The Elephant
The climate change and environmental emergency: a comprehensive resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens
The ElephantThe climate change and environmental emergency: a comprehensive resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens
Revising the cost of climate change — Harvard Gazette
2024-08-26 by in Harvard GazetteNew study of economic toll yields projections "six times larger than previous estimates."
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics
Opinion: I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too | CNN
2024-03-07 in CNN InternationalClimate scientist Bill McGuire writes on his conundrum: what’s happening to our planet scares the hell out of him—but if he shouts the unvarnished truth from the rooftops, will that inspire you to act or to give up?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Change Impacts | Activism | Science
Global Warming Acceleration: El Nino Measuring Stick Looks Good
2023-12-15 (or before) in MailchimpTagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change | El Niño
Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn
2023-12-06 in The GuardianHumanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms
Tagged under: Science | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change | Tipping Points | El Niño | Antarctic
Global warming in the pipeline
2023-11-02 in Oxford AcademicAbstract. Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change yields Charney (fast-feedback) equilibrium climate sensitivity 1.2 ± 0.3°C (2σ
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory
2023-10-25 (or before) in Oxford AcademicLife on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extrem
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Climate Data | Climate Change | Science
Climate Plans Remain Insufficient: More Ambitious Action Needed Now | UNFCCC
2023-09-26 (or before) in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeUN Climate Change News, 26 October 2022 – A new report from UN Climate Change shows countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emis...
Tagged under: Climate Change | United Nations | Climate Change Mitigation
Climate change having huge impact on farmers
2023-9-21 in Fruit NetMore than 70 per cent of farmers have already seen large impacts of climate change on their farm, new global research from Farmer Voice survey reveals
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Agriculture
Dr Andrew Forrest at Boao Forum for Asia Perth 2023
2023-09-11 (or before) in fortescue.comTagged under: Climate Change Mitigation | Collapse | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change
Increasing risks of multiple breadbasket failure under 1.5 and 2 °C global warming
2023-04-26 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comThe increasingly inter-connected global food system is becoming more vulnerable to production shocks owing to increasing global mean temperatures and …
Tagged under: Food Production and Consumption | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change
There Are Limits to Storing CO2 Underground To Combat Climate Change, Say Researchers
2024-08-29 in technologynetworks.comResearch shows that there are limits to how quickly we can scale up technology to store gigatonnes of carbon dioxide under the Earths surface.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage | CO2 | Climate Change
Mathematicians crack a sea ice puzzle that advances what we know about global warming
2024-08-29 (or before) in nationaltribune.com.auA new applied mathematical theory could enhance our ability to predict how sea ice affects polar climate changes. A new paper published in Proceedings
Tagged under: Ice Melting | Global Warming | Predictions | Climate Change
Revising the cost of climate change — Harvard Gazette
2024-08-26 by in Harvard GazetteNew study of economic toll yields projections "six times larger than previous estimates."
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics
How climate change has pushed our oceans to the brink of catastrophe | New Scientist
2024-08-16 (or before) in New ScientistFor decades, the oceans have absorbed much of the excess heat caused by greenhouse gases. The latest observations suggest they are reaching their limits, so how worried should we be?
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
9 Things Musk and Trump Said About Climate Change, Annotated
2024-08-13 in The New York TimesIn a conversation on X, Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk spoke for a bit about climate change. Heres what they got wrong and what they got right.
Tagged under: US Politics | Donald Trump | Climate Change
Climate change is behind rising metal and acid pollution in Colorado's mountain rivers
2024-08-02 in wyomingpublicmedia.orgOver the last 30 years, concentrations of toxic metals like zinc and copper have doubled in some of Colorado’s high mountain streams. Researchers blame climate change.
Tagged under: Colorado State | Rivers | Copper | Pollution | Climate Change
Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions
2024-07-29 by in VoxOil and gas companies know carbon capture and storage isnt a climate change solution, per documents, whistleblowers and public comments.
Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation | Oil Industry | Carbon Capture and Storage | Climate Change | Shell | Exxon
Children uprooted in a changing climate
2024-07-28 (or before) in UNICEFYoung people on the move are among the most impacted by climate change. They should be part of shaping the response
Tagged under: Women and Children | Climate Change | Children | Climate Change Impacts
Climate Collapse 101
2024-07-26 in Collapse 2050Resources to start learning about climate change
Tagged under: Collapse | Climate Change
Much Ado About Accelerating Warming with Climate Scientist Gavin Schmidt
2024-07-19 (or before) in YouTubeIn this Climate Chat episode, we interview Dr. Gavin Schmidt about the recent acceleration in global temperatures and the debate in the climate science commu...
Tagged under: Science | Climate Change
Trump VP Pick JD Vances Scorn for Clean Energy Grew as Ohio Embraced It - Bloomberg
2024-07-15 in BloombergDonald Trump’s newly picked running mate, Senator JD Vance, has grown more critical of renewable electricity and climate change even as his home state of Ohio embraced solar power and clean-tech manufacturing.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Renewable Energy | Electricity | Energy | Donald Trump | Climate Change
Climate Change, Volume 2 - Information for Children
2024-06-19 (or before) in kids.frontiersin.orgOur climate refers to the different types of weather we have all around the world. Some places are hot, some are cold, some are dry and some are wet. But now, our climate is changing and it's affecting everything and everyone. We know that this is happening because of the pollution we make, like putting greenhouse-gases into the air that trap the sun's heat and make our world get warmer. This is called global warming. <br/><br/>The changes in the climate are hurting people, animals, and plants everywhere and will continue to do so. In this Collection, we will explain what is causing the climate to change, what we can...
Tagged under: Children | Climate Change | Women and Children
Miami Is Entering a State of Unreality
2024-06-18 by in The AtlanticNo amount of adaptation to climate change can fix Miami’s water problems.
Tagged under: Flooding | Water Resources | Florida | Adaptation | Climate Change
'Lord Walney Wants to Stop the Public From Acquitting Protesters - to Safeguard Those Making Money From the Issues They Demonstrate Against'
2024-06-13 by in Byline TimesHe wants juries to stop finding defendants not guilty and to prevent judges from applying laws "differently" when they involve issues like climate change and anti-racism
Tagged under: Activism | Racism | Climate Change
Finance, climate-change and radical uncertainty: Towards a precautionary approach to financial policy
2024-06-11 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comClimate-related financial risks (CRFR) are now recognised by central banks and supervisors as material to their financial stability mandates. But whil…
Tagged under: Risks | Climate Change | Finance
Steve Keen explains: Everything wrong with Neoclassical climate economics
2024-04-18 (or before) in YouTubeSteve Keen Joins us at the University of Sussex to talk about the flaws of Neoclassical climate economics.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics
Climate Change 1958: The Bell Telephone Science Hour
2024-03-24 (or before) in YouTubeThe famous Bell Telephone Hour clip, with the all knowing Dr Frank Baxter explain...
Tagged under: Activism | Ocean Acidification | Climate Change | Oceans
World Values Survey Database
2024-03-14 (or before) in worldvaluessurvey.orgWorld Values Survey Data-Archive Online Survey analysis website
Tagged under: Climate Change | Public Opinion
India's water problems set to get worse as the world warms
2024-03-11 in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyWinter storms that provide crucial snow and rainfall to northern India are arriving significantly later in the year compared to 70 years ago, a new study has found, exacerbating the risk of catastrophic flooding while also reducing vital water supplies for millions of residents of India.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change | Water Resources | Flooding | Himalayas | India
More climate records fall in world's warmest February
2024-03-07 in The BBCIt's the ninth month of global temperature records in a row, driven by climate change and El Niño.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Extreme Heat | Climate Data
Hot Streak: Why February 2024 Was The 9th Consecutive Hottest Month On Record
2024-03-07 by in ForbesEarth just experienced the hottest February since records began—and researchers warn it's all part of a pattern caused by human activity.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Extreme Heat | El Niño
U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry is giving up the job title — but not the fight
2024-03-07 in NPROutgoing climate envoy John Kerry talks about leaving the job, how another Donald Trump presidency could impact the fight against climate change, and how he remains hopeful.
Tagged under: Climate Change | US Politics
Opinion: I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too | CNN
2024-03-07 in CNN InternationalClimate scientist Bill McGuire writes on his conundrum: what’s happening to our planet scares the hell out of him—but if he shouts the unvarnished truth from the rooftops, will that inspire you to act or to give up?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Change Impacts | Activism | Science
Climate change is warping the seasons
2024-03-06 by in The ConversationA new series will investigate what’s happening to nature’s calendar.
Tagged under: Insects | Wildlife | Agriculture | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Dallas-Fort Worth to break February day heat record Monday | Fort Worth Star-Telegram
2024-02-26 in Fort Worth Star TelegramIn 1917, North Texas saw its hottest Feb. 26 with a high of 90 degrees. The weather forecast for the day calls for highs in the low 90s.
Tagged under: Texas | Climate Change | Extreme Heat
Mandatory Viewing
2024-02-26 in Collapse 2050A collection of the best documentaries on climate change, civilizational collapse, nuclear war, peak oil and more.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Collapse | Media | Nuclear Power
Climate change: university researchers feel powerless to take action – survey
2024-01-30 by in The ConversationSome study the crisis, but all are worried – and frustrated.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Science | Activism
Antarctica Under Siege and XR Takes a Radical Turn
2024-01-05 by in Counter PunchAntarctica has finally succumbed to rapid climate change. This past year (2023) brought changes to the icy continent that left climate scientists feeling
Tagged under: Activism | Ice Melting | Climate Change | Antarctic | Extinction Rebellion
'We can reclaim control of our destiny,' Al Gore says of climate change
2023-12-24 in InklThe former vice president found hope in the possibility that humans have the tools to repair the planet.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate change outpaces the ability for trees to adapt
2023-12-18 in Earth.comA new study has found that the prevailing methods used to predict how tree species will respond to climate change are inaccurate
Tagged under: Climate Change Adaption | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change | Trees
Global Warming Acceleration: El Nino Measuring Stick Looks Good
2023-12-15 (or before) in MailchimpTagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change | El Niño
Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn
2023-12-06 in The GuardianHumanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms
Tagged under: Science | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change | Tipping Points | El Niño | Antarctic
Hottest 12 months in 125,000 years - how extreme weather broke more records in 2023
2023-12-04 in Sky NewsSevere conditions brought turmoil across the world, impacting small towns and major cities, as storms, heatwaves, floods, and droughts claimed many lives and destroyed communities.
Tagged under: Climate Data | Extreme Heat | Climate Change | Drought
The climate theory of everything
2023-11-30 in Business GreenA personal essay on how the climate crisis is reshaping everything and why COP28 matters much more than you think
Tagged under: Climate Change | COP28
Global warming in the pipeline
2023-11-02 in Oxford AcademicAbstract. Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change yields Charney (fast-feedback) equilibrium climate sensitivity 1.2 ± 0.3°C (2σ
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory
2023-10-25 (or before) in Oxford AcademicLife on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extrem
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Climate Data | Climate Change | Science
State of the climate: Global temperatures throughout mid-2023 shatter records - Carbon Brief
2023-10-23 by in Carbon BriefThe first three quarters of 2023 has seen exceptional heat globally, putting 2023 on track to be the warmest year since records began in the mid-1800s.
Tagged under: Extreme Heat | Climate Change | Climate Data
Global Temperature rise - September 2023 and beyond
2023-10-14 (or before) in Arctic NewsTemperature rise - September 2023 and beyond
Tagged under: Climate Change | Extreme Heat | Climate Data | Arctic
'Could a ‘beanless' brew save coffee from climate change?'
2023-10-06 (or before) in EuronewsCoffee is causing deforestation at an ‘alarming rate’ - could a beanless brew be the solution?
Tagged under: Deforestation | Climate Change
'Gobsmackingly bananas': Scientists react to September heat record
2023-10-06 (or before) in EuronewsThe Copernicus Climate Change Service said the global average temperature for September broke records by such an absurd margin that climate experts are struggling to describe the phenomenon.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Housing and climate: UK homes need urgent adaptation to protect our health
2023-10-05 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalWe must ensure that health is once again central to all housing policy, say Isobel Braithwaite and colleagues The climate emergency is already affecting our homes,1 and it will drive a range of key health risks in the coming decades.2 Many of these are closely connected to our housing system, including overheating and increased flood risks. This situation is further exacerbated in the UK by its wider housing crisis, with high levels of unaffordability—particularly in the private rental sector—as well as low tenure security, rising rates of homelessness and use of temporary accommodation, and an ageing and poor qua...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Housing | Health | Committee on Climate Change UK
2023 on track to become hottest year on record, says EU climate service | Reuters
2023-10-05 (or before) in ReutersThis year is on track to become the hottest since at least 1940, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Pope urges rich world to make profound changes to tackle climate crisis
2023-10-04 in The GuardianFrancis also defends climate protesters and calls on governments to make Cop28 in Dubai a turning point
Tagged under: COP28 | Climate Change | Religion | Pope Francis | Activism
Paris-consistent climate change mitigation scenarios
2023-10-04 (or before) by in oecd-ilibrary.orgSince the adoption of the Paris Agreement, governments and economic actors have increasingly been setting greenhouse gas emissions reduction or net zero targets. Amidst risks of delayed action and greenwashing, there is need to understand whether...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | Climate Change Mitigation | The Paris Agreement
Climate Change: Ocean Heat Content
2023-10-04 (or before) in Climate.govMore than 90 percent of the warming that has happened on Earth over the past 50 years has occurred in the ocean. Not all of that heating is detectable yet at the surface
Tagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | Climate Change
Sadly, It's Not 'Just Another Summer.' We Must End the Fossil Fuel Industry
2023-10-04 in NewsweekMy fellow human beings, we're in the process of losing basically everything, as the latest data demonstrates.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change
Climate Change: Global Temperature
2023-10-04 (or before) in Climate.govEarth's surface temperature has risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the start of the NOAA record in 1880.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate Ready Scotland: climate change adaptation programme 2019-2024
2023-10-04 (or before) in Scottish GovernmentA five year programme to prepare Scotland for the challenges we will face as our climate continues to change.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why
2023-10-04 (or before) in WBURClimate scientists, in an effort to stave off despair, aren’t telling the truth about our warming planet. In reality, we're incredibly close to the point of no return: when rising seas drown island nations and almost all coral reefs die. I’m here to tell climate scientists — and my fellow climate journalists — to knock it off, writes Barbara Moran.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Coral Reefs
Climate change: Pope Francis warns world 'may be nearing breaking point' - BBC News
2023-10-04 (or before) in The BBCPope Francis criticises attempts to deny or gloss over the issue in a new intervention.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Pope Francis
Challenging Climate
2023-10-03 (or before) in Challenging ClimateAsking tough questions about the science, technology, and politics of climate change, two climate researchers challenge leading experts on one of the defining issues of our age. Every two weeks, they explore how we can fight global warming by cutt...
Tagged under: Climate Change
‘Only the rich can bear this heat’: how Dhaka is battling extreme weather
2023-10-03 in The GuardianAs high temperatures hit the poor hardest, climate change may undo years of development gains, says Asia’s first heat officer
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children
Big Oil v the World - Series 1: 3. Delay
2023-10-02 (or before) in The BBCHow the 2010s became another lost decade in the fight against climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change
The Climate Sleuth Uncovering Methane Leaks for the United Nations - Bloomberg
2023-09-29 (or before) in BloombergItziar Irakulis Loitxate is a 27-year-old Ph.D. student who is the closest thing the world has to climate police.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Methane | Mexico
'Misguided': Jupiter and Robeco join £1.5trn investor group urging Sunak to stop green delay
2023-09-29 in Business GreenDozens of firms sign letter to Prime Minister warning that watering down decarbonisation policies will hurt inward investment into UK
Tagged under: Rishi Sunak | Climate Change | Decarbonisation
Global Carbon Budget 2022
2023-09-28 (or before) in Earth System Science DataAbstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and methodologies to quantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and their uncertainties. Fossil CO2 emissions (EFOS) are based on energy statistics and cement production data, while emissions from land-use change (ELUC), mainly deforestation, are based on ...
Tagged under: Deforestation | Oceans | Climate Change
Naming and shaming as a strategy for enforcing the Paris Agreement: The role of political institutions and public concern | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-09-27 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceEnforcement is a challenge for effective international cooperation. In human rights and environmental law, along with many other domains of interna...
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Clifford Chance | Energy in transition – The role of decommissioning
2023-09-27 (or before) in Clifford Chance | International Law Firm | Global Law ExpertsDecommissioning is an integral part of the energy transition. The move by oil & gas companies to decarbonise their operations often leads to a transfer of their ageing assets to new, and often under-resourced, players. This can create opportunities but is also fraught with complexities and challenges for both outgoing and incoming operators.In this extract from a recent webinar, our experts discuss the risks arising in decommissioning operations, offer suggestions on how to mitigate and manage those risks, and identify key factors for any robust decommissioning strategy.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Litigation | Finance
Climate Plans Remain Insufficient: More Ambitious Action Needed Now | UNFCCC
2023-09-26 (or before) in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeUN Climate Change News, 26 October 2022 – A new report from UN Climate Change shows countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emis...
Tagged under: Climate Change | United Nations | Climate Change Mitigation
Here are 10 myths about climate change
2023-09-26 (or before) in World Wide Fund for Nature | WWFWe've tried to clear up some of the most frequently heard myths about climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Six Portuguese youth take 32 nations to European court over climate change | European Union | Al Jazeera
2023-09-25 (or before) by in Al JazeeraThe group will argue at the European Court of Human Rights that government inaction discriminates against youth.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Richest oil states should pay climate tax, says Gordon Brown - BBC News
2023-09-25 (or before) in The BBCThe former Labour PM wants the wealthiest oil producers to help poorer nations tackle climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Antarctic Sea Ice Maximum, 2023
2023-09-25 by in NASA Scientific Visualization StudioAntarctic sea ice maximum extent, September 10 2023 ||
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Antarctic
Summer '23 Was Northern Hemisphere’s Hottest Ever, Agencies Say
2023-09-25 (or before) by in VOA - Voice of America English NewsJuly 2023 was the hottest month ever measured; August was the second-hottest
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health
UN Rights Chief: Climate Change 'Dystopian Future Already Here'
2023-09-25 (or before) by in VOA - Voice of America English NewsSpeaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Volker Türk pointed to recent examples of the 'environmental horror that is our global planetary crisis'
Tagged under: Climate Change
‘Imagine Westminster under water’: stricter tests needed to see how City copes with climate disasters
2023-09-24 in The GuardianSam Woods, head of the Bank’s financial stability watchdog, says lenders have only shown they can survive ‘slow burn’ changes to temperatures
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate change will force new animal encounters — and boost viral outbreaks
2023-09-24 (or before) in NatureModelling study is first to project how global warming will increase virus swapping between species. Modelling study is first to project how global warming will increase virus swapping between species.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change
The Batagaika Crater : A warning sign for the Earth
2023-09-23 (or before) in YouTubeThe Batagaika crater, the world's largest 1-km long permafrost crater, is expanding at a baffling rate due to the thawing of the permafrost. This has been ex...
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change | Russia | Health
PM's U-turns weren't really about net zero - but playing politics with climate change is a big risk
2023-09-22 (or before) in Sky NewsWhatever Rishi Sunak says, the details of his changes in climate policy suggest he is thinking about politics, not the environment. In a year which is currently on course to be the warmest in human history, that's a pretty big risk to take.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Rishi Sunak | Net Zero
Scientists Say: Humanity Could Descend into Cannibalism by 2060 | by Homeless Romantic | Sep, 2023 | Medium
2023-09-22 (or before) in MediumCannibalism in late stage climate change: Why and how it might happen, and how to prevent it
Tagged under: Climate Change
The People v Climate Change
2023-09-22 (or before) in The BBCMeet the ordinary Brits who will help decide how Britain solves the climate crisis.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Doomsday author’s analysis: We have destroyed our ecosystem – now we await the collapse of civilization | WRAL TechWire
2023-09-22 in WRAL TechWire - The Triangle's Source for Tech & Startup NewsEditor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” – is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. He’s also author of “The Doomsday Book: The Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Threats.” Brain has written several posts recently about the threat of climate change. His exclusive columns written for TechWire are published on Fridays. Note to
Tagged under: Climate Change | Collapse
UK migratory birds 'in freefall' over climate change - BBC News
2023-09-21 (or before) in The BBCBird lovers will see a very different pattern of species in the future, scientists warn.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate change having huge impact on farmers
2023-9-21 in Fruit NetMore than 70 per cent of farmers have already seen large impacts of climate change on their farm, new global research from Farmer Voice survey reveals
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Agriculture
From Carbon Sink to Source: The Stark Changes in Arctic Lakes
2023-09-21 (or before) in Yale E360For millennia, lakes in Greenland’s tundra have locked up huge loads of carbon in their sediment. But as the Arctic becomes warmer and wetter, scientists believe these lakes could be turning into sources of carbon, which would have important consequences for the world’s climate.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Arctic
PM’s net zero changes could cost households up to £8bn
2023-09-21 (or before) in Energy & Climate Intelligence UnitInformed debate on energy and climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero
How the ‘Climate Avoiders’ Have Taken Over Our Politics
2023-09-20 (or before) by in Bylines SupplementRishi Sunak's rapid retreat from his pledges on tackling climate change is a worrying sign of things to come, reports Adam Bienkov
Tagged under: Climate Change | Rishi Sunak
Johan Rockström interview | Planetary boundaries, 'negative emissions', mitigation models & fairness
2023-09-20 (or before) in YouTubeJohan Rockström is best known for his work on the Planetary Boundary Framework and as co-director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. In th...
Tagged under: COP27 | COP26 | Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Net Zero | Climate Justice | Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change made Libya's deadly rainfall up to 50 times more likely - study | Reuters
2023-09-19 in ReutersClimate Change made the heavy rainfall that led to deadly floods in Libya up to 50 times more likely, scientists said on Tuesday.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Libya | Flooding | Extreme Rainfall | Africa
Tory launches international climate declaration to bring politicians together | The Independent
2023-09-19 (or before) in The IndependentChris Skidmore wants to create a cross-party, international group of legislators committed to climate action.
Tagged under: COP28 | Climate Change
Rainforest Investigations Network
2023-09-19 (or before) in pulitzercenter.orgThe Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) harnesses investigative reporting and cross-border collaboration to expose the intersection of climate change, corruption, and governance in the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. READ THE REPORTING | HOW IT WORKS | JOIN THE NETWORK | IMPACT HOW IT WORKS Each year of the initiative, the Pulitzer Center puts out a call for applications to dedicate a whole year to investigating deforestation in the world’s three main tropical rainforest regions. In its first year, RIN selected 13 Fellows from 10 countries. In the second year, the group expanded to 19 Fellows from 12 countries...
Tagged under: Deforestation | Amazon Rainforest | Climate Change | Congo | Rivers | Brazil | Trees
Climate change likely increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan – World Weather Attribution
2023-09-19 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Climate Change
Is climate changing faster than expected?
2023-09-19 (or before) in YouTubeIt feels from the news like climate change is happening faster and faster every year – so are the extremes of 2023 taking us by surprise?The answer is not… e...
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Addendum to 'Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014)' Supran and Oreskes (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019) - IOPscience
2023-09-19 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Climate Change | Exxon
The Future is Made of Climate Catastrophe
2023-09-19 in The IssueI’m Umair Haque, and this is The Issue: an independent, nonpartisan, subscriber-supported publication. We give you the freshest, deepest, no-holds-barred insight about the biggest issues—the ones that matter most. New? Get the Issue in your inbox daily. Today's Read: 17 Minutes. 💡What climate change is going to do
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Climate change: UN calls for radical changes to stem warming - BBC News
2023-09-18 (or before) in The BBCA review of action on climate since the Paris agreement calls for an end to fossil fuels without carbon capture.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | The Paris Agreement
[Withdrawn] Climate change: second national adaptation programme (2018 to 2023)
2023-09-18 (or before) in GOV.UKThis report sets out what government and others will be doing over the next 5 years to be ready for the challenges of climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change
California sues world's largest oil companies, alleging they caused billions of dollars in damages
2023-09-18 (or before) in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Tagged under: Climate Change | Chevron | Shell | Exxon | California | BP
Tories took £291,000 from airports lobbying for expansion
2023-09-18 (or before) in openDemocracyDonations raise eyebrows with Rishi Sunak expected to reject Climate Change Committee advice on banning expansions
Tagged under: Climate Change | Rishi Sunak | Committee on Climate Change UK
The London Climate Resilience Review
2023-09-18 (or before) in london.gov.ukThe Mayor of London has commissioned an independent review to take stock and make recommendations to guide London’s preparations for more extreme weather.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Is Earth Close to “The Great Dying”?
2023-09-18 by in Deep Green Resistance News ServiceEarth study “Warning of a Forthcoming Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation” could shut down as early as 2025.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Collapse
America’s most iconic coral reef is dying. Only one thing will save it.
2023-09-17 by in VoxAn extreme heat wave has pushed Florida’s reef to the brink — and burned up years worth of progress.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Coral Reefs | Florida
'Big Oil has been lying to us': Califonia sues oil giants over climate change damages
2023-09-16 in France 24The US state of California sued five of the world's largest oil companies on Friday, alleging the firms caused billions of dollars in damages and misled the public by minimizing the risks from fossil…
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | California | Wildfires
New study shows impacts of cutting meat and dairy consumption in half
2023-09-16 (or before) in Mother Jones - Smart, fearless journalismIt’d be like not burning 1.8 trillion pounds of coal annually.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Cattle and Dairy Farming | Climate Change Impacts
Al Gore: Big oil, gas not part of climate solution
2023-09-15 in AxiosTagged under: Climate Change
New files shed light on ExxonMobil’s efforts to undermine climate science
2023-09-14 in The GuardianExecutives privately sought to downplay link between fossil fuels and climate change despite public pronouncements, WSJ reports
Tagged under: Climate Change | Exxon | Fossil Fuels
WSJ News Exclusive | Inside Exxon’s Strategy to Downplay Climate Change
2023-09-14 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoTagged under: Climate Change | Exxon
Oil And Gas Giants Spend Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies [Infographic]
2023-09-14 (or before) by in ForbesA recent report from InfluenceMap claims that the world's biggest oil and gas companies spend $200 million every year to weaken and oppose legislation aimed at fighting global warming.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Legislation
Defence and Climate Change - Committees - UK Parliament
2023-09-12 (or before) in UK Parliament CommitteesTagged under: Climate Change | Committee on Climate Change UK
'We need to amplify pressure on authorities to act' - Why Scotland must get real on climate crisis - Dr Rupert Read
2023-09-11 (or before) in The ScotsmanIf meaningful action to address climate and ecological breakdown is ever going to happen, the story of our lives has to change.
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“Heading for Extinction”: the representation of scientific knowledge in Extinction Rebellion's recruitment talks
2023-09-11 (or before) in FrontiersThis study examines how the climate action group Extinction Rebellion represents scientific knowledge in the public presentations used to recruit new members. Using a combination of semi-structured interviews and recordings of the talks and comparing across four versions, we examine how the talk developed and four distinct modes of science communication were identified. This analysis also highlights that many factors shape the mode of science communication employed, with the outcome particularly influenced by the editors' concept of how to best motivate action, as well as changes in the wider communication environment and evolut...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Activism | Extinction Rebellion | Extinction
Climate change and insurance: The alarm bell we can't afford to ignore
2023-09-11 (or before) by in The Climate BrinkInsurance markets are the canary in the coal mine
Tagged under: Climate Change | Insurance
Greta’s school strikes led 30% of Swiss citizens to change habits
2023-09-11 (or before) in Euronews'Collective action can have a direct effect on society’, study on climate strikes shows.
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Dr Andrew Forrest at Boao Forum for Asia Perth 2023
2023-09-11 (or before) in fortescue.comTagged under: Climate Change Mitigation | Collapse | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change
The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions
2023-09-09 (or before) in American Meteorological Society JournalsFaced by the realities of a changing climate, decision makers in a wide variety of organizations are increasingly seeking quantitative predictions of regional and local climate. An important issue for these decision makers, and for organizations that fund climate research, is what is the potential for climate science to deliver improvements—especially reductions in uncertainty—in such predictions? Uncertainty in climate predictions arises from three distinct sources: internal variability, model uncertainty, and scenario uncertainty. Using data from a suite of climate models, we separate and quantify these sources. Fo...
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change
Where's the trust? US climate deniers have no faith in university researchers
2023-09-09 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyU.S. voters who don't trust universities are also more likely to believe that human activity doesn't cause climate change, a new collaborative study from researchers at the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) revealed in PLOS Climate.
Tagged under: Climate Change | California
‘Climate breakdown has begun’: UN reports record summer heat
2023-09-09 (or before) in Al JazeeraScientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change
How AI is helping airlines mitigate the climate impact of contrails
2023-09-08 (or before) in The Keyword | Google Product and Technology News and StoriesWe used AI to help airlines choose routes that are less likely to cause contrails, minimizing the environmental impact of flights.
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Africa proposes global carbon taxes to fight climate change - BBC News
2023-09-08 (or before) in The BBCDespite suffering some of the worst impacts of climate change, the continent only gets 12% of financing.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Climate Change Impacts
As Climate-Fueled Weather Disasters Hit More U.S. Farms, the Costs of Insuring Agriculture Have Skyrocketed - Inside Climate News
2023-09-07 by in Inside Climate NewsThe country’s farmers took in a record $19 billion in insurance payments in 2022, many because of weather-related disasters, according to a new analysis that suggests climate change could stoke the cost of insuring the nation’s farmers and ranchers to unsustainable levels. The Environmental Working Group, which has for decades critically scrutinized the Federal Crop […]
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Adjusting 1.5 degree C climate change mitigation pathways in light of adverse new information - Nature Communications
2023-09-07 (or before) in NatureEmerging limitations on climate and low-carbon technology would require adjusting our 15.C climate change mitigation pathways. However, this could increase average annual emissions reductions to around 3GtCO2/year using a broad portfolio of mitigation measures.
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How hole in ozone layer affected summer rainfall in Tibet
2023-09-07 in The GuardianStudy shows increase and decrease in rain linked to changes in ozone levels in upper atmosphere
Tagged under: Climate Change | India
The 'one shot' campaign to get a strong legal statement on climate change
2023-09-06 in A newsletter about climate litigation and justiceThe campaign to get the International Court of Justice to write an advisory opinion on climate change had a major victory earlier this year, but its work has only just begun Vishal Prasad wasn't one of the initial group of students at the University of the South Pacific whose classroom
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African leaders call for debt relief to help tackle climate crisis
2023-09-06 in The GuardianNairobi declaration, issued at first Africa Climate Summit, also includes call for global carbon taxes
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Finance
This summer broke the world record for the highest temperature officially recorded
2023-09-06 in Associated Press NewsThe UN weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires
Envisioning a future with climate change - Nature Climate Change
2023-09-06 (or before) in NatureClimate change research and assessments, including the most recent IPCC report, paint an increasingly dire picture of the future. However, the assumption that the future will be worse than the present may be wrong for many aspects of human well-being.
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change
Climate Science Denial Looms Large in GB News Linked ‘ARC’ Venture
2023-09-05 by in DeSmog“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice”. This Martin Luther King quote was used by Conservative peer Baroness Stroud to introduce the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), which launched in March. Set up by the owners of GB News and involving “senior leaders from politics, media, culture, business, and […]
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation | Climate Justice
‘Adapt or die’: Hellscape coming for Australia
2023-09-05 (or before) in news.com.au Ñ AustraliaÕs leading news siteWe can’t avoid natural disasters. And they’re happening more often and with greater intensity. Now Australia is being warned it can only keep its people safe by preparing for the worst – and not just patching things up afterwards.
Tagged under: Oceans | Nuclear Power | Climate Change | Extreme Weather | Forest Fires | Sea Level | Health | Trees
Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries
2023-09-05 (or before) in The LancetThe decoupling rates achieved in high-income countries are inadequate for meeting the climate and equity commitments of the Paris Agreement and cannot legitimately be considered green. If green is to be consistent with the Paris Agreement, then high-income countries have not achieved green growth, and are very unlikely to be able to achieve it in the future. To achieve Paris-compliant emission reductions, high-income countries will need to pursue post-growth demand-reduction strategies, reorienting the economy towards sufficiency, equity, and human wellbeing, while also accelerating technological change and efficiency improvemen...
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement | GDP | CO2 | Economic Growth
Betting against worst-case climate scenarios is risky business
2023-09-04 by in Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsHow much change can human systems tolerate before society collapses?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Collapse
Unlocking the Secrets of Climate Evolution: The Tipping Points That Changed Earth Forever
2023-09-03 in SciTechDaily - Science, Space and Technology News 2023Over the past 66 million years, two major climate events have shaped the climate system, dividing the period into two distinct climate eras. An analysis of the hierarchy of tipping points indicates that over the past 66 million years, two significant occurrences laid the foundation for subsequent c
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Smoke Is Fine, Longtime Tobacco and Coal Shill Assures Fox News Viewers
2023-09-03 (or before) by in The New RepublicFor reasons passing understanding, Steve Milloy has been invited to share his opinion on the East Coast's air quality crisis.
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World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022
2023-09-03 (or before) in Oxford AcademicWe are now at “code red” on planet Earth. Humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency. The scale of untold human suffering, already immense, is rapidly
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Scientists Find Success With New Direct Ocean Carbon Capture Technology - Inside Climate News
2023-09-02 by in Inside Climate NewsAs human activity and climate change increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the ocean, harming coral reefs and marine life, researchers have designed a new technology using aqueous sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate to remove carbon dioxide from ocean water, helping reverse acidification and reduce global warming. “It took years to pull this off […]
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Ocean Acidification | Coral Reefs | Innovation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Contribution of prioritized urban nature-based solutions allocation to carbon neutrality - Nature Climate Change
2023-09-02 (or before) in NatureEffective spatial allocation of the nature-based solutions is important for city mitigation through various pathways. This Analysis allocates prioritized urban nature-based solutions to major European cities and estimates their potential contribution to emission reductions, then the carbon neutrality targets.
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Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says
2023-09-02 (or before) in Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examinedExamines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are warming too' are examined to see what the science really says.
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Woodside, Chevron say WA faces gas supply crunch as scientists warn of 'climate time bomb'
2023-09-02 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Chevron
The extreme summer weather that scorched and soaked the world - BBC News
2023-09-02 (or before) in The BBCA look back at the heatwaves, wildfires, tropical storms and other major weather events around the world during the summer of 2023 and how they may relate to climate change due to global warming.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Heatwaves | Wildfires
The summer food went weird: searing heat reshapes US food production
2023-09-02 in The GuardianFrom wilting wheat to stressed pollinators, US farmers and fishermen see unexpected climate effects
Tagged under: Drought | Farming | Climate Change | Fish | Food Production and Consumption
Air pollution shortens lives of Delhi residents by around 11.9 years | The Independent
2023-09-02 (or before) in The IndependentReport finds 67.4 per cent of Indians live in areas that exceed country’s own national air quality standard
Tagged under: Climate Change | India
'Not fit for purpose': Green groups secure High Court hearing over government's net zero plans
2023-09-01 in Business GreenHigh Court orders three day 'rolled up' hearing for legal challenges brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and Good Law Project
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero
Green Groups Are Divided Over a Proposal to Boost the Nation’s Hydropower. Here’s Why - Inside Climate News
2023-09-01 by in Inside Climate NewsAmerica’s hydropower industry is hoping to reestablish some of its former glory by making itself central to the nation’s transition to clean energy—and it’s turning to Congress for help. The era of big dams arguably ended long ago. At one point referred to as “white coal,” hydropower was once a major source of electricity around […]
Tagged under: Climate Change | US Politics | Electricity
The summer ahead
2023-09-01 in The Monthly - AustraliaThe climate disasters unfolding in the northern hemisphere are a sign of what’s in store here, as governments fail to act on the unfolding emergency
Tagged under: Extreme Heat | Climate Change | Australia
Time Is Running Out: Coastal Wetlands Can’t Keep Up With Climate Change, Warns New Study
2023-08-31 in SciTechDaily - Science, Space and Technology News 2023The survival of marshes and other vulnerable coastal regions hinges on the ability to restrict global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), as outlined in the Paris Agreement. According to a recent study published in Nature, coastal marshlands and coral reef islands may not e
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wetlands | Coral Reefs
Global trends in climate change litigation: 2023 snapshot - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2023-08-30 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThis report, the fifth in our annual series, reviews key global developments in climate change litigation with a focus on the period May 2022 to May 2023.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Litigation
Climate Policy Radar | AI for climate law and policy research
2023-08-30 (or before) in climatepolicyradar.orgUse Climate Policy Radar’s data science and AI-powered platform to search and explore thousands of climate change laws, policies and legal cases worldwide
Tagged under: Climate Change | Legislation
Federal Act on Climate Protection Goals, Innovation and Strengthening Energy Security - Climate Change Laws of the World
2023-08-30 (or before) in Climate Laws - Climate Change Laws of the WorldTagged under: Climate Change | Innovation
General comment No. 26 (2023) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change
2023-08-30 (or before) in Office of the High Commissioner Human RightsCommittee on the Rights of the Child
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Children
Climate change fuelling Antarctic emperor penguin population losses
2023-08-30 (or before) by in Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.auEmperor penguin chicks at four out of five colonies in Antarctica did not survive the spring of 2022, prompting fears for the animal’s future.
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Modelling Climate Litigation Risk for (Re)Insurers
2023-08-30 (or before) by in Columbia Law SchoolIn response to the growing threat of climate change, the insurance industry has made significant investments in modelling and quantifying physical climate risks. However, the emerging risk of climate litigation has proven particularly difficult to model. In 2015 Mark Carney, then-Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, warned that climate litigation poses “long-tail risks” for insurers that may be “significant, uncertain and non-linear.” Since that warning, the number of climate-related cases has more than doubled, and the scope and financial significance of climate ...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Insurance | Litigation | Finance
A Global Review of Insurance Industry Responses to Climate Change - The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice
2023-08-30 (or before) in Springer VerlagA vanguard of insurers is adapting its business model to the realities of climate change. In many ways, insurers are still catching up both to mainstream science and to their customers, which, in response to climate change and energy volatility, are increasingly changing the way they construct buildings, transport people and goods, design products and produce energy. Customers, as well as regulators and shareholders, are eager to see insurers provide more products and services that respond to the “greening” of the global economy, expand their efforts to improve disaster resilience and otherwise be proactive about the...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Insurance | Sustainability
Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance
2023-08-30 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceCurrent policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase adaptation and mitigation funding are insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. It is clear that further action is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and achieve a just climate future. Here, we offer a new perspective on emissions responsibility and climate finance by conducting an environmentally extended input output analysis that links 30 years (1990–2019) of United States (U.S.) household-level income data to the emissions generated in creating that income. To do this we draw on over 2.8 billion inter-sectoral tran...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Health | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Mitigation | Finance
The 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever
2023-08-30 (or before) in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.As the world warms, these Earth systems are changing. Could further warming make them spiral out of control?
Tagged under: Amazon Rainforest | Climate Change | Trees | Tipping Points
Scientists Warn 1 Billion People on Track to Die From Climate Change
2023-08-30 by in ScienceAlertThe fossil fuels that humanity burns today will be a death sentence for many lives tomorrow.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Even modest climate change may lead to major transitions in boreal forests - Nature
2023-08-29 (or before) in NatureThe survival of southern boreal tree saplings decreases in response to even modest warming and reduced rainfall, which,together with species-specific growth responses, could lead to regeneration failure of currently dominant tree species.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees
Children have right to clean environment - report - BBC News
2023-08-29 (or before) in The BBCThe UN says countries must act urgently to protect children from the harmful effects of climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Children
Exxon Predicts World Will Miss Climate-Change Targets
2023-08-29 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoTagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Exxon
Climate change more than doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather conditions in Eastern Canada – World Weather Attribution
2023-08-29 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Climate Change
Remarks by Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Graham Steele at Event Hosted by the Brookings Institution's Assessing Insurance Regulation and Supervision of Climate-Related Financial Risk
2023-08-29 (or before) in home.treasury.govAs Prepared for Delivery Introduction Thank you, Carlos. It is my pleasure to be with you all today, both those in the room and watching virtually. As the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, my portfolio includes developing the Department’s policy views on banks, credit unions, consumer protection, access to capital, and financial sector cybersecurity matters. My remarks will focus on the work that Treasury, through the Federal Insurance office (FIO), is doing to understand and help address the financial risks that our changing climate poses in the insurance sector. Work on climate-related financial...
Tagged under: Drought | Finance | Climate Change | Housing | Insurance | Litigation | Economic Growth | California | Climate Change Impacts | Wildfires | Florida | Climate Change Mitigation | Capitalism
John Kerry urges oil and gas chiefs to bring climate change plans to UN summit | Financial Times
2023-08-28 (or before) in Financial TimesUS climate envoy calls for concrete proposals for renewable energy investment and emissions cuts by 2030
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change
Climate change is making hurricanes more destructive
2023-08-28 (or before) by in The Climate BrinkA lot of people don't want you to understand this
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Decadal Trends in the Oceanic Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon From 1994 to 2014
2023-08-27 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences JournalAbstract The oceanic uptake and resulting storage of the anthropogenic CO2 (Cant) that humans have emitted into the atmosphere moderates climate change. Yet our knowledge about how this uptake and ...
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change
Record Heat Scorches Dallas As Hell Summer Continues Across U.S.
2023-08-27 in HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPostTemperatures in the area reached 110 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the previous record for the date by four degrees.
