FORECAST NL

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One of our Citizen Forum members, Cyndy Stead, let us know about this great event happening soon. See the image below for details and email Cyndy to take part!

ForecastNL Steering Committee Co-Chair, Dr. Brad De Young (featured in our first session), recently spoke with Jane Adey on CBC Listen: The Broadcast with Jane Adey, about the Labrador sea:

"Professor Brad de Young tells us about Arctic freshwater flowing into a cooling Labrador Sea; shedding light on dark vessels, the DFO on a new effort in the international fight against illegal fishing." ~20 mins.

You can listen to the recording of the broadcast, from 16 March 2021, here.

Stay tuned for more information on our next session, focused on climate change impacts and concerns in Labrador and the North (happening early April).

Have anything like this you'd like to share? Visit this Discussions forum to post your discoveries!

Dr. Finnis sent along the slides and information he reviewed during the first part of Wednesday's session. You can access this PDF in our Documents widget, along the right side of your screen.

Dr. Finnis wanted to share this online tool, from Climate Central, with us.

Clicking here will take you to a sea-level rise and coastal flood map focused on NL, which is based on peer-reviewed science in leading journals.

Areas lower than the selected water level and with an unobstructed path to the ocean are shaded light red on the map.

There are small Information icons throughout the website, including the Change Other Settings toolbox, which provide more detailed and map-specific documentation.

Take a look around! Feel free to post thoughts or questions in the Session 2 Discussions forum.

Dr. Finnis mentioned this tool, the online Ecological Footprint Calculator, in his presentation during yesterday's session on "Climate Change Impacts & Actions in NL."

Click the image below to take a look, and find out what your individual footprint looks like!

If you missed today's session, you can view it now in our Discussions forum, by clicking here.

This is where you can post comments and questions related to the session.

Let us know if you have any concerns or technical problems!

Hi, Everyone

Here is the link to today's live, virtual session (via the Zoom platform), "Climate Change in NL: Impacts and Actions":

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88076676795

Click this link just before 12:00PM (NST) to join the webinar.

Any questions or problems joining, reach out to Mandy at mandy.rowsell@mun.ca

The authors note that one arm of the Gulf Stream, which moves northward, transporting warm water to Iceland, is slowing down (citing many recent studies, including this one), and that, "without this current — a heat pump on a planetary scale — scientists believe that great swaths of the world might look quite different."

“We’re all wishing it’s not true,” Peter de Menocal, a paleoceanographer and president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said of the changing ocean currents. “Because if that happens, it’s just a monstrous change.”

Some consequences could include: (1) faster sea level rise along parts of the Eastern United States and parts of Europe; (2) stronger hurricanes in the Southeastern United States; and (3) reduced rainfall across the Sahel, a "semi-arid swath of land running the width of Africa that is already a geopolitical tinderbox."

The article includes an interactive globe that shows the Gulf Streams movement, drawing on data from the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program project.

Read the article and view the interactive globe here.

In this episode of the BBC's podcast, Discovery, science journalist Gaia Vince talks to Memorial's Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo--one of our Steering Committee members and a panelist for the session on March 10th--about "Ecogological Grief."

Listen Here.

From the BBC:

"As the Earth experiences more extreme weather, and wildlife is dying, from corals, to insects, to tropical forests, more people are experiencing ecological anxiety and grief. Science journalist Gaia Vince has been reporting on the growing crisis across our planet’s ecosystems, and has met many who are shocked and saddened by the enormity of the environmental changes taking place. She talks to scientists and medics working at the frontline of environmental change, and hears that, despite being expected to distance themselves from what’s happening, they are affected emotionally. Ashlee Consulo, of Memorial University in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Courtney Howard, a doctor in Yellowknife, tell Gaia about their experiences of living and working with Indigenous peoples in areas where temperatures are rising rapidly and the ice is melting. ..."