https://eos.org/research-spotlights/acidifying-oceans-could-get-help-from-kelp Source:  By   Elizabeth Thompson , Eos/AGU.  Excerpt: Carbon dioxide is well known as a greenhouse gas, but its effects on climate and environments aren’t limited to the atmosphere. As more carbon dioxide fills the air, more of the gas dissolves into seawater, making the ocean more acidic and threatening marine organisms.   Giant kelp   may offer a local solution. As kelp grows, it captures carbon from the water and produces oxygen, possibly removing enough carbon dioxide to   relieve acidification .   Hirsh et al.   investigate conditions inside and outside a kelp forest in Monterey Bay, Calif., to evaluate kelp’s ability to mitigate ocean acidification in sensitive areas.... .  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/11/27/climate-solutions-seaweed-methane/ Source:  By Tatiana Schlossberg, The Washington Post.  Excerpt: ...Asparagopsis taxiformis and Asparagopsis armata — two species of a crimson submarine grass that drifts on waves and tides all around the world’s oceans... could practically neutralize one of the most stubborn sources of a powerful greenhouse gas: methane emissions from the digestive processes of some livestock, including the planet’s 1.5 billion cows, which emit methane in their burps. ...In lab tests and field trials, adding a small proportion of this seaweed to a cow’s daily feed —   about 0.2 of a percent of the total feed intake in a recent study   — can reduce the amount of methane by 98 percent. That’s a stunning drop when most existing solutions cut methane by about 20 or 30 percent. ...growing seaweed used for the feed supplement could also help sequester carbon dioxide, another greenhouse gas, an...

https://eos.org/features/a-50-year-old-global-warming-forecast-that-still-holds-up Source:  By Andrei Lapenis, Eos/AGU.  Excerpt: In 1972, Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko used a simple methodology to make climate predictions that remain surprisingly accurate today and that could serve as a new “business-as-usual” scenario. ...He predicted that Earth’s mean global temperature would increase about 2.25°C by 2070 and that the Arctic would no longer be covered by ice year-round by 2050 [Budyko, 1972]. (Budyko briefly discussed the part of his forecast dealing with Arctic ice in a 1972   Eos article   cited more than 100 times since.) Despite his confidence in his work, he cautioned that his estimates were made under assumptions of a significantly simplified climate system and should be viewed accordingly [Budyko, 1972], so it might have surprised him to see how closely actual events aligned with his predictions. Comparing 2019 to 1970, Budyko predicted an increase in the glo...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/11/24/native-americans-climate-change-swinomish/ Source:  By Jim Morrison, The Washington Post.  Excerpt: ...In 2010, the Swinomish became one of the first communities to assess the problems posed by a warming planet and enact a climate action plan. An additional 50 Native American tribes have followed, creating climate strategies to protect their lands and cultures, ahead of most U.S. communities. The Swinomish see the tasks beyond addressing shoreline risk and restoring habitats. They look at climate adaptation and resilience with the eyes of countless generations. They recognize that the endangered “first foods” — clams, oysters, elk, traditional plants and salmon — are not mere resources to be consumed. They are central to their values, beliefs and practices and, therefore, to their spiritual, cultural and community well-being. ... The Tulalip tribes,   neighbors to the south, are  relocating nuisance beaver...

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-most-important-climate-legislation-has-already-passed Source: By Justin Guay, Greentech Media.  Excerpt: one of the most powerful pieces of climate change legislation the Biden administration will need has already been passed: the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. This legislation, known for creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other public safeguards against financial wrongdoing, also empowers key agencies including the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission to limit systemic risks to financial stability. The largest systemic risk of them all, climate change, is driven by reckless investments in fossil fuels, exactly the kind of speculative activities Dodd-Frank was designed to bring to a halt ...For investors, one of the greatest risks is losing money on coal, oil and gas infrastructure that is forced into early retirement due to the ...

ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/11/23/kerry-climate-change/ Source:  By   Brady Dennis ,   Steven Mufson   and     Juliet Eilperin , The Washington Post.  Excerpt: ‘America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is,’ Kerry tweeted after the announcement....    

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/an-extraordinary-winter-in-the-polar-north Source:  By   Kate Wheeling , Eos/AGU.  Excerpt: The winter of 2019–2020 in the Northern Hemisphere was one of extremes. The massive region of cold polar air encircled by stratospheric winds, known as the stratospheric polar vortex, was particularly strong, keeping the frigid air whirling above the polar region and leading to a very   mild winter   in many regions farther south. The strong polar vortex coincided with a record-breaking positive   Arctic Oscillation   circulation pattern and record low ozone levels in the Arctic that lasted into spring. In a review, published as part of an AGU   special collection ,   Lawrence et al. outline the unique conditions that allowed this “truly extraordinary” winter season to arise....