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National news' scant coverage of climate protests largely overlooked the scientific urgency driving controversial climate actions
2023-08-27 (or before) in Media Matters for AmericaThe past year has seen a global surge in climate activism, spurred by the escalating climate crisis, including controversial actions such as throwing paint and food at venerable works of art, bringing bustling city traffic to a halt, and disrupting major athletic competitions, among others. A Media Matters analysis of coverage by major national TV news networks and the top five U.S. newspapers by circulation reveals a troubling trend: Coverage of such disruptive climate protests over the last year was not only limited, but also heavily skewed, often focusing on the disruptive tactics of the activists rather than the urgent...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Activism | Washington State
The Ocean Has a Fever
2023-08-27 (or before) in NASA Earth ObservatoryDecades of gradual warming due to human-caused climate change and an El Niño in the Pacific Ocean nudged global sea surface temperatures to record levels in 2023.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Pacific Ocean | Sea Level
Rivers in the Sky: How Deforestation Is Affecting Global Water Cycles
2023-08-27 (or before) in Yale E360A growing body of evidence indicates that the continuing destruction of tropical forests is disrupting the movement of water in the atmosphere, causing major shifts in precipitation that could lead to drought in key agricultural areas in China, India, and the U.S. Midwest.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Drought | Climate Change | Rivers | Trees | India
Saudi Aramco Targeted in UN Human Rights Probe Tied to Climate Change - Bloomberg
2023-08-26 (or before) in BloombergSaudi Aramco is being investigated by the United Nations for possible human rights violations tied to fossil-fuel induced climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Saudi Arabia | United Nations | Human Rights | Aramco
The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change - Nature
2023-08-25 (or before) in NatureTropical forests currently make a neutral contribution to the global carbon cycle, but they are likely to become a carbon source in the near future.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
2023-08-25 (or before) in International Monetary FundScaling back subsidies would reduce air pollution, generate revenue, and make a major contribution to slowing climate change
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Climate change is coming for your olive oil, too
2023-08-25 by in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.Overall inflation is easing. But heatwaves in Europe have doubled the price of live oil over the past year.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Heatwaves
"We are killing this ecosystem": the scientists tracking the Amazon's fading health
2023-08-25 (or before) in NatureClimate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the rainforest towards a tipping point of sustainability. Researchers are racing to chart the Amazon’s future.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Amazon Rainforest | Climate Change | Health | Tipping Points | Sustainability
AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023
2023-08-25 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeTagged under: Climate Change | IPCC
Stumbling towards collapse: coming to terms with the climate crisis
2023-08-25 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsLeading sociologists have approached the climate crisis by emphasising a way forward and identifying hopeful directions. What sense is to be made of suggestions that we are instead on the brink of ...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism | Collapse
Top science publisher withdraws flawed climate study
2023-08-25 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyTop science publisher Springer Nature said it has withdrawn a study that presented misleading conclusions on climate change impacts after an investigation prompted by an Agence France-Presse (AFP) inquiry.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
'Catastrophic' loss: Huge colonies of emperor penguins saw no chicks survive last year as sea ice disappears | CNN
2023-08-24 by in CNNAs rapidly warming global temperatures help push Antarctica’s sea ice to unprecedented lows, it’s threatening the very existence of one of the continent’s most iconic species: emperor penguins.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic | Insurance | Health | Finance
Every single candidate denied climate change in first Republican presidential debate
2023-08-24 (or before) in currentlyhq.com"Climate change is real, by the way" - Joe Biden, on Twitter.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Joe Biden
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2023-08-24 (or before) in Los Angeles TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Wildfires
Scientists unearth warning about climate change, extinction
2023-08-23 (or before) in Spectrum NewsScientists are warning that we're in an extinction crisis
Tagged under: Climate Change | California | Extinction
Climate change doubled chance of weather conditions that led to record Quebec fires, researchers say
2023-08-22 in Associated Press NewsA new analysis finds that climate change more than doubled the chances of the hot, dry weather that helped fuel the unprecedented wildfire season in eastern Canada.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires
I’ve spent 40 years in Antarctic research. Right now it’s facing a climate emergency so we must not put vital science on ice | Dana M Bergstrom for the Conversation
2023-08-22 in The GuardianAntarctica is experiencing disturbing changes – from missing winter sea ice to disintegrating ice shelves – and it’s almost certain things will get worse
Tagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic
We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse
2023-08-22 in The NationWill our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Collapse
There are complex reasons for our dire wildfires, but scientists say climate change plays key role | CBC News
2023-08-21 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public Broadcaster"It's not one thing that's causing these really bad fire seasons," said Jen Baron, a PhD candidate at UBC's department of forest and conservation sciences. "At a broad scale, it's really the interaction between the climate and the fuels that are driving these changes."
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires | Trees
Towards real-time verification of CO2 emissions - Nature Climate Change
2023-08-21 (or before) in NatureThe Paris Agreement has increased the incentive to verify reported anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions with independent Earth system observations. Reliable verification requires a step change in our understanding of carbon cycle variability.
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees - Nature Climate Change
2023-08-21 (or before) in NatureAtmospheric observations can quantify anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, but variability in net land carbon exchange delays the detection of changes. Now, research improves understanding of this variability and allows earlier detection of emissions changes.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees
NASA Study Reveals Compounding Climate Risks at Two Degrees of Warming – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2023-08-21 (or before) in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetTagged under: Climate Change
Guest post: Gauging the success of climate change adaptation - Carbon Brief
2023-08-21 by in Carbon BriefAs the impacts of climate change materialise around the world, the importance of good adaptation becomes all the more pressing.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Navigating the continuum between adaptation and maladaptation - Nature Climate Change
2023-08-21 (or before) in NatureReducing the risk of maladaptation is critical to successful climate adaptation, yet such dichotomy hampers nuanced assessments of adaptation outcomes. The authors provide a framework to assess relevant dimensions of adaptation outcomes on a continuum and apply it to various adaptation options.
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Surprising stability of recent global carbon cycling enables improved fossil fuel emission verification - Nature Climate Change
2023-08-21 (or before) in NatureVerification of reported fossil fuel emissions is critical for tracking the progress of the Paris Agreement. Here, a simple model suggests the stability of the sensitivity of net carbon exchange to climate and carbon dioxide forcing and validates reported global emissions with improved accuracy.
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The climate appeasers are leading us towards catastrophe
2023-08-20 (or before) by in Prospect MagazineIn 1940, George Orwell famously lambasted those who refused to prepare for the Second World War. Today we face a different war—on the climate crisis—a...
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The liberal limits to transformation in the Green Climate Fund
2023-08-20 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsInternational climate finance institutions increasingly articulate their goals as catalyzing transformation, but can these institutions bring about deep structural change when they reflect the same...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Justice | Finance
Montana’s landmark climate ruling: three key takeaways
2023-08-20 in The GuardianA judge last week ruled the young plaintiffs have the right to a clean environment – and experts say this changed the climate litigation landscape
Tagged under: Climate Change | Litigation
Misreading the Bengal Delta | University of Washington
2023-08-18 (or before) in University of WashingtonPerilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for climate change adaptation. Yet, to what extent do adaptation projects address local needs and concerns? Combining environmental history and ethnographic fieldwork with development professionals, rural farmers, and landless women, *Misreading the Bengal Delta* critiques development narratives of Bangladesh as a “climate change victim.” It examines how development actors repackage colonial-era modernizing projects, which have caused severe environmental effects, as clim...
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Flooding | Sea Level | Health | Women and Children | Finance
Climate change: Something strange is happening in the Pacific and we must find out why | New Scientist
2023-08-18 (or before) in New ScientistUnexpectedly, the eastern Pacific Ocean is cooling. If this “cold tongue” continues, it could reduce greenhouse gas warming by 30 per cent – but also bring megadrought to the US
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change
UK coffee-drinkers wake up to climate change threat
2023-08-17 (or before) in The Church TimesTagged under: Climate Change
New Data: Shut Down 60% of Existing Fossil Fuel Extraction to Keep 1.5°C in Reach - Oil Change International
2023-08-16 by in Oil Change InternationalWhen you are in a hole, the first step is to stop digging. New data shows the majority of the fossil fuel reserves within active fields and mines must stay in the ground to maintain a liveable climate.
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As Malaysia grapples with floods, the need for a climate change bill is clear
2023-08-16 (or before) in China Dialogue | China environment and climate newsWhile its towns bear the consequences of extreme weather, experts and politicians push for a long-awaited climate bill to be signed into law
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Montana Youth Sued Their Government Over Climate Change and Won. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal - Inside Climate News
2023-08-15 by in Inside Climate NewsA Montana judge issued a landmark ruling this week, siding with a group of young plaintiffs who accused their state government of violating their constitutional right to “a clean and healthful environment” by promoting fossil fuel development without considering how those projects contribute to climate change. In 2020, 16 young Montanans, whose ages today range […]
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'Inability to think long-term': Politicians lashed over lack of climate change targets on Q+A
2023-08-15 (or before) in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero
Severe drought in Panama hits global shipping industry | Financial Times
2023-08-15 (or before) in Financial TimesRestrictions triggered by lack of rain are likely to occur ‘again and again’ as climate change worsens
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change
August 2023 Updates to the Climate Case Charts | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
2023-08-15 (or before) in Sabin Center for Climate Change Law - Columbia UniversityTagged under: Climate Change
For Decades, Our Carbon Emissions Sped the Growth of Plants — Not Anymore
2023-08-15 (or before) in Yale E360Tagged under: Climate Change
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
2023-08-15 (or before) in Sabin Center for Climate Change Law - Columbia UniversityTagged under: Climate Change
Arizona Republicans Don’t Want to Hear About the Deadly Heat Wave
2023-08-14 (or before) in PoliticoGOP lawmakers are brushing off the extreme heat — and any suggestion of climate change.
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The evolution of climate justice claims in global climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC
2023-08-14 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsA growing body of research suggests that the global conception of climate change is increasingly taking a justice-focus. However, the justice-framings of different actors in the UNFCCC process and ...
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Even in Greek towns razed by wildfires, people don’t blame the climate crisis. That must change | Christy Lefteri
2023-08-14 in The GuardianMany see climate breakdown as a problem of the future, but it’s here now. To move forward, we must understand our part in it, says author Christy Lefteri
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires | Greece
Concrete tomb filled with deadly nuclear waste is leaking as it's starting to crack
2023-08-14 (or before) in Latest News, Entertainment Stories And Viral Videos - UNILADTagged under: Oceans | Nuclear Power | Climate Change | Pacific Ocean
Should Climate Protesters Be Less Annoying?
2023-08-14 (or before) by in The New RepublicActivists interrupted a pro tennis tournament in Washington, D.C., last week—and reignited a debate about how best to wage the climate fight.
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Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?
2023-08-14 (or before) in Earth System Science DataAbstract. The Earth climate system is out of energy balance, and heat has accumulated continuously over the past decades, warming the ocean, the land, the cryosphere, and the atmosphere. According to the Sixth Assessment Report by Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this planetary warming over multiple decades is human-driven and results in unprecedented and committed changes to the Earth system, with adverse impacts for ecosystems and human systems. The Earth heat inventory provides a measure of the Earth energy imbalance (EEI) and allows for quantifying how much heat has accumulated in the Ea...
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Earth Energy Imbalance | Climate Change Impacts
Global Monitoring Laboratory - Data Visualization
2023-08-14 (or before) in NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring LaboratoryThe Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
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Understanding the growing radical flank of the climate movement as the world burns | Brookings
2023-08-13 (or before) in Brookings InstituteMany organizations in the climate change movement are connected.
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On the Highway to Climate Hell
2023-08-12 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and IdeasThe world's infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists.
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How to protest climate change nicely, with Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin | First Dog on the Moon
2023-08-11 in The GuardianWe need a croc in every pool. An orca in every marina!
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The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change
2023-08-11 (or before) in VICEAccording to a new study, ocean acidification is setting off a dangerous feedback loop that’s dissolving the very bottom of the ocean.
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Water firms urged to save money by diluting climate change plans
2023-08-10 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe government has privately asked water companies to explore saving money on future water supplies by assuming unrealistically low levels of climate change. Wa
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Canada in the Year 2060 - Macleans.ca
2023-08-10 in macleans.caSummers lost to fire and smoke. Biblical floods. Dying forests. Retreating coasts. Economic turmoil and political unrest. It’s going to be a weird century. Here’s what it will look like—and how Canada can get through it.
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Why did the Maui fire spread so fast? Drought, nonnative species and climate change among possible reasons | CNN
2023-08-09 by in CNNDrought conditions are becoming more extreme and common in Hawaii and other Pacific islands.
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The unexpected radiative impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption of 15th January 2022 - Communications Earth & Environment
2023-08-09 (or before) in NaturePerturbations to the global climate system changed from net cooling to net heating during the first month after the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha-apai eruption, according to radiative forcing estimates based on satellite, ground-based, in situ and radiosonde observations.
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Tonga eruption increases chance of temporary surface temperature anomaly above 1.5 °C - Nature Climate Change
2023-08-09 (or before) in NatureThe Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai eruption in January 2022 injected large amounts of water vapour into the atmosphere. Here, the authors show that this can cause additional warming over the next years, which increases the likelihood of exceeding 1.5 °C warming over a short time period.
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Climate change dropped from government risk register
2023-08-08 (or before) in Civil service, Westminster, Whitehall news & analysis for civil servants | Civil Service World magaThe first overhaul of the UK’s risk register since 2020 marks a significant departure from the previous approach to anticipating future threats
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Climate change and flash floods in Upper Austria | Copernicus
2023-08-08 (or before) in CopernicusTagged under: Climate Change
Net zero’s dam has burst, but the BBC is still papering over the cracks
2023-08-08 (or before) in The TelegraphFor decades, the Beeb’s coverage has been shamelessly one-sided, presenting highly politicised theory as irrefutable fact
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Politicians have a public mandate for climate leadership
2023-08-07 in IPPRThe public know that climate change is a major long-term risk to their family and community and are waiting for leadership, argues Sam Freedman. In a crowded field July’s Uxbridge …
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Florida schools ‘hijacked by the left’ turn to anti-climate cartoons
2023-08-07 by in E&E News | Essential Energy and Environment NewsFlorida's Department of Education approves classroom use of videos produced by a conservative group that denies climate change.
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As Sea Ice Melts and Forests Burn, Will the World Heat More than We Feared? – Byline Times
2023-08-07 by in Byline TimesIf there’s any risk future climate change may be worse than we’re anticipating, we must double-down on decarbonisation even more urgently, writes Charlie Gardner
Tagged under: Climate Change | Decarbonisation | Trees
Climate change: Antarctica could become planet's 'radiator' due to 'extreme' weather, fear scientists carrying out government review
2023-08-07 in Sky NewsThere is a danger Antarctica "stops acting as a refrigerant for the planet, and it starts acting as a radiator", one of the scientists involved has warned.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change | Antarctic
Aerosols must be included in climate risk assessments
2023-08-06 (or before) in NatureEstimates of impending risk ignore a big player in regional change and climate extremes. Estimates of impending risk ignore a big player in regional change and climate extremes.
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In pictures: How climate change is causing loss and damage around the world by UNDP Climate on Exposure
2023-08-06 (or before) in undp-climate.exposure.coHere are the many faces of loss and damage caused by climate change around the world –and what it can look like for those on the frontlines.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Chile | Wildfires | Madagascar | Biodiversity Loss | India
5 factors behind the Global Heatwave 2023, and it's not just El Niño
2023-08-06 (or before) in YouTubeplain language description from a professional climatologistsome key studies on solar irradiance and volcanic issuesSchmutz, W., Changes in the Total Solar I...
Tagged under: Climate Change | El Niño
Climate change is death by a thousand cuts
2023-08-03 (or before) by in The Climate BrinkMuch of the concern about climate change is around the idea of “the big impact,” a single, colossal disaster that dramatically impacts everyone on the planet, much like the scenario depicted in the movie The Day After Tomorrow. While such an event could happen, it’s not the most likely way we will be impacted by our changing climate. A more plausible scenario involves ‘death by a thousand cuts,’ with numerous smaller impacts occurring simultaneously or in close succession. Each impact on its own might be manageable, but collectively they could sum up to a significant problem.
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Our survey. Net Zero, climate change, cars, bans and LTNs. The nearer the target, the bigger the opposition. | Conservative Home
2023-08-02 by in Conservative Home - Comprehensive, independent coverage of the UK Conservative PartyAn emphatic 66 per cent are opposed to LDNs - and a socking great 83 per cent to the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030.
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Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change
2023-08-01 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences JournalAbstract Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating climate c...
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Sunak Pushes North Sea Fossil Fuel as Political Shift Gains Pace - Bloomberg
2023-07-31 (or before) in BloombergPrime Minister Rishi Sunak committed to granting hundreds of new licenses for oil and gas production in the North Sea, as his governing Conservatives intensify efforts to draw a political dividing line with the poll-leading opposition Labour Party on energy policy and the environment.
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Mike Huckabee’s “Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change” Shows the Changing Landscape of Climate Denial - Inside Climate News
2023-07-31 by in Inside Climate NewsBeverly Grimmett thought the kids magazines she saw stacked on a coworker’s desk this spring were perfectly innocent, until she picked one up. “My stomach turned,” Grimmett said. The guides were decorated in bright colors and cheerful cartoons, with titles like “The Kids Guide to Socialism,” “The Kids Guide to Our One Nation Under God,” […]
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What's your Birth Carbon?
2023-07-31 (or before) in The Nature Conservancy: A World Where People & Nature ThriveHow much have carbon dioxide levels increased during your lifetime? Start by seeing what levels were like during the year you were born, and learn what we can do to solve climate change.
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The UK has lost its net zero leadership – so why are we still stalling on proven technologies like onshore wind?
2023-07-31 (or before) in thriverenewables.co.ukFollowing a recent report from the Climate Change Committee, we give our thoughts on the state of the energy transition in the UK, including the government’s consultation into ‘community engagement’ around onshore wind.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Net Zero | Wind Power | Committee on Climate Change UK
IMF increasingly worried about 'material' impact of climate change on economies | Reuters
2023-07-28 (or before) in ReutersThe International Monetary Fund on Tuesday called for better coordinated efforts to address the causes of climate change, warning extreme weather is posing material risks to countries globally, especially developing economies already saddled with high debts.
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Sustainability | Finance
Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation - Nature Climate Change
2023-07-28 (or before) in NatureCooling has been observed over the past century in the northern Atlantic, and this study presents multiple lines of evidence that suggest it may be a result of a reduction in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. The decrease in this circulation, particularly after 1970, seems to be unprecedented in the past millennium and melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet may be a contributing factor.
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Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years - Nature
2023-07-28 (or before) in NatureOceans cover more than two-thirds of our blue planet. The waters move in a global circulation system, driven by subtle density differences and transporting huge amounts of heat. Ocean circulation is thus an active and highly nonlinear player in the global climate game. Increasingly clear evidence implicates ocean circulation in abrupt and dramatic climate shifts, such as sudden temperature changes in Greenland on the order of 5–10 °C and massive surges of icebergs into the North Atlantic Ocean — events that have occurred repeatedly during the last glacial cycle.
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Thermohaline circulation hysteresis: A model intercomparison
2023-07-28 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences JournalWe present results from an intercomparison of 11 different climate models of intermediate complexity, in which the North Atlantic Ocean was subjected to slowly varying changes in freshwater input. Al...
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Ocean Warming | Vital Signs – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2023-07-28 (or before) in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetTagged under: Oceans | Climate Change
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2023-07-28 (or before) in Leopoldina | HomeTagged under: Climate Change | Tipping Points
Climate change threat 'existential' says Joe Biden, as world faces hottest July - BBC News
2023-07-27 (or before) in The BBCResearchers believe this month will be the hottest ever recorded - even with several days to go.
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Climate Lawsuits Are Becoming Key Driver of Change as Courts Tie Policy to Human Rights
2023-07-27 in Common DreamsA growing percentage of litigation has been filed in the Global South, with plaintiffs arguing they have a right to adequate climate policy.
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Labour urged to work with Tories to counter ‘ignorant’ climate policy attacks
2023-07-25 in The GuardianTory former minister and chair of Climate Change Committee condemns ‘absolutely unacceptable’ attacks on Labour stance
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Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change
2023-07-25 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences JournalAbstract Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating climate c...
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Extreme heat in North America, Europe and China in July 2023 made much more likely by climate change – World Weather Attribution
2023-07-25 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Climate Change
The Eco Collapse We Were Warned About Has Begun
2023-07-25 by in resilienceIn 2023, different climatic anomalies have been recorded that set new historical records in the tragic progression of climate change at the global level.
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Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet - ABC News
2023-07-25 (or before) in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.
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What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are | Roger Harrabin
2023-07-25 in The GuardianAs the barrage of bad news from places like Greece continues, all we can be certain of is there are many surprises lying ahead, says analyst Roger Harrabin
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'Big-time bad news': what a secret Cold War project could tell us about the fate of Greenland's ice sheet
2023-07-21 (or before) in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Climate Change | Ice Melting
Climate change threatens to cause the next economic mega-shock
2023-07-20 in Chatham HouseThe stark disconnect between climate science and financial market sentiment will eventually end. It looks increasingly likely to be a sudden and painful adjustment.
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change
Guest post: How ‘locally led’ adaptation can help address climate change - Carbon Brief
2023-07-18 by in Carbon BriefHow locally-led adaptation (LLA) can help to deliver on the promise to build resilience to climate impacts around the world?
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Longer heatwaves driven by ‘turbo-charged’ climate change, say scientists
2023-07-17 in The GuardianRecord heat in Europe and the US is part of a pattern of more intense heatwaves made more likely by climate breakdown
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Sixfold Increase in Historical Northern Hemisphere Concurrent Large Heatwaves Driven by Warming and Changing Atmospheric Circulations
2023-07-16 (or before) in American Meteorological Society JournalsAbstract Simultaneous heatwaves affecting multiple regions (referred to as concurrent heatwaves) pose compounding threats to various natural and societal systems, including global food chains, emergency response systems, and reinsurance industries. While anthropogenic climate change is increasing heatwave risks across most regions, the interactions between warming and circulation changes that yield concurrent heatwaves remain understudied. Here, we quantify historical (1979–2019) trends in concurrent heatwaves during the warm season [May–September (MJJAS)] across the Northern Hemisphere mid- to high latitudes. We fin...
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Climate graphic of the week: Global warming is supercharging weather events, say scientists | Financial Times
2023-07-16 (or before) in Financial TimesFlooding in US, South Korea, India and Japan and extreme heat in Europe raises concerns about pace of change
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US refuses climate reparations for developing nations - BBC News
2023-07-14 (or before) in The BBCClimate envoy John Kerry made the remarks before he travels to China to discuss climate change issues.
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Recent and future declines of a historically widespread pollinator linked to climate, land cover, and pesticides | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-07-14 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceThe acute decline in global biodiversity includes not only the loss of rare species, but also the rapid collapse of common species across many diff...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Bees | Insects | Collapse | Biodiversity Loss
Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad for the Climate as Coal, a Study Says
2023-07-13 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Methane
UN warns climate change is pushing millions of people into hunger
2023-07-12 in Business GreenNew research from UN shows around 735 million people are currently facing hunger, compared to 613 million in 2019
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Famine and Food Insecurity
The ground is deforming, and buildings aren’t ready
2023-07-12 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News ReleasesA new Northwestern University study has, for the first time, linked underground climate change to the shifting ground beneath urban areas. The phenomenon is affecting all major urban areas around the globe, causing civil structures and infrastructures to crack.
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North India Deluge 2023: Ladakh, a cold desert, received over 10,000% of its normal rain on July 8-9
2023-07-12 (or before) in Down To Earth | Environment & science issues | India, South AsiaHeavy rains are now a reality for Ladakh due to global warming; Ladakhis may now have to unlearn their former ways of living
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‘Heaviest rain ever’ causes deadly floods and landslides in Japan
2023-07-11 in The GuardianMud engulfs houses and cars as island of Kyushu bears brunt of annual rainy season that is worsening with climate change
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Vermont Floods Show Limits of America’s Efforts to Adapt to Climate Change
2023-07-11 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Housing
Only 5% of national TV news segments on the record-shattering heat wave that scorched Texas mentioned climate change
2023-07-11 (or before) in Media Matters for AmericaThroughout the recent record-breaking and deadly heat wave that affected millions across Texas and other parts of the Southwest, major TV networks largely failed to report on the links between climate change and the extreme heat. Over a two-week period from June 15-29, an analysis by Media Matters found: Only 5% of the 310 segments and weathercasts about the heat wave across national TV news mentioned climate change. Major cable news networks – CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC – aired 187 segments or weathercasts about the heat wave, but only 8 mentioned climate change. MSNBC mentioned the connection between the extr...
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'An Insane Amount of Water': What Climate Change Means For California's Biggest Dairy District - Modern Farmer
2023-07-10 by in Homepage - Modern FarmerFor Joseph Goni, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Tulare County, California, the region’s historic floods were part of family lore. As such, his
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UK should quit ‘climate-wrecking’ energy treaty, say official advisers
2023-07-10 in The GuardianClimate Change Committee recommends leaving energy charter treaty, which critics say is ‘weaponised’ by fossil fuel firms
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Committee on Climate Change UK
Remaining “Calm” About Climate Change Will Kill Us
2023-07-10 in The LeverAnyone insisting that you “calm down” about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes at our doorstep.
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Past and projected climate change impacts on heat-related child mortality in Africa - IOPscience
2023-07-10 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Climate Change Impacts | Children
MetLink - Royal Meteorological Society Tipping Points: Critical Thresholds for Climate Change -
2023-07-09 (or before) in MetLink - Royal Meteorological Society HomeTo what extent can all climate change be seen as a tipping point?
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Anthropogenic climate change impacts exacerbate summer forest fires in California | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-07-09 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceRecord-breaking summer forest fires have become a regular occurrence in California. Observations indicate a fivefold increase in summer burned area...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Forest Fires | California | Climate Change Impacts | Trees
What makes South Asia so vulnerable to climate change? | Climate News | Al Jazeera
2023-07-09 (or before) by in Al JazeeraExtreme weather events in one of the world’s most populous regions bring food insecurity, displacement and disease.
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Schwarzenegger to Sue Big Oil for ‘First Degree Murder’
2023-07-09 (or before) in PoliticoAt SXSW, the former California governor lets loose on climate change, Donald Trump and gives his first in-depth remarks on #MeToo.
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Desert Apocalypse, Episode 1: Yellow Pine Solar
2023-07-09 (or before) in YouTubeFilmmaker Justin McAffee travels with Basin and Range Watch to explore what's at stake at the Yellow Pine Solar project site in Pahrump Valley. They discover...
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Climate Feedback Loops and Tipping Points | Center for Science Education
2023-07-09 (or before) by in Center for Science EducationFeedback loops play an important role in interactions among parts of the climate system. Positive feedback loops can sometimes result in irreversible change as climate conditions cross a tipping point.
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Doom-and-gloom climate news may scare but also encourage audiences
2023-07-08 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyA team of Penn State researchers investigated how seeing frightening news about climate change day after day may shape the way people feel about the phenomenon and how willing they are to take action to address it.
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It’s Not Just Climate: Are We Ignoring Other Causes of Disasters?
2023-07-08 (or before) in Yale E360Climate change is increasingly seen as the cause of natural catastrophes, from floods to famines. But a growing number of scientists are cautioning that blaming disasters solely on climate overlooks the poor policy and planning decisions that make these events much worse.
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The Next Level of the Age of Extinction | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2023-07-07 (or before) in Eudaimonia and CoThe Apocalypse Phase of Climate Change Appears To Be Heading Our Way
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There's no such thing as a perfect climate change solution
2023-07-07 in Los Angeles TimesBut we still need to confront global warming, fast.
Tagged under: Climate Change | California
Scientists Raise Alarm Over Risk of 'Synchronized' Global Crop Failures
2023-07-07 (or before) in VICENew research exposes an underestimated risk of simultaneous global food supply shocks due to climate change.
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UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record
2023-07-07 in The GuardianAfter record breaking days on Monday and Tuesday, unofficial analysis shows the world may have seen its hottest seven days in a row
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Generational differences in climate-related beliefs, risk perceptions and emotions in the UK - Communications Earth & Environment
2023-07-06 (or before) in NatureYounger people in the UK are more likely than older individuals to feel emotional engagement with climate change-related risks, however, there is little difference in the belief in anthropogenic climate change, according to analyses of nationally representative survey results.
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Researchers: We've Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide
2023-07-05 by in ScienceAlertThe risks of harvest failures in multiple global breadbaskets have been underestimated, according to a study Tuesday that researchers said should be a "wake up call" about the threat climate change poses to our food systems.
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June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points - Inside Climate News
2023-07-04 by in Inside Climate NewsJune 2023 may be remembered as the start of a big change in the climate system, with many key global indicators flashing red warning lights amid signs that some systems are tipping toward a new state from which they may not recover. Earth’s critical reflective polar ice caps are at their lowest extent on record […]
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World hits record land, sea temperatures as climate change fuels 2023 extremes | Reuters
2023-07-03 (or before) in ReutersThe target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea.
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An earth system model shows self-sustained thawing of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020 - Scientific Reports
2023-07-03 (or before) in NatureThe risk of points-of-no-return, which, once surpassed lock the world into new dynamics, have been discussed for decades. Recently, there have been warnings that some of these tipping points are coming closer and are too dangerous to be disregarded. In this paper we report that in the ESCIMO climate model the world is already past a point-of-no-return for global warming. In ESCIMO we observe self-sustained thawing of the permafrost for hundreds of years, even if global society stops all emissions of man-made GHGs immediately. We encourage other model builders to explore our discovery in their (bigger) models, and report on their...
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Arctic | Albedo | Ice Melting | Tipping Points
UK weather: hottest June since records began - Met Office - BBC News
2023-07-03 (or before) in The BBCScientists found evidence that climate change made the warmer weather last month more likely.
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Canada Offers Lesson in the Economic Toll of Climate Change
2023-07-03 in The New York TimesTagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Wildfires
Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?
2023-07-02 (or before) in arXiv.org e-Print archivePaleoclimate data show that climate sensitivity is ~3 deg-C for doubled CO2, including only fast feedback processes. Equilibrium sensitivity, including slower surface albedo feedbacks, is ~6 deg-C for doubled CO2 for the range of climate states between glacial conditions and ice-free Antarctica. Decreasing CO2 was the main cause of a cooling trend that began 50 million years ago, large scale glaciation occurring when CO2 fell to 450 +/- 100 ppm, a level that will be exceeded within decades, barring prompt policy changes. If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on ...
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UK airports say they can reach net zero and still expand. Is it just pie in the sky?
2023-07-01 in The GuardianDespite the Climate Change Committee’s warnings to stop growing capacity, Gatwick is gearing up for another try at a second runway
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | Committee on Climate Change UK
What a world 1.5 degrees hotter would look like
2023-06-30 (or before) in ips-journal.eu | IPS JournalTo mitigate the worst climate change impacts, we need to consider implementing climate solutions outside of the free economic market
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Famine and Food Insecurity | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Justice
The climate change-denying TikTok post that won't go away - BBC News
2023-06-30 (or before) in The BBCThe firm is struggling to stop climate misinformation spreading on its platform, BBC investigation finds.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Climate anxiety is about more than just personal risks - Nature Climate Change
2023-06-29 (or before) in NatureTagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief
The Future Is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part One
2023-06-29 (or before) in BrillAbstract As capitalist society remains incapable of addressing climate breakdown, one measure is waiting in the wings: solar geoengineering. No other technology can cut global temperatures immediately. It would alleviate the symptoms of the crisis, not its causes. But might it be combined with radical emissions cuts? This essay, the first instalment of two, scrutinises the rationalist-optimist case for geoengineering: the idea that soot planes in the sky can shield the Earth from the worst heat while society rids itself of fossil fuels. A more likely outcome is that they encourage business-as-usual to continue, while negative si...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Geoengineering | Capitalism
2023 Progress Report to Parliament - Climate Change Committee
2023-06-28 (or before) in Climate Change CommitteeThis year saw the release of new detail on the Government’s plans for Net Zero with the publication…
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | Committee on Climate Change UK
Climate Change Committee says UK no longer a world leader - BBC News
2023-06-28 (or before) in The BBCThe UK's statutory climate body criticises the government for backing new oil and gas projects.
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Climate Change Committee warns UK has 'lost' its global net zero leadership position
2023-06-28 in Business GreenAnnual progress report warns government's official advisors have 'markedly less' confidence in the UK's ability to meet its decarbonisation targets from 2030 onwards
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | Decarbonisation | Committee on Climate Change UK
Climate change: Deforestation surges despite pledges - BBC News
2023-06-27 (or before) in The BBCData shows that cutting down tropical forests increased by 10% in 2022, despite promises made at COP26.
Tagged under: COP26 | Deforestation | Climate Change | Trees
Rainforest destruction soared in 2022 despite global pledges to halt deforestation, new report finds | CNN
2023-06-27 by in CNNThe destruction of the world’s rainforests ramped up last year, despite global pledges to end deforestation by 2030, according to a new report.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Climate Change | Brazil | Health | Trees | Finance
Better transparency is no substitute for real delivery - Climate Change Committee
2023-06-27 by in Climate Change CommitteeFollowing last year’s High Court ruling, the UK Government has published the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (CBDP), providing much greater transparency on its Net Zero plans. However, despite over 3,000 pages of new detail, the Climate Change Committee’s confidence in the UK meeting its goals from 2030 onwards is now markedly less than it was in our previous assessment a year ago.
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Boston's summer heat is an issue of racial equity. 'Greening' our city is one solution
2023-06-26 (or before) in WBURWe will need to do far more than plant trees and increase green space to fully address climate change and gun violence, write Gaurab Basu and Jonathan Jay. But nature-based solutions have significant community-level health benefits and should play an important role in our public policy.
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Study suggests 21st century economic growth will be slower than expected
2023-06-25 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyThe global economy will grow slower in the 21st century than economists have expected, a finding that has implications for our ability to adapt to climate change in the coming decades, according to new research.
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How long before climate change claims the Thwaites Glacier?
2023-06-23 by in The National News UKThe National visits the British Antarctic Survey, which plans to use AI to study data that could offer hope for the planet's future
Tagged under: COP28 | Climate Change | Antarctic
Critical Climate Justice – Dr. Farhana Sultana
2023-06-23 in Farhana SultanaClimate Justice, climate change
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Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers - Nature Sustainability
2023-06-22 (or before) in NatureCurrent models, based on incremental changes in a single stress, have limited ability to anticipate abrupt ecosystem changes due to climate and human activities. Experiments on four models simulating ecosystems with a range of anthropogenic interactions show how much earlier abrupt change can happen.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Collapse | Sustainability
Climate Coloniality – Dr. Farhana Sultana
2023-06-22 in Farhana SultanaClimate Coloniality: The extremely uneven and inequitable impacts of climate change.
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The climate crisis is this century’s biggest threat. We need a global finance pact that reflects the task ahead | Chris Bowen, Steven Guilbeault and James Shaw
2023-06-22 in The GuardianAs climate change ministers, we urge multilateral banks to come together to help vulnerable nations, who face cascading challenges
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A history of the global carbon budget
2023-06-21 (or before) in Wiley Interdisciplinary ReviewsThe near-linear relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and global temperature rise, as illustrated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on 1.5°C (IPCC, 2018, p. 1...
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What is important for achieving 2 °C? UNFCCC and IPCC expert perceptions on obstacles and response options for climate change mitigation - IOPscience
2023-06-21 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation
Himalayan glaciers melting 65 percent faster than previous decade: study
2023-06-20 in France 24Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists…
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Himalayan glacier loss speeding up with dire outcome for millions
2023-06-20 (or before) in YouTubeNew research shows glaciers in the Hindu Kush Mountain range in the Himalayas could lose 75% of its ice by the end of the century. The report shows melting i...
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Sea Level | NASA Global Climate Change
2023-06-19 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetVital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.
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Disarray in global governance and climate change chaos
2023-06-17 (or before) in Academia.edu - Share researchDisarray in global governance and climate change chaos
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Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Tagged by Source: Australia and Asia
2023-06-17 (or before) in YouTubeCarbon dioxide (CO2) is the most prevalent greenhouse gas driving global climate change. However, its increase in the atmosphere would be even more rapid wit...
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We’ve pumped so much groundwater that we’ve nudged the Earth's spin
2023-06-17 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space SciencesAGU press contact: Rebecca Dzombak, news@agu.org (UTC-4 hours) Contact information for the researchers: Ki-Weon Seo, Seoul National University, seokiweon@snu.ac.kr (UTC+9 hours) WASHINGTON — By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and 2010 alone, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, AGU’s journal for short-format, high-impact research with implications spanning the Earth and space sciences. Based on climate models, scientists previously es...
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Daily Mail still not taking climate change seriously - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2023-06-16 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThe ‘Daily Mail’ has a long track record of promoting climate change denial. Its coverage of climate change before and after COP26 has been no exception says Bob Ward
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Needed: Either Degrowth Or Two Earths| Countercurrents
2023-06-16 in CountercurrentsIn reality, degrowth differs fundamentally from a recession. A recession is a reduction in GDP, one that happens accidentally, often with undesirable social
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Triple-digit heat across Texas is forecast to break energy records | CNN
2023-06-15 by in CNNSummer is still a week away and the Lone Star State is already sweltering, as triple-digit heat could lead to more than 75 heat records being broken across Texas this week.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Texas | Health | Finance
Reconciling theory with the reality of African heatwaves
2023-06-15 (or before) in NatureExtreme weather damage databases report no significant heatwave impacts in sub-Saharan Africa since 1900, yet the region has experienced a number of heatwaves and will be affected disproportionately by them under climate change. Addressing this reporting discrepancy is crucial to assess the impacts of future extreme heat there.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Climate Change Impacts | Heatwaves
Carbon dioxide in our atmosphere hits high not seen for millions of years, threatening accelerated global heating - Pearls and Irritations
2023-06-14 by in John Menadue - Pearls and Irritations - Public policy journalSome of the worst consequences of climate change can still be avoided by solar panels and wind turbines and electrifying our transportation.
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'We are gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers': Peter Singer on climate change
2023-06-14 by in The ConversationWhen Peter Singer first published Animal Liberation in 1975, he wasn’t aware of climate change. But the new book, Animal Liberation Now, argues eating plants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Envisionation Interview: David Wasdell On the IPCC & Scientific Voice
2023-06-14 (or before) in YouTubewww.envisionation.co.ukInterview with David Wasdell from the Apollo Gaia Foundation. IPCC as a governmental body as opposed to a scientific forum. Percepti...
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‘My life and my home’: young people start to testify at historic US climate trial
2023-06-13 in The GuardianThe plaintiffs note that Montana’s constitution pledges a healthy environment ‘for present and future generations’
Tagged under: Climate Change | Activism | Health
U.S. Forests Struggling to Adapt Fast Enough to Climate Change, Study Finds - EcoWatch
2023-06-13 (or before) in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeResearchers have uncovered warning signs that forests in the Western U.S. are struggling to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees
Antarctic tipping points: the irreversible changes to come if we fail to keep warming below 2℃
2023-06-13 by in The ConversationWe are on a trajectory that takes Earth across thresholds humans have never experienced, into a climate where Antarctica’s ice shelves can no longer exist, leading to several metres of sea-level rise.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic | Sea Level | Tipping Points
Concerns mount over the speed of key climate change trends
2023-06-13 in AxiosTagged under: Climate Change
Recent reduced abyssal overturning and ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin - Nature Climate Change
2023-06-13 (or before) in NatureAntarctic bottom water (AABW), a key component of ocean circulation, provides oxygen to the deep ocean. This work shows that AABW transport reduced over the past decades in the Australian Antarctic Basin, weakening the abyssal overturning circulation and decreasing deep ocean oxygen.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Antarctic
Earth is dimming due to climate change
2023-06-13 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space SciencesWarming oceans cause fewer bright clouds to reflect sunlight into space, admitting even more energy into earth's climate system.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change
We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change
2023-06-12 (or before) by in The New RepublicWe’re under attack by a powerful enemy—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII.
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How Warming Ruined a Crab Fishery and Hurt an Alaskan Town
2023-06-11 (or before) in Yale E360As the world warms, extended spikes in ocean temperatures are triggering the collapse of key marine populations. For the Aleut community of St. Paul, Alaska, the loss of the snow crab fishery is having a profound economic impact and raising questions about the future.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Fish | Collapse | Alaska | Sealife
Exhausted crews battle Canadian wildfires as experts issue climate warning
2023-06-10 in The GuardianGlobal heating and human changes to the landscape have invited more destructive fires, making fire season worse
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires
Making the Climate Connection
2023-06-09 (or before) in Covering Climate NowTips and examples to help journalists make the connection between extreme weather and climate change.
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Why the impacts of climate change may make us less likely to reduce emissions | Global Sustainability | Cambridge Core
2023-06-09 (or before) in Cambridge University Press & AssessmentWhy the impacts of climate change may make us less likely to reduce emissions - Volume 5
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Sustainability
Extreme Weather Reporting Guide
2023-06-09 (or before) in Covering Climate NowScientists overwhelmingly agree that human-caused climate change makes weather more extreme.
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Rise in extreme wildfires linked directly to emissions from oil companies in new study | CBC News
2023-06-09 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public BroadcasterAs fires blaze in Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C., new research has drawn a direct and measurable link between carbon emissions traced back to the world's major fossil fuel producers and the increase in extreme wildfires across western Canada and the United States.
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Canada wildfires: US East Coast sees worst air quality in years - BBC News
2023-06-08 (or before) in The BBCUS President Joe Biden says the dense cloak of smoke is a "stark reminder" of climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Joe Biden | Wildfires
The planet’s economist: has Kate Raworth found a model for sustainable living?
2023-06-08 in The GuardianThe long read: Her hit book Doughnut Economics laid out a path to a greener, more equal society. But can she turn her ideas into meaningful change?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Doughnut Economics
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
2023-06-08 (or before) in Earth System Science DataAbstract. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement that will conclude at COP28 in December 2023. Evidence-based decision-making needs to be informed by up-to-date and timely information on key indicators of the state of the climate system and of the human influence on the global climate system. However, successive IPCC reports are published at intervals of 5–10 years, creating potential...
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The massive smoke plume choking the northeast U.S. is what climate change looks like » Yale Climate Connections
2023-06-07 by in Yale Climate ConnectionsUnearthly skies and unhealthy air resulting from Canadian wildfires may persist for days.
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Global trends in climate change litigation: 2022 snapshot - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2023-06-07 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThis latest edition of our annual report on global trends in climate change litigation takes stock of developments over the period May 2021 to May 2022, and draws on a number of recent case studies from around the world. It also identifies areas where climate litigation cases are likely to increase in the future.
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U.S. Climate Change Litigation - Climate Change Litigation
2023-06-07 (or before) in Climate Change Litigation Databases - Sabin Center for Climate Change LawCases in the U.S. database are organized by type of claim and may be filtered by the principal laws they address, their filing years, and their jurisdictions. The database is also searchable by keyword. In many cases, the database includes links to decisions, complaints, motions, and other administrative and litigation documents. To browse by claim […]
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Why a majority of Californians are expecting 'weather whiplash' in near future
2023-06-07 (or before) by in San Francisco ChronicleA UC Berkeley poll asked Californians whether extreme weather is linked to climate change and asked how many people were affected by the winter storms.
Tagged under: Climate Change | California
Industrial farming has killed billions of birds | Climate & Capitalism
2023-06-06 in Climate & Capitalism | An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian AngusScientists: Saving birds requires rapid transformative change…
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Capitalism
Home | The Chancery Lane Project
2023-06-06 (or before) by in The Chancery Lane ProjectOur vision is a world where every contract and law enables solutions to climate change.
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'Pretty depressing weekend': Key net zero policies face fresh wave of criticism
2023-06-05 in Business GreenFrom oil and gas licenses to heat pumps and recycling to active travel, crucial planks of the government’s climate policy framework are coming under attack from all sides
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | US Politics | Committee on Climate Change UK
The Biden administration sees hydrogen as a game-changing climate technology. The reality is far more complicated | CNN Politics
2023-06-05 by in CNNThe Biden administration on Monday announced a goal to produce 50 million metric tons of clean hydrogen fuel by 2050 – a roadmap that, if successful, would cut around 10% of the country’s planet-warming pollution by the same date.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Climate Change | Hydrogen | Joe Biden | US Politics | Electricity | Health | Finance
Rich countries with high greenhouse gas emissions could pay $170tn in climate reparations
2023-06-05 in The GuardianProposed compensation would be paid to developing countries that must transition away from fossil fuels
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Phantom Forests: Why Ambitious Tree Planting Projects Are Failing
2023-06-04 (or before) in Yale E360High-profile initiatives to plant millions of trees are being touted by governments around the world as major contributions to fighting climate change. But scientists say many of these projects are ill-conceived and poorly managed and often fail to grow any forests at all.
