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Introducing The Climate & Security Podcast

The Center for Climate and Security
Published on Sep 6, 2018

Welcome to the Center for Climate and Security’s Climate and Security Podcast! See more at www.climateandsecurity.org/podcast

Sea level rise & security in South Carolina: Implications for Military and Civilian Communities

The Center for Climate and Security  Streamed live on Aug 7, 2018

Sea level rise & security in South Carolina: Implications for Military and Civilian Communities

Sea Level Rise and the US Military’s Mission Center for Climate and Security

The Center for Climate and Security
Published on Nov 15, 2016

The Center for Climate and Security, Sept 14, 2016: Five senior retired flag officers from across the U.S. military’s service branches discuss the results of a new Center for Climate and Security publication: “Military Expert Panel Report: Sea Level Rise and the U.S. Military’s Mission.” The panel was held at the first annual Climate and National Security Forum at the Reserve Officers Association in Washington, DC. For more, see:
Center for Climate and Security.
Military Expert Panel Report

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Full Report: Military Expert Panel Report: Sea Level Rise and the U.S. Military’s Mission

Briefing Book for a New Administration, CSAG, The Center for Climate and Security

The Center for Climate and SecurityPublished on Nov 7, 2016

The Center for Climate and Security, Sept 14, 2016: Senior security and defense leaders discuss the release of the “Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG): Briefing Book for a New Administration.” The panel was held at the first annual Climate and National Security Forum at the Reserve Officers Association in Washington, DC. For more, see: http://www.climateandsecurity.org/briefingbook
and Full Report – The Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG): Briefing Book for a New Administration

Seven surprising results from the reduction of Arctic Sea ice cover | David Barber

Published on Jan 21, 2015
TEDx Talk

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It is now well known that sea ice in the Arctic has changed in both extent and thickness over the past several decades. In fact the change in sea ice is seen as one of the key global climate variables confirming model estimates of global scale warming of our planet through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process. Extensive investigations at the leading edge of Arctic System Science have recently uncovered a number of surprises, many somewhat counterintuitive, each having significant consequences in the Arctic and through teleconnections to the rest of our planet. In this talk I will review the rate and magnitude of change in sea ice, put this into the context of our understanding of the ‘natural variability’ in sea ice over the past several thousand years. I will then review seven surprising impacts of this change: 1) increasing coverage of young ice significantly changes atmospheric chemistry; 2) more snow both preserves and destroys ice; 3) Polar bear habitat can actually improve in some areas while deteriorating in others; 4) match-mismatch timing in the marine ecosystem increases vulnerability; 5) uncertainty as to whether the Arctic ocean will increase or decrease in overall productivity is a key unknown; 6) evidence that ice hazards are actually increasing while the world marshals to increase development of Arctic resources; and 7) evidence that our recent cold winters are actually linked to our warming Arctic.

Dr. Barber obtained his Bachelors and Masters from the University of Manitoba, and his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He was appointed to a faculty position at the University of Manitoba in 1993 and received a Canada Research Chair in Arctic System Science in 2002. He is currently Associate Dean (Research), CHR Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources. Dr. Barber has extensive experience in the examination of the Arctic marine environment as a ‘system’, and the effect climate change has on this system. Dr. Barber has published over 200 articles in the peer-reviewed literature pertaining to sea ice, climate change and physical-biological coupling in the Arctic marine system. He led the largest International Polar Year project in the world, known as the Circumpolar Flaw Lead system study. He is recognized internationally through scientific leadership in large network programs such as NOW, CASES, ArcticNet, and the Canadian Research Icebreaker (Amundsen), as an invited member of several Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council national committees, international committees and invitations to national and international science meetings. Dr. Barber was instrumental in a national competition to bring a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) to the University of Manitoba in the field of Arctic Geomicrobiology and Climate Change. As a member of the Centre for Earth Observation Science he leads a polar marine science group of over 100 people

Arctic Sea Ice Maximum 2018

SciNews
Published on Mar 23, 2018

According to analysis by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the Arctic sea ice maximum extent was reached on 17 March 2018. The Arctic sea ice cover peaked at 14.48 million square kilometers (5.59 million square miles), making it the second lowest maximum on record, at about 60,000 square kilometers (23,000 square miles) higher than the record low maximum reached on 7 March 2017 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8egd… ) The yellow line in the comparison indicates the 30 year average maximum extent calculated from 1981 through 2010. The date is shown in the upper left corner.

Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) AMSR2 data courtesy of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)