Tuesday, April 9, 2019

up-ending science, and news from montane glaciers

Two pieces of scientific work and the journalism linked to them are worthy of your attention:

EPA Science Panel Considering Guidelines That Up-end Basic Air Pollution Science

"Several members of a powerful science panel for the Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt at a hearing Thursday about the long-established scientific consensus that air pollution can cause premature death."


https://www.npr.org/2019/03/28/707166015/epa-science-panel-considering-guidelines-that-upend-basic-air-pollution-science

In another discipline, we have had some information concerning melting montane glaciers and how they contribute to sea-level rise, but a new study takes a deeper view into "how much - and how quickly they're melting":
Photo by Wikim. Commons: Frankeman

Melting glaciers contribute a third of sea-level rise

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/world-mountain-glaciers-melting-sea-level-rise/

See the paper being discussed, in Nature:

Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1071-0

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