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Florida’s beaches may catch a break on seaweed this summer | Miami Herald
2023-06-02 in miamiherald.comThe Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt mysteriously shrank in May, which scientists say will bring some relief for swimmers and sunbathers in the Florida Keys, Miami and the rest of South Florida.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Oceans | Florida
Climate paradox: Emission cuts could ‘unmask’ deadly face of climate change, scientists warn
2023-06-01 in The HillScientists have uncovered a potentially lethal paradox at the heart of efforts to slow human-caused climate change. A series of new studies suggest a stark truth. One the one hand, cutting fossil f…
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Twitter hinders 'troll hunters' battling climate denial
2023-06-01 in France 24For years, a band of science-loving "troll hunters" hounded climate change deniers off Twitter -- but Elon Musk's takeover has upended their efforts, with many ousted accounts back, pushing fresh disinformation.
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The future of the climate debate
2023-05-31 (or before) in openDemocracyThe cutting edge of the climate change debate was absent from recent events in New York City, including mass marches. It’s time to unlearn the deluded notions that keep us from exploring the real issues for the future.
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies, 1962-2022
2023-05-31 by in NASA Scientific Visualization StudioThe change in the distribution of land temperature anomalies over the years 1962 to 2022. This version is in Celsius, a Fahrenheit version is also available. ||
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It's not just climate – we've already breached most of the Earth's limits. A safer, fairer future means treading lightly
2023-05-31 by in The ConversationWe’ve blown past the safe and just limit for vital Earth systems, from climate change to the biosphere and the use of fertilisers and freshwater. For humans to thrive means living in safe limits
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Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate Policies - Inside Climate News
2023-05-31 by in Inside Climate NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio—Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to learn about climate change from a world-class faculty. Now one year into her program, she wonders if she belongs here. The problem has nothing to do with Ohio State and everything to do with the Ohio General Assembly and […]
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Deloitte research reveals inaction on climate change could cost the world’s economy US$178 trillion by 2070 | Deloitte Middle East | Press release
2023-05-30 (or before) in Deloitte UK | Audit, Consulting, Financial Advisory and Tax servicesDeloitte’s Global Turning Point Report finds that unchecked climate change could cost the global economy US$178 trillion over the next 50 years, unless global leaders unite in a systemic net-zero transition
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Rapidly increasing likelihood of exceeding 50 °C in parts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East due to human influence - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
2023-05-30 (or before) in NatureAs the world warms, extremely hot days are becoming more frequent and intense, reaching unprecedented temperatures associated with excess mortality. Here, we assess how anthropogenic forcings affect the likelihood of maximum daily temperatures above 50 °C at 12 selected locations around the Mediterranean and the Middle East. We adopt a risk-based attribution methodology that utilises climate model simulations with and without human influence to estimate the probability of extremes. We find that at all locations, temperatures above 50 °C would have been extremely rare or impossible in the pre-industrial worl...
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Shanghai records its highest May temperature in more than 100 years | CNN
2023-05-29 by in CNNThe Chinese city of Shanghai recorded its highest May temperature in more than 100 years on Monday, hitting a record 36.1 degrees Celsius (nearly 97 degrees Fahrenheit).
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'Murderers' and 'criminals': Meteorologists face unprecedented harassment from conspiracy theorists | CNN
2023-05-27 by in CNN InternationalNational weather services, meteorologists and climate communicators in countries from the US to Australia say they’re experiencing an increase in threats and abuse, often around accusations they are overstating, lying about or even controlling the weather.
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Sally Weintrobe | Climate Breakdown Shakedown - Climate Grief | Extinction Rebellion UK
2023-05-26 (or before) in YouTubeSally Weintrobe speaks to XR Greenwich on the topic of Climate Grief.“Most of us have been living in a bubble of disavowal about global heating”, Sally Weint...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Activism | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Bubble | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Extinction Rebellion | Biodiversity Loss
Should lawyers work on fossil fuel projects?
2023-05-26 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesLaw firms have tried to become greener, but many have found themselves attacked over their work for companies whose activities contribute to climate change. Recent research by Law Students for Climate
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A new era of crisis
2023-05-26 in Morning StarAmid climate change, economic meltdown, worsening living standards and the growing threat of world war, the radical left must draw its own political horizon, combined with a popular sense of urgency, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
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Avoiding a 'Ghastly Future': Hard Truths on the State of the Planet
2023-05-26 (or before) in Yale E360A group of the world’s top ecologists have issued a stark warning about the snowballing crisis caused by climate change, population growth, and unchecked development. Their assessment is grim, but big-picture societal changes on a global scale can still avert a disastrous future.
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Increasing heat likely a major factor in human migration
2023-05-25 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyRising temperatures due to climate change are likely influencing human migration patterns, according to a new study by Rita Issa of University College London and colleagues, published May 24 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate.
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How much do fossil fuel companies owe in climate reparations?
2023-05-25 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterSaudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron are the companies that owe the most for damages to the climate
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Chevron | Shell | Economics | Exxon | BP | Saudi Arabia | Aramco
Decarbonisation must not cause ‘undue disturbance’ to public, says Tory MP | The Independent
2023-05-25 (or before) in The IndependentDr Liam Fox said the climate debate must be positive if it is to bring people along and ‘augment’ their expected standard of living if possible.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Decarbonisation
Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?
2023-05-25 by in resilienceThe clear path forward to addressing the looming catastrophic effects of climate change is to restore nature.
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Toxic Waste from 10,000 Sites Could Spill Into the Melting Arctic Permafrost! | Weather.com
2023-05-23 (or before) in The Weather Channel and weather.comTagged under: Climate Change | Arctic | India
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2023-05-23 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThis working paper finds that climate litigation is a relevant financial risk, presenting evidence that litigation reduces firm value.
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'Gobsmacking': Antarctic sea ice shrinks - ABC listen
2023-05-23 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Scientists say they're observing a 'mind boggling fast reduction' in the amount of sea ice in Antarctica, describing the decline as 'gobsmacking'.
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Quantifying the human cost of global warming - Nature Sustainability
2023-05-23 (or before) in NatureAs an alternative to monetary estimates, this study expresses the costs of climate change in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’, which reflects the historically highly conserved distribution of human population density relative to mean annual temperature.
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The awkward snub of climate change by Ampol-sponsored Walkley Awards
2023-05-22 by in Mumbrella - Everything under AustraliaÕs media & marketing umbrellaOut of the ruins of the World Wars, two fledgling industries sprouted, grew and took over the world: petroleum and public relations.In Australia, there are few better examples of this than Ampol’s founder, Sir William Gaston Walkley, and his head of PR, Terry Southwell-Keely.Together they established the public affairs playbook that big oil still uses […]
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#BiodiversityStripes
2023-05-22 (or before) by in Biodiversity StripesVisualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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#ShowYourStripes
2023-05-21 (or before) by in ShowYourStripesVisualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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Can ‘enhanced rock weathering’ help combat climate change? - BBC News
2023-05-21 (or before) in The BBC'Enhanced rock weathering' uses tiny volcanic rocks to capture the greenhouse gas carbon from the atmosphere.
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Kuenssberg: Why 'boomer' Schwarzenegger won't wait to tackle climate change - BBC News
2023-05-21 (or before) in The BBCThe actor and ex-governor tells Laura Kuenssberg politicians must move faster to preserve the planet.
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Is a post-car future actually possible? Experts say yes — here's how we could do it
2023-05-21 (or before) in Salon.comThough the United States seems hopelessly addicted to our vehicles, experts say we could rethink our civilization to live without them
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Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations
2023-05-20 (or before) in drexel.eduTagged under: Climate Change
Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement
2023-05-20 (or before) by in Smithsonian MagazineNearly a billion dollars a year is flowing into the organized climate change counter-movement
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Economics | Disinformation and Misinformation
Less Talk, More Walk: Why Climate Change Demands Activism in the Academy
2023-05-18 (or before) in MITAbstract. As climate scholars, it is our professional responsibility to engage in climate politics. First, we need to engage in radical scientific analysis: we must ask questions that get at the root of climate change. Second, we need to plant a flag: we must be explicit about what our findings indicate we should do. This should go further than laying out the options; we must indicate which among them is preferable and why. Third, we must engage broadly, both across disciplines and beyond the academy. Many will object to the notion of engaging publicly as advocates, but the climate crisis demands nothing less. Choosing not to ha...
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The world's largest lakes are shrinking dramatically, and scientists say they have figured out why | CNN
2023-05-18 by in CNNMore than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs have lost significant amounts of water over the last three decades.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Water Resources | Finance
Green New Deal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
2023-05-17 (or before) in YouTubeWith the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions.Connect ...
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This is what the world will look like in 100 years if we do nothing to stop climate change
2023-05-17 (or before) in Salon.comClimate change experts explain our ecological future if humanity continues polluting at the current rate
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The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality
2023-05-16 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comThe extremely uneven and inequitable impacts of climate change mean that differently-located people experience, respond to, and cope with the climate …
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Global Ocean Heat and Salt Content - Seasonal, Yearly, and Pentadal Fields
2023-05-16 (or before) by in National Centers for Environmental InformationTagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Sea Level
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions - Nature Sustainability
2023-05-16 (or before) in NatureMany of the barriers to progress in addressing environmental problems, such as climate change, are political. This Review illustrates how insight into politics can help policymakers craft strategies to address the ambition gap, the implementation gap and the international action gap.
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Warning signs across the world suggest climate change is now out of control – Dr Richard Dixon
2023-05-15 (or before) in The ScotsmanWildfires rage in Canada, heatwaves in Europe, Africa and Asia, sea ice and glaciers disappearing – the effects of climate change are becoming impossible to ignore
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Heatwaves | Wildfires
The guilt I feel being a mum in the midst of a changing climate
2023-05-15 by in Women's Agenda - News for professional women and female entrepreneursBianca Sands, a member of Parents for Climate Action, explains why she sees speaking up on climate change as a duty of care as a parent.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children
How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change
2023-05-14 (or before) in Salon.comA logic professor explains how a persistent, subtle fallacy has infected public discussion of climate change — to the oil industry's benefit
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Speech by Governor Waller on climate change and financial stability
2023-05-14 (or before) in federalreserve.govThank you for inviting me to speak today. Climate change is real, but I do not believe it poses a serious risk to the safety and soundness of large banks or t
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The Mega-fire Danger Coming To Your Home Soon
2023-05-14 (or before) in YouTubeCatalyst: Earth on Fire - The new environmental disaster waiting just around the cornerSubscribe to Journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/subs...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires | Mexico | Trees
Observed Emergence of the Climate Change Signal: From the Familiar to the Unknown
2023-05-14 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences JournalAbstract Changes in climate are usually considered in terms of trends or differences over time. However, for many impacts requiring adaptation, it is the amplitude of the change relative to the loc...
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Scientists’ warning on wildfire — a Canadian perspective
2023-05-14 (or before) in cdnsciencepub.comRecently, the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: a Second Notice was issued in response to ongoing and largely unabated environmental degradation due to anthropogenic activities. In the warning, humanity is urged to practice more environmentally sustainable alternatives to business as usual to avoid potentially catastrophic outcomes. Following the success of their warning, the Alliance of World Scientists called for discipline-specific follow-up papers. This paper is an answer to that call for the topic of wildland fire. Across much of Canada and the world, wildfires are anticipated to increase in severity and frequenc...
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Four charts on the unstoppable growth of solar – our best hope against climate change
2023-05-12 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyTo supply everyone with enough electricity to live a good life, we’ll need about 200 billion megawatt-hours per year. Assuming solar does the heavy lifting, is it possible?
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Studio Bonn – How to cope with fear? – Global Nerve Systems with Zoë Ruge, Rebecca Nestor & Lu Yang
2023-05-12 (or before) in YouTubeWeniger Fliegen, weniger Fleisch: Alle kennen die praktischen Ratschläge zur Milderung des Klimawandels. Aber ist das Überleben des Planeten ein rein technis...
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Gianforte signs bill banning state agencies from analyzing climate impacts
2023-05-12 by in Montana's Independent Source for Statewide News - Montana Free PressHouse Bill 971 comes as Montana courts are poised to consider how “clean and healthful environment” protections intersect with energy regulations.
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Theoretical and paleoclimatic evidence for abrupt transitions in the Earth system - IOPscience
2023-05-12 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Climate Change
Retained EU Law Bill: Government places hundreds of UK green laws on the chopping board
2023-05-11 in Business GreenLaws, regulations, treaties and decisions related to habitats, air quality, climate change, renewable energy, farming and fishing proposed for scrapheap under government plans
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Farming | Climate Change | Fish
Spain to ban some outdoor working during extreme heat conditions | Reuters
2023-05-11 (or before) in ReutersSpain will ban some outdoor working during extreme heat conditions, Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz said on Wednesday, as the country faces high temperatures more frequently as a result of climate change.
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Home - Climate Trends
2023-05-10 (or before) in Climate TrendsClimate Trends is a research-based consulting and capacity building initiative that aims to bring greater focus on issues of environment, climate change and sustainable development.
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Climate Impacts - Climate Trends
2023-05-10 (or before) in Climate TrendsDiscover the far-reaching effects of climate change. Explore its impact on ecosystems, weather patterns, and global sustainability efforts.
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Home Page
2023-05-10 (or before) in New Climate EconomyThe New Climate Economy Report shows how countries at all levels of income can achieve economic growth while combating climate change
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How Wildfire Smoke from Australia Affected Climate Events Around the World - Inside Climate News
2023-05-10 by in Inside Climate NewsThe aerosol fallout from wildfires that burned across more than 70,000 square miles of Australia in 2019 and 2020 was so persistent and widespread that it brightened a vast area of clouds above the subtropical Pacific Ocean. Beneath those clouds, the ocean surface and the atmosphere cooled, shifting a key tropical rainfall belt northward and […]
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Climate Tipping Points: Insights for Effective Policy Action
2023-05-09 (or before) in YouTubeVideo with OECD's Marcia Rocha on the new report 'Climate Tipping Points: Insights for Effective Policy Action'. This report reviews evidence that overshooti...
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Willie Soon
2023-05-09 (or before) in DeSmogWillie Wei-Hock Soon Credentials Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California (1991). [1] M.Sc. University of Southern California (1987). [1] B.Sc. University of Southern California (1985). [1] Background Willie Wei-Hock Soon is an aerospace engineer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Since 1992, Dr. Soon has been an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Soon is also a receiving […]
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Crab populations are crashing. Could losing their sense of smell be one of the important reasons why?
2023-05-09 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News ReleasesA new U of T Scarborough study finds that climate change is causing a commercially significant marine crab to lose its sense of smell, which could partially explain why their populations are thinning.
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Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being - Nature Climate Change
2023-05-08 (or before) in NatureEvaluation of mitigation actions often focuses on cost and overlooks the direct effects on well-being. This work shows demand-side measures have large mitigation potential and beneficial effects on well-being outcomes.
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Revisiting the social cost of carbon | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-05-08 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceThe social cost of carbon (SCC) is a central concept for understanding and implementing climate change policies. This term represents the economic ...
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Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C - BBC News
2023-05-08 (or before) in The BBCOne farmer said the fierce heat meant people had to finish work by 10 o'clock in the morning.
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Population-based emergence of unfamiliar climates - Nature Climate Change
2023-05-07 (or before) in NatureThe signal to noise ratio of temperature change can be used to determine exposure to unusual, unfamiliar and unknown climates. For large groups of the world’s population, mitigation can delay the onset of unfamiliar or unknown climates by several decades.
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Extreme April heat in Spain, Portugal, Morocco & Algeria almost impossible without climate change – World Weather Attribution
2023-05-07 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Spain | Climate Change
Opinion | Your Homeowners’ Insurance Bill Is the Canary in the Climate Coal Mine
2023-05-07 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Housing | Insurance
Commentary | Why “Solarpunk” Gives Me Hope for a More Sustainable Future
2023-05-06 (or before) in YES! Magazine“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
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Exclusive: India amends power policy draft to halt new coal-fired capacity | Reuters
2023-05-05 (or before) in ReutersIndia plans to stop building new coal-fired power plants, apart from those already in the pipeline, by removing a key clause from the final draft of its National Electricity Policy (NEP), in a major boost to fight climate change, sources said.
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Of Moths and Marsupials - bioGraphic
2023-05-04 (or before) in bioGraphic | Revealing Nature // Inspiring SolutionsThe ancient relationship between the mountain pygmy possum and the bogong moth reveals the complexity of global climate change—and the lengths people may have to go to save some species from extinction.
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Crisis-hit Sudan faces biggest threat yet: climate change
2023-05-03 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyConflict, coups, dire poverty: Sudan is reeling from multiple crises, but environmental activist Nisreen Elsaim warns a bigger problem dwarfs them all—climate change.
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Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-05-03 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceArmed conflict within nations has had disastrous humanitarian consequences throughout much of the world. Here we undertake the first comprehensive ...
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Many Europeans want climate action – but less so if it changes their lifestyle, shows poll
2023-05-02 in The GuardianExclusive: YouGov survey in seven countries tested backing for government and individual action on crisis
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Industry pushes back against Biden rules on climate disclosure
2023-05-02 in The Washington PostBig business is bucking President Biden’s efforts to use SEC rules and the purchasing power of the U.S. government to reveal and reduce climate emissions.
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Scrap Bank of England’s ESG, Climate Mandate to Focus on Inflation: Architect - Bloomberg
2023-05-02 (or before) in BloombergClimate goals should be stripped from the Bank of England’s remit to remove any distractions from its focus on inflation and financial stability, according to one of the architects of UK central bank independence.
Tagged under: Climate Change | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance
FASTER THAN EXPECTED. …why most climate scientists can’t tell… | by Jackson Damian - the psychology of climate change | Medium
2023-05-02 (or before) in Medium…why most climate scientists can’t tell the truth (in public)
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SHEEP IN WOLVES CLOTHING — THE IPCC’S (LATEST) FINAL WARNING | by Jackson Damian - the psychology of climate change | Medium
2023-05-02 (or before) in MediumHow they hide the truth and what scientists can do about it
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Does the UK really need to drill for more North Sea oil and gas?
2023-05-01 in The GuardianMinisters are weighing up a new gasfield but is more UK fossil fuel production necessary or desirable given its climate commitments?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Committee on Climate Change UK
Labor sleepwalking us to disaster on climate as on defence…
2023-05-01 in Marc HudsonThe Australian Labor Party is going to get us all killed. Either slowly - via climate change - or quickly, as collateral damage in a war between China and the USA. And there is an interesting parallel in the policy processes underlying both disasters. I just finished reading 'Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with…
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A Sociological View of the Effort to Obstruct Action on Climate Change | American Sociological Association
2023-04-29 (or before) in asanet.orgWhen then-NASA climate scientist James Hansen delivered his landmark testimony to the U. S. Senate in 1988, declaring that human-caused global warming had
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Iraq: Under poisoned skies - BBC World Service
2023-04-29 (or before) in YouTubeFrom the front line of climate change in Iraq, BBC News Arabic unmasks an invisible killer: air pollution, investigating a hidden epidemic of cancer and the ...
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Opinion | Nuclear Waste Is Misunderstood
2023-04-28 in The New York TimesTagged under: Nuclear Power | Climate Change
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
2023-04-26 (or before) in NatureDrastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless. Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
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Increasing risks of multiple breadbasket failure under 1.5 and 2 °C global warming
2023-04-26 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comThe increasingly inter-connected global food system is becoming more vulnerable to production shocks owing to increasing global mean temperatures and …
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Tracing Fossil Fuel Companies’ Contribution to Climate Change and Ocean Acidification
2023-04-25 (or before) in Union of Concerned ScientistsHow much acidification has occurred since fossil fuel companies became aware of the risks of their products?
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The Climate Deception Dossiers
2023-04-25 (or before) in Union of Concerned ScientistsLeaked documents show that the world's largest fossil fuel companies have deliberately deceived the public for nearly 30 years about the realities and risks of climate change.
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The Mental Toll of Climate Change - Eos
2023-04-24 by in EosResearchers are more quickly acknowledging the many ways in which the global climate crisis is affecting our mental health.
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New Research Sparks Concerns That Ocean Circulation Will Collapse
2023-04-23 (or before) in Yale E360Scientists have long feared that warming could cause a breakdown of ocean circulation in the North Atlantic. But new research finds the real risk lies in Antarctica’s waters, where melting could disrupt currents in the next few decades, with profound impacts on global climate.
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'We have already lost' in 2 key climate change signals, according to UN report
2023-04-23 (or before) in USA Today\
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IHOPE
2023-04-22 (or before) in IHOPE - Integrated History and Future of People on Earth Research NetworkInterested in how historical environmental research can be contribute to a sustainable future? Become a member of our international network of researchers to stay informed on issues related to climate change and the environment.
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All that is unsavory about Holistic Management
2023-04-22 in Racing to Extinction: Thoughts and (soon!) a bookHiding behind his ecologist title, Allan Savory (founder of Holistic Management), states without evidence that his grazing scheme will save biodiversity while at the same time reversing desertification and even climate change. The theory of Holistic Management is to design livestock grazing systems to balance social, economic, and environmental considerations.
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Mathematical Modelling of Plankton-Oxygen Dynamics Under the Climate Change
2023-04-21 (or before) in ResearchGatePDF | Ocean dynamics is known to have a strong effect on the global climate change and on the composition of the atmosphere. In particular, it is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Antonio Guterres' Climate Change Letter to His Great-Great Granddaughter
2023-04-20 in TIME MagazineThe U.N. Secretary-general knows our future generations will hold us accountable.
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Climate Change: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
2023-04-20 (or before) in Climate.govIn the past 60 years, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased 100 times faster than it did during the end of the last ice age.
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Figure 2. Trends in Atmospheric CO 2 vs Global Temperature Change
2023-04-20 (or before) in ResearchGateDownload scientific diagram | Trends in Atmospheric CO 2 vs Global Temperature Change from publication: Only Radical is Realistic Now International Carbon Rationing in a Climate Emergency | Climate disruption and biodiversity collapse are but two symptoms of the environmental crisis caused by ever-growing resource consumption. Multiple overshoots of Earth's planetary boundaries have pushed our natural systems close to or even beyond critical tipping points.... | Emergency, Climate and Carbon | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.
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Theory of change: creating a social mandate for climate action - Climate Outreach
2023-04-20 (or before) by in Climate OutreachResponding to climate change requires accelerated action across society and around the world, by placing people at the heart of tackling this critical issue. Technological advances as well as regulations, […]
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Talking climate handbook - how to have a climate change conversation - Climate Outreach
2023-04-20 (or before) by in Climate OutreachA collaborative project from EIT Climate-KIC & Climate Outreach exploring how to have conversations about climate change in our daily lives #TalkingClimate
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Law Society issues landmark guidance on climate change
2023-4-19 in Law GazetteSolicitors can help heavy-emitters transition to net zero - but may also refuse to act, Chancery Lane confirms in 'milestone' advice.
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New study shows Earth energy imbalance
2023-04-19 in World Meteorological OrganizationThe Earth climate system is out of energy balance as a result of human-induced climate change. Heat has accumulated continuously over the past decades, warming the ocean, the land, the cryosphere, and the atmosphere.
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Opinion | My Continent Is Not Your Giant Climate Laboratory
2023-04-18 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Geoengineering
Climate change: multi-country media analysis shows scepticism of the basic science is dying out
2023-04-18 by in The ConversationWe watched 30 news programmes in five countries to see how they covered an IPCC report.
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Unprecedented 21st century heat across the Pacific Northwest of North America - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
2023-04-18 (or before) in NatureExtreme summer temperatures are increasingly common across the Northern Hemisphere and inflict severe socioeconomic and biological consequences. In summer 2021, the Pacific Northwest region of North America (PNW) experienced a 2-week-long extreme heatwave, which contributed to record-breaking summer temperatures. Here, we use tree-ring records to show that summer temperatures in 2021, as well as the rate of summertime warming during the last several decades, are unprecedented within the context of the last millennium for the PNW. In the absence of committed efforts to curtail anthropogenic emissions below intermediate levels (SS...
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The 'ninjas' fighting climate change denial on Twitter - BBC News
2023-04-17 (or before) in The BBCA secretive group of internet vigilantes has vowed to cleanse Twitter of false information about climate change.
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Are we headed towards the sixth mass extinction?
2023-04-16 in The Daily Star Ð Leading English Daily among Bangladesh NewspapersSurreal as it may seem, we have clearly embarked on the path to self-annihilation.
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Another offering from our tech overlords: A climate change solution without sacrifice
2023-04-16 by in resilienceThe late Eric Sevareid, a CBS reporter and commentator, coined what is now known as Sevareid's law: The chief cause of problems is solutions.
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Tributes paid after death of passionate climate activist who 'lost hope in future'
2023-04-14 (or before) in Brighton ArgusA student and climate activist died after growing “increasingly concerned” about the effects of climate change, his family has revealed.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Activism | Greenpeace
Drastic climate action is the best course for economic growth, new study finds » Yale Climate Connections
2023-04-14 by in Yale Climate ConnectionsFor decades, economists believed immediate action to fight climate change would decimate the economy, but a new study adds to a growing body of research showing that the economic benefits of climate action outweigh the costs.
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Droughts developing more rapidly says global study
2023-04-14 (or before) in Met Office UKFor the first time a new study has confirmed droughts across the world are developing more rapidly as a result of climate change.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change
Frequency of extreme precipitation increases extensively with event rareness under global warming - Scientific Reports
2023-04-14 (or before) in NatureThe intensity of the heaviest extreme precipitation events is known to increase with global warming. How often such events occur in a warmer world is however less well established, and the combined effect of changes in frequency and intensity on the total amount of rain falling as extreme precipitation is much less explored, in spite of potentially large societal impacts. Here, we employ observations and climate model simulations to document strong increases in the frequencies of extreme precipitation events occurring on decadal timescales. Based on observations we find that the total precipitation from these intense events almo...
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Drought will cause crop failures in Spain, farmers warn
2023-04-13 in Associated Press NewsThe main Spanish farmers' association says drought now affects 60% of the Spanish countryside and is causing “irreversible losses” to more than 3.5 million hectares of crops. the Coordinator of Farmers' and Ranchers' Organizations said in a report issued on Thursday that wheat and barley are expected to fail or be badly affected in major growing regions. Olives and nuts also are suffering due to Spain’s long-term drought, which is affecting farmers' ability to irrigate corn, sunflowers, rice and cotton, too. Reservoirs in Andalusia, Spain’s most important food-exporting region, have water levels at 30% of...
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Beyond the Weather Report: The Terrifying Reality of Climate Change You Need to Know About | by Sacha | Thoughts | Medium
2023-04-13 (or before) in MediumWorld leaders have gathered repeatedly to address the urgent issue of climate change now. They set a target to limit global average…
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“You Must Revise Your Life” to Solve Climate Change | by Anthony Signorelli | ILLUMINATION-Curated | Medium
2023-04-13 (or before) in MediumWilliam Stafford’s words ring true now
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Rise of the Climate Rating Agencies
2023-04-12 by in The American ProspectGovernment and the private sector rely increasingly on risk-modeling firms that claim they can zero in on exposure to climate change.
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Getting real: what would serious climate action look like? | SGR: Responsible Science
2023-04-12 (or before) in SGR: Responsible ScienceProf Kevin Anderson, Manchester University, summarises the action necessary if governments and societies were really committed to keeping global temperature change close to 1.5°C - and how there would be wider benefits too. Article from Responsible Science journal, no.5; advance online publication: 19 March 2023
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Identifying anomalously early spring onsets in the CESM large ensemble project - Climate Dynamics
2023-04-10 (or before) in Springer VerlagSeasonal transitions from winter to spring impact a wide variety of ecological and physical systems. While the effects of early springs across North America are widely documented, changes in their frequency and likelihood under the combined influences of climate change and natural variability are poorly understood. Extremely early springs, such as March 2012, can lead to severe economical losses and agricultural damage when these are followed by hard freeze events. Here we use the new Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble project and Extended Spring Indices to simulate historical and future spring onsets across the United ...
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IPCC Synthesis Report: What does it say? What does it mean? | IPCC FINAL REPORT 2023
2023-04-09 (or before) in YouTubeJOIN XRUK THIS APRIL 21-24 AT THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENTDr Charlie Gardner and Clare Farrell discuss the latest IPCC synthesis report, the final report in the m...
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A closer examination of the fantastical numbers in Bjorn Lomborg’s new book - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2023-04-09 (or before) in London School of EconomicsBob Ward reviews Bjorn Lomborg’s new book, False Alarm, finding the misuse of outdated, concocted and misinterpreted numbers on the costs of climate action and concluding that the book’s central claim that the ‘optimal’ level of global warming by 2100 would be 3.75˚C was completely out-of-date before it was even published.
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Big Oil v the World 1 - Denial
2023-04-09 (or before) in YouTubeThe story of what the fossil fuel industry knew about climate change more than four decades ago. Scientists who worked for the biggest oil company in the wor...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Oil Industry | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Disinformation and Misinformation
EDO Home - European Drought Observatory - JRC European Commission
2023-04-09 (or before) in European Drought Observatory Webserver of the Joint Research CenterEDO Home
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change
What happens when we run out of water? Thanks to climate change, a dystopian premise is coming true
2023-04-09 (or before) in Salon.comExperts say climate change is depleting or polluting our freshwater sources. Can we survive in a drier world?
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Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People | The Tyee
2023-04-09 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaCreator of the ‘ecological footprint’ on life and death in a world 4 C hotter.
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Direct Observations Confirm That Humans Are Throwing Earth's Energy Budget off Balance – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2023-04-09 (or before) in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetTagged under: Climate Change
What We Heard at a Climate Change Deniers' Meeting at Parliament
2023-04-09 (or before) in VICE"Children are completely indoctrinated into one point of view at schools up and down the country," said one of the speakers from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
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Will Washington Halt the Global Renaissance of Nuclear Power?
2023-04-09 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and IdeasHopes to slash emissions using nuclear energy are being dashed by U.S. regulators.
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Five Times Faster by Simon Sharpe review – a radical but realistic path to net zero emissions
2023-04-09 in The GuardianA former civil servant makes a persuasive case for dropping economy-wide emissions targets and focusing on tipping points where green technologies become affordable
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Net Zero | Tipping Points | Finance
Bumpy airplane ride? Blame climate change
2023-04-09 in kvpr.orgClimate change is causing more wind shear at high altitudes, and that in turn might make your airplane rides bumpier.
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"The Seneca Effect" Published
2023-04-09 (or before) by in Cassandra's LegacyA blog about collapse as caused by depletion of mineral resources and climate change
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Minerals | Climate Change | Collapse
Climate change may pose key risk to French reactors – court | Montel
2023-04-09 (or before) in Montel(Montel) The impact of global warming on France’s nuclear fleet could become “critical” by 2050, with three to four times more outages than today, said the country’s Court of Auditors in a report published late on Tuesday.
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Royal Geographical Society - 39 Ways to Save the Planet
2023-04-07 (or before) in rgs.orgIn partnership with BBC Radio Four, we present 39 ideas to relieve the stress that climate change is exerting on the planet
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Opinion: Biden betrays our generation by greenlighting the Willow Project | CNN
2023-04-07 by in CNNPresident Joe Biden's recent approval of the Willow Project in Alaska has alarmed many young people. Climate activists Sophia Kianni, Greta Thunberg, and Vanessa Nakate urge Biden to consider our collective future before short-term political gains.
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How the climate movement learned to win in Washington
2023-04-06 (or before) in PoliticoAfter a staggering defeat, environmentalists needed a plan they could sell. Thus began a decade-long climb propelled by mass protests, heavy campaign spending and intense lobbying. Then came a final assist from Mother Nature herself.
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On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research
2023-04-06 (or before) in ieeexplore.ieee.orgResearch on 100% renewable energy systems is a relatively recent phenomenon. It was initiated in the mid-1970s, catalyzed by skyrocketing oil prices. Since the mid-2000s, it has quickly evolved into a prominent research field encompassing an expansive and growing number of research groups and organizations across the world. The main conclusion of most of these studies is that 100% renewables is feasible worldwide at low cost. Advanced concepts and methods now enable the field to chart realistic as well as cost- or resource-optimized and efficient transition pathways to a future without the use of fossil fuels. Such proposed path...
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Thresholds of temperature change for mass extinctions - Nature Communications
2023-04-05 (or before) in NatureThe linkage between temperature change and extinction rates in the fossil record is well-known qualitatively but little explored quantitatively. Here the authors investigate the relationship of marine animal extinctions with rate and magnitude of temperature change across the last 450 million years, and identify thresholds in climate change linked to mass extinctions.
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BBC climate change interview breached broadcasting standards - BBC News
2023-04-05 (or before) in The BBCThe media watchdog says the ex-chancellor was "not sufficiently challenged" during a radio interview.
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Loss and damage: How can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed? - Carbon Brief
2023-04-05 by in Carbon BriefExperts met at the University of East Anglia to discuss how unique cultures and heritage are fast disappearing because of climate change.
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Predicting climate change impacts on poikilotherms using physiologically guided species abundance models | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-04-05 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencePoikilothermic animals comprise most species on Earth and are especially sensitive to changes in environmental temperatures. Species conservation i...
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Climate change: Catalonia in grip of worst drought in decades - BBC News
2023-04-04 (or before) in The BBCWater levels at a reservoir in the northern Spanish region have fallen below 10% of its capacity.
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IPCC’s conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change
2023-04-04 in Geography Directions - Geographical expertise applied to the issues that matter mostBy Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha…
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Countries agreed to ban ozone-depleting chemicals in the 1980s – but we found five CFCs increasing to record levels in the atmosphere
2023-04-03 by in The ConversationChlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are also potent greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change.
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This Simple Math Problem Could Be the Key to Solving Our Climate Crisis
2023-04-02 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News CoverageIt’s our last shot to save the planet, and these are the numbers that could change the end of the story
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Threat of hydrogen greenwashing stalks Europe’s net-zero plans
2023-04-02 by in Japan TimesA significant obstacle to the plans is hydrogen’s inefficiency. By the time the gas is made, stored and burned to make electricity again, there’s nearly 70% less energy than at the start.
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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change
2023-04-01 by in DeSmogNarrated in the upper-crust accent favoured by British documentary-makers of the era, Shell’s 1981 film Time for Energy assesses the scope for solar, wind, nuclear, and other sources of power to end the world’s dependence on finite reserves of oil. By the closing credits, the viewer is left in little doubt that there is only […]
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Why we still don’t fully understand the tornado-climate change relationship
2023-04-01 (or before) in National GeographicUnlike heat waves and floods, research on climate change and tornadoes is still in its infancy.
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Climate justice in the Pacific
2023-04-01 in The Monthly - AustraliaThe lack of global action on the climate crisis has left grassroots groups leading the fight against catastrophe in PNG
Tagged under: Climate Change | Pacific Ocean | Papua New Guinea | Climate Justice
The IPCC Report on the Impacts of Climate Change is Depressing
2023-04-01 (or before) in The Breakthrough InstituteAs a climate scientist, with nine of my own research papers referenced in the IPCC report, I value sober, even-handed analysis above all else. What drew me to science and what gives science its authority in society is the notion that it at least strives to deliver objective analysis rather than…
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The oceans just reached their hottest temperature on record as El Niño looms. Here are 6 things to watch for | CNN
2023-04-01 by in CNNIt's unclear how strong the coming El Niño will be -- some models predict it could reach super-strength, others suggest it will be more moderate.
Tagged under: Oceans | Drought | Predictions | Climate Change | Antarctic | Flooding | El Niño | Health | Climate Change Impacts | Finance
Shell already knew about climate change in the early 1970s (and still promoted the use of coal)
2023-04-01 by in ftm.euShell already knew in the early 1970s (and not since 1986, as known until now) that burning fossil fuels plays a role in climate change. Yet the oil company still decided to get into a new fossil industry at that very time: coal. Newly unearthed documents show that Shell downplayed global climate knowledge to promote its coal business.
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Science Snippets: All Life is Interconnected, Climate Change Destroys “Protected” Areas – Nature Bats Last
2023-03-31 (or before) in Guy McPhersonTagged under: Climate Change
A home for all within planetary boundaries: pathways for meeting Englands housing needs without transgressing national climate and biodiversity goals
2023-03-31 (or before) in OSF - Center for Open ScienceSecure housing is core to the Sustainable Development Goals and a fundamental human right. However, potential conflicts between housing and sustainability objectives remain under-researched. We explore the impact of current English government housing policy, and alternative housing strategies, on national carbon and biodiversity goals. Using material flow and land use change/biodiversity models, we estimate from 2022-2050 under current policy housing alone would consume 104% of Englands cumulative carbon budget (2.6/2.5Gt [50% chance of <1.5C]); 12% from the construction and operation of new builds and 92% from the existing s...
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Global warming in the pipeline
2023-03-31 (or before) in arXiv.org e-Print archiveImproved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fast-feedback equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C for doubled CO2 (2xCO2), with likely range 3.5-5.5°C. Greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing is 4.1 W/m2 larger in 2021 than in 1750, equivalent to 2xCO2 forcing. Global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates. Eventual global warming due to today's GHG forcing alone -- after slow feedbacks operate -- is about 10°C. Human-made aerosols are a major climate forcing, mainly via their effect on clouds. We infer from paleoclimate data that ae...
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Reaching Net Zero: Does BECCS work?
2023-03-31 (or before) in YouTubeCurrent climate efforts are not progressing quickly enough to prevent the world from overshooting the global emissions targets set in the Paris Agreement.Att...
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Is carbon dioxide removal ‘mitigation of climate change’?
2023-03-31 (or before) in Wiley Online LibraryTagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage
National contributions to climate change due to historical emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1850 - Scientific Data
2023-03-30 (or before) in NatureAnthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) have made significant contributions to global warming since the pre-industrial period and are therefore targeted in international climate policy. There is substantial interest in tracking and apportioning national contributions to climate change and informing equitable commitments to decarbonisation. Here, we introduce a new dataset of national contributions to global warming caused by historical emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide during the years 1851–2021, which are consistent with the latest findings of the IPCC. ...
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Why “my country only emits 1% of emissions” is a lame excuse for rich countries to not tackle climate change
2023-03-30 (or before) by in Sustainability by numbers | Hannah Ritchie | SubstackFive reasons why small countries can punch above their weight.
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Hasty changes to Sunak’s climate strategy reveal a warring Tory party
2023-03-30 in The GuardianMajor omissions and a last-minute refocus on energy security rather than net zero suggest a prime minister buffeted by internal factions
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POLITICO Pro
2023-03-30 (or before) in Politico PROInsurers face a "crisis of confidence" as global warming makes weather events unpredictable and increases damage.
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Reduced CO2 uptake and growing nutrient sequestration from slowing overturning circulation - Nature Climate Change
2023-03-29 (or before) in NatureOcean carbon uptake could be affected by changes in circulation. This modelling study shows that meridional overturning circulation slowdown increases deep-ocean storage via the biological pump but decreases carbon uptake via the solubility pump, with a net reduction in oceanic uptake of CO2.
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6 Ways to Remove Carbon Pollution from the Atmosphere
2023-03-29 (or before) in World Resources InstituteTo prevent the worst impacts of climate change, we'll need to remove carbon dioxide from the sky in addition to reducing emissions.
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10 Big Findings from the 2023 IPCC Report on Climate Change
2023-03-29 (or before) in World Resources InstituteThe latest IPCC report details the devastating consequences of climate change and highlights pathways to avoid dangerous and irreversible risks from rising greenhouse gas emissions.
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Climate justice in higher education: a proposed paradigm shift towards a transformative role for colleges and universities - Climatic Change
2023-03-29 (or before) in Springer VerlagMoving beyond technocratic approaches to climate action, climate justice articulates a paradigm shift in how organizations think about their response to the climate crisis. This paper makes a conceptual contribution by exploring the potential of this paradigm shift in higher education. Through a commitment to advancing transformative climate justice, colleges and universities around the world could realign and redefine their priorities in teaching, research, and community engagement to shape a more just, stable, and healthy future. As inequitable climate vulnerabilities increase, higher education has multiple emerging opportunit...
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Climate change: Summer 2022 smashed dozens of UK records - BBC News
2023-03-29 (or before) in The BBCHalf of the UK’s oldest weather stations set new records in the July heatwave.
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Progress in adapting to climate change - 2023 Report to Parliament - Climate Change Committee
2023-03-29 (or before) in Climate Change CommitteeThis report provides the Committee’s biennial report of progress in preparing for climate change as required under the…
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OpenCLIM - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
2023-03-29 (or before) in Tyndall Centre for Climate Change ResearchOpenCLIM (Open CLimate Impacts Modelling framework) in its first iteration is a two year endeavour piloting better understanding of climate risks and
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5 Shifts to Transform Transportation Systems and Meet Climate Goals
2023-03-29 (or before) in World Resources InstituteTo achieve global systematic change, there’s an urgent need for modern public transport systems to integrate clean fuel options with infrastructure that promotes safe mobility.
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UN votes to ask world court to rule on national climate obligations | Reuters
2023-03-29 (or before) in ReutersThe United Nations General Assembly voted on Wednesday to pass a resolution asking the world's top court to define the obligations of states to combat climate change, a legal opinion that could drive countries to take stronger measures and clarify international law.
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Global Emissions and Local Deforestation Are Combining to Create Dangerous Levels of Heat Stress in the Tropics
2023-03-29 (or before) in World Resources InstituteIt's not just climate change that's making the tropics hotter.
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Climate change: England not ready for impact - BBC News
2023-03-29 (or before) in The BBCThe government's advisers urge a "step change" in climate adaptation policy to avoid an increased risk to life.
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Why Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles Can't Explain Earth's Current Warming – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2023-03-29 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetVital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.
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UK scientists urge Rishi Sunak to halt new oil and gas developments
2023-03-29 in The GuardianCall comes on eve of revised net zero strategy that allows drilling in North Sea and boosts ‘unproven’ carbon capture
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What is Global Warming?
2023-03-28 (or before) in VimeoOn November 14, 2015, Planet.org launched a campaign for "Earth" on Facebook, in an effort to raise awareness on the issue of Climate Change. The Future…
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The Case For Fossil Fuel Divestment
2023-03-28 (or before) by in ForbesIn the face of the climate crisis, calls for divestment from fossil fuels have grown louder. What does divestment mean? Does it work? Understand the financial and social impacts of the divestment movement in reducing carbon emissions.
