, water-vapor feedback, Weather | Leave a comment |
I study the physical climate system. It is easy, maybe even convenient, to think...
Climate, People, Society

Characteristics of climate science denial

Author Karin van der Wiel Date July 3, 2015
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged Climate change, Climate science denial, FLICC, Global warming, greenhouse gases, science communication, Uncertainty | Leave a comment |
The Netherlands, ‘Nederland’, its name literally means ‘low country’. In the CIA World Factbook...
Land, People, Sea, Society

Flood management below sea level – strategies from the Netherlands

Author Karin van der Wiel Date February 3, 2015
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged Climate change, Flood, Global warming, Netherlands, Precipitation, Rivers, Sea, Sea level rise, Storm surge | Leave a comment |
“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the...
Air, Ice, People, Society

Why care about Arctic sea ice – it is so far from where I live?

Author Marie Kapsch Date December 9, 2014
Marie Kapsch
Tagged Arctic sea ice, Climate change, extreme events, Weather | 1 Comment |
You may have heard that the world is getting warmer. But it would be...
Air, Systems

The world is certainly warming. What about where I live?

Author Robert Wills Date November 3, 2014
Robert Wills
Tagged atmosphere, Climate, Climate change, Climate Models, Global warming, Internal variability, Regional climate change, Rossby wave | Leave a comment |
The IPCC’s Working Group II report published in March this year gave centre stage...
Land, Life, People, Sea

What price ecosystem services?

Author Andrew Papworth Date May 28, 2014
Andrew Papworth
Tagged Animals, Australia, Biodiversity, Climate change, Ecosystems, Food Production, Gila Monster, greenhouse gases, Health, India, IPCC, Labour Productivity, Mangroves, Plants, Seas, Services, Sherman's Lagoon, Shrimp, TEEB, Thailand, Toomey, USA, Vultures, Waves | Leave a comment |
  While reading reports from various international organisations in the early stages of my...
Culture, People

Where is the World Environment Organization?

Author Lucien Georgeson Date April 2, 2014
Lucien Georgeson
Tagged Climate change, environmental governance, sustainable development, unep, united nations, World Environment Organization | 2 Comments |
Africa is arguably the most diverse continent on Earth. This incredible land stretches across...
Culture, People, Society

Africa’s Climate Challenges

Author Rachel White Date February 26, 2014
Rachel White
Tagged adaptation, Africa Climate Conference, Climate change, forecasting, policy, Rachel White, social challenges | Leave a comment |
Climate change is a major threat to humanity, on a health, economic and social...
Systems

Climate Extremes – Why the past is just as important as the future

Author Gabriele Messori Date February 19, 2014
Gabriele Messori
Tagged Climate change, extreme events, forecasting, North Atlantic Oscillation | Leave a comment |
Carrying a pair of giant pink lungs in front of the Polish Ministry of...
Culture, People

Cough for Coal at COP19

Author Gabriele Messori Date January 30, 2014
Isobel Braithwaite and Gabriele Messori
Tagged Climate change, COP19, Health, UNFCCC, Warsaw | 1 Comment |
A beautiful, yet daunting, image of the sunset taken during the 2011 Thailand floods...
Air, Land, People

Global flood risk under climate change (part 1): observational evidence

Author Matthias Schmid Date November 28, 2013
Matthias Schmid
Tagged 1-in-a-100-year flood, Climate change, Floods, Stream flow, Thailand | Leave a comment |
© Scisnack
Climatesnack logo
Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook
Resclim University of Bergen Uni Research Bjerknes Centre