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Corporate Interests ‘Watered Down’ the Latest IPCC Climate Report, Investigations Find - Inside Climate News
2023-03-28 by in Inside Climate NewsFierce negotiations between countries working to protect their financial and political interests ultimately “watered down” a landmark climate report released last week by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to a series of recent reports and investigations. The findings highlight what activists have long warned is hampering meaningful global action to curb […]
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Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuary
2023-03-28 in Ketan Joshi - Climate and energy analysis and writingI got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk’s Twitter. It’s….not good.
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UK ‘strikingly unprepared’ for impacts of climate crisis
2023-03-28 in The GuardianGovernment’s official advisers point to ‘lost decade’ in efforts to protect lives and livelihoods
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Professor Kevin Anderson From iniquity to integrity … there’s no hiding from carbon budgets
2023-03-27 (or before) in YouTubeTalk Abstract:As climate change increasingly exacerbates extreme weather events around the globe, so government leaders are increasingly using the language o...
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The meat industry got the IPCC to edit a climate change report
2023-03-26 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterA leaked draft revealed how the meat industry is obstructing efforts to curb climate change
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GOES at COP26 in association with Federated Hermes.
2023-03-25 (or before) in YouTubeClimate change will be a walk in the park in comparison to the shit-show that is heading for humanity like an express train that will not turn because we thi...
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Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?
2023-03-22 (or before) in Annual ReviewsDespite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher today than they were in 1990. Exploring this rise through nine thematic lenses—covering issues of climate governance, the fossil fuel industry, geopolitics, economics, mitigation modeling, energy systems, inequity, lifestyles, and social imaginaries—draws out multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the cent...
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Episode 32 - Climate Science Rebellion with Ernst-Jan Kuiper
2023-03-22 (or before) by in podbean.comErnst-Jan Kuiper obtained his Master's degree in Climate Physics In 2014, after which he focused on research into the dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet. After 5 years, including 6 weeks of fieldwork on the Greenland ice sheet, he obtained his doctorate (PhD) in 2019. Ernst-Jan currently works at Milieudefensie on the appeal against oil giant Shell. He also writes articles about climate change for the Dutch program Tegenlicht and gives lectures about climate change. He also spends time on climate activism, especially with Extinction Rebellion where he is part of the Scientist Rebellion group. The day before we recorded t...
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Greta Thunberg and Sophia Kianni face disgusting misogyny from climate deniers | Red, Green, and Blue
2023-03-21 in Red, Green and BlueHappy Women’s History Month! Unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that the climate disinformation sphere is once again filled with misogynistic attacks against women climate activists. By Climate Denier Roundup Recently, Greta Thunberg was targeted on social media for allegedly deleting a 2018 tweet that linked to an article that predicted climate change would wipe out humanity by 2023. However, …
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Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action - Nature Climate Change
2023-03-21 (or before) in NatureTime is short to secure a liveable and sustainable future; yet, inaction from governments, industry and civil society is setting the course for 3.2 °C of warming, with all the cascading and catastrophic consequences that this implies. In this context, when does civil disobedience by scientists become justified?
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Brazilian researchers find ‘terrifying’ plastic rocks off remote Trinidade island | The Independent
2023-03-20 (or before) in The Independent‘Pollution has reached geology’ says a scientist
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Somalia drought: 43,000 died in 2022 and this year’s toll will be higher, study finds | The Independent
2023-03-20 (or before) in The Independent‘Unrelenting droughts’ have created worst hunger crisis for 70 years says
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New partnership launches AI-powered global climate law and policy database - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2023-03-20 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThe Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, and Climate Policy Radar are delighted to announce a new partnership to offer upgraded open data resources on global climate laws, policies and legal cases.
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IPCC report: the world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to the new climate realities | Blog by Bronwyn Hayward
2023-03-20 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityAlready, climate change plays out in all parts of the world. Every further increment of warming will bring rapidly escalating hazards, exacerbating more intense heatwaves and floods, ocean warming …
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Do-Hyun Kim et al. v. South Korea - Climate Change Litigation
2023-03-20 (or before) in Climate Laws - Climate Change Laws of the WorldTagged under: Climate Change | Litigation
Rich polluting countries like UK must 'fast forward' net zero target by a decade, demands UN chief
2023-03-20 (or before) in Sky NewsAs the most comprehensive review of everything known about climate change so far paints a bleak picture of inaction and dangers, scientists argue there are still grounds for hope.
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What is climate change? A really simple guide - BBC News
2023-03-20 (or before) in The BBCWorld temperatures are rising because of human activity, threatening every aspect of human life.
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Samoa PM urges world to save Pacific people from climate crisis obliteration
2023-03-19 in The GuardianFiame Naomi Mata’afa pleads for action before landmark IPCC report is expected to issue ‘final warning’
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How The Media Stopped Us Caring About the Planet | George Monbiot
2023-03-17 (or before) in YouTube“They allowed this entire shitfest to happen"Join the Future of Journalism ► https://www.patreon.com/DoubleDownNewsSupport DDN ► https://www.paypal.com/cgi-b...
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Opinion | How Big of a Climate Betrayal Is the Willow Oil Project?
2023-03-16 in The New York TimesTagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Alaska
Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems - Nature Climate Change
2023-03-16 (or before) in NatureIn this Perspective, the authors argue that radical, rather than conventional, interventions are necessary to address climate change. They discuss the definitions and interpretations of the term ‘radical’, and present a typology of radical intervention that addresses the root drivers of climate change.
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US allergy season starting earlier due to global temperature rising, scientists say
2023-03-15 in The GuardianTrend sees higher pollen levels and worsened allergy and asthma symptoms, though reduction in carbon emissions could reverse it
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Secretary-General's video message to the 58th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | United Nations Secretary-General
2023-03-15 (or before) in United NationsTagged under: Climate Change
Budget does little to meet UK’s net zero carbon goals, say campaigners
2023-03-15 in The GuardianChancellor silent on home insulation, oil and gas windfall tax, and onshore windfarms – but freezes fuel duty
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Climate Change | Wind Power | Insulation | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero | Committee on Climate Change UK
Promise Breakers: Assessing the impact of compliance with the Glasgow Statement commitment to end international public finance for fossil fuels - Oil Change International
2023-03-15 by in Oil Change InternationalNew research shows stop funding fossils commitment forged at the 2021 UN climate summit is already shifting an estimated USD 5.7 billion per year out of fossil fuels and into clean energy. If all signatories fulfill their commitments, then a further 13.7 billion per year will be shifted out of fossil fuels and into clean energy.
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Biden Says Generation 'Damned' If We Don't Fix Climate Change, Also Approves Willow Oil Drilling Project
2023-03-14 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News CoverageThe president joined guest host Kal Penn on The Daily Show Monday
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The Climate Briefing: The ICJ and climate change
2023-03-14 in Chatham HouseHow could an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion on climate change accelerate climate action?
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Arctic climate modelling too conservative
2023-03-14 (or before) in Hem | Gšteborgs universitetClimate models used by the UN’s IPCC and others to project climate change are not accurately reflecting what the Arctic’s future will be. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg argue that the rate of warming will be much faster than projected.
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Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change - Scientific Reports
2023-03-13 (or before) in NatureClimate change and human activity are dooming species at an unprecedented rate via a plethora of direct and indirect, often synergic, mechanisms. Among these, primary extinctions driven by environmental change could be just the tip of an enormous extinction iceberg. As our understanding of the importance of ecological interactions in shaping ecosystem identity advances, it is becoming clearer how the disappearance of consumers following the depletion of their resources — a process known as ‘co-extinction’ — is more likely the major driver of biodiversity loss. Although the general relevance of co-extincti...
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Why Is the Fossil Fuel Industry Praising the Inflation Reduction Act?
2023-03-13 (or before) by in The New RepublicYou might think oil and gas execs would hate the largest piece of climate legislation ever passed. But it actually gives them money that helps maintain their core business model.
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Ecologists Find Unexpected Feedback Loops Could Complicate Fighting Climate Change
2023-03-13 (or before) in InversePrevious models may not have accounted for small factors that make keeping below two degrees Celsius much more difficult.
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Climate resilience: Is the UK ready for the impacts of global warming? - Carbon Brief
2023-03-13 by in Carbon BriefEvery area of UK society will feel the effects of climate change and, as global emissions continue to rise, preparing for life in a warmer world is crucial.
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The Next Decade Will Be The Most Pivotal in History: This is the Global Phase-Shift
2023-03-12 in Age of TransformationHuman civilisation is experiencing a Great Metamorphosis in which our energy, politics, economics, culture, values and worldviews are being completely rewritten.
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Brian Eno launches royalties scheme for musicians to fight climate change
2023-03-12 (or before) in London Evening StandardInitiative gives artists chance to protect environment by listing the Earth as a co-writer on their songs so it can benefit from royalties
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Biden Officials Back Alaska Oil Project Scorned as Carbon Bomb
2023-03-11 (or before) in BloombergThe Biden administration has decided to authorize a mammoth ConocoPhillips oil project in northwest Alaska, despite arguments by opponents that it will exacerbate climate change, according to people familiar with the matter.
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These companies claim to be 'carbon neutral'. But the devil is in the details
2023-03-09 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Tagged under: Climate Change
Intense downpours in the UK will increase due to climate change – new study
2023-03-09 in Geography Directions - Geographical expertise applied to the issues that matter mostBy Elizabeth Kendon, University of Bristol This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In July 2021, Kew in London experienced a m…
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Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise - BBC News
2023-03-09 (or before) in The BBCA new way of removing carbon from the air is up to three times more effective than current technology.
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How the nuclear lobby scuttled the EU’s anti-greenwashing tool | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera
2023-03-08 (or before) by in Al JazeeraGiving nuclear energy a “sustainable” label in a key EU regulation could derail progress on climate change.
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Rationing and Climate Change Mitigation*
2023-03-08 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsIn this paper, we argue that rationing has been neglected as a policy option for mitigating climate change. There is a broad scientific consensus that avoiding the most severe impacts of climate ch...
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Symposium: Climate Change and Health Mitigating, Adapting, and Suffering: How Much of Each?
2023-03-08 (or before) in Annual ReviewsTagged under: Climate Change | Health
How the youth climate movement has evolved from school strikes to…
2023-03-08 (or before) in Green Economy CoalitionOur new research finds that young activists are become more radical as years of government inaction start to bite
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Future warming from global food consumption - Nature Climate Change
2023-03-07 (or before) in NatureAlthough the role of the human diet in climate change has been widely acknowledged, current practices fail to capture its realistic effect on warming. In this Analysis, Ivanovich et al. develop a global food consumption emission inventory and estimate the associated future climate impact using a reduced-complexity climate model.
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DOUBT
2023-03-05 (or before) in YouTubeJoin us and stand up for reality. http://climaterealityproject.org - This film exposes the parallels between Big Tobacco's denial of smoking's cancer-causing...
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Revealed: cabinet ministers warned of legal action over UK’s failure to tackle climate crisis
2023-03-04 in The GuardianSenior civil servants have issued the warnings as government is way behind on net zero pledges, according leaked documents
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Scientists Acquitted: Examining the Role of Consent in Climate Activism
2023-03-03 in Social Metwork - Dept of Meteorology, University of ReadingJames Fallon – j.fallon@pgr.reading.ac.uk Ecosystem collapse and climate change threaten all of our futures. What power do scientists have to avoid this looming catastrophe? Last …
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How this country became a climate villain
2023-03-03 (or before) in YouTubeAustralia doesn't make sense. It's being scorched by fires and drowned by floods. It has the sun, wind, water, land, minerals and money to clean up its econo...
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Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes 'degrowth communism' as the solution
2023-03-03 by in The ConversationWhat does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
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An open letter regarding research on reflecting sunlight to reduce the risks of climate change - climate intervention research letter
2023-03-01 (or before) in An open letter regarding research on reflecting sunlight to reduce the risks of climate change - climate intervention research letterGiven the severity of climate change, scientists and scientific bodies have recommended research on potential approaches to increasing the reflection of sunlight (or release of long wave radiation) from the atmosphere, referred to as “solar radiation modification” (SRM), to slow climate warming and reduce climate impacts. In particular, this research is important for understanding their […]
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Before the floods I thought climate change wasn’t my problem. Now, I’m not waiting for someone else to fix it | Ella Buckland
2023-02-28 in The GuardianA year on in Lismore, we can’t afford to forget the people who lost everything they loved – because next time it could be you
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(PDF) Climate Disruption Caused by a Decline in Marine Biodiversity and Pollution
2023-02-27 (or before) in ResearchGatePDF | The world has focused on carbon mitigation as the only solution for climate change. This discussion paper considers how marine biodiversity... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Climate Change: Ocean Heat Content
2023-02-27 (or before) in Climate.govMore than 90 percent of the warming that has happened on Earth over the past 50 years has occurred in the ocean. Not all of that heating is detectable yet at the surface
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Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions
2023-02-26 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comMuch evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionally to climate change. Here we study the implications of a continued g…
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Diagnosing destabilization risk in global land carbon sinks - Nature
2023-02-26 (or before) in NatureIncreasing variability of net biome production over recent decades may be due to climate change and points to destabilization of the carbon–climate system.
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Everything you need to know about the wild world of heat pumps
2023-02-26 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewHeat pumps could help address climate change and save you money. Here’s how they work.
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Parts of US see earliest spring conditions on record: ‘Climate change playing out in real time’
2023-02-24 in The GuardianParts of Texas, Arkansas, Ohio and Maryland, along with New York, are all recording their earliest spring conditions on record
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Global Monitoring Laboratory - Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases
2023-02-19 in Financial TimesThe Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
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Do people yet to be born have climate change rights?
2023-02-17 (or before) in BBCThere are some who believe we should be taking future generations more into account in how we act on climate today.
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Human responses to climate change will likely determine the fate of biodiversity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-02-16 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceHuman responses to climate change will likely determine the&nbsp;fate of biodiversity
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1.5°C – dead or alive? The risks to transformational change from reaching and breaching the Paris Agreement goal
2023-02-16 in IPPRThe historical failure to sufficiently tackle the climate and ecological crisis could create consequences that challenge the ability of societies to tackle the root causes of this crisis. A systemati…
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France receives EUR2 billion floating offshore boost - Emerging Risks Media Ltd
2023-02-15 in emergingrisks.co.ukSHARE:
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New Zealand minister decries climate crisis ‘lost decades’ in wake of Cyclone Gabrielle
2023-02-14 in The GuardianJames Shaw says country is entering ‘period of consequences’ for inaction over climate change as extreme weather wreaks havoc across the North Island
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Cyclone Gabrielle worst storm to hit New Zealand this century, says PM
2023-02-14 in The GuardianNational state of emergency invoked and thousands displaced as storm devastates large parts of North Island and minister says ‘this is climate change’
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‘We create changemakers’: the new UK college dedicated to climate crisis
2023-02-11 in The GuardianBlack Mountains College in Wales aims to prepare students for life during a planetary emergency
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Exxon Retreats From Major Climate Effort to Make Biofuels From Algae
2023-02-10 (or before) in BloombergRenewable fuels made from algae was the company’s most heavily publicized climate solution.
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What could a Fossil Fuel Treaty look like? — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
2023-02-09 (or before) in The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty InitiativeMomentum is growing for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to provide global oversight of a fair and rapid transition away from fossil fuels: the primary cause of climate change. With the Paris Agreement failing to even mention coal, oil, and gas, the need for a complementary international agreement is clear. But what would it contain?
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Overshoot: Why It's Already Too Late To Save Civilization
2023-02-09 by in collapsesurvivalsite.comOvershoot is the reason civilization is going to collapse. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion are merely symptoms.
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Stanford study uses AI to predict global warming threshold timelines
2023-02-06 in woods.stanford.eduMedia coverage of a new Stanford-led study that uses AI to predict when we will pass key global warming thresholds. The Guardian | Jan 30, 2023 | Earth is on track to exceed 1.5C warming in the next decade, study using AI finds | Noah Diffenbaugh discusses the evidence and impact of the study's climate projections. USA Today | Jan 30, 2023 | Artificial intelligence predicts climate change coming faster than we recently thought, new study says | Noah Diffenbaugh on the risk of passing significant climate thresholds.
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Climate Change Adaptation as a Growing Development Priority: Towards Critical Adaptation Scholarship
2023-02-05 (or before) in compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.comClimate change adaptation has grown rapidly in prominence in development practice and scholarship. Alongside this growth, adaptation has been folded into the world of development. This article review...
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Al Gore on climate change, Davos, January 23 2023
2023-02-05 (or before) in YouTubeEdited address by Al Gore, for his climate change remarks at the Davos World Economic Forum, 2023.
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Cold snaps and climate change - SciLine
2023-02-05 (or before) in SciLineScientific evidence suggests that human-induced global warming may be a driving force behind some winter cold snaps.
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The Climate Dictionary: An everyday guide to climate change | UNDP Climate Promise
2023-02-05 (or before) in climatepromise.undp.orgIs it getting harder to follow what climate experts are talking about? We've compiled an index of climate change terms to keep things simple.
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Climate change and disasters: Disasters: Vol 30, No 1
2023-02-05 (or before) in Wiley Online LibraryClick on the title to browse this issue
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Mechanism of ozone loss under enhanced water vapour conditions in the mid-latitude lower stratosphere in summer
2023-02-01 (or before) in ACP - Atmospheric Chemistry and PhysicsAbstract. Water vapour convectively injected into the mid-latitude lowermost stratosphere could affect stratospheric ozone. The associated potential ozone loss process requires low temperatures together with elevated water vapour mixing ratios. Since this ozone loss is initiated by heterogeneous chlorine activation on liquid aerosols, an increase in sulfate aerosol surface area due to a volcanic eruption or geoengineering could increase the likelihood of its occurrence. However, the chemical mechanism of this ozone loss process has not yet been analysed in sufficient detail and its sensitivity to various conditions is not yet cl...
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Texas | Geoengineering | Sea Level
Jordan Peterson’s ‘zombie’ climate contrarianism follows a well-worn path | Temperature Check
2023-02-01 in The GuardianThe psychologist has turned his hand to exposing new audiences to old arguments from climate change deniers
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Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-02-01 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencePrudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understoo...
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If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose
2023-01-31 by in Slate MagazineIt’s time to tax vehicles for weighing too much—even if they’re electric.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Electric Cars | Cars
What Is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
2023-01-31 (or before) in Sustainable & Eco Friendly eCommerce Packaging | SR MailingThe Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is considered by many to be one of humanity’s biggest crimes against the planet – and really, just the name of it gives away the horror of what it actually is, considering the size of the Pacific Ocean. We talk a lot about what can be done to save the planet here at SR Mailing, and that’s because we’re absolutely passionate about it! The fact that there is so much to be done, and that there is so much that we can all be doing in our daily lives that can help us to save planet Earth from global warming and climate change. The issue, of course, is much, much bigger than...
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Pacific Ocean | Methane | Fish | Rivers | Whales and Dolphins | Wildlife | Economic Growth | Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs | California | South America | BP | Sea Level | Indonesia | Activism | India
We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction
2023-01-30 (or before) in Al JazeeraApocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Extinction
Europe on the verge of water catastrophe as groundwater reserves dry up, scientists warn | The Independent
2023-01-30 (or before) in The IndependentThe effects of this prolonged drought were evident in Europe during the summer of 2022
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change
Greta Thunberg and IOM DG António Vitorino Call for Urgent Action to Address Climate Migration
2023-01-29 (or before) in iom.intGeneva / Stockholm – The Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), António Vitorino, and Climate Justice Activist, Greta Thunberg, are calling for immediate action and increased solidarity to tackle the impacts of climate change on human mobility.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Justice
Rainfall Records Shattered In Auckland, New Zealand - It Wasn’t Even Close
2023-01-29 (or before) by in ForbesHere's why extreme rainfall in Auckland, New Zealand has scientists saying "Wow" and you should be too.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Extreme Rainfall | Climate Change
Why we keep accepting new climate extremes
2023-01-28 (or before) in Newsroom New ZealandFrom bugs vanishing from our windshields to a procession of broken climate records, big change comes slow but is no less important for it.
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Ski resorts can now make fake snow in 80 degrees. Here's why that's a problem. - The Washington Post
2023-01-28 in The Washington PostMore companies in the United States, Canada and Europe are using new snow-making technology to fill slopes during warm winter spells.
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Teleconnections among tipping elements in the Earth system - Nature Climate Change
2023-01-26 (or before) in NatureTeleconnections between tipping elements in the Earth system are unclear. Here the authors use a climate network approach to link the Amazon Rainforest Area and the Tibetan Plateau, and show that current snow cover loss on the Tibetan Plateau is an early warning signal for an approaching tipping point.
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Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model - Nature Climate Change
2023-01-26 (or before) in NatureTemporarily exceeding temperature targets could increase risk of crossing tipping-element thresholds. This study considers a range of overshoot scenarios in a stylized network model and shows that overshoots increase tipping risks by up to 72% compared with remaining within targets.
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Global Climate Change Impact on Crops Expected Within 10 Years, NASA Study Finds – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2023-01-25 (or before) in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetTagged under: Climate Change
Norway plans to offer record number of Arctic oil, gas exploration blocks
2023-01-24 in ReutersNorway on Tuesday said it plans to offer energy firms a record number of oil and gas exploration blocks in the Arctic as it seeks to prolong its hydrocarbon production, while green campaigners criticised the risk to the environment.
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Why we must abolish the controversial Energy Charter Treaty
2023-01-24 (or before) in openDemocracyOPINION: The treaty allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments for taking climate change action. It must go
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Arctic Sea Ice Minimum | NASA Global Climate Change
2023-01-23 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetVital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.
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Can the UK Afford Net Zero?
2023-01-23 (or before) in The BBCJustin Rowlatt explores the debate around the cost of tackling climate change, or not.
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A kid's guide to climate change (plus a printable comic)
2023-01-20 (or before) in NPRLearning about climate change? Here's a comic for kids about what it is and how it's affecting the planet — as explained by kids who are experiencing it. And find out how to print this comic at home!
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When scientists tagged a curious seal, he led them to signs of a potential climate disaster
2023-01-20 in The Washington PostScientists found a climate change disaster waiting to happen in one of the most mysterious regions on Earth.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic | Washington State
Climate change: Should you fly, drive or take the train? - BBC News
2023-01-20 (or before) in The BBCHow should you travel to reduce your carbon footprint?
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Climate change: Invest in technology that removes CO2 - report - BBC News
2023-01-19 (or before) in The BBCEmission cuts must be accompanied by greater efforts to remove CO2 from the atmosphere a new report says.
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Nature Conservancy Hooked Corporate America on an Empty Climate Solution
2023-01-19 (or before) in BloombergCompanies say they’re saving forests by buying offsets, but many of these lands don’t need defending
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Does climate change make you anxious? You're not alone (VIDEO)
2023-01-18 (or before) in scrippsnews.comExtreme temperatures can impact physical health, but the changing climate is also taking a toll on mental health, especially for younger generations.
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What melting Tibetan glaciers reveal about disease and global warming
2023-01-16 (or before) in The Third Pole - Understanding Water, Climate and Nature in AsiaResearchers have discovered new microbes on retreating glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, hinting that climate change may lead to new diseases
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ExxonMobil: Oil giant predicted climate change in 1970s - scientists - BBC News
2023-01-13 (or before) in The BBCResearchers claim to put a number on what Exxon knew about temperature rise as early as the 1970s.
Tagged under: Exxon | Predictions | Climate Change
Coastal residents fear ‘hideous’ seawalls will block waterfront views
2023-01-13 in The GuardianAesthetics and social inequity are cause for concern as locals grapple with proposals to protect cities from climate change
Tagged under: Florida | Climate Change | Sea Level
Exxon scientists predicted global warming with ‘shocking skill and accuracy,’ Harvard researchers say
2023-01-12 in Harvard GazetteIn the study, scientists showed how the multinational energy giant worked to cloud the issue.
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Exxon | Fossil Fuels
Oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, analysis shows
2023-01-11 in The GuardianSeas dominate global weather patterns and the climate crisis is causing profound and damaging changes
Tagged under: Oceans | Extreme Weather | Climate Change
It would take 23 million years for evolution to replace Madagascar’s endangered mammals
2023-01-11 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News Releases90% of the plants and animals on Madagascar are found nowhere else on Earth, but this treasure trove of evolution is under serious threat due to habitat loss, over-hunting, and climate change. In this study, researchers examined how long it took Madagascar’s unique modern mammal species to emerge and estimated how long it would take for a similarly complex set of new mammal species to evolve in their place if the endangered ones went extinct: 23 million years, far longer than scientists have found for any other island.
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No debate anymore: Climate change makes extreme weather worse, federal scientists say
2023-01-11 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologySouth Florida has always been hot, rainy and vulnerable to hurricanes. So it's understandable that some longtime residents remain skeptical that climate change is doing anything to make the region's age-old problems any worse.
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Climate change: Europe and polar regions bear brunt of warming in 2022 - BBC News
2023-01-11 (or before) in The BBCLast year was the world's fifth warmest year with Europe enduring its hottest summer on record
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Analysis: How UK newspapers commented on energy and climate change in 2022 - Carbon Brief
2023-01-11 by in Carbon BriefEnergy has frequently been at the top of the news agenda over the past year,...
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Opinion | I’m a Scientist Who Spoke Up About Climate Change. My Employer Fired Me.
2023-01-10 in The New York TimesTagged under: Activism | Climate Change
Ocean acidification: an action plan for a neglected problem - Ocean Acidification
2023-01-05 by in Ocean Acidification - a news stream provided by the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Center (OA-ICC)Time is running out to avoid the worst impacts of ocean acidification on marine life, livelihoods and economies. A climate-change impact on the ocean, alongside warming seas and deoxygenation, ocean acidification is belatedly finding its way onto the global climate and ocean agendas, even as the gravity of its impact on ocean health and on […]
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Energy Firms’ Fossil Fuel Investments Radically At Odds with Climate Change Obligations – Byline Times
2023-01-05 by in Byline TimesBig energy companies are piling money into increasingly inefficient oil and gas investments, reports Thomas Perrett
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The Climate Impact of Our Insatiable Plastic Addiction
2023-01-04 (or before) in BloombergIn addition to the trash that piles up in cities and clogs oceans, the world’s plastic habit has another, invisible toll: climate-warming greenhouse gases.
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Climate Disruption Caused by a Decline in Marine Biodiversity and Pollution | International Journal of Environment and Climate Change
2022-12-25 (or before) in journalijecc.comTagged under: Climate Change
LISTENING TO ICE — SUSAN SCHUPPLI
2022-12-24 (or before) in SUSAN SCHUPPLILISTENING TO ICE RESEARCH WORKS WRITING ABOUT Is a film documenting sonic methods for understanding climate change from techno-scientific to...
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Why the Language of Climate Change Matters - Inside Climate News
2022-12-24 by in Inside Climate NewsIn a 1920 edition of a local Pennsylvania newspaper, a brief article appeared with a simple title: “The Chestnut.” Although this was a story about a species of tree, it read more like an obituary for a beloved relative. “All hope is abandoned of saving the American chestnut from the blight,” the writer declared, predicting […]
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A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River
2022-12-23 (or before) by in Pro PublicaDiminished by climate change and overuse, the river can no longer provide the water states try to take from it.
Tagged under: Colorado River | Climate Change | Rivers | California | Colorado State
How an Early Oil Industry Study Became Key in Climate Lawsuits
2022-12-23 (or before) in Yale E360For decades, 1960s research for the American Petroleum Institute warning of the risks of burning fossil fuels had been forgotten. But two papers discovered in libraries are now playing a key role in lawsuits aimed at holding oil companies accountable for climate change.
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Climate Change and Economic Production by Country
2022-12-23 (or before) in web.stanford.eduTagged under: Economics | Climate Change
Climate and weather extremes in 2022 show need for more action
2022-12-23 in World Meteorological OrganizationWeather, water and climate-related disasters, including extreme flooding, heat and drought affected millions of people and cost billions this year, as the tell-tale signs and impacts of human-induced climate change intensified.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Drought | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Global Monitoring Laboratory - Data Visualization
2022-12-22 (or before) in NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring LaboratoryThe Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
The global economic costs of climate change inaction
2022-12-20 by in Oxford EconomicsQuantifying the economic cost of climate change inaction becomes crucial, particularly in a rapidly warming planet. Read our latest article to learn more"
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Fueling Resistance
2022-12-14 (or before) in MITIn Fueling Resistance, Kate Neville dissects the processes, and political economy framework, of resistance to two different alternative fuel projects in two distinct and disparate locations. The comparison centers on resistance to a biofuel project in Kenya and a fracking project in the Yukon territory of Canada. The unwritten premise is that these two energy projects, and the subsequent resistance to them, may not have obvious similarities given their distinct characteristics and locations but in fact have several elements in common. Neville outlines how these cases can be viewed as similar and concludes that understanding the ...
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Following the money: trade associations, political activity and climate change - Climatic Change
2022-12-14 (or before) in Springer VerlagThe political activities of industries associated with the production and consumption of fossil fuels have thwarted state efforts to advance climate policy. Yet research on the role of trade associations that firms use to coordinate their activities remains sparse. Studies of business political activity are generally focussed on the firm level with trade associations typically considered only as part of wider advocacy coalitions. Scholars are still to examine the full range of political activities of trade associations. Using an original dataset built from trade associations’ IRS filings, we find that trade associations en...
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US Vegetable Prices Soar Nearly 40% as Water Cuts Crush Supply
2022-12-14 (or before) in BloombergTagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Florida
Climate Change Could Force 1.2 Billion to Move by 2050. Is the World Even Ready?
2022-12-13 (or before) by in thequint.comIn a world beset by rising temperatures, devastating storms, and flash floods, climate migration and disaster displacement are quickly becoming the signal 21st century crisis.
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Flying more than twice as damaging to climate than previously thought, study finds | The Independent | The Independent
2022-12-13 (or before) in The IndependentThe source of non-CO2 warming set to triple by 2050, according to researchers
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NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory
2022-12-07 (or before) in NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring LaboratoryThe Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Breaking the Silence: Kids’ Media Can Step Up On Climate Change - This Is Planet Ed
2022-12-07 (or before) in thisisplaneted.org“Breaking the Silence” shows kids’ media has a massive untapped opportunity to meet parent demand, help children navigate the world, and build a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable tomorrow.
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Lord Stern responds to media reports that the Government is due to give approval this week for a new coal mine in Cumbria - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2022-12-07 (or before) in London School of EconomicsResponding to media reports that the Government is due to give approval this week for a new coal mine in...
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Global Monitoring Laboratory - Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases
2022-12-07 (or before) in NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring LaboratoryThe Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”
2022-12-05 (or before) in The InterceptThe dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species.
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Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter - Nature Climate Change
2022-11-30 (or before) in NatureAnalysis of tweets relating to the Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits reveals greater polarization during COP26 than during previous summits. This increase in polarization is associated with growing right-wing engagement and emerged following the global climate strikes in 2019. Surprisingly, one topic unites pro-climate and climate-sceptic groups — ‘political hypocrisy’ — accusations of which have increased since 2019.
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Growing polarization around climate change on social media - Nature Climate Change
2022-11-26 (or before) in NaturePolarization and the resulting political deadlock have become key barriers to more ambitious climate action. Using Twitter data between Conferences of the Parties, this research identifies a trend of increasing polarization driven by growing right-wing activity alongside accusations of political hypocrisy.
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MPs campaigning against onshore wind thought ‘less of’ by voters –…
2022-11-24 (or before) in Energy & Climate Intelligence UnitInformed debate on energy and climate change.
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A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism - Nature Human Behaviour
2022-11-22 (or before) in NatureHornsey and Lewandowsky examine psychological and structural reasons for climate change scepticism and describe strategies for reducing the destructive influence of such scepticism.
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Decisions taken at the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Change Conference - Advance unedited versions | UNFCCC
2022-11-20 (or before) in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeTagged under: COP27 | Climate Change
Christianity and climate change - Tearfund
2022-11-18 (or before) in tearfund.orgA nine-part film series featuring Katharine Hayhoe, the internationally renowned Christian climate scientist
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Column: Can scientists moonlight as activists — or does that violate an important ethical code?
2022-11-17 in Los Angeles TimesTraditionally, scientists have been discouraged from engaging in advocacy. But with the climate crisis, attitudes are changing.
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Food crisis in Central Sahel in 2022 driven by chronic vulnerability with uncertain role of climate change – World Weather Attribution
2022-11-17 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Climate Change
Point of View: The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics
2022-11-17 (or before) in elifesciences.orgThe ever-worsening climate and ecological crises calls for life scientists to engage in advocacy and activism to galvanise governments and the public into action.
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COP27: Negotiations are missing the ambition needed to protect those hardest hit by climate change, warns IFRC | IFRC
2022-11-17 (or before) in IFRCThe International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is raising concern that progress is stalling at COP27 and that there is a risk that the ambition to deliver and build on commitments made in Glasgow is slipping away.
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Climate change exacerbated heavy rainfall leading to large scale flooding in highly vulnerable communities in West Africa – World Weather Attribution
2022-11-17 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Extreme Rainfall | Climate Change | Africa
Assessing effective radiative forcing from aerosol–cloud interactions over the global ocean | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-11-16 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceHow clouds respond to anthropogenic sulfate aerosols is one of the largest sources of uncertainty in the radiative forcing of climate over the indu...
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change
Oil pollution: Investigation reveals Egypt’s 'super coral' at risk - BBC News
2022-11-16 (or before) in The BBCA climate-change resistant Red Sea reef is being flooded with toxic wastewater, leaked documents show.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Coral Reefs
Africa has vast gas reserves – here’s how to stop them adding to climate change
2022-11-15 by in The ConversationDeveloped nations threaten to consume more than their fair share of Earth’s dwindling carbon budget.
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Social tipping processes towards climate action: A conceptual framework
2022-11-15 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comSocietal transformations are necessary to address critical global challenges, such as mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and reaching UN susta…
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New shipping emissions report - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
2022-11-15 in Tyndall Centre for Climate Change ResearchA new report published today from the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester has highlighted the major role the shipping sector will play in transporting the green fuels necessary to meet global climate goals.
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Subarctic boreal forest, vital for the planet, is at risk
2022-11-14 in The HinduThe boreal forest is second only to the Amazon in terms of its vital role in ensuring the future of the planet.
Tagged under: Amazon Rainforest | Arctic | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Forest Fires | Trees
What Happens When Even Scientists Get Doom-Pilled?
2022-11-13 (or before) in The Daily BeastWe might be at a point where even climate experts will say it: We’re fucked.
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Climate change: Dimming Earth, mustard shortages and other odd side-effects - BBC News
2022-11-12 (or before) in The BBCChanges to our planet's shine is just one of the stranger side effects of rising temperatures.
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Who should pay for a warming planet?
2022-11-11 (or before) in YouTubeCampaigners who believe world leaders are not doing enough to combat climate change are taking matters into their own hands—and suing governments and fossil-...
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Favourability towards natural gas relates to funding source of university energy centres - Nature Climate Change
2022-11-11 (or before) in NatureUniversity-based energy centres play an important role in climate discourse but many are funded by fossil fuel businesses. This study shows that fossil-fuel-funded centres express more positive sentiment towards natural gas, compared to renewable energy, than those not funded by the fossil industry.
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Latest sobering news on climate change is more reason for cities, states to step up against global warming
2022-11-10 in chicago.suntimes.comThe closely divided U.S. House and Senate that will emerge after the midterms do not appear poised to enact strong legislation.
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Stark federal report: climate chaos is here, with worse to come
2022-11-10 in KUOW - KUOW Public RadioThe fifth National Climate Assessment, released for public comment on Monday, states that people in the Northwest and nationwide are feeling the effects of climate change in their everyday lives.
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Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change | International Organization | Cambridge Core
2022-11-09 (or before) in Cambridge University Press & AssessmentAsset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change - Volume 75 Issue 2
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Graph of the Day: Atmospheric CO2 vs. global temperature change and climate conference dates, 1958-2020
2022-11-09 (or before) in Desdemona Despair - Blogging the End of the WorldªTagged under: Climate Change
Our City, Our World - Brighton and Hove Climate Change, Sustainability and Environmental Education Programme
2022-11-09 (or before) in ourcityourworld.co.ukUsing the power of education to advance environmental literacy and civic engagement to contribute to a more equitable and sustainable future. We will work with young people, educators, community organisations, the council and relevant partners to promote a just and sustainable world where environmental and social responsibility drive individual, institutional, and community choices.
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The Earth is dying
2022-11-04 (or before) in YouTubeThe Earth is dying#earth #climatechange #sketchcomedy #globalwarming If you'd like to support us making these videos we have a Patreon page here: https://www...
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Climate reporting is just 'warming up' as the news publishing industry invests more in data, reporters and partnerships
2022-11-01 (or before) in Editor & Publisher (E&P), Newspaper & News Publishing Media Industry News | Editor and PublisherFor early climate journalists, covering such a serious issue was a burden. Not many publications wanted to take on the task at hand; those who did narrowly covered a small amount of ground. Today, Dr. Edward Maibach, the director of Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, encourages this simple formula for success: “Clear messages repeated often by a variety of trusted and caring voices, including familiar TV weathercasters or local columnists.”
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Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
2022-11-01 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeTagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation
Individual responsibility: a red herring that lets the fossil fuel industry off the climate catastrophe hook
2022-11-01 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalOn the eve of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum, Kent Buse and colleagues argue that the health of people and planet can only be rescued through government led, structural transformations—but for that to happen we need to re-frame the narrative When delegates meet this week to discuss fragile progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, they do so against a bleak backdrop. The line that “climate change is the biggest health challenge of the 21st century” is an understatement. Climate change is not only a challenge to health, but to human development—and even survival.1 The evidence on...
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We must support protestors taking direct action to save our future
2022-10-30 (or before) in kerrang.comTagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Activism
AGU Chapman Conference -- Climate Science: Richard Alley
2022-10-28 (or before) in YouTubeAGU Chapman Conference on Communicating Climate Science: A Historic Look to the Future08 June 2013 — 13 June 2013, Granby, CO, USAPresenter: Richard AlleySun...
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Coral reefs face a grim future, including those once thought safe from climate change
2022-10-28 (or before) in SBS | TV, Radio, On Demand, News, Sport, Food, MoviesTagged under: Climate Change | Coral Reefs
Emissions Gap Report 2022
2022-10-28 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeAs growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet the Emissions Gap Report (EGR) 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that the international community is falling far short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place. Only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster.
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Climate change: UN warns key warming threshold slipping from sight - BBC News
2022-10-27 (or before) in BBCThe past 12 months have been a "wasted year" on climate change says the UN Environment Programme.
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Scientists warn of 'insect apocalypse' amid climate change
2022-10-26 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyAn emerging "insect apocalypse" will have radical effects on the environment and humankind, an Australian scientist has warned.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Insects
Responses to Considering Catastrophe
2022-10-23 in And Then There's PhysicsA while ago I wrote a post about a paper by Luke Kemp, and colleagues, suggesting that we should put more effort into exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios. There’s now been a respo…
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Climate crisis poses ‘growing threat’ to health in UK, says expert
2022-10-23 in The GuardianExclusive: Prof Dame Jenny Harries warns of dangers to food security, flooding and insect-borne diseases
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change | Insects | Health
Young people's burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions
2022-10-22 (or before) in ESDAbstract. Global temperature is a fundamental climate metric highly correlated with sea level, which implies that keeping shorelines near their present location requires keeping global temperature within or close to its preindustrial Holocene range. However, global temperature excluding short-term variability now exceeds +1 °C relative to the 1880–1920 mean and annual 2016 global temperature was almost +1.3 °C. We show that global temperature has risen well out of the Holocene range and Earth is now as warm as it was during the prior (Eemian) interglacial period, when sea level reached 6&ndash...
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Predictions | Climate Change | Sea Level | Climate Change Impacts | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Built Environment: measuring Climate Change impact
2022-10-21 by in Spacewell Energy (Dexma) | Energy Intelligence ManagementClimate change is making the built environment more vulnerable. How to measure the impact of climate change on buildings?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Finance
Climate change tweets declined as COVID worries rose
2022-10-21 by in Futurity: Research News from Top UniversitiesCan a global problem like COVID lead to less concern for other problems like climate change? A look at Twitter suggests the answer is yes.
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France becomes latest country to leave controversial energy charter treaty
2022-10-21 in The GuardianQuitting the ECT, which protects fossil fuel investors from policy changes that might threaten their profits, was ‘coherent’ with Paris climate deal, Macron said
Tagged under: France | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
MP joins climate change deniers’ ‘Project Fear’ on net zero - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2022-10-20 (or before) in London School of EconomicsBob Wards highlights errors in a recent article by Steve Baker MP that claims “the poorest will pay the highest price for Net Zero fantasies”, part of an apparent ramp-up in the misinformation campaign by British climate change deniers.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation | Net Zero
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2022: Carbon removal factory | MIT Technology Review
2022-10-20 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewTagged under: Climate Change | Innovation | Carbon Capture and Storage
People are run in horror from the destructive streams! Terrible floods in Venezuela
2022-10-20 (or before) in YouTubeHeavy rain on the 17 October caused flooding in northern areas of Maracay, capital city of Aragua State and areas of Girardot Municipality. Mudflows and land...
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Even 'net zero' aviation could still cause significant global warming | New Scientist
2022-10-20 (or before) in New ScientistNot accounting for aviation’s non-CO2 effects such as contrails could ignore 90 per cent of future flights’ contribution to climate change
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero
The colonial roots of the present crisis: Interview with Amitav Ghosh - Brave New Europe
2022-10-19 by in Brave New EuropeA fascinating interview with an Indian writer of fiction and non-fiction about colonialism, climate change and much more Cross-posted from the Green European Journal This August, Pakistan was hit with floods that left 50 million [...]
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HSBC climate change adverts banned by UK watchdog - BBC News
2022-10-19 (or before) in The BBCThe regulator said two of the bank's posters “omitted material information and were therefore misleading".
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Ancient ocean methane is not an immediate climate change threat
2022-10-19 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyDeep below the ocean's surface, the seafloor contains large quantities of naturally occurring, ice-like deposits made up of water and concentrated methane gas. For decades, climate scientists have wondered if this methane hydrate reservoir might "melt" and release massive amounts of methane to the ocean and the atmosphere as ocean temperatures warm.
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Sunderland Airshow axed over climate change - BBC News
2022-10-19 (or before) in The BBCSunderland Council says it has no plans to run the event again as it aims to become carbon neutral.
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Starved of new talent: Young people are steering clear of oil jobs
2022-10-18 by in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.Who wants to work for the brands that brought you climate change?
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COP26 | Celebrating the untapped potential of the UK's marine energy industry
2022-10-18 (or before) in YouTubeWith #COP26 - UN Climate Change Conference kicking off over the weekend, today we're celebrating an untapped renewable potential in the UK: our #marine energ...
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Into the ice: A crab boat’s quest for snow crab in a Bering Sea upended by climate change
2022-10-17 (or before) in The Seattle TimesThe Bering Sea's winter ice is treacherous, but it's also a key ally to the snow crab fishery. When it's not there, the crab population suffers.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fish | Washington State | Sealife
Climate change indicators
2022-10-09 in Zack LabeAll data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…
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Global Monitoring Laboratory - Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases
2022-10-08 (or before) in NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring LaboratoryThe Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Professors call for more research into climate-change related threats to civilization
2022-10-08 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyAn opinion piece published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences urgently calls for more research into the specific pathways by which civilization could potentially collapse due to climate change.
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European Commission aims to end secret system protecting fossil fuel holdings
2022-10-08 in The GuardianProposal aims to reform energy charter treaty that protects multi-billion-pound investments in Europe
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‘Reckless’ coal firms plan climate-busting expansion, study finds
2022-10-06 in The GuardianCoal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels and investors must stop funding it, say campaigners
Tagged under: COP27 | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change | Africa | Fossil Fuels | Russia | India
“There’s no emergency” – Dr Judith Curry on climate change
2022-10-05 by in biznews.comDr Judith Curry explains her objection to the "manufactured scientific consensus" on climate change and how far removed reality really is.
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Professor Kevin Anderson - Climate Change: Going Beyond Dangerous
2022-10-04 (or before) in Share and Discover Knowledge on SlideShareKevin Anderson Tyndall Centre University of Manchester July 2011 Climate Change: going beyond dangerous … brutal numbers & tenuous hope or cognitive diss…
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Reducing energy waste key to meeting climate goals
2022-10-03 in ReutersEmbracing decentralised power grids may be the way forward in building out renewable energy capacity to reach global climate goals, the CEO of investment firm Sustainable Development Capital said on Monday.
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Mapping cumulative pressures on the grazing lands of northern Fennoscandia - Scientific Reports
2022-10-03 (or before) in NatureTraditional grazing areas in Europe have declined substantially over the last century. Specifically, in northern Fennoscandia, the grazing land is disturbed by cumulative land-use pressures. Here we analysed the configuration of the grazing land for reindeer and sheep in northern Fennoscandia in relation to the concurrent land-use pressures from tourism, road and railway networks, forestry, industrial and wind energy facilities, together with predator presence and climate change. Our results show that 85% of the region is affected by at least one land-use pressure and 60% is affected by multiple land-use pressures, co-occurring ...
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Global carbon inequality over 1990–2019 - Nature Sustainability
2022-10-01 (or before) in NatureUnderstanding the connection between economic inequality and climate change requires rich and reliable data. This study combines recently assembled data on income and wealth inequality with environmental data to shed light on the uneven individual contributions to climate change across the world.
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Cop15 is an opportunity to save nature. We can’t afford another decade of failure | Phoebe Weston
2022-10-01 in The GuardianAhead of the UN biodiversity conference, our reporter reflects on lessons of hope and change in three years reporting with the Guardian’s age of extinction team
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildlife | Extinction
Nord Stream rupture may mark biggest single methane release ever recorded, U.N. says
2022-09-30 in ReutersEurope and the United States have heaped sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, raising worries the Kremlin will try to deprive Europe of energy supplies leading into the winter. Both sides have suggested saboteurs caused the leak.
Tagged under: Methane | Climate Change | Electricity Grid
Climate change has come for the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter
2022-09-29 by in VoxChina’s catastrophic summer shows its climate adaptation plans still have a long way to go.
Tagged under: China | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Climate change is coming for your wallet - Canadian Climate Institute - Blog
2022-09-27 by in Climate InstituteClimate change is reaching into your wallet in hundreds of ways, from higher grocery bills due to supply-chain disruption, to soaring ...
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Learn how the 230+ agencies that work with fossil fuels are hurting their business, and the planet: — Clean Creatives
2022-09-20 (or before) in cleancreatives.orgLearn why working for fossil fuel companies obstructs climate change - and the agencies with the biggest dirty clients.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Climate change threatens health and survival of urban trees - BBC News
2022-09-20 (or before) in The BBCOaks, maples and chestnuts found in cities are among over 1,000 tree species that are flagged at risk.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Trees
Arctic System Collapse? Devastating new research.
2022-09-19 (or before) in YouTubeThe arctic region is a key driver of global climate patterns. In the summer of 2022, three peer reviewed research papers were published, all of which showed ...
Tagged under: Arctic | Climate Change | Ice Melting | Sea Level | Collapse
Climate crisis ‘threatens rule of law and civilisation’ | The Independent
2022-09-16 (or before) in The IndependentMajor British law firms are contributing to the climate crisis, the letter warns
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Climate Change Is the Express Train to Hell — And We’re On It | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2022-09-16 (or before) in Eudaimonia and CoThree Things Most People Don’t Understand About Climate Change Yet — But They Should
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Patagonia reinvents itself again: ‘We’re making Earth our only shareholder’
2022-09-14 by in Fast CompanyThe Chouinard family has fundamentally changed the company’s ownership structure to ensure its legacy and step up its fight against the climate crisis.
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World heading into ‘uncharted territory of destruction’, says climate report
2022-09-13 in The GuardianGovernments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
‘Transformational’: could America’s new green bank be a climate gamechanger?
2022-09-11 in The GuardianLong championed by climate activists, the green bank would provide funding to expand clean energy use across the US
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Climate Change | US Politics | Activism
Planetary Gas Chamber not “Climate Change”
2022-09-11 in Kevin HesterWe have been aware that burning fossil fuels would alter, destabilise and warm the atmosphere since at least 1847 and the narrative has been controlled since shortly thereafter. Had we described th…
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Climate Tipping Points May Be Triggered Even If Warming Peaks at 1.5C
2022-09-09 (or before) in BloombergIce-sheet collapse, abrupt permafrost thaw and the loss of coral reefs are possible even if the world meets Paris Agreement targets, scientists warn.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Coral Reefs | Collapse | Tipping Points
Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-09-09 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceThe term “tipping point” commonly refers to a critical threshold at which a tiny perturbation can qualitatively alter the state or development of a...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Tipping Points
'No greater betrayal of humanity': Scientists take to the streets to demand climate action
2022-09-08 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)As the gulf between climate science and climate action grows, these scientists are putting their bodies on the line to demand more is done.
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Activism | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
2022-09-08 in The GuardianGiant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Tipping Points
InfluenceMap Big Oil's Real Agenda on Climate Change 2022
2022-09-08 (or before) in InfluenceMapFollowing up on InfluenceMap's 2019 edition of 'Big Oil's Real Agenda', this latest report compares and contrasts the public communications, business operations, and policy engagement of 5 'supermajor' oil companies: BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies. The report provides evidence of significant inconsistencies between the companies' use of 'green claims' with their investment strategies and policy engagement on climate change.
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Climate Change | Chevron | TotalEnergies
The Supply Chain to Beat Climate Change Is Already Being Built
2022-09-08 (or before) in BloombergLook at the numbers. The huge increases in fossil fuel prices this year hide the fact that the solar industry is winning the energy transition.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | China | Climate Change
Green activists jubilant as Kingsnorth shelved | The Independent | The Independent
2022-09-07 (or before) in The IndependentE.on says coal plant is no longer needed as recession reduces electricity demand
Tagged under: Activism | Coal | Climate Change | Electricity | Greenpeace
'Doomsday glacier,' which could raise sea level by several feet, is holding on 'by its fingernails,' scientists say | CNN
2022-09-05 by in CNNThe Thwaites “doomsday” glacier is eroding along its underwater base. Scientists now say it has the capability of retreating much faster than it has in the past decade.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Antarctic | Sea Level
Climate of Concern - Royal Dutch Shell (1991)
2022-09-05 (or before) in YouTubeVideo made by Royal Dutch Shell in 1991 about Climate Change.Some reading about it here - which was also the source of the video: https://thecorrespondent.co...
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Burning forests for energy isn't 'renewable' – now the EU must admit it | Greta Thunberg and others
2022-09-05 in The GuardianThe EU’s classification of wood fuels is accelerating the climate crisis. Next week, a key vote can change that, says Greta Thunberg and other environmental activists
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Greta Thunberg | Activism | Climate Change | Trees
Pakistan’s ‘Monster Monsoon’ Shows the Wrath of Climate Change
2022-09-03 (or before) in WIRED MagazineTagged under: Climate Change
Determining the credibility of commitments in international climate policy - Nature Climate Change
2022-09-02 (or before) in NatureThe success of international climate cooperation relies on whether national commitments are believable under the Paris Agreement. Based on the survey with experienced climate policy professionals, the authors explore the determinants of credibility of national commitments.
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Drivers of peak warming in a consumption-maximizing world - Nature Climate Change
2022-08-26 (or before) in NatureAn analysis of climate change mitigation policies in an idealized integrated assessment framework highlights the importance of economic growth, and investment in technologies such as large-scale carbon dioxide removal, to limit peak warming.
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Economic Growth | Climate Change Mitigation
How hot will it get in a world run by economists? A physicist’s take on climate change policy
2022-08-26 (or before) in podcasts.ox.ac.ukPhysics is the foundation of current concerns about climate change, but climate policy sometimes appears like a baroque superstructure built with little reference to the foundations. For example, global temperatures depend on the accumulated stock of carbon dioxide emissions released into the atmosphere over all time, not the flow of emissions in any given year, but climate policy remains overwhelmingly pre-occupied with emission flows, not carbon stocks.
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Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board
2022-08-25 in The New York TimesTagged under: Economics | Climate Change
Bold New Jersey Shore Flood Rules Could Be Blueprint for Entire U.S. Coast
2022-08-24 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanCoastal flood zones where development is restricted will be based on future climate change projections, not past floods
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Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half - Nature Communications
2022-08-24 (or before) in NatureA new study finds that Americans underestimate how many are concerned about climate change as well as support for major climate policies by nearly half, with climate policy supporters significantly outnumbering non-supporters.
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Mexico should stop making beer in north due to drought, president says | The Independent
2022-08-21 (or before) in The IndependentMexico is the world’s largest exporter of beer
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Mexico
Carbon capture: climate change’s “healthy” cigarette
2022-08-17 by in Harvard Public HealthThe tobacco industry made millions selling “healthy cigarettes” even when it knew smoking killed. Decades later, will the fossil fuel industry get away selling us “healthy” carbon using the tobacco industry’s playbook?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Carbon Capture and Storage
What Comes After the Coming Climate Anarchy?
2022-08-15 in TIME MagazineOur civilization is slowly collapsing—but the next one is already rising
Tagged under: Climate Change | Collapse
'Very scary': European agriculture hit hard by climate change and drought
2022-08-13 (or before) in Yahoo is part of the Yahoo family of brandsWith Europe suffering through an extreme drought worsened by climate change that has dried up rivers and left millions sweltering in triple-digit heat this summer, farmers across the continent are sounding warnings about crop losses.
Tagged under: Farming | Extreme Weather | Drought | Climate Change | Rivers
How Climate Change Is Going to Wreck (What’s Left of) Our Lives | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2022-08-12 (or before) by Umair Haque in Eudaimonia and CoThe Five Pillars of Civilization, and Why They’re Beginning to Crumble
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The Fervent Debate Over the Best Way to Confront Global Warming
2022-08-12 by in UndarkSupporters of cutting carbon emissions have long struggled against advocates for climate-change adaptation strategies.
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After 25 Years of Futility, Democrats Finally Jettison Carbon Pricing in Favor of Incentives to Counter Climate Change - Inside Climate News
2022-08-12 by in Inside Climate NewsThe nation’s first comprehensive climate law, expected to be sealed with a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, will not look anything like the program imagined by either climate economists or those in Washington and the environmental movement who had faith in bipartisan action. From the time that the world first agreed […]
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High-profile paper on “catastrophic” climate impacts echoes our "What Lies Beneath" analysis on fat-tail, existential risks and IPCC reticence, published four years ago
2022-08-10 by in resilienceThere is a need to outline current knowledge about the likelihood of extreme climate change, and to develop a research agenda.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Zero Hour's Ambition Gap report - Zero Hour
2022-08-10 by in Zero Hour - Join the campaign for the Climate & Ecology BillThe Climate Change Committee is doing a great job highlighting the delivery gap, but we need to talk about the ambition gap whilst there’s still time to do something about it. For details of the Parliamentary launch event for MPs and Lords on Tues 18th Oct with Caroline Lucas MP, click here. Are you an MP looking for […]
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Global food security under climate change | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-08-07 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceThis article reviews the potential impacts of climate change on food security. It is found that of the four main elements of food security, i.e., a...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Nope, Earth Isn't Cooling – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2022-08-05 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetVital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
The Earth Has Humans, So Why Don’t Our Climate Models? | https://climatemodeling.science.energy.gov/
2022-08-05 (or before) in climatemodeling.science.energy.govWhile climate models have rapidly advanced in sophistication over recent decades, they lack dynamic representation of human behavior and social systems despite strong feedbacks between social processes and climate. The impacts of climate change alter perceptions of risk and emissions behavior that, in turn, influence the rate and magnitude of climate change. Addressing this deficiency in climate models requires a substantial interdisciplinary effort to couple models of climate and human behavior. The linking of social models with climate models would, for example, allow harmful changes in climate to lead to more aggressive impro...
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
2022-08-04 by in Carbon BriefIn the early 2000s, a new field of climate science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Heatwaves
New study reveals that climate change will severely impact bird species by 2080
2022-08-04 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyBioscientists from Durham University, UK and Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany have predicted in their latest research that bird communities will change worldwide in 2080 due to climate change, largely as result of shifting their ranges.
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'Zoe' Becomes the World’s First Named Heat Wave
2022-08-03 (or before) by in Smithsonian MagazineSeville, Spain has implemented a new heat wave naming system to raise awareness of these “silent killers”
Tagged under: Spain | Climate Change
Definitions and implications of climate-neutral aviation - Nature Climate Change
2022-07-31 (or before) in NatureNon-CO2 effects must be addressed for climate-neutral aviation but are currently ignored in international climate policies. The authors provide a framework with different definitions of climate neutrality, then show how technological and demand-side mitigation efforts can help to achieve these targets.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation
The new ultra-thin solar cell: low-cost, non-toxic and more efficient
2022-07-30 (or before) in cordis.europa.euCould there be a cost-efficient, eco-friendly alternative to today’s solar power technology? Quite possibly, thanks to a much more...
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Climate Change
Climate change: why we can't rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions
2022-07-29 by in The Conversation‘Blue carbon’ habitats can store a lot of carbon – but not reliably enough to offset emissions.
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Developments in climate change for lawyers
2022-7-26 in Law GazetteThe excessive heat of last week, and floods of the recent past, force us to confront an ugly reality, the consequences of which put at risk the rule of law itself.
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A Striking Satellite Image Shows a Major Greenland Meltdown
2022-07-26 in Gizmodo | The Future Is HereThe bright turquoise run-off might look beautiful, but it's emblematic of a rapid and worrying decline.
Tagged under: Arctic | Climate Change
Exclusive: Thousands of U.S. cattle buried, dumped at Kansas landfill
2022-07-26 in ReutersTop U.S. cattle feeding companies sent 1,000-pound carcasses to a Kansas landfill, where they were flattened by loader machines and mixed with trash, after a June heatwave killed thousands of cows, documents seen by Reuters show.
Tagged under: Farming | Heatwaves | Climate Change | Cattle and Dairy Farming
Misplaced positivity on climate is harmful. Preparing for breakdown could help.
2022-07-26 by in resilienceThe millions of people being uprooted by climate change do not benefit from the ‘stubborn optimism’ of environmental elites.
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Extreme Weather Cost U.S. Taxpayers $99 Billion Last Year, and It Is Getting Worse
2022-07-25 (or before) in Center for American ProgressThe financial toll of extreme weather events fueled by climate change is at an all-time high and requires that Congress take bold action to move the country toward a 100 percent clean future.
Tagged under: US Politics | Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Fight for the climate and our green spaces
2022-07-25 (or before) in Crowd JusticeGood Law Project's mission is to achieve change through the law. We uphold democracy, protect the environment, and ensure no one is left behind.
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The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change - BBC News
2022-07-24 (or before) in The BBCThirty years ago, a bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem.
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Do these heat waves mean climate change is happening faster than expected?
2022-07-22 in PreventionWeb.net: the knowledge platform for disaster risk reductionGeneral warming predictions are still on track, but recent heat waves are a stress test for the modeling of extreme events. Are they more extreme than studies had predicted they would be, given the levels of greenhouse gases now in the atmosphere?
Tagged under: Global Warming | Predictions | Climate Change
Seagrass on the brink: Decline of threatened seagrass Posidonia australis continues following protection
2022-07-19 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceSeagrasses are in decline globally due to sustained pressure from coastal development, water quality declines and the ongoing threat from climate change. The result of this decline has been a change in coastal productivity, a reduction in critical fisheries habitat and increased erosion. Attempts to slow this decline have included legislative protection of habitat and direct restoration efforts. Monitoring the success of these approaches requires tracking changes in the abundance of seagrasses, but such monitoring is frequently conducted at either too coarse a spatial scale, or too infrequently to adequately detect changes withi...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fish | Sea Level | Climate Change Impacts
View of Use of science in British newspapers’ narratives of climate change
2022-07-19 (or before) in hope.uzh.chTagged under: Climate Change
Court orders UK government to explain how net zero policies will reach targets
2022-07-18 in The GuardianGreen activists brought challenge, arguing climate change strategy did not spell out how carbon emissions cuts would be achieved
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change | Net Zero
Climate Change…Equatorial Atlantic Ocean plankton productivity and Caribbean pollution….a think piece for debate
2022-07-18 (or before) in SSRN - Social Science Research NetworkWe’ve been encouraged to think that climate change is just caused by the excess anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide and methane, and that the impacts can b
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Methane | Caribbean | Climate Change Impacts
A 117 Degree Day in Portugal: Record-breaking Heat Waves Hit Europe - Europe
2022-07-17 (or before) in haaretz.com***
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How One Senator Doomed the Democrats’ Climate Plan
2022-07-15 in The New York TimesTagged under: Joe Biden | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change | US Politics
Sweltering Cities
2022-07-14 (or before) in newsinteractives.cbc.caWhy extreme heat is killing Canadians in major cities and how climate change will make things worse.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows
2022-07-13 in MongabayIn October 2021, the city of Guriel in Somalia’s Galguduud region became the epicenter of fierce fighting between the national army and a paramilitary group that left more than 100 people dead and displaced another 100,000. In November, the government declared a national emergency as drought intensified over 80% of the country, including in Galguduud. […]
Tagged under: Drought | Conflict | Climate Change | Africa
More than 200 congressional staffers urge Pelosi and Schumer to act on climate or risk dooming younger generations | CNN Politics
2022-07-13 by in CNNFor Democratic Congressional staffers -- many of whom are young -- passing massive investments in clean energy tax credits to deal with the climate crisis is especially urgent.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | US Politics | Climate Change | Legislation
Sir David King: Climate Leadership, COP26, and 20 Degrees of Warming?
2022-07-08 (or before) in YouTubeSir David King is interviewed by Ed Gemmell, Managing Director of Scientists Warning Europe. The interview focusses on Sir David’s analysis of COP26 and whet...
Tagged under: COP27 | COP26 | Climate Change | Methane | Activism
Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist
2022-07-08 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology(PhysOrg.com) -- Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change.
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change
‘Huge’ unexpected ozone hole discovered over tropics | The Independent
2022-07-08 (or before) in The IndependentThe area of depleted ozone is seven times larger than the hole over Antarctica and could affect 50 per cent of the global population
Tagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic
‘Carbon Capture’ Is No Fix. Big Oil’s Known for Decades | The Tyee
2022-07-08 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaThe touted tech is still scarce and pricey, and even oilsands allies counsel caution.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Greenpeace | Sustainability | Carbon Capture and Storage
James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change
2022-07-07 (or before) in YouTubehttp://www.ted.com Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so...
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‘Insane’ lithium price bump threatens EV fix for climate change | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera
2022-07-07 (or before) by in Al JazeeraThe price of the metal used in batteries for electric cars has risen six-fold since the start of the year.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Climate Change | Electric Cars | Cars
major causes of climate change | GlobalEcoGuy.org
2022-07-06 (or before) in GlobalEcoGuy.orgThere’s a lot of confusion about climate change out there, especially when it comes to finding the most viable solutions to address it…
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It’s democracy v plutocracy – this is the endgame for our planet | George Monbiot
2022-07-06 in The GuardianThe US supreme court is helping to destroy our climate. But it was a much smaller decision, closer to home, that was the final straw for me, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Rivers | Wildlife | US Politics | Committee on Climate Change UK
James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change
2022-07-06 (or before) in YouTubehttp://www.ted.com Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so...
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Operation Noah | A Christian response to climate change
2022-07-05 (or before) in operationnoah.orgOperation Noah is a Christian charity working with the Church to inspire action on climate change.
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Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study
2022-07-05 in The GuardianGreenhouse gas has undergone rapid acceleration and scientists say it may be due to atmospheric changes
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Methane | Climate Change
A new algae farm will capture CO2 equal to exhaust of 8,000 cars
2022-07-05 (or before) in FortuneU.K. startup Brilliant Planet is racing to turn marine algae, one of Earth's most effective air purifiers, into a vital carbon-sequestration tool.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Cars | Carbon Capture and Storage
Oxford climate scientists: No doubt about climate change. | University of Oxford
2022-07-05 (or before) in Oxford UniversityLeading Oxford climate scientists today insisted there can be no doubt that human-driven climate change is a fact and urgent action is needed, as the IPCC’s report is released showing emissions are driving up temperatures.
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change
2022 Progress Report to Parliament - Climate Change Committee
2022-07-04 (or before) in Climate Change CommitteeThis statutory report provides a comprehensive overview of the UK Government’s progress to date in reducing emissions. It…
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This Super-Tree Could Help Feed the World and Fight Climate Change - WhoWhatWhy
2022-07-02 in WhoWhatWhy - Nonprofit, citizen supported journalismStartup aims to plant millions of pongamia — “miracle” trees that can grow on arid badlands and yield products similar to soybeans and olive oil.
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BP Paid Rural Mexicans a “Pittance” for Wall Street’s Top Climate Solution
2022-06-28 (or before) in BloombergThe oil giant has found a climate bargain in some of Mexico’s poorest areas, paying a fraction of market rate for carbon offsets to rural villagers working to protect their forests.
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Enough. A review of corporate sustainability, in a world running out of time.
2022-06-28 (or before) in ey.comCorporate Sustainability’s moment has finally arrived. However, to fulfil the role the world needs us to must be honest about the compromises we have made to get here, and creative in repositioning ourselves for the crucial decade ahead.
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COP26: Sufficiency Should be First
2022-06-25 (or before) in buildingsandcities.orgBy Yamina Saheb (Lausanne University, CH) Commentaries
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Major water cutbacks loom as shrinking Colorado River nears 'moment of reckoning'
2022-06-19 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyAs the West endures another year of unrelenting drought worsened by climate change, the Colorado River's reservoirs have declined so low that major water cuts will be necessary next year to reduce risks of supplies reaching perilously low levels, a top federal water official said Tuesday.
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The Great Simplification | Film on Energy, Environment, and Our Future | FULL MOVIE
2022-06-18 (or before) in YouTubeThis 32 minute animation - in 4 Acts - describes the backdrop for The Great Simplification - an economic/cultural transition beginning in the not-too-distant...
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Climate Change | Extinction
Climate Change Evidence: How Do We Know?
2022-06-16 (or before) in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetThe rate of change since the mid-20th century is unprecedented over millennia.
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Sea Level
How climate change, overfishing and COVID drove irregular migration from West Africa
2022-06-16 by in The ConversationThe influx of migrants from West Africa must be viewed as a manifestation of problems in the countries of origin.
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Why Are Arctic Linkages to Extreme Weather Still up in the Air?
2022-06-15 (or before) in American Meteorological Society JournalsAbstract Shifting weather patterns, particularly increasing extreme events, are observed in populous midlatitudes, and connections to climate change are becoming clearer. The specific roles of rapid Arctic warming and sea ice loss in this story are a topic of intense research and controversy. Instead of converging on answers however, the science seems as unsettled as ever. Many new studies find evidence supporting Arctic–midlatitude linkages, while others report no robust signals. This article presents my interpretation of recent literature to illuminate possible causes of this discrepancy, which include a low signal-to-no...
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Mothers at the searing edge of climate change in this hottest city on Earth
2022-06-15 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Pregnant women and new mothers are at the receiving end in Jacobabad in southern Pakistan as they battle heatwave in their daily lives.
Tagged under: Heatwaves | Climate Change | Women and Children
World economy set to lose up to 18% GDP from climate change if no action taken, reveals Swiss Re Institute's stress-test analysis | Swiss Re
2022-06-14 (or before) in Swiss Retbd
Tagged under: Climate Change | GDP | Economics | Economic Growth
Climatenomics - Washington, Wall Street, and the Economic Battle to Save our Planet
2022-06-14 (or before) in climatenomicsbook.comThe economic impact of climate change is rattling the foundation of our economy at its very core. The good news about this economic earthquake is that it just might be the thing that saves our planet.
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The only time buying new is better for climate
2022-06-14 (or before) by in We Can Fix It - Kim NicholasFacts: Climate change = bad; Feelings: Beyond self-care to fix the root causes of burnout; Action: The only time buying new is better for climate
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In South Asia, record heat threatens future of farming
2022-06-13 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeUNEP projects are helping countries in Asia adapt and mitigate the impact of deadly heatwaves brought on by climate change.
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A Changing Climate: Exploring the Implications of Climate Change for UK Defence and Security
2022-06-10 (or before) in GOV.UKThis research paper informs the ongoing development of the Ministry of Defence's climate change strategy.
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Climate change: 42% chance of breaching 1.5°C goal even if all carbon emissions cease | New Scientist
2022-06-07 (or before) in New ScientistHowever, research shows that prospects for meeting the Paris Agreement’s backstop of 2°C is still well within reach, provided emissions are cut rapidly
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Fossil fuel projects that qualify for Rishi Sunak’s tax relief ‘could create 899 million tonnes of CO2’ | The Independent
2022-06-07 (or before) in The IndependentIf all 39 projects are approved they could produce the equivalent of nearly 1.9 billion barrels of oil
Tagged under: Climate Change | Rishi Sunak | Fossil Fuels
Defusing Carbon Bombs - LINGO
2022-06-06 (or before) in LINGO - Leave it in the groundLINGO works on accelerating the fossil endgame towards a world without fossil fuels and with 100% renewable energy by identifying game changers for the climate emergency, introducing new framings and defusing carbon bombs.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Climate Deniers in the 116th Congress
2022-06-04 (or before) in Center for American Progress ActionA new CAP Action analysis finds that 150 members—and 60 percent of Republicans—in the 116th Congress do not believe in climate change.
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Climate-Proofing Management Research | Academy of Management Perspectives
2022-06-04 (or before) in journals.aom.orgClimate change presents a variety of doomsday scenarios for human society, including more extreme and frequent storms, droughts, heatwaves and fires, the heating and acidification of oceans, rising sea levels, biodiversity decline, food shortages, as well as exacerbating geopolitical tensions and conflicts. While many corporations and communities are already anticipating and planning for various climate impacts, we argue that much management research is in denial of the profound consequences of a worsening climate crisis. This is evident in the relative neglect of climate change in our research and teaching and we argue reflects...
Tagged under: Oceans | Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Drought | Climate Change | Ocean Acidification | Sea Level | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Mitigation
Opinion | Let’s Not Pretend Planting Trees Is a Permanent Climate Solution
2022-06-04 in The New York TimesTagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Current policies will bring ‘catastrophic’ climate breakdown, warn former UN leaders
2022-06-02 in The GuardianThree former UN climate heads say gap between government promises and actions will change environment irreversibly
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change
We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist
2022-06-01 in The GuardianKatharine Hayhoe says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilisation
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change
I worked at Shell for 33 years – the government is wrong on North Sea oil | The Independent
2022-05-30 (or before) in The IndependentInvesting into North Sea oil won’t cut our bills or protect Britain’s energy security, so why is the energy secretary saying the opposite?
Tagged under: Shell | Climate Change
ESG Is BS. We Need Climate Impact - Clim8 Invest
2022-05-30 (or before) in clim8.comESG is BS. We need Climate Impact. ESG is a huge distraction in the fight against climate change. Investors need a new category – Climate Impact
Tagged under: Climate Change | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance
WEF climate change: ‘It’s now or never’
2022-05-30 (or before) in IOL | News that Connects South AfricansTagged under: Climate Change
Why Britain Is Spending £37 Billion to Make Energy-Supply Crisis Worse
2022-05-29 (or before) in BloombergA decade of policy failings left the UK with little choice but to subsidize energy consumption.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wind Power
‘Apocalypse Papers’: Scientists Call for Paradigm Shift as Biodiversity Loss Worsens - Inside Climate News
2022-05-29 (or before) in Inside Climate NewsWhen scientists from the United States and Europe published a study two weeks ago, warning that climate change was on track to push more than half of the world’s species of cactus—a plant known for its extraordinary ability to survive heat and drought—into extinction by midcentury, Tierra Curry simply filed it among the quickly growing […]
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Extinction | Biodiversity Loss
3m face starvation: Activist asks presidential aspirants to focus on climate
2022-05-28 by Japhet Ruto in tuko.co.keKenyan environmental activist Elizabeth Wathuti asked presidential aspirants to focus on addressing climate change. She said 3m Kenyans were facing hunger.
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Rishi Sunak’s Stealth Subsidy for Fossil Fuel Firms is ‘Disastrous’ says UK’s Former Climate Chief – Byline Times
2022-05-27 by in Byline TimesSir David King told Adam Bienkov that the stealth tax cut would damage the fight for 'a manageable future for humanity'
Tagged under: Climate Change | Rishi Sunak
IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts
2022-05-27 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News ReleasesThe Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launch a peer-reviewed report based on a 4-day virtual workshop on addressing the biodiversity and climate crises together involving 50 jointly-selected international experts.
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2022-05-26 (or before) in Environmental Defense Fund - Building a vital earth for everyoneWe're a global environmental organization driving game-changing solutions to our biggest environmental issues like climate change, air pollution and more.
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Major New Zealand salmon producer shuts farms as warming waters cause mass die-offs
2022-05-26 in The GuardianUp to 42% of company’s fish have died in warm water areas this year, with CEO warning climate change is ‘faster than people think’
Tagged under: Climate Change | Pacific Ocean | Fish | Salmon
Oil and Gas Industry Seized on War in Ukraine to Water Down Climate Policy, Report Shows
2022-05-25 by in DeSmogWhile Russia dropped missiles on Kyiv and laid siege to the port of Mariupol in late February, the oil and gas industry took advantage of the war in Ukraine to spread misinformation about the causes of the energy crisis in order to apply political pressure and pursue a longstanding wish list of policy changes, according […]
Tagged under: Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation | Russia
Fossil Fuel Subsidies
2022-05-25 (or before) in International Monetary FundSubsidies are intended to protect consumers by keeping prices low, but they come at a high cost. Subsidies have sizable fiscal costs (leading to higher taxes/borrowing or lower spending), promote inefficient allocation of an economy’s resources (hindering growth), encourage pollution (contributing to climate change and premature deaths from local air pollution), and are not well targeted at the poor (mostly benefiting higher income households). Removing subsidies and using the revenue gain for better targeted social spending, reductions in inefficient taxes, and productive investments can promote sustainable and equitable ...
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HSBC banker who criticised climate ‘nut jobs’ was right about a lot of things
2022-05-23 (or before) in The TelegraphThe City’s mania for ‘ESG’ is stifling debate and will stop us from solving the world’s problems
Tagged under: Climate Change | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance
Why is climate 'doomism' going viral – and who's fighting it? - BBC News
2022-05-23 (or before) in The BBCClimate "doomers" believe it’s far too late to do anything about climate change - but they're wrong.
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MPs will be briefed on climate change after health leaders back hunger striker’s demands
2022-05-22 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalA man ended a hunger strike of more than five weeks outside the UK parliament on 19 April after it was confirmed that MPs would be briefed on the climate crisis by the chief scientific officer, Patrick Vallance. The decision was made four days after senior health professionals, including the current and former editors in chief of The BMJ , wrote to the prime minister urging him to commit to holding a briefing. …
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Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems
2022-05-22 (or before) in GOV.UKTagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children | Sustainability | Children
Sixth Carbon Budget - Climate Change Committee
2022-05-22 (or before) in Climate Change CommitteeThe Sixth Carbon Budget, provides ministers with advice on the volume of greenhouse gases the UK can emit during the period 2033-2037.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Committee on Climate Change UK
HSBC suspends banker over climate change comments | Financial Times
2022-05-22 in Financial TimesExecutives criticise Stuart Kirk despite speech’s theme and content having been agreed internally
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Apocalypse now? The alarming effects of the global food crisis
2022-05-21 in The GuardianThe Bank of England governor warned last week of ‘apocalyptic’ food price rises. Yet war in Ukraine, climate change and inflation are already taking their toll all over the world
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Economics | Famine and Food Insecurity
Not so moral money?
2022-05-20 in Business GreenStuart Kirk's insistence investors do not need to worry about climate risk fundamentally misunderstands both climate change and risk
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Climate change: 'Fifty-fifty chance' of breaching 1.5C warming limit - BBC News
2022-05-19 (or before) in BBCScientists say there's now a strong chance that the world will warm by more than 1.5C by 2026.
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A systematic review of the psychological distance of climate change: Towards the development of an evidence-based construct
2022-05-19 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comThe construct of psychological distance has gained traction as an explanation of why climate change is difficult to act on; it often feels far removed…
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Climate change swells odds of record India, Pakistan heatwaves - BBC News
2022-05-18 (or before) in The BBCA UK study says record-breaking temperatures in NW India and Pakistan are now 100 times more likely.
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Four countries pledge tenfold rise in EU offshore wind power capacity
2022-05-18 in ReutersGermany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark on Wednesday pledged to build at least 150 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity in the North Sea by 2050 to create a "green power plant"for Europe.
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Four key climate change indicators break records in 2021
2022-05-17 in World Meteorological OrganizationGeneva, 18 May 2022 (WMO) - Four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021. This is yet another clear sign that human activities are causing planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere, with harmful and long-lasting ramifications for sustainable development and ecosystems, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Ocean Acidification | Sea Level
EU climate emissions higher than before pandemic
2022-05-16 in PoliticoEurostat said the economic recovery was the key driver of the increase.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Bringing aviation into line with net zero - Aviation Environment Federation
2022-05-16 (or before) in Aviation Environment FederationUnder the 2008 Climate Change Act, the UK Government is required to set five-year emission reduction targets, known as ‘carbon budgets’. Until now, however, successive governments have resisted including emissions …
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South Asia’s Heatwave Is Only the Beginning
2022-05-16 (or before) in TribuneThe record heatwave hitting India and Pakistan has dehydrated birds falling from the sky. If there was ever a sign that we need urgent action to reverse the catastrophic course of climate change, it's that.
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Natural gas to be classed as ‘green’ investment to boost North Sea
2022-05-15 (or before) in The TelegraphProposals to bolster UK energy security by drilling for the fossil fuel risk angering climate change activists
Tagged under: Climate Change | Activism
[PDF] Re-framing the threat of global warming: an empirical causal loop diagram of climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse | Semantic Scholar
2022-05-15 (or before) in Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research ToolThere is increasing concern that climate change poses an existential risk to humanity. Understanding these worst-case scenarios is essential for good risk management. However, our knowledge of the causal pathways through which climate change could cause societal collapse is underdeveloped. This paper aims to identify and structure an empirical evidence base of the climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse pathway. We first review the societal collapse and existential risk literature and define a set of determinants of societal collapse. We develop an original methodology, using these determinants as societal collapse...
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Extreme weather disasters have increased fivefold in past 50 years, says UN report | The Independent
2022-05-15 (or before) in The IndependentMore than 3,000 disasters linked to climate, water or water extremes in last decade, says World Meteorological Organisation
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The longest river in Italy is drying up: How will locals survive?
2022-05-15 (or before) in EuronewsThe mighty Po River nourishes a vast area of northern Italy, but climate change is causing a devastating drought.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Rivers
Biodiversity Solutions Also Fight Climate Change • The Revelator
2022-05-13 by in The Revelator - Environmental News, Investigations and IdeasNew research highlights ways to tackle our two greatest environmental challenges — at the same time.
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Belly Of The Beast: How Climate Change Is Affecting India’s Farmers
2022-05-13 in outlookindia.comFarmers are waking up to the threat of extreme heatwaves across India. Are our policymakers listening?
Tagged under: Farming | Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Climate Change | India
A united world order is needed to tackle the climate crisis
2022-05-12 (or before) in EURACTIV2022 has seen deepening divisions between countries, driven in part by the war in Ukraine and skyrocketing fuel and food prices. As policymakers look to tackle the climate crisis, they should focus on global, harmonised measures rather than bilateral decisions that could deepen divides, writes Carne Ross.
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GB News Appoints Chairman Who Spent Years Promoting Climate Denial
2022-05-12 by in DeSmogThe new chairman of GB News has a history of sharing articles that dismiss the threat of climate change, sharpening concerns about the TV channel’s role as a platform for opponents of climate action. Between 2013 and 2017, United Arab Emirates-based investment manager Alan McCormick tweeted numerous articles by climate science deniers, including one calling […]
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France’s unprecedented drought shows climate change is ‘spiralling out of control’
2022-05-11 in France 24As global warming accelerates, the spectre of drought haunts France’s once verdant farmland. Even now, before the start of summer, 15 administrative départements have had to restrict water use while…
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Climate breakdown: even if we miss the 1.5°C target we must still fight to prevent every single increment of warming
2022-05-11 by in The ConversationEvery tenth of a degree makes climate change significantly worse.
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Climate change: 'Fifty-fifty chance' of breaching 1.5C warming limit - BBC News
2022-05-10 (or before) in The BBCScientists say there's now a strong chance that the world will warm by more than 1.5C by 2026.
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Climate change: Airlines miss all but one target - report - BBC News
2022-05-10 (or before) in The BBCCampaigners say the aviation industry cannot be relied on to tackle their role in climate change.
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The Kochs’ Dream of Smashing Climate Action May Be About to Come True
2022-05-09 (or before) in VICEThe Supreme Court will decide in June whether to gut the EPA’s ability to fight global heating, and you can thank Charles Koch for that.
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Earth’s CO2 hits highest recorded level in human history | The Independent
2022-05-09 (or before) in The IndependentUnprecedented level comes as greenhouse gas emissions continue around the world
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Climate change: IPCC scientists say it's 'now or never' to limit warming - BBC News
2022-05-07 (or before) in The BBCStaving off the worst impacts of climate change is possible, say scientists, but immediate action is needed.
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A drought so bad it exposed a long-ago homicide. Getting the water back will be harder than ever
2022-05-06 in Los Angeles TimesThe added heat from global warming has made drought-stricken lands extra-dry. It will take more precipitation than usual to end it.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | California
Extreme dry and hot events linked to climate change put European ecosystems at risk a 4C study found | Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Current Century (4C)
2022-05-06 (or before) in Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Current Century (4C)Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
A climate solution where all sides can win | Ted Halstead
2022-05-06 (or before) in YouTubeWhy are we so deadlocked on climate, and what would it take to overcome the seemingly insurmountable barriers to progress? Policy entrepreneur Ted Halstead p...
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The Power of Big Oil
2022-05-06 (or before) in PBS - Public Broadcasting ServiceFRONTLINE examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change in a three-part documentary series.
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State of the World's Birds
2022-05-05 (or before) in Annual ReviewsWe present an overview of the global spatiotemporal distribution of avian biodiversity, changes in our knowledge of that biodiversity, and the extent to which it is imperilled. Birds are probably the most completely inventoried large taxonomic class of organisms, permitting a uniquely detailed understanding of how the Anthropocene has shaped their distributions and conservation status in space and time. We summarize the threats driving changes in bird species richness and abundance, highlighting the increasingly synergistic interactions between threats such as habitat loss, climate change, and overexploitation. Many metrics of a...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Extinction | Biodiversity Loss
Media reaction: South Asia’s 2022 heatwave and the role of climate change - Carbon Brief
2022-05-04 by in Carbon BriefA heatwave has swept across South Asia for weeks – leaving millions of people struggling with severe impacts.
Tagged under: Heatwaves | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Heat waves likely to last ‘25 times longer’ in India by another 2-4 decades, says climate report
2022-05-02 (or before) in Down To Earth | Environment & science issues | India, South Asia The heatwaves will last over five times longer if global temperature rise is constrained to about 2°C, says report launched ahead of G20 summit
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change | India
The South Asia heat wave is the “emergency” phase of climate change
2022-05-02 by in currentlyhq.comA weeks-long “infinite” heat wave is “near uninhabitable levels” in India and Pakistan — and it’s still getting worse.
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The clean energy claims of BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell: A mismatch between discourse, actions and investments
2022-05-02 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceThe energy products of oil and gas majors have contributed significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and planetary warming over the past century. Decarbonizing the global economy by mid-century to avoid dangerous climate change thus cannot occur without a profound transformation of their fossil fuel-based business models. Recently, several majors are increasingly discussing clean energy and climate change, pledging decarbonization strategies, and investing in alternative energies. Some even claim to be transforming into clean energy companies. Given a history of obstructive climate actions and “greenwashing&rd...
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Chevron | Fossil Fuels | Finance
The Oceans Appear to Be Stabilizing. Here's Why it's Very Bad News
2022-05-02 (or before) in NewsweekA more stably stratified ocean potentially favors more intense, destructive hurricanes—and that's not all.
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Scorching Heatwave In India Reaches 115°F
2022-05-02 (or before) by in ForbesSouth Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) is in the midst of an unrelenting heatwave.
Tagged under: Wildfires | Heatwaves | Climate Change | Famine and Food Insecurity | India
Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century - Nature Climate Change
2022-05-02 (or before) in NatureSeawater properties—temperature, salinity and density—cause stratification of the water column, limiting vertical exchange. Considering down to 2,000 m, ocean stratification is shown to have increased ~5.3% since 1960, with ~71% of the change occurring in the upper 200 m primarily from warming.
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Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change
2022-05-02 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth SpreadingIn this passionate call to action, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg explains why, in August 2018, she walked out of school and organized a strike to raise awareness of global warming, protesting outside the Swedish parliament and grabbing the world's attention. "The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions," Thunberg says. "All we have to do is to wake up and change."
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Mitigation of Climate Change Report 2022: "Litany of broken climate promises" - UN Chief
2022-05-02 (or before) in YouTubeThe United Nations Secretary-General called the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “a litany of broken climate promises” showing ...
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Climate change could cause worst UK wildfires in years warn fire chiefs
2022-05-01 (or before) in inews.co.ukUK could face wildfires on the scale of those in southern Spain, within the decade. Madeleine Cuff reveals how the brigade is preparing to deal with a more hazardous environment
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Record-breaking heat wave scorches India’s wheat crop and hinders export plans
2022-04-30 in France 24An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make…
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The oil apologists
2022-04-29 by in Canada's National ObserverUnlike most climate deniers, oil apologists don’t have a lot to say about the science of climate change because they generally ignore the topic. Their messaging is focused on fossil fuels being necessary for the progress of humanity.
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Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk - Nature
2022-04-29 (or before) in NatureAt least 10,000 virus species have the capacity to infect humans, but at present, the vast majority are circulating silently in wild mammals1,2. However, climate and land use change will produce novel opportunities for viral sharing among previously geographically-isolated species of wildlife3,4. In some cases, this will facilitate zoonotic spillover—a mechanistic link between global environmental change and disease emergence. Here, we simulate potential hotspots of future viral sharing, using a phylogeographic model of the mammal-virus network, and projections of geographic range shifts for 3,139 mammal species under clim...
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Africa | Wildlife
Climate Anxiety | EAUC
2022-04-29 (or before) by in EAUCThe EAUC is the sustainability champion for universities and colleges in the UK.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Sustainability
Study: Climate change is creating disease hotspots
2022-04-28 by in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.“The coming decades will not only be hotter, but sicker.”
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health
Climate change: Don't let doom win, project tells worriers - BBC News
2022-04-28 (or before) in The BBCThe BBC gets an exclusive look at a new project to help students deal with rising climate anxiety.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief
UN Report Says Humanity Has Altered 70 Percent of the Earth’s Land, Putting the Planet on a ‘Crisis Footing’ - Inside Climate News
2022-04-27 by in Inside Climate NewsDamage to the Earth’s lands, largely caused by the expansion of agriculture, has put the planet on “crisis footing,” say the authors of a sweeping new report that urgently calls for the restoration of billions of acres of terrain to forestall the worst impacts of climate change. The report, published Wednesday, is the second major […]
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Trees
UN land report: Five key takeaways for climate change, food systems and nature loss - Carbon Brief
2022-04-27 in Carbon BriefThe new report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) urges world leaders to adopt a “crisis footing” to solve land degradation.
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Summer of 2021 was Europe’s hottest on record
2022-04-23 in France 24Europe experienced its hottest summer on record in 2021, while being ravaged by floods, heatwaves and fires, according to a report published Friday by the European Union's Copernicus climate change service,…
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Food, farming and forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, U.N. says
2022-04-05 in ReutersProtecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations' climate panel.
Tagged under: Farming | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Trees
8 reasons not to give up hope - and take climate action
2022-04-04 in UN News | Global perspective Human storiesAlthough once again the scientific community has made clear this week that we are not doing enough to limit global warming to the crucial 1.5°C threshold, the findings of the latest Intergovernmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change report, are not all doom, and gloom.
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Climate change: IPCC scientists to examine carbon removal in key report - BBC News
2022-03-21 (or before) in The BBCThere's likely to be a new emphasis on technology to suck CO2 from the air in IPCC report on mitigation.
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage
SVS: GISTEMP Climate Spiral
2022-03-20 (or before) by in NASA Scientific Visualization StudioTagged under: Climate Change
Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity - Nature Communications
2022-03-19 (or before) in NatureRenewable energy production is necessary to mitigate climate change, however, generating the required technologies and infrastructure will demand huge production increases of many metals. Here, the authors map mining areas and assess spatial coincidence with biodiversity conservation sites, and show that new mining threats to biodiversity may surpass those averted by climate change mitigation.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation
This Timber Company Sold Millions of Dollars of Useless Carbon Offsets
2022-03-18 (or before) in BloombergNow Lyme Timber CEO Jim Hourdequin wants to fix a broken system to create a market that actually helps slow climate change.
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Climate change is warping our fresh water cycle – and much faster than we thought
2022-03-17 (or before) by in The ConversationDry regions will get drier and wet regions wetter as the climate changes. How quickly? Quicker than we thought, unfortunately.
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Deadly heat waves could hit South Asia this century
2022-03-17 (or before) in MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIn South Asia, new MIT research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.
Tagged under: Global Warming | India | Heatwaves | Climate Change | Wet Bulb Temperature
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
2022-03-17 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetLearn where climate change solutions begin and NASA's role in adaptation and mitigation.
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Video: Global Warming from 1880 to 2022 – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2022-03-17 (or before) in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetColor-coded map of changing global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 through 2022.
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Climate change: Electrical industry's 'dirty secret' boosts warming - BBC News
2022-03-16 (or before) in The BBCIt's the most powerful greenhouse gas you've never heard of, and levels in the atmosphere are soaring.
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Renewable Energy Projects Face Opposition in 49 States, Local Restrictions in 31 States - Climate Law Blog
2022-03-15 by in Log In ‹ Blogs @ Columbia Law School — WordPressBy Leah Adelman and Jacob Elkin Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has published an update to its Report on Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States, which documents local restrictions on and opposition to the siting of renewable energy projects. The updated report highlights 121 local policies restricting new […]
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‘So angry’: climate activists distraught after court reverses climate change 'duty of care' ruling
2022-03-15 in The Guardian‘I’m devastated by today’s judgement’, says one of the students who brought the original case
Tagged under: Activism | Coal | Climate Change
Dedicating my next 20 years to climate change: An interview with Sir David King FRS MAE - Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub
2022-03-14 in Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge HubAAAS Award winner and former UK Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King, shares his ambitious plans to tackle the global challenge of climate change. About Sir David King FRS MAE Professor Sir David King FRS MAE is a South African-born British chemist, Emeritus Professor and head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group. He is the founder and Chair for the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge. Sir David was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the Government Office for Science from 2000 to... Read More Read More
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Shift the focus from the super-poor to the super-rich - Nature Climate Change
2022-03-14 (or before) in NatureCarbon mitigation efforts often focus on the world’s poorest people, dealing with topics such as food and energy security, and increased emissions potential from projected population, income and consumption growth. However, more policies are needed that target people at the opposite end of the social ladder — the super-rich.
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How the beef industry is trying to change the maths of climate change
2022-03-09 by in Greenpeace UK - UnearthedA new metric for the greenhouse gas methane could see the beef industry claim to be climate neutral without significantly cutting emissions
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Methane | Climate Change | Net Zero | Cattle and Dairy Farming | Greenpeace
Unite against climate change - Ukraine scientist - BBC News
2022-03-07 (or before) in The BBCA leading climate expert says the Ukraine invasion is closing the window of opportunity to curb global warming.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change
The First Step Toward Saving the Planet Is Ignoring the Economists
2022-03-04 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News CoverageThe U.N.’s latest climate report shows that we don’t know how expensive the climate crisis will be, which means cost-benefit analyses weighing how to combat it are pointless
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Economics
We cling to our memory of the perfect summer – before flood, fire and plague. But the past is gone and we have to wake up | Brigid Delaney
2022-03-03 in The GuardianSigns of collapse are everywhere, and if we think it’s possible to return to ‘normal’, then we are deluded
Tagged under: Bushfires | Extreme Weather | IPCC | Climate Change | Flooding | Collapse
IPCC Risk Analysis Shows Safe Limits Have Already Been Passed - The Energy Mix
2022-03-02 in The Energy Mix - The climate news you needHumankind is not just heading for a more dangerous future: for some people, the safe limits have already been passed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows in its climate impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability report this week.
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'Managed retreat' from coastal living could soon be reality, climate report warns
2022-02-28 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)The world's scientists declare climate change is now a threat to human wellbeing, warning we are about to miss the window to "secure a liveable and sustainable future for all".
Tagged under: Bushfires | IPCC | Climate Change | Extinction
UN climate report: 'Atlas of human suffering' worse, bigger | AP News
2022-02-28 (or before) in Associated Press NewsDeadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, a new United Nations science report says.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Africa | Climate Change | Middle East
IPCC issues ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown
2022-02-28 in The GuardianReport says human actions are causing dangerous disruption, and window to secure a liveable future is closing
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Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035 | Reuters
2022-02-28 (or before) in ReutersTagged under: Renewable Energy | Germany | Climate Change | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance
The rightwing US supreme court has climate change in its sights | Laurence H Tribe and Jeremy Lewin
2022-02-28 in The GuardianThe court is breaking with precedent, procedure and prudence to achieve the ultra-conservative majority’s policy preferences
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
2022-02-28 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeTagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Global expansion and redistribution of Aedes-borne virus transmission risk with climate change
2022-02-28 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceAuthor summary The established scientific consensus indicates that climate change will severely exacerbate the risk and burden of Aedes-transmitted viruses, including dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and other significant threats to global health security. Here, we show more subtle impacts of climate change on transmission, caused primarily by differences between the more heat-tolerant Aedes aegypti and the more heat-limited Ae. albopictus. Within the next century, nearly a billion people could face their first exposure to viral transmission from either mosquito in the worst-case scenario, mainly in Europe and high-elevation tropical ...
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The link between Putin and climate change
2022-02-28 in PoliticoThe war in Ukraine is, like everything, tied to the climate crisis in multiple ways.
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change | Vladimir Putin | Russia
Climate change brings disturbing new reality
2022-02-27 in The Daily Star Ð Leading English Daily among Bangladesh NewspapersGlobal warming is having multidimensional impacts on countries and communities—and not just in terms of erratic climate events.
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Climate Change Risk Assessment for the Insurance Industry | The Geneva Association
2022-02-21 in The Geneva AssociationTagged under: Climate Change | Insurance
MPs who lobbied for controversial ‘green’ petrol were funded by fuel industry
2022-02-21 (or before) in openDemocracyGovernment introduced 'E10' petrol after parliamentary group produced glowing report – despite warnings about its environmental credentials
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Ice Sheets | NASA Global Climate Change
2022-02-20 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetVital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic
Satellite Vu to publicly share carbon emissions data in major climate change commitment — Satellite Vu
2022-02-20 (or before) in Satellite VuTagged under: Climate Change
NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory - THE NOAA ANNUAL GREENHOUSE GAS INDEX (AGGI)
2022-02-20 (or before) in NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring LaboratoryThe Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Geoff Mann · Check Your Spillover: The Climate Colossus · LRB 10 February 2022
2022-02-18 (or before) by in London Review of BooksIn the face of climate change, the long run – which remains the sacred temporality of economics – is a misleading...
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Restored tropical forests will store carbon even in the face of climate change
2022-02-18 in Sustainability TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Trees | Sustainability
Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: The Hydrogen Factor
2022-02-17 (or before) in IRENA Ð International Renewable Energy AgencyThe report provides a comprehensive analysis of the geopolitical drivers and potential consequences of the development of clean hydrogen value chains.
Tagged under: Hydrogen | Climate Change | Decarbonisation
Corn-Based Ethanol May Be Worse For the Climate Than Gasoline, a New Study Finds - Inside Climate News
2022-02-16 in Inside Climate NewsEthanol made from corn grown across millions of acres of American farmland has become the country’s premier renewable fuel, touted as a low-carbon alternative to traditional gasoline and a key component of the country’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But a new study, published this week, finds that corn-based ethanol may actually be worse […]
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Farming | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Groundswell Report
2022-02-16 (or before) in World BankThe new Groundswell report finds that climate change, an increasingly potent driver of migration, could force 216 million people across six world regions to move within their countries by 2050.
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Opaque carbon credit market undermines fight against climate change
2022-02-16 (or before) in Nikkei AsiaCompanies flock to cheaper CO2 offsets, whose effect is hard to gauge
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Crop Failures More likely in Warmer, Dryer World - Woodwell Climate
2022-02-14 by in Woodwell Climate - Investigating the causes and effects of climate change.Models predict increasing crop failures in world's major breadbaskets over next three decades. Water availability will dictate resilience.
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change
Inside the Experiment: Abrupt Change and Ice Cores
2022-02-14 (or before) in YouTubeJørgen Peder Steffensen, of Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute, is one of the most experienced experts in ice core analysis, in both Greenland and Antarctica. Dr...
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UK set to ‘torpedo climate action’ by approving six new North Sea oil and gas fields
2022-02-14 (or before) in The IndependentChancellor Rishi Sunak has said he wants to encourage more investment in new fossil fuel drilling
Tagged under: Climate Change | Rishi Sunak | Net Zero
Electrify
2022-02-11 (or before) in MIT PressAn optimistic—but realistic and feasible—action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Electric Cars | US Politics | Cars | Health | Electricity Grid | Finance
World must ‘change track’ to protect oceans from climate crisis: Guterres
2022-02-11 in UN News | Global perspective Human storiesThe planet is facing the triple crises of climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution, Secretary-General António Guterres told the One Ocean Summit on Friday, warning that “the ocean shoulders much of the burden”.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Biodiversity Loss
Worst-Case Climate Change Scenarios Are Highly Implausible, Argues New Study
2022-02-09 in Reason Magazine - Free Minds and Free MarketsGlobal temperature to rise to around 2.2°C above the pre-industrial average by 2100.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Coal | IPCC | Climate Change
Monitoring Soil Health in the Middle East from Space | 4 Earth Intelligence
2022-02-08 (or before) in Applied Earth Intelligence Experts | 4 Earth IntelligenceTagged under: Climate Change | Health | Middle East
How a humble mushroom could save forests and fight climate change
2022-02-08 (or before) by in The ConversationInoculating trees with an edible fungi can produce more protein per hectare than pasture-raised beef, while reforesting, storing carbon and restoring biodiversity.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Cattle and Dairy Farming | Trees
Climate change: Top companies exaggerating their progress - study - BBC News
2022-02-07 (or before) in The BBCCompanies including Google, Amazon and Ikea are not meeting their own green targets, a report finds.
Tagged under: Amazon Rainforest | Climate Change
Climate change: Satellites map huge methane plumes from oil and gas - BBC News
2022-02-05 (or before) in The BBCPlugging methane leaks from oil and gas fields could be an easy win in curbing climate change.
Tagged under: Methane | Climate Change
Climate fiction has come of age – and these fabulous books show why
2022-02-03 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change
Getting personal about climate change made me a better reporter
2022-02-03 in Los Angeles TimesJournalists need to start demanding solutions and stop worrying about bad-faith critics.
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DOUBT - Climate change and manufactured doubt
2022-02-03 (or before) in YouTubeJoin us and stand up for reality. http://climaterealityproject.org - This film exposes the parallels between Big Tobacco's denial of smoking's cancer-causing...
Tagged under: US Politics | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Health
Dark Side To Solar? More Reports Tie Panel Production To Toxic Pollution
2022-02-02 (or before) by in ForbesA major new study of the economics of solar, published in Harvard Business Review, finds that the waste produced by solar panels will make electricity from solar four times more expensive than the world’s leading energy analysts thought.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Shell | Solar Energy | Climate Change | Economics | Electricity
The recent normalization of historical marine heat extremes
2022-02-01 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceClimate change exposes marine ecosystems to extreme conditions with increasing frequency. Capitalizing on the global reconstruction of sea surface temperature (SST) records from 1870-present, we present a centennial-scale index of extreme marine heat within a coherent and comparable statistical framework. A spatially (1° × 1°) and temporally (monthly) resolved index of the normalized historical extreme marine heat events was expressed as a fraction of a year that exceeds a locally determined, monthly varying 98th percentile of SST gradients derived from the first 50 years of climatological records (1870–1919)...
Tagged under: Oceans | Extreme Weather | Climate Change | India
ppm — A Broken Planet
2022-01-29 (or before) in A Broken PlanetA Broken Planet — 100 days 100 poems on the climate crisis
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change
Anthropogenic carbon release rate unprecedented during the past 66 million years - Nature Geoscience
2022-01-29 (or before) in NatureCarbon release rates during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum are difficult to constrain. Comparing relative rates of carbon cycle and climate change at the event’s onset suggests emissions were much slower than anthropogenic emissions.
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Why climate change is inherently racist
2022-01-29 (or before) in BBCClimate change divides along racial lines. Could tackling it help address longstanding injustices?
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How Climate Change Will Affect Plants
2022-01-27 in State of the PlanetWhile elevated levels of CO2 can help plants grow, the impacts of climate change mean it’s not all good news for the plant world.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
10 Recommendations for Direct Air Carbon Deployment Policy in Europe - Sussex Energy Group at SPRU
2022-01-27 in University of SussexThese ten recommendations were submitted as Supplemental Testimony to the Technological Innovations and Climate Change: Negative Emissions Technologies Inquiry held by the UK Parliament’s Environment Audit Committee in January 2022. Follow the Bellona Principles Principle 1 is to emphasize collection…Read more ›
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Climate is a crypto play as action moves from TradFi to DeFi to ReFi - ImpactAlpha
2022-01-27 by in ImpactAlphaImpactAlpha, Jan. 27 – If blockchain was a solution in search of a problem, it may have found it in climate change. The ...
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Nuclear Is Too Risky to Aid Climate Fight, Former Regulators Say
2022-01-26 (or before) in BloombergNuclear power is too risky and expensive to address the growing threat of climate change, according to an international coalition of former regulators.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Coal | Climate Change | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance
Southern Ocean storms cause outgassing of carbon dioxide
2022-01-26 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyStorms over the waters around Antarctica drive an outgassing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new international study with researchers from the University of Gothenburg. The research group used advanced ocean robots for the study, which provides a better understanding of climate change and can lead to better global climate models.
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Climate change: Misinformation on Facebook, YouTube 'as bad as ever'
2022-01-25 (or before) in USA TodayClimate change lies, hoaxes and conspiracy theories still rampant on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube despite pledges to crack down, report says.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Missouri and Kansas both had their hottest December on record — by a long shot
2022-01-23 in KCUR - NPR in Kansas CityAverage December temperatures jumped 2.6 degrees in Kansas, passing 40 degrees for the first time, and 2.2 in Missouri. While daily temperatures frequently swing multiple degrees because of weather patterns, such a jump in average monthly temperatures is abnormal.
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The Deliberate Rebellion | Extinction Rebellion
2022-01-23 (or before) in YouTubeIn the UK, Extinction Rebellion’s third demand is that government must create and be led by the decisions of a citizens’ assembly on climate and ecological j...
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Activism | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill - Extinction Rebellion UK
2022-01-23 (or before) in Extinction Rebellion UKAbout the CEE Bill See below for more on parliamentary procedure, the contents of the CEE Bill and what you can do to help get the campaign moving! Find out more Essential Resources *** Updated April 2021 *** The Campaign Guide is both an introduction to the Bill and a CEE Bill campaigning recipe book. […]
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The Mainstream Climate Narrative is a Lie | Climate Conscious
2022-01-23 (or before) in MediumThere’s no solution to climate change without the truth
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Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions
2022-01-19 (or before) in FrontiersThere is a growing evidence that emotions shape people’s reactions to the climate crisis in profound but complex ways. Climate emotions are related to resilience, climate action, and psychological well-being and health. However, there is currently a lack of research about the array of various climate emotions. There is also a need for more integration with general research about emotions. This article conducts a preliminary exploration of the taxonomy of climate emotions, based on literature reviews and philosophical discussion. The term emotion is used here in a broad sense, as is common in climate emotion research. Becau...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Despite climate emergency, the United States, Canada, and Norway "pumping more oil than ever" - Oil Change International
2022-01-19 in Oil Change InternationalLast year the world’s leading climate scientists, the IPCC, issued a “code red” for humanity and outlined how we had to stop oil and gas drilling if we wanted a liveable future. But still we drill. Take three countries who like to see themselves as climate leaders...
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Will Conservative Chaos Halt the Green Agenda? – Byline Times
2022-01-19 in Tom Burke - EnvironmentalistThe cameras are gone. The tented city on the banks of the Clyde have been dismantled. Political misconduct reoccupies the headlines. COP26 is over and climate change is no longer prominent in the p…
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Surge in NSW coal mine expansions would drive up national emissions
2022-01-19 (or before) by in Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.auDespite declining demand and efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions the NSW government is set to decide on a slew of coal mine expansions over coming months.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change
CCC welcomes Government report assessing UK climate risk - Climate Change Committee
2022-01-17 in Climate Change CommitteeThe Climate Change Committee (CCC) today welcomes the publication of the UK Government’s assessment of the risks and opportunities facing the UK from climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Committee on Climate Change UK
New Findings Warn Earth Could Break Key Warming Barrier In 2033
2022-01-15 (or before) by in ForbesNew analysis of temperatures around the world in 2021 indicate that the planet is on track to pass an all-important warming threshold much earlier than scientists had hoped.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Extreme Weather | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
We are in a Don’t Look Up situation. Here’s what the government should do | The Independent
2022-01-15 (or before) in The IndependentI’ve developed a practical plan of the steps we need to be taking to tackle the climate emergency – right now, writes Donnachadh McCarthy
Tagged under: COP27 | Climate Change | Net Zero
Climate Change: Journalism's Greatest Challenge - Green Templeton College
2022-01-14 (or before) by in Green Templeton CollegeTagged under: Climate Change
Here’s how to repay developing nations for colonialism – and fight the climate crisis | Michael Franczak and Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò
2022-01-14 in The GuardianThe IMF allots voting rights and emergency funds according to an outdated and unfair quota system established in 1944, before most colonies were free. Let’s change it
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change | Colonialism | Finance
The tragedy of climate change science
2022-01-12 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThe science-society contract is broken. The climate is changing. Science demonstrates why this is occurring, that it is getting worse, the implications for human well-being and social-ecological sy...
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Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement
2022-01-12 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsClimate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices is more urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and...
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The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021 » Yale Climate Connections
2022-01-11 in Yale Climate ConnectionsThe most extreme heat wave in modern history, a record four $20 billion-plus weather disasters, and the hottest month on record globally highlighted a remarkable year in weather.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world
2022-01-11 in The GuardianThe long read: The pace of global heating is forcing insect populations to move and adapt – and some aggressive species are thriving
Tagged under: Climate Change | Insects | Insect Populations
Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions - Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
2022-01-11 (or before) in Springer VerlagThe increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities traps heat within the climate system and increases ocean heat content (OHC). Here, we provide the first analysis of recent OHC changes through 2021 from two international groups. The world ocean, in 2021, was the hottest ever recorded by humans, and the 2021 annual OHC value is even higher than last year’s record value by 14 ± 11 ZJ (1 zetta J = 1021 J) using the IAP/CAS dataset and by 16 ± 10 ZJ using NCEI/NOAA dataset. The long-term ocean warming is larger in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans than in other regions and is ...
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Pacific Ocean | El Niño | Climate Change Mitigation | India
Time is running out. Here’s how the climate movement can level up.
2022-01-10 by in VoxThe high-risk, high-reward stakes of building a more radical movement.
Tagged under: Activism | Joe Biden | Climate Change | US Politics
Laying the foundation for life on a warmer, wetter planet
2022-01-10 (or before) in wartsila.comAs the realities of climate change become more evident, people are learning to live with them through investing in more resilient infrastructure.
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Climate terms like ‘crisis’ and ‘emergency’ take over UK climate media | The Independent
2022-01-06 (or before) in The IndependentThe language used by UK media is evolving as the dangers of climate crisis become more evident
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Unprecedented die-offs, melting ice: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the Arctic and beyond
2022-01-06 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyForces profound and alarming are reshaping the upper reaches of the North Pacific and Arctic oceans, breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures and one of the world's most important fisheries.
Tagged under: Oceans | Arctic | Climate Change | Fish | Ice Melting
Co-designing engaging and accessible data visualisations: a case study of the IPCC reports - Climatic Change
2022-01-05 (or before) in Springer VerlagCreating scientifically rigorous and user-friendly data visualisations can play a critical role in making complex information more accessible to wider audiences and supporting informed decision-making. ‘Co-design’ encapsulates a way of approaching data visualisation that ensures a deep and shared understanding between those creating the visuals (e.g. information designers, content experts, cognitive scientists) and the audience/users. This essay describes co-designing data visualisations with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A multidisciplinary design team made up of information designers and cog...
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How Burning Wood Pellets in Europe Is Harming the U.S. South
2022-01-03 by in Slate MagazineMany European nations have relied on biomass as a “renewable energy” source. At best, that terminology is a stretch. At worst, it’s greenwashing.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change
Top climate scientists are sceptical that nations will rein in global warming
2022-01-02 (or before) in NatureA Nature survey reveals that many authors of the latest IPCC climate-science report are anxious about the future and expect to see catastrophic changes in their lifetimes. A Nature survey reveals that many authors of the latest IPCC climate-science report are anxious about the future and expect to see catastrophic changes in their lifetimes.
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Factors other than climate change are the main drivers of recent food insecurity in Southern Madagascar – World Weather Attribution
2022-01-01 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Climate Change | Madagascar
TORNADOES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT WE KNOW
2022-01-01 (or before) in XaidaTagged under: Climate Change
Climate change: Storm clouds gather after COP26 - BBC News
2021-12-29 (or before) in The BBCIs the progress made in Glasgow in jeopardy from a rising tide of challenges in the year ahead?
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change
Climate change: Hurricanes to expand into more populated regions - BBC News
2021-12-29 (or before) in The BBCA warmer world will see tropical cyclones occur in regions near New York, Boston, Beijing and Tokyo.
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What’s Happening? Global Emissions Are Still Rising
2021-12-29 (or before) by in ForbesGlobal electricity demand will increase almost 10% by 2022, and half of this will be fossil fuel, particularly new coal in the developing world. Nuclear will grow by only 2%, and is one important reason emissions will grow so much during this period.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Nuclear Power | Coal | Climate Change | Electricity
Climate change: Huge toll of extreme weather disasters in 2021 - BBC News
2021-12-28 (or before) in The BBCFloods and storms connected to rising temperatures have had a huge impact on people worldwide.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Chile Writes a New Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On
2021-12-28 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Chile
Take a step with Don't Look Up & Count Us In
2021-12-28 (or before) in dontlookup.count-us-in.comDon't Look Up is part of Count Us In, a movement building the world’s largest community of people and organizations taking effective action on climate change. When you take a step with us, you’ll send a signal to global leaders and reduce your own carbon emissions too.
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Plan on table to halt new coal-fired power plants
2021-12-25 (or before) in Business News Today: Read Latest Business news, India Business News Live, Share Market & Economy News | The Economic TimesAt the UN climate change summit COP26 in Glasgow last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India's aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070 and also pledged to attain 500 GW of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030.
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Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia - BBC News
2021-12-24 (or before) in The BBCA group of editors is working tirelessly to keep bad climate info off the user-generated encyclopaedia.
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Climate change: Science failed to predict flood and heat intensity - BBC News
2021-12-22 (or before) in The BBCScientists want a super-computer powerful enough to accurately project the most damaging extremes.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Predictions | Climate Change
Cleanup cost of Heathrow third runway doubles to £100bn, MPs told
2021-12-22 in The GuardianPrice to offset runway’s carbon emissions has increased from £50bn since expansion approval in 2018
Tagged under: Climate Change | Committee on Climate Change UK
Electricity - Fuels & Technologies - IEA
2021-12-22 (or before) in IEA ÐÊInternational Energy AgencyModern economies depend on the reliable and affordable delivery of electricity. At the same time, the need to address climate change is driving a dramatic transformation of power systems globally.
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Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama?
2021-12-21 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comOver the past two decades, skeptics of the reality and significance of anthropogenic climate change have frequently accused climate scientists of “ala…
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change
Santa's Lapland reindeer are starving to death and facing extinction from climate change - World News - Mirror Online
2021-12-21 by in The MirrorTagged under: Climate Change | Extinction
Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner than we thought
2021-12-21 (or before) by in University of LeedsA study led by the University of Leeds has shown that global warming of only 2°C will be detrimental to crops in temperate and tropical regions, with reduced yields from the 2030s onwards.
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Event‐Based Storylines to Address Climate Risk
2021-12-21 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences JournalAbstract The climate science community is challenged to adopt an actionable risk perspective, which is difficult to align with the traditional focus on model-based probabilistic climate change proj...
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Climate Science Needs to Take Risk Assessment Much More Seriously
2021-12-21 (or before) in American Meteorological Society JournalsAbstract For decision-makers, climate change is a problem in risk assessment and risk management. It is, therefore, surprising that the needs and lessons of risk assessment have not featured more centrally in the consideration of priorities for physical climate science research, or in the Working Group I contributions to the major assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This article considers the reasons, which include a widespread view that the job of physical climate science is to provide predictions and projections—with a focus on likelihood rather than risk—and that risk assessment is...
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Environmental News Network - Climate change outracing EU targets, WWF warns
2021-12-21 (or before) in enn.comA global perspective on environmental issues. Our mission is to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.
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Burning embers: towards more transparent and robust climate-change risk assessments - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2021-12-21 (or before) in NatureBurning embers figures are used to represent climate-change risk and their transitions. This Review outlines the history and evolution of the burning embers concept, focusing on methodological shifts that increase transparency and allow for a more systematic elicitation process in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports.
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The meaning of net zero and how to get it right - Nature Climate Change
2021-12-20 (or before) in NatureNet-zero emissions is more than a concept of physical climate science. It is implemented in social, political and economic contexts. This Perspective proposes seven attributes that are critical for the practical and effective implementation of net zero.
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POLITICO Pro
2021-12-19 (or before) in Politico PRONEW ORLEANS — Scientists are getting faster and faster at linking climate change to extreme weather events. If an extreme heat wave, storm or flood occurs tomorrow, scientists could determine in a few days whether it was made worse by climate change. That has some scientists thinking: Why not do it for every disaster as soon as it happens?
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Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models - Nature Food
2021-12-18 (or before) in NatureClimate change affects agricultural productivity. New systematic global agricultural yield projections of the major crops were conducted using ensembles of the latest generation of crop and climate models. Substantial shifts in global crop productivity due to climate change will occur within the next 20 years—several decades sooner than previous projections—highlighting the need for targeted food system adaptation and risk management in the coming decades.
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Tropical deforestation accelerates local warming and loss of safe outdoor working hours
2021-12-18 (or before) in Cell PressTropical deforestation is associated with local warming, but the extent to which this warming impacts populations across the tropics remains understudied. We examine deforestation-associated increases in heat exposure across the tropics. We find that recent tropical deforestation was associated with an increase in heat exposure for 4.9 million people, including 2.8 million outdoor workers. Furthermore, future global warming will exacerbate these impacts. These results highlight the importance of the local cooling services that tropical forests provide for populations vulnerable to climate change.
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Climate change will start impacting global supply of corn and wheat as early as 2030, NASA study finds - CBS News
2021-12-18 (or before) in CBS Newssevere implications worldwide.
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Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world
2021-12-18 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comForest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptati…
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MEDIA COVERAGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION IN THE SPANISH PRESS
2021-12-18 (or before) in Academia.edu - Share researchThis article analyzes how the Spanish press covers the mitigation of climate change. We have used the search engine MyNews to study in El País and El Mundo, the newspapers with the largest circulation in Spain during the years 2016 and 2017, the news
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Global land change from 1982 to 2016
2021-12-18 (or before) in NatureLand change is a cause and consequence of global environmental change1,2. Changes in land use and land cover considerably alter the Earth’s energy balance and biogeochemical cycles, which contributes to climate change and—in turn—affects land surface properties and the provision of ecosystem services1–4. However, quantification of global land change is lacking. Here we analyse 35 years’ worth of satellite data and provide a comprehensive record of global land-change dynamics during the period 1982–2016. We show that—contrary to the prevailing view that forest area has declined g...
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A New Estimate of the ‘Most Effective’ Way to Fight Climate Change
2021-12-17 (or before) in The AtlanticClimate-concerned donors should focus on helping to pass climate policy, not offset their emissions, an advisory group says.
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Charting the UK's changing climate
2021-12-16 (or before) in Met Office UKOver the last 60 years the UK’s climate has been shifting because of climate change.
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Extreme Temperature Diary- Thursday December 16th, 2021/Main Topic: Blockbuster Assessment by Bob Henson of Last Evening’s Destructive U.S. Climate Changed Storm System – Guy On Climate
2021-12-16 (or before) in Guy On ClimateTagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Google still ran ads on climate denial, despite promising to stop
2021-12-16 by in The VergeGoogle hasn’t fulfilled its recent climate pledge, a report finds.
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Soil Properties
2021-12-14 (or before) by in AdaptNSWClimate change modelling and predictions for the NSW and ACT
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The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it
2021-12-13 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Climate Change
Joe Manchin's blind trust does not include his family's coal company, contradicting his claims as he votes on climate bills - The Washington Post
2021-12-13 in The Washington PostContrary to his public statements, documents filed show that the senator's blind trust is much too small to account for all his reported earnings from the coal company.
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Opinion | Postcards From a World on Fire
2021-12-13 in The New York TimesTagged under: Farming | Climate Change
Rising From the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm
2021-12-13 in The New York TimesTagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Antarctic | Whales and Dolphins
The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Wang Yi and Prof Wang Zhongying - Carbon Brief
2021-12-10 in Carbon BriefAt COP26, Carbon Brief’s Hongqiao Liu interviewed two of the Chinese government’s senior advisors on climate change, Prof Wang Yi and Prof Wang Zhongying.
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Climate change fuels violence and mass displacement in Cameroon
2021-12-10 in UN News | Global perspective Human storiesA flare-up in intercommunal fighting in northern Cameroon has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and brought a halt to aid operations there, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
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Wildfires break carbon emission records in US, Siberia, and Turkey, as climate change fans intense blazes, says EU monitoring service
2021-12-08 (or before) in Sky NewsClimate change is producing more intense wildfires which are, in turn, emitting higher levels of CO2, says the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
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Biden recommends reforms to oil and gas drilling, stops short of ban
2021-12-07 (or before) in CNBCThe long-anticipated report did not indicate that the Biden administration would take climate change impact into account when approving new oil and gas leases.
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Climate change: Is ‘blue hydrogen’ Japan’s answer to coal? - BBC News
2021-12-06 (or before) in The BBCThe Fukushima disaster turned Japan away from nuclear. A new energy source may help it quit coal.
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Project InsideOut
2021-12-05 (or before) in Project InsideOut - PIOProject InsideOut seeks to create a new mindset for engaging communities on our urgent climate and sustainability issues. We are an emerging global community that unites activists with clinical psychologists and evidence-based research to drive sustainable behavior change for our planet.
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UK refuses to release document showing Net Zero Strategy CO2 savings
2021-12-05 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero
COP26 – so was that it? - Dieter Helm
2021-12-05 (or before) in Dieter HelmTagged under: COP26 | Climate Change
The role of public relations firms in climate change politics - Climatic Change
2021-12-04 (or before) in Springer VerlagClimate change policy has long been subject to influence by a wide variety of organizations. Despite their importance, the key role of public relations (PR) firms has long been overlooked in the climate political space. This paper provides an exploratory overview of the extent and nature of involvement of PR firms in climate political action by organizations in five sectors: Coal/Steel/Rail, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Renewable Energy, and the Environmental Movement. The analysis shows that the engagement of public relations firms by organizations in all of these sectors is widespread. In absolute terms, the Utility and Gas &...
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The Arctic could become dominated by rain rather than snow in some seasons earlier than expected, new study shows - The Washington Post
2021-11-30 in The Washington PostParts of the Arctic could become dominated by rain rather than snow during certain seasons by 2060 or 2070, according to new findings published in the journal Nature, particularly if the Earth continues to warm at its current rate.
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Natural disasters aren't as natural as they used to be
2021-11-30 by in Canada's National ObserverWeather has always been unpredictable but with climate change, more communities will be subjected to extreme disasters more often. What was once-in-a-lifetime may happen once a decade, writes columnist Gerald Kutney.
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The PR Industry Has Been a ‘Major’ But ‘Overlooked’ Influence in Climate Politics for Decades, Says Study
2021-11-30 by in DeSmogFrom coining “clean coal” to “carbon footprint,” public relations firms have been instrumental in shaping the public discourse around climate and energy policy, and as a new study underlines, their powerful efforts have flown under the radar for too long. PR firms have played a key role in obstructing action on climate change over the […]
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Newspapers Accepted Money to Publish Positive Environmental Stories About Saudi Arabia Around COP26 Climate Change Summit – Byline Times
2021-11-29 (or before) in Byline TimesTagged under: COP26 | Climate Change | Saudi Arabia
Ipsos Issues Index: November 2021
2021-11-28 (or before) in IpsosPollution and climate change jumps to become Britain’s biggest concern with its highest ever score
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Albatrosses pushed to ‘divorce’ because of climate change, study finds
2021-11-27 (or before) by in Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.auAnd, yes, there is a documented rate of divorce for the normally monogamous birds.
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Carbon Co-op | People Powered Not Fossil Fuelled
2021-11-27 (or before) in Carbon Co-op | People Powered Not Fossil FuelledWe’re an energy services and advocacy cooperative – together we will make radical reductions in home carbon emissions to avoid runaway climate change.
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Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change - Nature Communications
2021-11-27 (or before) in NatureThe degree to which wildfire activity in Australia is affected by climate change is not well quantified. Here, the authors show that the frequency of forest fires and the area burned have increased significantly over recent decades, mainly due to an increase in dangerous fire weather conditions through warmer temperature and circulation changes.
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Misinformation and propaganda campaign on net zero - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2021-11-26 (or before) in London School of EconomicsBob Ward outlines how a small group of MPs have launched a media campaign that is spreading misinformation about the UK Government’s climate change policies.
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Home - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2021-11-26 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThe Grantham Research Institute at LSE carries out world-class research on climate change and the environment.
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Climate change litigation cases spreading around the world - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2021-11-26 (or before) in London School of EconomicsClimate change litigation cases have been increasing markedly over the past six years, and pose a risk to an expanding range of companies and policymakers, according to a new report published today (Friday 2 July 2021) by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Global trends in climate litigation: 2021 snapshot - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2021-11-26 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThis is the third report in the Grantham Research Institute's 'Global trends in climate litigation' series, focusing on cases filed or concluded between May 2020 and May 2021. It provides an update of known case numbers, metrics and categorisations, and considers some of the most relevant trends in the arguments and strategies employed by litigants.
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What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction?
2021-11-24 (or before) in Stanford Doerr School of SustainabilityScientists have debated until now what made Earth's oceans so inhospitable to life that some 96 percent of marine species died off at the end of the Permian period. New research shows the "Great Dying" was caused by global warming that left ocean animals unable to breathe.
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We have too many fossil-fuel power plants to meet climate change goals
2021-11-23 (or before) in National GeographicTo keep global warming below 1.5°C, a new study finds, we’ll also have to retire a lot of old plants and factories.
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The tides: masculinity and climate change in coastal Papua New Guineaj rai_1667 20
2021-11-23 (or before) in Academia.edu - Share researchThe tides: masculinity and climate change in coastal Papua New Guineaj rai_1667 20
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COP26: Why climate change tipping points that could lead to runaway global warming keep me awake at night – Professor Tim Lenton | The Scotsman
2021-11-23 (or before) in The ScotsmanAs a climate scientist, I am increasingly asked: How do you sleep at night?
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America’s Decline Started at Home
2021-11-22 in The NationWhen will shifting geopolitics and climate change fully cripple Washington’s current world order?
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Global Warming: Not Reversible, But Stoppable
2021-11-21 (or before) in Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examinedLet's start with two skill-testing questions:
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Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems - Nature Sustainability
2021-11-20 (or before) in NatureAvoiding catastrophic climate change requires that we avoid losing key natural carbon reserves. This study maps such irrecoverable carbon globally and finds a third of the remaining managed by Indigenous peoples and local communities and nearly a quarter in protected areas.
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Context and Early Origins of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Climatic Change
2021-11-19 (or before) in Springer VerlagClimate change is a problem which is global both in terms of causes and consequences. The uncertainties are large and likely to persist. Meanwhile, the political and economic stakes of both action and inaction are much higher than those in other transboundary concerns such as acid rain and ozone depletion. The public policy impact of scientific opinions on climate change, therefore, not only depends upon what is being said, but also, who is advancing those conclusions and how they were arrived at. This was the rationale behind the setting up of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. The paper examines the ...
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What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words
2021-11-19 (or before) by in The ConversationTranscripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science.
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Scientists improving the ‘crystal ball’ for better climate predictions
2021-11-19 (or before) in European CommissionWhat will Earth be like in 50 or 100 years? To make such predictions, the closest thing we have to a crystal ball is data. ‘Climate models help make sense out of the current state of the climate,’ said Dr Debbie Rosen, a research manager at the University of Leeds. ‘They can also be used to understand how the climate changed in the past, and for projecting future change.’ With data, policymakers can enact effective policy responses.
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The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing
2021-11-18 in The GuardianSince the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide
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How tracking forest biomass change from space informs carbon cycling models
2021-11-18 in Climate Home NewsSponsored content: Using a combination of data from different satellites, scientists are predicting the amount of above-ground biomass stored in the world's forests
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How the cult of Bill Gates is leading us towards a climate disaster
2021-11-18 (or before) in Varsity | News and features from CambridgeÕs independent student paperVerner Viisainen argues that the solution to climate change lies not in technology, as Bill Gates would suggest, but instead, in a 'swift and radical societal transformation'
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COP26: The truth behind the new climate change denial - BBC News
2021-11-18 (or before) in The BBCThe climate claims that went viral – and what you need to know about them.
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Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications
2021-11-18 (or before) in Cell PressThis is the first computational assessment of how ExxonMobil has used language to subtly yet systematically frame public discourse about climate change. We show that ExxonMobil uses rhetoric mimicking the tobacco industry to downplay the reality and seriousness of climate change, to present fossil fuel dominance as reasonable and inevitable, and to shift responsibility for climate change away from itself and onto consumers. Our work is relevant to lawsuits, policy proposals, and grassroots activism seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for deceptive marketing.
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Climate Change: COP 26 - Hansard - UK Parliament
2021-11-18 (or before) in Hansard - UK Parliamentary RecordHansard record of the item : 'Climate Change: COP 26' on Thursday 18 November 2021.
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Climate fatalism grips young people worldwide while the urgency for solution-oriented media grows
2021-11-18 (or before) in IpsosNew Ipsos/Futerra global poll finds high levels of fatalism about climate change among young people
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The Woody Biomass Blunder | Countercurrents
2021-11-16 in CountercurrentsOne of the most controversial fixes for global warming is the use of woody biomass, cutting trees, burning trees to achieve “carbon neutral” status in the
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Climate Deniers Are Using These Four Major Scare Tactics to Stop Climate Action
2021-11-16 by in DeSmogWhen fossil fuel companies found out about the link between their product and climate change decades ago, they did everything they could to hide it. They lied, manipulated, and deceived. Today, denying the reality of climate change isn’t as easy, and it is certainly more controversial. But that doesn’t mean climate deniers — fossil fuel […]
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Near term threats & societal risk as the Earth changes state | Dr Paul Behrens - ClimateGenn
2021-11-15 in ClimateGenn - Shaping The Future Podcast | Climate Change InterviewsTagged under: Climate Change
Least developed countries Group react to COP26
2021-11-15 (or before) in LDC Climate ChangeGlasgow, Scotland - As COP26 drew to a close last night, the LDC Group, representing 46 of the poorest countries most vulnerable to climate change while contributing the least, reflected on the outcomes. Following the closing plenary, Mr Sonam P. Wangdi, Chair of the LDC Group, said “We have come
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What Would It Look Like If We Treated Climate Change as an Actual Emergency? ❧ Current Affairs
2021-11-15 (or before) by in Current AffairsTagged under: Climate Change
Under Fire From Activists, Edelman Unveils Climate Strategy
2021-11-15 (or before) in adweek.comPR firm will undergo a 60-day review of its client roster, among other changes.
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Seven ways to curb climate change - BBC News
2021-11-14 (or before) in The BBCWhat are the practical things countries need to do in order to tackle climate change?
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'...and Action!' How media can address climate change in countries most affected
2021-11-14 (or before) in The BBCTagged under: Climate Change
A short conversation about what governments must do to tackle climate change | Dangerous Globe
2021-11-13 (or before) in Dangerous Globe | Independent NewsWe all want common sense and truth and intelligence on our side. But in the spotlight of common sense and truth and intelligence there’s no real basis for
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Grouse moor burning season opens despite growing controversy
2021-11-12 (or before) in Wild MoorsToday the burning of Britain’s carbon-rich peat moors by grouse shooting estates begins amid mounting controversy surrounding the contribution the practice makes to climate change. Wild Moors is warning that a complete ban on burning on peatlands, a ritual performed to provide younger, more nutri
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Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
2021-11-12 (or before) in Royal Society PublishingCenozoic temperature, sea level and CO2 covariations provide insights into climate sensitivity to external forcings and sea-level sensitivity to climate change. Climate sensitivity depends on the initial climate state, but potentially can be accurately ...
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Christian Parenti: Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
2021-11-11 (or before) in YouTubeIn his lecture Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence Dr. Christian Parenti talks about our new climate reality. From Africa to As...
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"Harrowing" intelligence report still downplays threat of climate change to national security
2021-11-11 by in Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsA first-of-its-kind report by 18 US intelligence agencies explains how the climate crisis could increase geopolitical tensions around the globe—but will government heed the warning?
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Track Sea-level Changes Anywhere with NASA's New SEA Tool
2021-11-10 (or before) in NASA Sea Level Change PortalNASA's new SEA tool provides a snapshot of sea-level change for locations around the planet with just a click.
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COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, But May Not Be Able to Keep Them Standing - Inside Climate News
2021-11-09 in Inside Climate NewsThe first week of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, saw a global pledge to cut emissions of the climate super-pollutant methane, more than 40 countries promise to phase out coal and 20 agree to stop public funding for some fossil fuel projects. But to stop global warming soon, the world needs to remove […]
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Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change
2021-11-08 (or before) in WIRED UKTagged under: Climate Change
One in 15 Tory MPs believe climate change is a ‘myth’, poll finds
2021-11-07 (or before) in The IndependentExclusive: 7% of Tories in Commons do not accept scientific consensus
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Few willing to change lifestyle to save the planet, climate survey finds
2021-11-07 in The GuardianExclusive: poll of 10 countries including US, UK, France and Germany finds people prioritising measures that are already habits
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U.S. Catholic bishops' silence and denialism on climate change - IOPscience
2021-11-06 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Climate Change
Joint statement on climate change by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch | The Archbishop of Canterbury
2021-11-06 (or before) in The Archbishop of CanterburyPope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Archbishop of Canterbury join together for the first time in an urgent appeal for the future of the planet
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Climate Science and Power
2021-11-05 in Social Metwork - Dept of Meteorology, University of ReadingGabriel M P Perez – g.martinspalmaperez@pgr.reading.ac.uk Introduction Climate science, especially climate-change science, is increasingly becoming a source of power in…
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Oklahoma Proposes Letting Gas Utility Charge A $1,400 ‘Exit Fee’ To Go Electric
2021-11-05 in HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPostThe fee could give the fossil fuel industry a new tool to slow the energy transition.
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The Brexit dark money lobby has a new target – climate change action
2021-11-05 (or before) in openDemocracyBrexit showed that a few ruthless, well-connected people with big money behind them can change history. Now they’re at it again, and the stakes are even higher
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Climate change: Facebook fails to flag denial, study finds - BBC News
2021-11-04 (or before) in The BBCResearchers tracked thousands of posts denying climate change - and only 8% were marked as misinformation.
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A Climate Change Pivot: Paris Agreement is Failing. This is How We Can Fix It. | by Raz Godelnik | Medium
2021-11-04 (or before) in razgo.medium.comIt is time to acknowledge the experiment we did so far with the Paris Agreement is failing and that we urgently need to make a pivot. This…
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We’re Heading Straight for a Demi-Armageddon
2021-11-04 (or before) by in The AtlanticWhat happens when we do something—but not enough—to stop climate change?
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Just Two Countries Mention Need to Cut Fossil Fuel Production at COP26 ‘Greenwashing’ Stands
2021-11-04 by in DeSmogGLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Only two of the 35 stalls lauding countries’ green credentials at the COP26 UN climate summit mention the need to cut fossil fuel production — the chief cause of the carbon emissions driving climate change. The summit’s official “blue zone” includes large corporate-style pavilions run by some of the world’s leading producers […]
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Climate change: Carbon emissions show rapid rebound after Covid dip - BBC News
2021-11-04 (or before) in The BBCGlobal carbon emissions are set to get back close to the levels they were at before Covid.
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IPCC Scientist Survey Shows Most Expect Climate Catastrophe Soon
2021-11-02 (or before) in Gizmodo | The Future Is HereA survey of the world’s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon—very soon.
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The big idea: Is democracy up to the task of climate change?
2021-11-01 in The GuardianAs elected governments fall short on their pledges, some look approvingly to the authoritarian playbook. Are they right?
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Communicating the climate emergency: imagination, emotion, action
2021-11-01 (or before) in Elgaronline from Edward Elgar PublishingIn order to persuade voters to demand the just decarbonization of their economies, climate communicators should engage the imagination to produce a complex of three emotions: fear of climate breakdown, outrage that powerful actors are blocking the passage of effective climate policy, and desire for a safer world. These emotions help voters identify themselves with victims of climate change, see fossil-fuel barons and climate-denying politicians as political antagonists, and understand themselves as courageous people who can take collective action to preserve the living world.
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After 30 years of Cop, our ex-environment editor is now optimistic
2021-11-01 in The GuardianThe global hunger for change – evident as early as the Rio Earth summit in 1992 – is now insatiable
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The battle over a vast New York park: is this climate resilience or capitalism?
2021-10-31 in The GuardianThe city’s plan to rebuild Manhattan’s East River Park on higher ground has incited a dispute over ‘green gentrification’
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Siberia’s stark warning to Scotland for Cop26: climate change in the planet’s last great wilderness
2021-10-31 (or before) in Siberian Times - all about Siberia, in EnglishEight phenomena highlight how our world is altering right here, right now, an ecological ticking time bomb.
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COP26 Glasgow summit: How billionaire Bill Gates’ book on climate change convinced Scott Morrison on net zero
2021-10-30 (or before) by in Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.auScott Morrison underlined sections of Bill Gates’ book on how to beat climate change as he prepared to shift his government towards a net zero emissions target.
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Will climate change stop Arabia from being Saudi?
2021-10-29 (or before) in openDemocracyThe power of the House of Saud is a direct product of the West’s obsession with oil – can it survive a global shift to green energy?
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COP26: A short conversation about why we should be scared - Critical Mass
2021-10-29 in Critical MassWhile the politicians blah blah blah about climate change the rest of us should be very scared indeed.
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Q&A: A Republican Congressman Hopes to Spread a New GOP Engagement on Climate from Washington, D.C. to Glasgow - Inside Climate News
2021-10-29 in Inside Climate NewsThe founder of a new Conservative Climate Caucus is part of a Republican delegation headed to the international climate talks in Glasgow next week. Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah) said his party should have a seat at the table when climate change is being discussed at home and abroad. Republicans, including those in the new caucus, […]
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China's new climate plan promises to peak CO2 emissions before 2030
2021-10-29 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: China | COP26 | Climate Change
World is failing to make changes needed to avoid climate breakdown, report finds
2021-10-28 in The GuardianPace of emissions reductions must be increased significantly to keep global heating to 1.5C
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Why chemical pollution is turning into a third great planetary crisis
2021-10-28 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change
Fueling the Climate Crisis: Exposing Big Oil’s Disinformation Campaign to Prevent Climate Action
2021-10-28 in United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability -Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney's Opening Statement [PDF] Washington D.C. (October 22, 2021)— On Thursday, October 28, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. ET, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Ro Khanna, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, will hold a hearing to examine the fossil fuel industry’s long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming. The fossil fuel industry has had scientific evidence about the dangers of climate change since at least 1977.
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A message for Cop26 – from deep within the Amazon rainforest | The Independent
2021-10-28 (or before) in The IndependentIn the run up to Glasgow summit, Nemonte Nenquimo – the female leader of the indigenous Waorani people – demands we respect Mother Nature, writes Donnachadh McCarthy
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Climate change in Texas - Wikipedia
2021-10-27 (or before) in WikipediaTagged under: Climate Change | Texas
Disarray in global governance and climate change chaos
2021-10-27 (or before) in Academia.edu - Share researchDisarray in global governance and climate change chaos
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Why the COP26 climate summit won’t save the planet
2021-10-27 in PoliticoEfforts to stop warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius may already have slipped away.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Joe Biden | COP26 | Coal | Climate Change | Indonesia
Climate change: Europe's extreme rains made more likely by humans - BBC News
2021-10-26 (or before) in The BBCHeavy rainfall that led to deadly floods in Germany and Belgium was influenced by human induced warming.
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Emissions Gap Report 2021
2021-10-26 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeWith climate change intensifying and scientists warning that humanity is running out of time to limit global warming to 1.5°C over pre-industrial levels, 2021 has been a fraught year for the planet. The Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On is the 12th edition in an annual series that provides an overview of the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to be in 2030 and where they should be to avert the worst impacts of climate change.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Predictions | Climate Change | Net Zero | Climate Change Impacts
Catholic Bishops in the US Largely Ignore the Pope’s Concern About Climate Change, a New Study Finds - Inside Climate News
2021-10-26 in Inside Climate NewsIn the six years since Pope Francis published his landmark teaching document on the environment, or “care for our common home,” the leader of the global Catholic Church has only strengthened his call for action to curb climate change. However, a new study out of Creighton University in Nebraska finds that bishops in the United […]
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A true-crime podcast about climate change.
2021-10-25 (or before) in podlink.toA true-crime podcast about climate change.
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Analysis: Nine key moments that changed China’s mind about climate change - Carbon Brief
2021-10-25 in Carbon BriefOver the past year, China’s president Xi Jinping has made three key commitments to tackle climate change.
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COP26: Nicola Sturgeon says continued oil and gas extraction is ‘wrong’
2021-10-25 (or before) in The ScotsmanContinued unlimited oil and gas extraction is “wrong”, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said ahead of climate change conference COP26, as she warned the summit is the “possibly last opportunity” to avert global climate catastrophe.
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Climate change: Pledge of $100bn annual aid slips to 2023 - BBC News
2021-10-25 (or before) in The BBCA key pledge on climate funding has still not been met, and the money is not sure to be there before 2023.
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Rich countries break ‘totemic’ $100B annual climate pledge
2021-10-25 in PoliticoThat undermines a bargain where developing countries were to cut emissions in return for climate finance.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | COP26 | Africa | Climate Change | Finance
Rich Nations Hatch Plan for $100 Billion Climate Aid
2021-10-24 (or before) in BloombergRich nations have fallen short of their 2009 pledge to collectively deliver $100 billion annually to help poor countries confront climate change, shift to clean energy and build resilience.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Russia | Indonesia
Glasgow’s COP26 is crunch time to save the world from disaster
2021-10-24 (or before) in openDemocracyLooking back on 30 years of climate conferences, Geoffrey Lean recalls the many missed opportunities for change that led us to this boiling point
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Climate change: How technology is helping cities tackle climate disasters - BBC News
2021-10-24 (or before) in The BBCCities are under threat from floods, forest fires and other disasters - how is tech helping with emergency responses?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Forest Fires | Trees
COP26: Why The UN Climate Conference Matters Like Never Before
2021-10-23 (or before) by in ForbesDelegates from almost every nation are gathering in Scotland for a critical UN climate summit. David Vetter speaks to four of the world's top climate experts to find out what needs to get done at COP26.
Tagged under: COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?
2021-10-23 (or before) in Annual ReviewsDespite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher today than they were in 1990. Exploring this rise through nine thematic lenses—covering issues of climate governance, the fossil fuel industry, geopolitics, economics, mitigation modeling, energy systems, inequity, lifestyles, and social imaginaries—draws out multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the cent...
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BBC World Service - Trending, The Denial Files, 1. The 'd-words' v the planet
2021-10-23 (or before) in The BBCCould disinformation and denial sabotage the fight to prevent runaway climate change?
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New trade deals ‘are unfair on farmers and won’t help emissions’
2021-10-23 in The GuardianChair of the UK’s Climate Change Committee condemns New Zealand and Australia agreements as unworkable
Tagged under: Farming | COP26 | Climate Change | Committee on Climate Change UK
Geoff Raw: Why I am an optimist on climate change
2021-10-22 in lgcplus.comScientific expertise and rigour are necessary for action at a local level, writes the chief executiv...
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Climate change: why it made me quit my job | by Andrew Medhurst | Age of Awareness | Medium
2021-10-22 (or before) in MediumOn 1 February, I tweeted an extract of a farewell email I sent to my work colleagues on my last day. It received 100 times more interest…
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Climate change: Fossil fuel production set to soar over next decade - BBC News
2021-10-22 (or before) in BBCGovernment plans to extract coal, oil and gas are incompatible with safe temperatures, says the UN.
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Expansion of wind and solar power too slow to stop climate change
2021-10-22 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyThe production of renewable energy is increasing every year. But after analyzing the growth rates of wind and solar power in 60 countries, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and Lund University in Sweden and Central European University in Vienna, Austria, conclude that virtually no country is moving sufficiently fast enough to avoid global warming of 1.5°C or even 2°C.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Climate Change | Wind Power
Why Have the Leading Journals in Management (and Other Social Sciences) Failed to Respond to Climate Change? - Amanda H. Goodall, 2008
2021-10-22 (or before) in Sage JournalsThe effect of climate change on business is likely to be substantial. It might be expected, therefore, that the scholarly field of business and management would...
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Environmentalist Jonathon Porritt’s big idea to slow global warming
2021-10-22 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: COP26 | Climate Change
There are no real climate leaders yet – who will step up at Cop26? | Greta Thunberg
2021-10-21 in The GuardianLike other rich nations, the UK is more talk than action on the climate crisis. Something needs to change in Glasgow, says climate activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
US regulators: Climate change is a major threat to the economy
2021-10-21 in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.In a 133-page report, the Financial Stability Oversight Council noted that climate-fueled disasters are “increasing and already imposing substantial economic costs.”
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Italy offering to pay full cost of upgrading to green homes - plus a bonus | ITV News
2021-10-21 in ITVThe Italian government says CO2 emissions from home heating fell sharply in the first eight months of this year- our Europe Editor James Mates explores why. | ITV National News
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Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature - IOPscience
2021-10-20 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Climate Change
Climate change could be worse than our worst-case analysis: Texas A&M's Dessler
2021-10-19 (or before) in CNBCAndrew Dessler, climate scientist at Texas A&M, explains the impact that extreme climate events are having on the world right now and says things could actually be worse than scientists' most dire predictions.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Predictions | Climate Change
Climate change: Science failed to predict flood and heat intensity - BBC News
2021-10-19 (or before) in BBCScientists want a super-computer powerful enough to accurately project the most damaging extremes.
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Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
2021-10-19 (or before) by in Scientific American Blog Network - Scientific American Blog NetworkA book entitled Discerning Experts explains why—and what can be done about it
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Antarctica's ice sheet is melting 3 times faster than before | AP News
2021-10-19 (or before) in Associated Press NewsWASHINGTON (AP) — The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study...
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Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says - BBC News
2021-10-19 (or before) in BBCThe UK should advance its climate targets by 10 years, says the UK’s former chief scientist.
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The Arctic is on fire: Siberian heat wave alarms scientists | AP News
2021-10-19 (or before) in Associated Press NewsMOSCOW (AP) — The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are. And that’s got scientists worried about what it means for the rest of the world...
Tagged under: Arctic | Climate Change | Russia | Health
Sea level rise matches worst-case scenario
2021-10-19 (or before) by in University of LeedsIce sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised the global sea level by 1.8 cm since the 1990s, and are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenarios.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic | Ice Melting | Sea Level
The harm from worrying about climate change
2021-10-18 (or before) in BBCClimate anxiety is affecting more people as climate change progresses. But there is a solution that can help ease the worry and slow climate breakdown at once, writes Christine Ro.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Tim Crosland explains why he disclosed the Heathrow judgement.
2021-10-18 (or before) in The BBCThe qualified barrister and climate change activist spoke to the BBC's Dominic Casciani before heading into court.
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change
‘Climate change is fundamentally altering the Colorado River,' congressional panel hears - Colorado Newsline
2021-10-17 in Colorado NewslineStates in the Colorado River Basin are adjusting to the reality that their rights outstrip the available water by nearly one-third.
Tagged under: Colorado River | US Politics | Climate Change | Rivers | Colorado State
Say It to Their Faces
2021-10-17 in Hot TakeSay It to Their Faces: Q&A with Lauren MacDonaldBy Mary Annaïse Heglar Next month, Glasgow, Scotland will host the U.N. Climate Change Conference (or COP, to all you climate buffs out there), which will pick back up on the fate of the 2016 Paris Agreement. But the
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ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
2021-10-15 (or before) in ResearchGateTagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-10-14 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceCalifornia is currently in the midst of a record-setting drought. The drought began in 2012 and now includes the lowest calendar-year and 12-mo pre...
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Drought | Climate Change | California
Net Zero Watch - News on net zero
2021-10-14 (or before) in Net Zero Watch - News on net zeroNews and opinion on net zero - from climate change science, to energy policy, to the costs and the impact of net zero on the poor.
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Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California - Nature Climate Change
2021-10-14 (or before) in NatureCalifornia recently experienced a rapid shift from multi-year drought to abundant rainfall. A large ensemble of climate model simulations suggests that the frequency of extreme wet-to-dry precipitation events will increase by 25% to 100% across California due to anthropogenic forcing.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Extreme Rainfall | Drought | Climate Change | California
The climate disaster is here – this is what the future looks like
2021-10-14 (or before) in The GuardianEarth is already becoming unlivable. Will governments act to stop this disaster from getting worse?
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change
Why Climate Policy Has Failed
2021-10-12 in Foreign AffairsGovernments must do more to meet the world’s ambitious climate targets.
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Briefing: Greenhouse Gas Pollution Estimates of Proposed U.S. Fossil Fuel Infrastructure - Oil Change International
2021-10-12 in Oil Change InternationalStopping these projects would prevent a drastic increase in emissions at a critical time for Biden and the entire world's climate goals.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
UK climate chief warns Tories of cost of delaying net zero
2021-10-12 in PoliticoAlok Sharma had a message for those in his party who oppose the UK’s push for net zero.
Tagged under: COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Wind Power | Net Zero | Sustainability
85 percent of the world population lives in areas affected by climate change, new study shows - The Washington Post
2021-10-11 in The Washington PostResearchers used machine learning to analyze more than 100,000 studies of weather events and found that four-fifths of the world’s land area has suffered impacts linked to global warming.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Bangladesh Really Is a Climate Success Story
2021-10-10 (or before) by in The AtlanticThe country shows the power of self-determination when it comes to development and climate policy.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Extreme Weather | Climate Change | Geothermal Energy | Fossil Fuels | Economic Growth | Water Resources
Responding to climate change
2021-10-10 (or before) in UKRI - UK Research and InnovationFor more than 50 years, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), its councils and predecessors have worked to understand, tackle and mitigate the effects of climate change, and embed evidence in decision making and climate policy.
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Climate change: Voices from global south muted by climate science - BBC News
2021-10-09 (or before) in BBCClimate academics from some of the regions worst hit by warming are struggling to be published.
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What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction?
2021-10-08 (or before) in Stanford Doerr School of SustainabilityScientists have debated until now what made Earth's oceans so inhospitable to life that some 96 percent of marine species died off at the end of the Permian period. New research shows the "Great Dying" was caused by global warming that left ocean animals unable to breathe.
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Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
2021-10-08 (or before) in NatureOver the last decade, the world warmed by 0.25 °C, in-line with the roughly linear trend since the 1970s. Here we present updated analyses showing that this seemingly small shift has led to the emergence of heat extremes that would be virtually impossible without anthropogenic global warming. Also, record rainfall extremes have continued to increase worldwide and, on average, 1 in 4 rainfall records in the last decade can be attributed to climate change. Tropical regions, comprised of vulnerable countries that typically contributed least to anthropogenic climate change, continue to see the strongest increase in extrem...
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Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes | Science
2021-10-08 in Science | AAASYoung generations are severely threatened by climate change
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Justice | Women and Children | Children
Climate finance: rich countries aren't meeting aid targets – could legal action force them?
2021-10-07 (or before) by in The ConversationRich countries have promised to compensate poor ones for the impacts of climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Finance
Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero
2021-10-05 (or before) in NatureStrengthen markets, measures and definitions for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fight climate change. Strengthen markets, measures and definitions for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fight climate change.
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Young climate activists from across world urge UK and UN to act on killings of environmental defenders | The Independent
2021-10-04 (or before) in The IndependentExclusive: Activists urge Alok Sharma and Antonio Guterres to do more after a prominent environmentalist is shot dead in Kenya
Tagged under: Activism | COP26 | Climate Change
Climate change: Not a single G20 country is in line with the Paris Agreement, analysis shows - CNN
2021-10-04 (or before) by in CNNNone of the world's major economies -- including the entire G20 -- have a climate plan that meets their obligations under the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to an analysis published Wednesday, despite scientists' warning that deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed now.
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Global urban population exposure to extreme heat
2021-10-04 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceIncreased extreme heat exposure from both climate change and the urban heat island effect threatens rapidly growing urban settlements worldwide. Yet, because we do not know where urban population growth and extreme heat intersect, we have limited capacity to reduce the impacts of urban extreme heat exposure. Here, we leverage fine-resolution temperature and population data to measure urban extreme heat exposure for 13,115 cities from 1983 to 2016. Globally, urban exposure increased nearly 200%, affecting 1.7 billion people. Total urban warming elevated exposure rates 52% above population growth alone. However, spatially heteroge...
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change | California | Climate Change Impacts
Estimates of the economic damages from climate change
2021-10-01 in And Then There's PhysicsSince I’ve discussed climate economics before, I thought I would briefly highlight a recent seminar involving, amongst others, Steve Keen and Tim Lenton. The topic was are the estimates of ec…
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Climate change: Youth have 'every right to be angry' says UK PM - BBC News
2021-10-01 (or before) in The BBCBoris Johnson says leaders' "reckless actions" created the climate crisis and now is the time to act.
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Bad Apple
2021-10-01 (or before) by in Popular Information | Judd Legum | SubstackApple does not want the public to think of the company only as a profit-obsessed manufacturer of iPhones, AirPods, and MacBooks. Rather, Apple would like to be viewed as a responsible corporate citizen that understands the urgency of action on climate change. In 2013, Apple hired former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to head up its "
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BBC unveils coverage plans for COP26 climate change conference
2021-09-30 (or before) in The BBCTagged under: COP26 | Climate Change
The importance of bees in the United Kingdom
2021-09-29 (or before) in YouTubeBee numbers are falling around the world. What's happening to the bee population in the United Kingdom and worldwide is a microcosm of climate change. Loss...
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What Climate Change Requires of Economics | by Daron Acemoglu - Project Syndicate
2021-09-28 by Daron Acemoglu in Project SyndicateDaron Acemoglu identifies two main areas where the discipline will need to rethink longstanding assumptions and models.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Economic Growth
COP26: What was agreed at the Glasgow climate conference? - BBC News
2021-09-28 (or before) in The BBCA crucial climate change summit has been held in the UK which could change our lives.
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Limiting warming to 1.5°C may save billions from tropical storms
2021-09-28 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change
2021-09-28 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanPhotoferrotrophs have been around for billions of years on Earth, and new research suggests that they have played an outsize roll in the natural capture of carbon dioxide.
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Is Green Growth Possible?
2021-09-27 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThe notion of green growth has emerged as a dominant policy response to climate change and ecological breakdown. Green growth theory asserts that continued economic expansion is compatible with our...
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A recent climate report has left me devastated – I beg you to read it | The Independent
2021-09-26 (or before) in The IndependentAs I thought how best to convey the essential, terrifying message of the report, I decided I should just lay out the raw facts and let them reach your soul, writes Donnachadh McCarthy
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Where Americans Moved Into Fire Danger Zones
2021-09-25 (or before) in BloombergIn the first year of Covid, migration increased into areas that have seen recent wildfires — even as climate change intensifies risk.
Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | Insurance | California | Trees
France not doing enough to tackle climate change, court rules - CNN
2021-09-25 (or before) by in CNNA Paris court has found France legally responsible for its failure to meet targets intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | France | Climate Change
Importance of species translocations under rapid climate change
2021-09-25 (or before) in Society for Conservation Biology JournalAbstract Species that cannot adapt or keep pace with a changing climate are likely to need human intervention to shift to more suitable climates. While hundreds of articles mention using translocat...
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Agriculture and Climate Change in Kenya: Climate Chaos, Policy Dilemmas
2021-09-25 (or before) in Academia.edu - Share researchAgriculture and Climate Change in Kenya: Climate Chaos, Policy Dilemmas
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Climate Change Evidence: How Do We Know?
2021-09-25 (or before) in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetThe rate of change since the mid-20th century is unprecedented over millennia.
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Climate change: Whisper it cautiously... there's been progress in run up to COP26 - BBC News
2021-09-25 (or before) in The BBCPledges made at the UN have lifted hopes for the Glasgow summit, but some major questions remain.
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Why COP26 Will Fail to Protect Our Climate | by Brad Zarnett | Climate Conscious
2021-09-25 (or before) in MediumAgreements, promises, and targets, but no real change.
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Some corals ‘killed’ by climate change are now returning to life
2021-09-24 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change | Coral Reefs
Covering climate change requires newsroom change - World News Day
2021-09-24 in Welcome worldnewsday.org - BlueHost.comClimate change is the subject of scientific studies and reports, but its consequences can be felt in all areas of our societies and economies. Equally, newsrooms should view climate change as more than just a topic but as a systemic issue that affects all their desks or verticals.
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Rupert Murdoch Has Known We’ve Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show
2021-09-24 (or before) in VICEMurdoch’s News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether.
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Alok Sharma: COP26 is for ordinary people, not just climate warriors
2021-09-24 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: COP26 | Climate Change | Finance
The problem isn’t with protesters blocking the M25 – it’s that more people aren’t joining them | The Independent
2021-09-22 (or before) in www-independent-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.orgTagged under: Climate Change | Activism
Climate reporting reaches melting point - BBC News
2021-09-21 (or before) in BBCA trip to a melting glacier will shape how the BBC's new climate editor reports on climate change.
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Online misinformation about climate change
2021-09-21 (or before) in Wiley Interdisciplinary ReviewsAbstract Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation, who is involved,...
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UN Agencies Present Latest Climate Science | UNFCCC
2021-09-18 (or before) in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change16 September 2021 (WMO) - COVID-19 did not slow the relentless advance of climate change. There is no sign that we are growing back greener, as carbon...
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Moving from Pain to Gain on Climate Solutions
2021-09-16 in Cleantech News Ñ #1 In EV, Solar, Wind, Tesla NewsIn a new opinion piece by Sam Butler-Sloss and published by Carbon Tracker, the case is made for reframing the narrative around climate change action. To proposal is to move from pain to gain at COP26. First, the author asks, “How can we bring forward this great wave of innovation and wealth generation to avoid […]
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Congress is debating its biggest climate change bill ever. Here's what's at stake | MPR News
2021-09-16 (or before) in Minnesota Public RadioClimate measures in a massive $3.5 trillion economic plan would transform the U.S. energy system. They are crucial for meeting President Joe Biden's ambitious climate goals, but face powerful opposition.
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‘We will have a really long, long memory’: Greens calling businesses’ bluff on climate change
2021-09-15 (or before) in PoliticoActivists want the companies that have called for federal climate action to get behind the $3.5 trillion package: "We will have a really long, long memory."
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change
Tool - Transition Pathway Initiative
2021-09-14 (or before) by in Transition Pathway InitiativeThe TPI tool is a corporate climate action benchmark which assesses how prepared companies are for the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change
Climate Change Concerns Make Many Around the World Willing to Alter How They Live and Work
2021-09-14 in Pew Research Center | Pew Research CenterCitizens offer mixed reviews of how their societies have responded to climate change, and many question the efficacy of international efforts to stave off a global environmental crisis.
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Climate change risk assessment 2021
2021-09-14 in Chatham HouseThe risks are compounding, and without immediate action the impacts will be devastating.
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Climate change: Vulnerable nations call for 'emergency pact' - BBC News
2021-09-08 (or before) in The BBCThe countries at greatest risk say all nations must take bigger steps to avoid climate catastrophe.
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Cumbria coal mine: Local Tory MP drops support for controversial project ahead of Cop26 | The Independent
2021-09-07 (or before) in The IndependentExclusive: Dr Neil Hudson calls on government to heed scientists’ warnings, and instead invest in clean renewable technologies
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | COP26 | Coal | Climate Change
Climate change triggering intense drought in Iraq, Syria: Over 12 mn people to lose access to water, food
2021-09-06 (or before) in IndiaTodayThe region has been witnessing a major spike in temperatures amid record low levels of rainfall, and drought due to climate change.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Extreme Rainfall | Drought | Climate Change | India
Over 200 health journals unite in calling for urgent action on climate change | Evening Standard
2021-09-06 (or before) by in London Evening StandardThe BMJ said it is the first time so many journals have come together to make the same statement.
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change | Health
Record-breaking drought in Chile makes climate change ‘very easy’ to see
2021-09-06 (or before) in South China Morning Post‘We already have overwhelming evidence and it is climatic evidence’, said the country’s Science Minister Andres Couve.
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Chile
Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine - BBC News
2021-09-06 (or before) in BBCThe country is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine", the UN says.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Famine and Food Insecurity | Madagascar
Climate crisis: Over 200 health journals urge world leaders to tackle “catastrophic harm”
2021-09-06 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalMore than 200 health journals have called on governments to take emergency action to tackle the “catastrophic harm to health” from climate change. A joint editorial says that while recent targets to reduce emissions and conserve biodiversity are welcome, they are not enough and need to be matched with credible short and longer term plans.1 The editorial was published simultaneously on 6 September in 233 international titles including The BMJ , the Lancet , the New England Journal of Medicine , the East African Medical Journal , the Chinese Science Bulletin , the National Medical Journal of India , and the Medical J...
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Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health
2021-09-06 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalWealthy nations must do much more, much faster The UN General Assembly in September 2021 will bring countries together at a critical time for marshalling collective action to tackle the global environmental crisis. They will meet again at the biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, and the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK. Ahead of these pivotal meetings, we—the editors of health journals worldwide—call for urgent action to keep average global temperature increases below 1.5°C, halt the destruction of nature, and protect health. Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the des...
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Water, water not everywhere - Nature Climate Change
2021-09-06 (or before) in NatureTagged under: Climate Change
The health case for urgent action on climate change
2021-09-06 (or before) in The BMJ: British Medical JournalHealth professionals have a leading role It is about 30 years since warnings first appeared in prominent journals about the potential for large and wide ranging effects on human health from climate and other global environmental changes.123 To date, global action to tackle these burgeoning threats remains inadequate both in scale and in speed. For example, the pledged nationally determined contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions—as enshrined in the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change—are a first step, but even if fully implemented (and this is by no means certain), global average temperatures are still...
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Climate advisers warn Cambo oil field yet to be justified
2021-09-02 (or before) in Herald ScotlandINDEPENDENT advisers have warned there must be a “very, very, very strong” justification for approving new oil and gas projects as the…
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Climate change: Big increase in weather disasters over the past five decades - BBC News
2021-09-02 (or before) in The BBCFloods, storms and extreme events increase five-fold but the number of people dying in them fell.
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Why won’t US TV news say ‘climate change’? | Mark Hertsgaard
2021-09-02 in The GuardianIt’s media malpractice not to mention that burning fossil fuels drives extreme weather events like Hurricane Ida
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Tunisia plants seeds of hope against climate change
2021-09-02 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyTunisian farmers are turning to the past to ensure a future by planting indigenous seeds as the North African country suffers at a time of drought, disease and climate change.
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Lewes FC player to don 'climate coat' after match as part of 500-mile pilgrimage
2021-08-29 (or before) in Brighton ArgusLEWES FC midfielder Bradley Pritchard will kick off a climate change “pilgrimage” after the team’s match against Horsham on Monday.
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Infertility poses major threat to biodiversity during climate change, study warns
2021-08-29 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News ReleasesA new study by University of Liverpool ecologists warns that heat-induced male infertility will see some species succumb to the effects of climate change earlier than thought. Currently, scientists are trying to predict where species will be lost due to climate change so they can plan effective conservation strategies. However, research on temperature tolerance has generally focused on the temperatures that are lethal to organisms, rather than those at which organisms can no longer breed.
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More than half of all CO2 emissions since 1751 emitted in the last 30 years
2021-08-29 (or before) in ieep.euThis graph, put together by IEEP, shows that not only has humanity not succeed in reducing emissions following warnings on climate change, the emissions have, in fact, also grown substantially, and we have now emitted as much since 1990 as in all of history before that time.
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Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015
2021-08-29 (or before) in Earth System Science Data<p><strong class="journal-contentHeaderColor">Abstract.</strong> Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the Earth. As the cause and result of global environmental change, land cover change (LCC) influences the global energy balance and biogeochemical cycles. Continuous and dynamic monitoring of global LC is urgently needed. Effective monitoring and comprehensive analysis of LCC at the global scale are rare. With the latest version of GLASS (Global Land Surface Satellite) CDRs (climate data records) from 1982 to 2015, we built the first record of 34-year-long annual dynamics of global land cover (...
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Elemental summer: A season of change - Griffith Review
2021-08-29 (or before) in Griffith ReviewThis is the first essay in a new series to be published online across the 2020-21 summer. Bearing witness to the climate emergency, The Elemental Summer will navigate ideas and experiences of land, fire, water and air, and the science that tracks and explores them. Already a subscriber? Sign in here
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‘Use your £11bn climate fund to pay for family planning,’ UK told
2021-08-26 in The GuardianMore than 60 NGOs call for spending rule change, saying people on frontline of climate crisis want greater access to reproductive healthcare
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Heavy rainfall which led to severe flooding in Western Europe made more likely by climate change – World Weather Attribution
2021-08-26 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Extreme Rainfall | Climate Change
'The Lorax' Warned Us 50 Years Ago, But We Didn't Listen
2021-08-25 (or before) in Georgia Public BroadcastingCall it fate or an unfortunate coincidence that Dr. Seuss' eco-parable marks its 50th anniversary just as the United Nations releases a report on the dire consequences of human-induced climate change.
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‘How is it sustainable if only 1% can afford your food?’: the man on a quest to change farming
2021-08-25 in The GuardianChris Newman, founder of Virginia-based Sylvanaqua Farms, on why feeding people needs to be at the heart of sustainable farming
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Absolute Zero Report | UK FIRES | Julian Allwood, Professor of Engineering and the Environment | Renewable Heat | Renewable Heating | Renewable Cooling
2021-08-23 (or before) in Ground Source Energy | District Heating | Heat Networks | Clean Heating | Sustainable Energy | Renewable Energy | Ground source heating | Heat Pumps | Ground source coolingAbsolute Zero Report | we can respond to climate change with today’s technologies | Decarbonisation of Heating | Electrification of heating | electric heat pumps | electric cars
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Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-08-23 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceWe explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabil...
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Economists' erroneous estimates of damages from climate change
2021-08-22 (or before) in arXiv.org e-Print archiveEconomists have predicted that damages from global warming will be as low as 2.1% of global economic production for a 3$^\circ$C rise in global average surface temperature, and 7.9% for a 6$^\circ$C rise. Such relatively trivial estimates of economic damages -- when these economists otherwise assume that human economic productivity will be an order of magnitude higher than today -- contrast strongly with predictions made by scientists of significantly reduced human habitability from climate change. Nonetheless, the coupled economic and climate models used to make such predictions have been influential in the international climat...
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How Capitalism Torched the Planet by Imploding Into Fascism | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co
2021-08-21 (or before) in Eudaimonia and CoWhy Catastrophic Climate Change Is Not A Problem For Fascists — It Is A Solution
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Economic Growth - Facing Future
2021-08-21 (or before) in Facing FutureInfinite Growth on a Finite Planet “Global civilization has an operating system. It is disastrously flawed. It is killing us. It is known by two common names: money and growth economics. Money is a virus of the mind which uses humanity [and nature] for its own reproduction.” – Stuart Scott, Director of the Facing Future … Continue reading "Economic Growth"
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Climate effects on US infrastructure: the economics of adaptation for rail, roads, and coastal development - Climatic Change
2021-08-20 (or before) in Springer VerlagChanges in temperature, precipitation, sea level, and coastal storms will likely increase the vulnerability of infrastructure across the USA. Using models that analyze vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation, this paper estimates impacts to railroad, roads, and coastal properties under three infrastructure management response scenarios: No Adaptation; Reactive Adaptation, and Proactive Adaptation. Comparing damages under each of these potential responses provides strong support for facilitating effective adaptation in these three sectors. Under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario and without adaptation, overall costs are pro...
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Swedish Group Delivers the World’s First Batch of Green Steel
2021-08-20 in Gizmodo | The Future Is HereHYBRIT, a partnership between a mining firm, an electric utility, and a steel company, made the world's first delivery of clean steel to Volvo. It's a huge leap.
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The climate science behind wildfires: why are they getting worse? – video explainer
2021-08-20 by in The GuardianThe Guardian's global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, explains the science behind why wildfires are getting worse and what we need to do to tackle the problem
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Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios - Nature Energy
2021-08-20 (or before) in NatureEstablished climate mitigation scenarios assume continued economic growth in all countries, and reconcile this with the Paris targets by betting on speculative technological change. Post-growth approaches may make it easier to achieve rapid mitigation while improving social outcomes, and should be explored by climate modellers.
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More Than 40 Million Acres of Land Have Burned in Siberia
2021-08-20 (or before) by in Smithsonian MagazineRussia has seen an increasing severity of wildfires in recent years due to rising summer temperatures and a historic drought
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Daily Mail and Telegraph produce 'least accurate climate coverage'
2021-08-18 in The London EconomicRight-wing UK newspapers have some of the least accurate climate change articles in the English-speaking world.
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Center for Constitutional Rights
2021-08-18 in The Mercury News - Bay Area news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and commentaryIn visit to Big Basin Redwoods State Park, governor talks climate change, wildfire recovery
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Breaching tipping points would increase economic costs of climate change impacts - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2021-08-16 (or before) in London School of EconomicsExceeding tipping points in the climate system could lead to a measurable increase in the economic impacts of climate change,...
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It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2021-08-14 (or before) in National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationJuly 2021 has earned the unenviable distinction as the world’s hottest month ever recorded, according to new global data released today by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. “In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. “Ju
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Transforming the stories we tell about climate change: from 'issue' to 'action' - IOPscience
2021-08-12 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Climate Change
This Attorney Took On Chevron. Then Chevron-Linked Judges and Private Prosecutors Had Him Locked Up.
2021-08-12 by in Slate MagazineAll of their names should be known widely.
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Ottawa says it must maximize revenue from the Trans Mountain pipeline to fight climate change | CBC News
2021-08-12 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public BroadcasterThe minister responsible for Canada's role in fighting climate change is defending his government's purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline after a landmark UN report said the continued use of fossil fuels is pushing the climate toward catastrophe.
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‘The fire moved around it’: success story in Oregon fuels calls for prescribed burns
2021-08-12 in The GuardianOregon’s Bootleg fire has offered new evidence that Indigenous techniques can change how megafires behave
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Biden’s OPEC Plea Pits Fuel Price Fears Against Climate Push
2021-08-12 (or before) in BloombergPresident Joe Biden has pledged to wean the U.S. off of fossil fuels, and never has that call been more urgent than now, with United Nations-backed scientists warning of a point of no return.
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Let’s say it without flinching: the fossil fuel industry is destroying our future | Simon Lewis
2021-08-10 in The GuardianFollowing the unequivocal IPCC climate report, we must all put pressure on governments to end the fossil fuel era, says environment scientist Simon Lewis
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Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
2021-08-10 (or before) in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeTagged under: IPCC | Climate Change
Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet
2021-08-09 in The GuardianReport warns temperatures likely to rise by more than 1.5C bringing widespread extreme weather
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Time to get serious about climate change. On a warming planet, no one is safe.
2021-08-09 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeStatement prepared for delivery at the press conference to launch the Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group I contribution to the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change titled “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.”
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Tipping points
2021-08-08 (or before) in Climate Emergency InstituteTagged under: Tipping Points | Climate Change
Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?
2021-08-08 (or before) in Earth System Science Data<p><strong class="journal-contentHeaderColor">Abstract.</strong> Human-induced atmospheric composition changes cause a radiative imbalance at the top of the atmosphere which is driving global warming. This Earth energy imbalance (EEI) is the most critical number defining the prospects for continued global warming and climate change. Understanding the heat gain of the Earth system – and particularly how much and where the heat is distributed – is fundamental to understanding how this affects warming ocean, atmosphere and land; rising surface temperature; sea level; and loss of grounded and floating i...
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Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation
2021-08-08 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceClimate change has become intertwined with the global economy. Here, we describe the contribution of inertia to future trends. Drawing from thermodynamic principles, and using 38 years of available statistics between 1980 to 2017, we find a constant scaling between current rates of world primary energy consumption E ( t ) and the historical time integral W of past world inflation-adjusted economic production Y, or W ( t ) = ∫ 0 t Y ( t ′ ) d t ′. In each year, over a period during which both E and W more than doubled, the ratio of the two remained nearly unchanged, that is λ = E ( t ) ( t ) / W ( t ) = 5 ....
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2021-08-08 (or before) in Climate Emergency InstituteTagged under: Climate Change
Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios - Nature Energy
2021-08-08 (or before) in NatureEstablished climate mitigation scenarios assume continued economic growth in all countries, and reconcile this with the Paris targets by betting on speculative technological change. Post-growth approaches may make it easier to achieve rapid mitigation while improving social outcomes, and should be explored by climate modellers.
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Climate Outreach
2021-08-07 (or before) by in Climate OutreachClimate Outreach are leading experts in climate change communications, aiming to ensure impacts are understood, accepted and acted upon across society.
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The Climate Crisis Is Coming for Undocumented Farmworkers First
2021-08-07 (or before) in In These TimesFacing deadly heat waves and few protections, undocumented agricultural workers are being pushed to their limit.
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1.5 °C degrowth scenarios suggest the need for new mitigation pathways - Nature Communications
2021-08-06 (or before) in NatureEstablished climate mitigation modelling relies on controversial negative emissions and unprecedented technological change, but neglects to consider degrowth scenarios. Here the authors show that degrowth scenarios minimize many key risks for feasibility and sustainability and thus need to be thoroughly assessed.
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ESD - No way out? The double-bind in seeking global prosperity alongside mitigated climate change
2021-08-06 (or before) in ESDTagged under: Climate Change
Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn
2021-08-06 in The GuardianExclusive: IPCC says gas, produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction, playing ever-greater role in overheating planet
Tagged under: Farming | COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Methane | IPCC | Climate Change
Apocalypse When? | by Diane Coyle - Project Syndicate
2021-08-05 by Diane Coyle in Project SyndicateDiane Coyle worries that humans’ perception of major global threats militates against timely and decisive action.
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Why the Green New Deal Has Failed — So Far
2021-08-05 (or before) in JacobinThe Green New Deal program has enormous potential to generate mass popular support. But absent real leverage from labor, it's likely to be continually watered down into a toothless slogan for NGOs.
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Our leaders look climate change in the eyes, and shrug | Hamilton Nolan
2021-08-04 in The GuardianIt is not good to be too pessimistic on the climate crisis. That said, it sure does seem like we’re screwed
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Mass extinctions correlate with the extent of climate change
2021-08-03 by in natureecoevocommunity.nature.comTagged under: Climate Change | Extinction
UK already undergoing disruptive climate change - BBC News
2021-07-30 (or before) in BBCLast year was the third warmest, fifth wettest and eighth sunniest on record in the UK, scientists warn.
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When Climate Change Came for My Favorite Glacier
2021-07-30 in Outside MagazineAs a college student, writer Julia Rosen spent a summer on Alaska’s Taku Glacier, which kept growing for decades in spite of warming temperatures. Now, she reckons with its uncertain fate.
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Economics Needs a Climate Revolution
2021-07-29 (or before) in Gernot WagnerWith its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is fundamentally unequipped to deal with today's biggest problems. Change within the discipline is underway, but it cannot come fast enough.
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The mortality cost of carbon - Nature Communications
2021-07-29 (or before) in NatureClimate change is expected to have impacts on human mortality, e.g. through increases in heat waves. Here, the author proposes a new metric to account for excess deaths from additional CO2 emissions, which allows to assess the mortality impacts of marginal emissions and leads to a substantial increase in the social costs of carbon.
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An Analysis of the Potential for the Formation of ‘Nodes of Persisting Complexity’
2021-07-29 (or before) in MDPI - Publisher of Open Access JournalsHuman civilisation has undergone a continuous trajectory of rising sociopolitical complexity since its inception; a trend which has undergone a dramatic recent acceleration. This phenomenon has resulted in increasingly severe perturbation of the Earth System, manifesting recently as global-scale effects such as climate change. These effects create an increased risk of a global ‘de-complexification’ (collapse) event in which complexity could undergo widespread reversal. ‘Nodes of persisting complexity’ are geographical locations which may experience lesser effects from ‘de-complexification’ due...
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Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes - Nature Climate Change
2021-07-28 (or before) in NatureChanges in extreme heat are often calculated as anomalies above a reference climatology. A different definition—week-day heatwaves surpassing the current record by large margins—shows that their occurrence probabilities depend on warming rate, not level, and are higher than during recent decades.
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Bootleg Fire is burning up carbon offsets - CNN
2021-07-28 (or before) by in CNNThese forests were meant to survive one hundred years. Persistent drought and wildfire conditions are threatening carbon offsets. The question is whether these offsets matter, if their stored carbon goes up in smoke due to climate change.
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New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse
2021-07-28 in The GuardianStudy citing ‘perilous state’ of industrial civilisation ranks temperate islands top for resilience
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Can we fix climate models to better predict record-shattering weather?
2021-07-27 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Extreme Weather | Predictions | Climate Change
Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning
2021-07-27 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comMeeting human needs at sustainable levels of energy use is fundamental for avoiding catastrophic climate change and securing the well-being of all peo…
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Attributing Extreme Events to Climate Change: A New Frontier in a Warming World - ScienceDirect
2021-07-27 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comTagged under: Global Warming | Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Climate change will drive rise in ‘record-shattering’ heat extremes - Carbon Brief
2021-07-26 in Carbon Brief“Record-shattering” climate extremes – which break weather records by large margins – will become more likely as a result of climate change, a new study finds.
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William Nordhaus versus the United Nations on Climate Change Economics - Econlib
2021-07-26 (or before) in Econlib - The Library of Economics and LibertyWilliam Nordhaus was a co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics for his pioneering work on the economics of climate change. On the day of the Nobel announcement, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) released a special report1 advising the governments of the world on various steps necessary to limit […]
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What Happens When the Alt-Right Believes in Climate Change
2021-07-26 (or before) in Jewish CurrentsWhite nationalists are readying for war against the coming generation of climate migrants.
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Opinion: Seeking your climate refuge? Consider this - CNN
2021-07-25 (or before) by in CNNJamie Beck Alexander writes that anyone who is uprooting their lives because of the climate crisis -- like her family has done -- shouldn't move in silence. In their new community, they should signal the urgency and gravity of the issue by showing up to city council meetings and being an early warning for communities that have yet to experience the direct and devastating effects of the climate crisis.
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Learning to live with climate change | emotions, ethics, education
2021-07-25 (or before) in Learning to live with climate change | emotions, ethics, educationhow can we learn to live-with – respect, be part of, endure and respond to – climate change?
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The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change
2021-07-25 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsForecasts by economists of the economic damage from climate change have been notably sanguine, compared to warnings by scientists about damage to the biosphere. This is because economists made thei...
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Heat, Floods, Fires: Jet Stream Is Key Link in Climate Disasters
2021-07-25 (or before) in BloombergDeadly weather as far apart as China, Germany and the U.S. reveal the devastating impact of a swinging jet stream.
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Why Biden's Interior Department isn't shutting down oil and gas
2021-07-23 by in The HillThe prevailing political opinion is keeping these key moderate senators happy.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Public Opinion | US Politics
Climate change: US pushes China to make faster carbon cuts - BBC News
2021-07-23 (or before) in The BBCUS climate envoy John Kerry says help from China is needed to avoid a dangerous rise in heat.
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Madagascar famine becomes first in history to be caused solely by climate crisis
2021-07-23 (or before) in The IndependentMore than 1.14 million people are food-insecure as severe droughts push communities to the brink of starvation
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Road planners able to ignore climate change, campaigners claim - BBC News
2021-07-23 (or before) in BBCGovernment guidelines mean road planners can effectively ignore climate change, campaigners say.
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Excerpt | Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
2021-07-22 (or before) in YES! MagazineBeing fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
The Briefing Room - COP26: Floods, Fire, and the Future - BBC Sounds
2021-07-22 (or before) in The BBCCan COP26 help tackle climate change and save us from droughts, wildfires and floods?
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Wildfires, floods and extreme heat: It is time to heed warnings from climate scientists
2021-07-22 by in The HillThe science is clear. The impacts and costs are clear. Climate action must therefore remain at the center of current infrastructure spending proposals.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Drought | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Climate Change Impacts
Observational evidence that cloud feedback amplifies global warming | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-07-21 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceGlobal warming drives changes in Earth’s cloud cover, which, in turn, may amplify or dampen climate change. This “cloud feedback” is the single mos...
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‘Reckless’: G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report
2021-07-20 in The GuardianSupport for coal, oil and gas remains high despite pledges to tackle climate crisis
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Climate Action Framework
2021-07-19 (or before) in API - American Petroleum InstituteThe U.S. natural gas and oil industry is working to address the risks of climate change and build a lower-carbon future. Learn how we're striving to create a cleaner tomorrow while meeting the world’s growing need for affordable, reliable energy.
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Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change | AP News
2021-07-18 (or before) in Associated Press NewsCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The left-leaning government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world’s largest island, calling it is “a natural step” because the Arctic government “takes the climate crisis seriously.”
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How data could save Earth from climate change
2021-07-18 in The GuardianUsing a name inspired by Indonesian farmers, Subak will share information and fund hi-tech solutions to fight global heating
Tagged under: Climate Change | Indonesia
Excerpt | Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
2021-07-18 (or before) in YES! MagazineBeing fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country
2021-07-18 in The New York TimesTagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | Insurance | California
Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country
2021-07-18 in The New York TimesTagged under: Wildfires | Coal | Climate Change | Insurance | California
Ros Atkins on… the North America heat waves
2021-07-18 (or before) in The BBCRos Atkins explains the link between climate change and recent heat waves in the US and Canada.
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ExxonMobil Regularly Gives Six-Figure Sums to Brookings and CSIS | The New Republic
2021-07-17 (or before) in The New RepublicAn annual ExxonMobil report shows the company routinely giving six-figure sums to Brookings, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and similar institutions.
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This Is What the Beginning of a Climate-Labor Alliance Looks Like | The New Republic
2021-07-17 (or before) in The New RepublicThe PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension.
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Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change - Nature
2021-07-14 (or before) in NatureAircraft observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide and monoxide concentrations in Brazil show higher carbon emissions in eastern Amazonia than in the western part, which are linked to increased ecosystem stress and fire occurrence.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Amazon Rainforest | Brazil | Climate Change
Global Ocean Heat Content CDR
2021-07-12 in National Centers for Environmental InformationThe Ocean Heat Content Climate Data Record (CDR) is a set of ocean heat content anomaly (OHCA) time-series for 1955–present on 3-monthly, yearly, and pentadal (five-yearly) scales. This CDR quantifies ocean heat content change over time, which is an essential metric for understanding climate change and the Earth’s energy budget. It provides time-series for multiple depth ranges in the global ocean and each of the major basins (Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian) divided by hemisphere (Northern, Southern).
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Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises
2021-07-12 (or before) in The National Academies PressDownload a PDF of "Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change" by the National Research Council for free.
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UN sets out Paris-type plan to cut extinctions by factor of 10
2021-07-12 in The GuardianAmbitious draft goals to halt biodiversity loss revealed, with proposed changes to food production expected to ‘raise eyebrows’
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Wildlife | Food Production and Consumption | Extinction | Biodiversity Loss
Climate change shifting UK’s high-impact weather
2021-07-12 (or before) in Met Office UKA new study has examined how high-impact weather in the UK, such as extremely hot days, heavy rainfall and very cold conditions, could be affected at different levels of global warming.
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Our climate change turning point is right here, right now | Rebecca Solnit
2021-07-12 in The GuardianPeople are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act
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Abrupt Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future: Dr James White
2021-07-11 (or before) in YouTubeFair Use: Educational
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All Plagues Are Political | The Tyee
2021-07-11 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaAlex de Waal’s myth-shattering new book deconstructs COVID-19 and two centuries of epidemics. Five deadly misconceptions.
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Commentary: Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
2021-07-11 (or before) in FrontiersCommentary: Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction
2021-07-10 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewCorporations and nations are touting plans to suck greenhouse gases out of the air. But the crucial priority this decade is slashing emissions.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Carbon Capture and Storage
Policymakers take note: climate displacement is driving millions into slavery
2021-07-06 in International Institute for Environment and DevelopmentMany factors force people into slavery; but climate change as a driver is largely ignored in policy and planning
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Controversial geoengineering scheme will dump iron in the sea
2021-07-05 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Geoengineering
On avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system: Formidable challenges ahead
2021-07-04 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceThe observed increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) since the preindustrial era has most likely committed the world to a warming of 2.4°C (1.4°C to 4.3°C) above the preindustrial surface temperatures. The committed warming is inferred from the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates of the greenhouse forcing and climate sensitivity. The estimated warming of 2.4°C is the equilibrium warming above preindustrial temperatures that the world will observe even if GHG concentrations are held fixed at their 2005 concentration levels but without any other anthropogenic forc...
Tagged under: Oceans | Arctic | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change | Sea Level | Climate Change Mitigation | Tipping Points
B.C. town destroyed, Canada Day reflections, Alberta reopens | The National for July 1, 2021
2021-07-03 (or before) in YouTubeOfficials say the town of Lytton, B.C., was essentially destroyed by a wildfire overnight Wednesday as blistering heat sparks more fires throughout the provi...
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Wildfires | Climate Change | Collapse
BBC removes Bitesize page on climate change ‘benefits’ after backlash
2021-07-02 in The GuardianStudy website made claims including warmer temperatures ‘could lead to healthier outdoor lifestyles’
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Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation - Nature Climate Change
2021-07-01 (or before) in NatureLegal cases to force governments to reduce emissions or to pursue compensation for climate change-related losses are increasing. The scientific evidence used in such cases is found to be lagging behind state-of-the-art climate science; using up-to-date methodologies could improve causation claims.
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Climate change: Why action still ignites debate in Australia - BBC News
2021-07-01 (or before) in The BBCClimate change has ended political careers in Australia and action over it remains widely debated.
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Exxon Disavows Remarks After Video Shows Lobbyists Dismissing Company’s Climate Stance
2021-07-01 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoCEO Darren Woods said Exxon lobbyists tricked into speaking on video by Greenpeace didn’t reflect the company’s positions, after they said Exxon only supports a carbon tax because it is unlikely to pass.
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Inside Exxon’s playbook
2021-06-30 in Greenpeace UK - UnearthedHow America's biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change | Greenpeace
Revealed: ExxonMobil’s lobbying war on climate change legislation
2021-06-30 in Channel 4A senior ExxonMobil lobbyist has been captured on camera revealing how the oil giant is using its power and influence to water down US climate legislation.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change | Legislation
Miami condo collapse prompts questions over role of climate change
2021-06-29 in The GuardianExperts suggest vulnerability of south Florida to rising seas could lead to destabilization of further buildings
Tagged under: Florida | Climate Change | Collapse
Economics Needs a Climate Revolution | by Tom Brookes & Gernot Wagner - Project Syndicate
2021-06-28 by Tom Brookes & Gernot Wagner in Project SyndicateTom Brookes & Gernot Wagner warn that the neoclassical orthodoxy is utterly unequipped to grapple with climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Economic Growth
Atlantic Ocean: Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers (w/ Dr. Michael Mann)
2021-06-28 (or before) in YouTubeMichael Mann weighs in on the worrisome shifts in the great conveyor belt, and the dangerous heatwave threatening the Pacific Northwest. 115 degrees in the s...
Tagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | Heatwaves | Climate Change
New Florida Law Mandates Cities Keep Using Fossil Fuels
2021-06-26 in Gizmodo | The Future Is HereFlorida just took a huge step backward in the clean energy revolution. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a piece of legislation into law earlier this week that requires Florida cities and towns to keep using fossil fuels.
Tagged under: Florida | Climate Change | Economics | Fossil Fuels | Legislation | Sustainable Cities | Finance
Politics Is Now The Battleground For Climate Change Says Leading U.K. Scientist
2021-06-26 (or before) by in ForbesLeading climate experts have launched an international advisory group with a program aimed at mitigating the consequences of climate change through emissions reduction, greenhouse gas removal, and climate repair.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Finance
Vision, ethos & strategy | Environmental sustainability: a whole school approach - National Governance Association
2021-06-25 (or before) in National Governors AssociationThis guide encourages governing boards to adopt environmental sustainability as a core value and make it a key element of strategy development.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise
2021-06-24 in The GuardianOfficials prepare to elevate streets despite financial shortfalls, amid recognition that not every home can be saved
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Sea Level | Florida
Inside the race to rescue clues to Earth’s past from melting glaciers
2021-06-23 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change | Ice Melting
Safe Limit for Global Warming Is Lowered Dramatically by Experts
2021-06-23 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanCarbon taxes and nuclear power will be necessary to cut CO2 emissions quickly enough to avert disastrous climate change, they say
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Geoengineering
Kevin Anderson - Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Does Paris Lock-out 2 Degrees? (Part One)
2021-06-23 (or before) in YouTubeAbout the Speech:In his presentation, Kevin Anderson revisited the scale of the climate challenge, arguing that whilst the science of climate change has prog...
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BP is planning to drill for fossil gas on edge of world’s largest cold-water coral reef | The Independent
2021-06-21 (or before) in The IndependentExclusive: Oil giant’s plan to drill off west coast of Africa could raise the risk of biodiversity loss, further global heating and toxic fuel spills, an investigation reveals
Tagged under: BP | Climate Change | Africa | Coral Reefs | Biodiversity Loss
Impacts of climate change - Climate change - Eduqas - GCSE Geography Revision - Eduqas - BBC Bitesize
2021-06-21 (or before) in The BBCLearn about and revise climate change and its effects on the UK and the rest of the world with GCSE Bitesize Geography (Eduqas)
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How Has It Come to This? Climate Change and The Future of Planet Earth: A Small Survey of The Big Picture
2021-06-10 (or before) in Academia.edu - Share researchRevised 12-20-19 By now, most people are aware that climate change presents a dire threat to human civilization. But they don’t understand just how dire. International organizations and mainstream media continue to say that we have about ten years,
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Climate emergency
2021-06-09 (or before) by in Birmingham City CouncilThe council is committed to making Birmingham carbon neutral by 2030. Read about the climate emergency and what the city is doing to tackle climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Housing
Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity
2021-06-04 (or before) in Ecology & SocietyRockström, J., W. Steffen, K. Noone, Å. Persson, F. S. Chapin, III, E. Lambin, T. M. Lenton, M. Scheffer, C. Folke, H. Schellnhuber, B. Nykvist, C. A. De Wit, T. Hughes, S. van der Leeuw, H. Rodhe, S. Sörlin, P. K. Snyder, R. Costanza, U. Svedin, M. Falkenmark, L. Karlberg, R. W. Corell, V. J. Fabry, J. Hansen, B. Walker, D. Liverman, K. Richardson, P. Crutzen, and J. Foley. 2009. Planetary boundaries:exploring the safe operating space for humanity. Ecology and Society 14(2): 32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03180-140232
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Ocean Acidification | Sustainability
Why Can’t We Call It An Emergency?
2021-06-04 (or before) in Covering Climate NowWhy are media outlets still not treating climate change as the catastrophic threat it truly is?
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We need to treat climate change as the emergency that it is
2021-06-04 (or before) by in Al JazeeraWhy are most media outlets not giving the climate emergency the 24/7 coverage they provided for the COVID-19 pandemic?
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US environmental agency releases climate report delayed by Trump - BBC News
2021-06-04 (or before) in BBCClimate change-related environmental disasters have grown more common, according to the EPA.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
An enormous missing contribution to global warming may have been right under our feet - The Washington Post
2021-06-04 in The Washington PostA new study finds a massive, previously unknown contribution to climate change in the form of human conversion of peatlands.
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Boris Johnson, your climate change scorecard is ready
2021-06-03 in GreenpeaceHow is the government REALLY doing on climate change?
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change | Greenpeace
The Big Smoke: the global emissions of the UK financial sector
2021-06-03 (or before) in GreenpeaceThe UK’s 'financed emissions' likely representing one of the country's most significant contributions to climate change.
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‘Birthplace of Ice’ in Russia’s Arctic Sees Record-Breaking Start to Melting Season - The Moscow Times
2021-06-02 by in The Moscow TimesThe Laptev Sea plays a crucial role in generating ice coverage for the entire Arctic.
Tagged under: Arctic | Climate Change | Ice Melting | Russia
ASIC targets fossil fuel companies over climate change
2021-06-01 in Financial Review - Business, Finance and Investment News | afr.comThe corporate regulator issued warnings last year to five companies saying they risked breaking the law because of non-disclosure of climate change risks.
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There’s a ticking climate time bomb in West Texas
2021-06-01 by in VoxBiden faces a critical decision about the Permian Basin and its methane emissions from oil and gas.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Methane | Climate Change | Texas
Shell ordered to slash CO2 emissions in landmark climate ruling - CNN
2021-05-27 (or before) by in CNNA Dutch court has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell must dramatically reduce its carbon emissions in a landmark climate decision that could have far reaching consequences for oil companies.
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Rebel shareholders with percent of the vote - The Washington Post
2021-05-26 in The Washington PostEXXONVOTE - Today is the showdown between ExxonMobil and rebel shareholders trying to convince the company to confront climate change and install four new independent directors. The vote will come at today's ExxonMobil annual meeting. The country's biggest pension funds have openly sided with rebel shareholders, and the votes of the major fund managers -- BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street -- hung in the balance.
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Shell forced to slash global emissions after landmark court ruling | The Independent
2021-05-26 (or before) in The IndependentActivist groups hail ‘historic win’ as Dutch court orders multinational fossil fuel company to cut CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030
Tagged under: Shell | Activism | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
War footing needed to correct economists climate change failings
2021-05-25 (or before) in CNBCEconomic forecasts predicting the potential impact of climate change grossly underestimate the reality and have delayed global recovery efforts by decades, a leading professor has said.
Tagged under: Economics | Predictions | Climate Change
NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory - THE NOAA ANNUAL GREENHOUSE GAS INDEX (AGGI)
2021-05-25 (or before) in NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring LaboratoryThe Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers
2021-05-25 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Arctic | Climate Change | Rivers
There's a simple answer to climate change. But will capitalism allow it? - Prospect Magazine
2021-05-24 in Prospect MagazineIn discussions of climate emergency, degrowth has always been the elephant in the room; acknowledged from time to time, but rarely spoken about. But it may be the only solution
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Capitalism | Geoengineering
Methane and climate change – Methane Tracker 2021 – Analysis - IEA
2021-05-24 (or before) in IEA ÐÊInternational Energy AgencyMethane Tracker 2021 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
Tagged under: Methane | Climate Change
Climate change is bad news for tea drinkers
2021-05-23 (or before) in The Church TimesTagged under: Climate Change
Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2021-05-21 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetA new evaluation of global climate models used to project Earth's future global average surface temperature finds that most have been quite accurate.
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There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset carbon emissions – and there never will be
2021-05-18 (or before) by in Scroll.in - Latest News, In depth news, India news, Politics news, Indian Cinema, Indian sports, Culture, Video NewsResearchers are in unanimous agreement that land ecosystems have a finite capacity to take up carbon.
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The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6
2021-05-17 (or before) in TC - Recent<p><strong class="journal-contentHeaderColor">Abstract.</strong> The Greenland ice sheet is one of the largest contributors to global mean sea-level rise today and is expected to continue to lose mass as the Arctic continues to warm. The two predominant mass loss mechanisms are increased surface meltwater run-off and mass loss associated with the retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers. In this paper we use a large ensemble of Greenland ice sheet models forced by output from a representative subset of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) global climate models to project ice sheet changes and ...
Tagged under: Oceans | Arctic | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Sea Level
Few realistic scenarios left to limit global warming to 1.5°C
2021-05-16 (or before) in Science DailyOf the over 400 climate scenarios assessed in the 1.5°C report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), only around 50 scenarios avoid significantly overshooting 1.5°C. Of those only around 20 make realistic assumptions on mitigation options, for instance the rate and scale of carbon removal from the atmosphere or extent of tree planting, a new study shows. All 20 scenarios need to pull at least one mitigation lever at 'challenging' rather than 'reasonable' levels.
Tagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Extreme Heat Risks May Be Widely Underestimated and Sometimes Left Out of Major Climate Reports - Inside Climate News
2021-05-16 in Inside Climate NewsWhile scientists warn with increasing urgency that global warming is sharply increasing the likelihood of deadly heat waves, many regions are doing little to protect vulnerable populations. Recent research shows that the global death toll from extreme heat is rising, but still, “Large parts of society don’t think of heat as a threat,” said University […]
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What Matters: Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme
2021-05-16 (or before) in Wayback MachineFirst, we need to trust our science. We do this every time we fly in a jet or rush to the doctor in hope of relief…
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Oil excavation in Africa’s Kavango region must be stopped to meet world climate promises | The Independent
2021-05-15 (or before) in The IndependentThe climate column: Oil play in the Kavango region of Namibia and Botswana will affect climate targets, endanger indigenous communities and could be disastrous for conservation
Tagged under: Oil Industry | Conservation | Africa | Climate Change | Wildlife | Namibia
Out of the window? Green monetary policy in China: window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2021-05-14 (or before) in London School of EconomicsInvestigating the use of the green monetary policy tool ‘window guidance’ in China, the authors draw lessons for the design of green finance policies for other countries that seek to enhance sustainable finance and mitigate climate change and related risks.
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Climate denial hasn't gone away – here's how to spot arguments for delaying climate action
2021-05-14 (or before) by in The ConversationNew research exposes the common tropes of bad faith arguments about climate change.
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Third of global food production at risk from climate crisis
2021-05-14 in The GuardianFood-growing areas will see drastic changes to rainfall and temperatures if global heating continues at current rate
Tagged under: Farming | Extreme Rainfall | Drought | COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Africa | Food Production and Consumption
New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation
2021-05-14 by in DeSmogWhat’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? According to newly published research from Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes and Harvard research associate Geoffrey Supran, it’s a simple four-letter word, one that carries overtones not only of […]
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Influencing climate change attitudes in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis - ScienceDirect
2021-05-14 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comTagged under: Climate Change
Climate change: how bad could the future be if we do nothing?
2021-05-10 in Geography Directions - Geographical expertise applied to the issues that matter mostBy Mark Maslin, UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The climate crisis is no longer a looming threat – people are now …
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Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation - Nature Climate Change
2021-05-06 (or before) in NatureE-fuels—hydrocarbon fuels synthesized from green hydrogen—can replace fossil fuels. This Perspective highlights the opportunities and risks of e-fuels, and concludes that hydrogen and e-fuels should be prioritized for sectors inaccessible to direct electrification.
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Coral reefs in the Anthropocene - Nature
2021-05-04 (or before) in NatureCoral reefs support immense biodiversity and provide important ecosystem services to many millions of people. Yet reefs are degrading rapidly in response to numerous anthropogenic drivers. In the coming centuries, reefs will run the gauntlet of climate change, and rising temperatures will transform them into new configurations, unlike anything observed previously by humans. Returning reefs to past configurations is no longer an option. Instead, the global challenge is to steer reefs through the Anthropocene era in a way that maintains their biological functions. Successful navigation of this transition will require radical chang...
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The Mother Tree Project
2021-04-25 (or before) in The Mother Tree ProjectThe Mother Tree project is a research project investigating forest renewal practices that will protect biodiversity, carbon storage and forest regeneration as climate changes.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Australian governments spend $19,000 a minute subsidising fossil fuels, report finds
2021-04-25 in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)A new report by progressive think tank The Australia Institute sheds light on how much money Australia pays to subsidise the fossil fuel industry. But exactly what constitutes a "subsidy" remains at the centre of the debate.
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies, 1951-2020
2021-04-23 by in NASA Scientific Visualization StudioThe change in the distribution of land temperature anomalies over the years 1951 to 2020 ||
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Scott Morrison’s climate change leadership fail
2021-04-22 (or before) in Independent AustraliaWhile other nations step up to zero-emission targets, Scott Morrison is still falling behind on taking action and being a responsible leader.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Climate Change | Net Zero
An Economist’s Guide to Spending Bezos’s Billions on Climate Change
2021-04-21 (or before) in Gernot WagnerThe money would go far in politics, but it will also allow for technological experimentation and will take a fundraising burden off recipients.
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Climate emergency: The new science showing it’s make-or-break time
2021-04-21 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: COP26 | Climate Change
An Outdated Idea Is Still Shaping Climate Policy
2021-04-21 (or before) in The AtlanticBiden’s team is split on how to think about climate change.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Billions of extra trees may give us 20 years to tackle climate change
2021-04-18 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Climate Change | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Our best shot to slow climate change now: Cut methane
2021-04-18 by in The HillMethane, the second biggest driver of global warming and a major contributor to air pollution, soared in 2020.
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China and US pledge climate change commitment - BBC News
2021-04-18 (or before) in The BBCThe US and China announced actions to tackle climate change following meetings in Shanghai last week.
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Urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (SDG 13): transforming agriculture and food systems
2021-04-18 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comActions on climate change (SDG 13), including in the food system, are crucial. SDG 13 needs to align with the Paris Agreement, given that UNFCCC negot…
Tagged under: Climate Change | Sustainable Development Goals | Climate Change Impacts
Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner than we thought
2021-04-18 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyA study led by the University of Leeds has shown that global warming of only 2°C will be detrimental to crops in temperate and tropical regions, with reduced yields from the 2030s onwards.
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World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem' - BBC News
2021-04-13 (or before) in The BBCThe so-called “polluter elite” must change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says.
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'Every breath we take was given to us by plants': Robin Wall Kimmerer on climate change and Covid-19
2021-04-13 (or before) in Penguin Books UK | Official WebsiteNature writer Robin Wall Kimmerer has become a trusted voice in the era of climate catastrophe. She tells Lucy Jones how we can find hope in the living world around us.
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World Bank Group President’s Statement on Climate Change Action Plan
2021-04-11 (or before) in World BankWorld Bank Group President’s Statement on Climate Change Action Plan
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Should Governments Consider Engineering the Atmosphere?
2021-04-08 in The NationTwo writers debate whether solar geoengineering would help or harm the effort to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Geoengineering
‘Thuggery’: Turnbull blames media beat-up for dumping from climate role
2021-04-06 in Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.auTagged under: Climate Change
Degrowth in Movement(s) from Zer0 Books
2021-04-06 (or before) in John Hunt PublishingDegrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons an...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth | Climate Justice
The Daily Climate Show: Sky News programme dedicated to global crisis is launching this week
2021-04-06 (or before) in Sky NewsThe show will put people at the heart of its journalism and will hear from those impacted by climate change as well as experts.
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Scientists Warn Negative Emissions Are a ‘Moral Hazard’
2021-04-06 (or before) in Climate CentralRemoving carbon emissions from the atmosphere to prevent global warming is a “moral hazard," scientists say.
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Solar Geoengineering: Ineffective, Risky, Unnecessary | Jonathan Foley | Medium | GlobalEcoGuy.org
2021-04-03 (or before) in GlobalEcoGuy.orgSome people are proposing to counteract climate change by artificially dimming the Sun. But it’s ineffective. It’s risky. And it’s…
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Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown: an equality-based attribution approach for carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the planetary boundary
2021-04-03 (or before) in The LancetThese figures indicate that high-income countries have a greater degree of responsibility for climate damages than previous methods have implied. These results offer a just framework for attributing national responsibility for excess emissions, and a guide for determining national liability for damages related to climate change, consistent with the principles of planetary boundaries and equal access to atmospheric commons.
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Project Drawdown
2021-04-03 (or before) in Project DrawdownOur mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby stopping stopping catastrophic climate change — as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.
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Ignoring climate change will lead to unprecedented, societally disruptive heat extremes in the Middle East
2021-03-26 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyThe Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) is a climate change hot spot where summers warm much faster than in the rest of the world. Some parts of the region are already among the hottest locations globally. A new international study led by scientists from the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center of the Cyprus Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry predicts that ignoring the signals of climate change and continuing business as usual with increasing greenhouse gas emissions will lead to extreme, life-threatening heatwaves in the region. Such extraordinary heat events will have a severe impact on the people of...
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Greenhouse Gases | Africa | Predictions | Climate Change | Middle East
Conservatives’ climate denial makes them political dinosaurs
2021-03-25 by in Canada's National ObserverWhere does the Conservative Party of Canada go from here? How can Canadians put their trust in a political party that denies "climate change is real?" asks Gerald Kutney.
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Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change - Nature
2021-03-24 (or before) in NatureThis Review proposes an interdisciplinary framework for researching climate–society interactions that focuses on the mechanisms through which climate change has influenced societies, and the uncertainties of discerning this influence across different spatiotemporal scales.
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Wildfires could become a big threat in the UK due to climate change
2021-03-24 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change
One of Earth’s giant carbon sinks may have been overestimated - study
2021-03-24 in The GuardianThe potential of soils to slow climate change by soaking up carbon may be less than previously thought
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees
Soil Carbon Storage
2021-03-24 (or before) in NatureSoil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Carbon Capture and Storage
The IMF’s turn on climate change
2021-03-23 in Development Matters - Discussions on development opportunities and challengesBy Kevin P. Gallagher, Professor and Director of the Global Development Policy Centre at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, and Co-Chair of the ‘Think 20’ Task Force on Internatio…
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5 Books About Climate Change You Should Read Now | Kirkus Reviews
2021-03-23 (or before) in Kirkus ReviewsNew titles from Bill Gates, Tony Hiss, Elizabeth Kolbert, Michael E. Mann, and Kimberly Nicholas confront the greatest threat to the planet.
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World's top emitters a long way from aligning with climate goals | Reuters
2021-03-23 (or before) in ReutersThe world's biggest carbon-emitting companies are far from aligning with the Paris Climate Agreement, a report by the leading climate-focused investor group showed on Monday.
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We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide | The New Republic
2021-03-20 (or before) in The New RepublicWhy we must do everything differently to ensure the planet’s survival
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Economics
Home | SkySails Group
2021-03-16 (or before) in Wind Power: Unleashing its True Potential | SkySails PowerWe strive to play our part in fighting climate change and succeeding in the energy transition - two of the 21st's century biggest challenges.
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UK climate leadership seen weakened by aid cut for world's poor | Reuters
2021-03-16 (or before) in ReutersBritain's decision to cut its aid budget will likely dent its reputation on the global diplomatic stage and may weaken a push for other wealthy governments to find more funding to help poor nations tackle climate change, aid groups and think-tanks said.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Finance
Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire - Cara Daggett, 2018
2021-03-15 (or before) in Sage JournalsAs the planet warms, new authoritarian movements in the West are embracing a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Rather than consider thes...
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Home - The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF)
2021-03-14 (or before) in The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF)The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) is an international partnership of countries highly vulnerable to a warming planet. The Forum serves as a South-South cooperation platform for participating governments to act together to deal with global climate change.
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How Do Countries' New Emissions-reduction Plans Stack Up?
2021-03-14 (or before) in World Resources InstituteA new UN report finds that countries’ emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement are falling far short of what’s needed to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.
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First study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggests the damaged forest is now worsening climate change
2021-03-12 (or before) in National GeographicThe first broad look at all of the gases that affect how the Amazon works—not just CO2—reveals a system on the brink.
Tagged under: Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Trees
Q&A: What does China’s 14th ‘five year plan’ mean for climate change? - Carbon Brief
2021-03-12 in Carbon BriefIn short, the five year plan’s outline sets a 18% reduction target for “CO2 intensity” and 13.5% target for “energy intensity” from 2021 to 2025.
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Hawaii: flooding forces evacuations as officials warn 'this is climate change'
2021-03-11 in The GuardianScientists say residents should expect to see more intense rainstorms more frequently as the planet warms
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Keeping warming to 1.5°C instead of 2°C would save most animals from climate change
2021-03-10 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterA half degree of warming will tip most animals over the edge, but that means a half degree will also save them.
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Is this the end of forests as we've known them?
2021-03-10 in The GuardianTrees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning. Climate change is taking a toll on the world’s forests - and radically changing the environment before our eyes
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$10 Billion Bezos Earth Fund’s New CEO Expected to Provide Strategy and Transparency
2021-03-10 in Chronicle of PhilanthropyAndrew Steer, who leads the environmental think tank World Resources Institute, says the Bezos fund plans to give all its money away in a decade.
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Making Sense of ‘Climate Sensitivity' – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2021-03-10 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetNew Study Narrows the Range of Uncertainty in Future Climate Projections
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Tenfold increase in CO2 emissions cuts needed to stem climate emergency - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
2021-03-09 (or before) in Tyndall Centre for Climate Change ResearchNew research shows 64 countries cut their fossil CO2 emissions during 2016-2019, but the rate of reduction needs to increase tenfold to meet the Paris
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Climate Change Is Tightening Insurance Markets. That’s No Good for the Solar Industry
2021-03-08 (or before) in Greentech Media | Clean Tech & Renewable Energy NewsSolar project developers are starting to feel the financial pressure from rising insurance costs.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Climate Change | Insurance | Texas
Two-thirds of tropical rainforest destroyed or degraded globally, NGO says
2021-03-08 (or before) in YahooHumans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world's original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly vanishing. The forest loss is also a major contributor of climate-warming emissions, with the dense tropical forest vegetation representing the largest living reservoir of carbon. Logging and land conversion, mainly for agriculture, have wiped out 34% of the world's original old-growth tropical rainforests, and degraded another 30%, leaving them more vulnerable to fire and future destruction, according to an analysis by the non...
Tagged under: Global Warming | Rainforests | Climate Change | Trees
Sea level rise up to four times global average for coastal communities - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
2021-03-08 in Tyndall Centre for Climate Change ResearchCoastal populations are experiencing relative sea-level rise up to four times faster than the global average – according to new research from the University
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Government has no climate change plan - MPs - BBC News
2021-03-06 (or before) in The BBCTwo reports from MPs cast doubt on the government's approach to meeting its climate change goals.
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Emissions Gap Report 2020
2021-03-06 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeThe 2020 report finds that the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century but a low-carbon pandemic recovery could reduce the worst impacts of climate change.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Net Zero | Climate Change Impacts
Katharine Hayhoe: The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
2021-03-05 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth SpreadingHow do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion -- and to prompt people to realize that they already care about a changing climate. "We can't give in to despair," she says. "We have to go out and look for the hope we need to inspire us to act -- and that hope begins with a conversation, today."
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Climate Action 100+
2021-03-05 (or before) in Climate Action 100+Climate Action 100+ is an investor-led initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change.
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Climate change
2021-03-05 (or before) in CIFF: Children's Investment Fund FoundationTagged under: Climate Change
A new power play: The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty | Greenbiz
2021-03-05 (or before) in GreenbizTo the extent that climate change is another weapon of mass destruction, we might consider borrowing some tools of the past.
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The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
2021-03-05 (or before) in The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty InitiativeClimate change, like nuclear weapons, is a major global threat. That's why the world needs a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
2021-03-05 (or before) in Yale Program on Climate Change CommunicationPublic opinion polls on climate change knowledge, attitudes, policies, and behavior.
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China's five-year plan for economy is crucial to meeting net zero by 2060
2021-03-04 in The GuardianImminent economic blueprint has implications for planet – and whether Paris agreement likely to be met
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Economics | Net Zero | The Paris Agreement
His Holiness Pope Francis | Our moral imperative to act on climate change [Italian]
2021-03-04 (or before) in YouTube(Turn on subtitles using the CC button in the bottom right of your screen.)Take action on climate change at http://countdown.ted.com.The global climate crisi...
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The State Of Britain's Moths
2021-03-03 (or before) in Butterfly ConservationThe State of Britain’s Larger Moths 2021 report is now available. This new report summarises current knowledge of the state of Britain’s c.900 species of larger moths, presenting analyses of long-term change based on millions of records gathered through the Rothamsted Insect Survey (RIS) and National Moth Recording Scheme (NMRS). Key findings: The total abundance of larger moths caught in the RIS light-trap network in Britain decreased by 33% over 50 years (1968–2017). Losses were greater in the southern half of Britain (39% decrease) than in the northern half (22%). Long-term abundance ...
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We are nowhere near keeping warming below 1.5°C despite climate plans
2021-03-03 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change
Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era - Nature Climate Change
2021-03-03 (or before) in NatureGrowth in CO2 emissions has slowed since the Paris Agreement 5‚Äâyears ago. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a drop in emissions of about 7% in 2020 relative to 2019, but strong policy is needed to address underlying drivers and to sustain a decline in global emissions beyond the current crisis.
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Australia students launch class action to prevent coal mine approval | Reuters
2021-03-02 (or before) in ReutersEight young Australian students have brought a class action in the country's federal court seeking an injunction to prevent government approval of a coal project, lawyers representing the claimants said on Wednesday.
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change | Litigation | Climate Justice | India
Rural Americans are the future of the clean energy economy — policymakers must catch up
2021-03-01 by in The HillIt’s time to reconsider dated stereotypes regarding which communities are leading the environmental movement and start imagining what could be accomplished if our policymakers tap into the ingenuity of rural Americans surviving on the front lines of climate catastrophe.
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Climate change: Carbon emission promises 'put Earth on red alert' - BBC News
2021-02-26 (or before) in BBCNations' current carbon-cutting plans will not keep global temperature rise below 1.5C, the UN says.
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Greater Climate Ambition Urged as Initial NDC Synthesis Report Is Published | UNFCCC
2021-02-26 (or before) in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeBonn/ New York, 26 February 2021 – UN Climate Change today published the Initial NDC Synthesis Report, showing nations must redouble efforts and submi...
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'If This Task Was Urgent Before, It’s Crucial Now.' U.N. Says World Has 10 Months to Get Serious on Climate Goals
2021-02-26 in TIME MagazineThe UN climate change body, in a new report, says that current emissions targets are not enough to avoid severe climate impacts
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Australia accused of 'shamefully' holding back global action on climate change
2021-02-26 in The GuardianUnited Nations calls on all countries to have ‘concrete plans to phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible’
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An evangelical scientist on reconciling her religion and the realities of climate change - The Washington Post
2021-02-26 in The Washington PostKatharine Hayhoe says using our voices to call for action can help change social norms.
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Re-framing the threat of global warming: an empirical causal loop diagram of climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse - Climatic Change
2021-02-25 (or before) in Springer VerlagThere is increasing concern that climate change poses an existential risk to humanity. Understanding these worst-case scenarios is essential for good risk management. However, our knowledge of the causal pathways through which climate change could cause societal collapse is underdeveloped. This paper aims to identify and structure an empirical evidence base of the climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse pathway. We first review the societal collapse and existential risk literature and define a set of determinants of societal collapse. We develop an original methodology, using these determinants as societal collapse...
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What’s your "fair share" of carbon emissions? You’re probably blowing way past it.
2021-02-24 by in VoxHow the right to pursue happiness through unlimited consumption harms the planet, and our kids.
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Attenborough's stark warning on climate change: 'It's already too late'
2021-02-23 (or before) in Sky NewsThe veteran broadcaster tells the UN Security Council the climate crisis is the "biggest threat to security" humans have faced.
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About We Don't Have Time
2021-02-23 (or before) in wedonthavetime.orgWe Don’t Have Time is the review platform for climate solutions. A community for everyone who wants to be a part of the solution to the climate crisis. If people want change, and if that energy is directed towards those in charge – change will come. But We Don’t Have Time to wait.
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World risks ‘collapse of everything’ without strong climate action, Attenborough warns Security Council
2021-02-23 in UN News | Global perspective Human storiesMore collective action is needed to address the risks climate change poses to global peace and security, the UN Secretary-General told a high-level Security Council debate on Tuesday, as renowned natural historian David Attenborough warned countries that the planet faces total ‘collapse’.
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Climate crisis hitting 'worst case scenarios', warns Environment Agency
2021-02-23 in The GuardianSir James Bevan says extreme flooding in UK indicates urgent need for change if humanity is to survive
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | COP26 | Climate Change
How a Texas TV reporter gained the confidence to cover climate change
2021-02-22 (or before) in Columbia Journalism ReviewTagged under: Climate Change | Texas
Climate change is a threat to our security - Boris Johnson - BBC News
2021-02-22 (or before) in The BBCDavid Attenborough and activist Nisreen Elsaim address a UN session chaired by Boris Johnson.
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Texas freeze shows a chilling truth – how the rich use climate change to divide us | Robert Reich
2021-02-21 in The GuardianThe Lone Star State is aptly named. If you’re not part of the Republican oil elite with Cruz and Abbott, you’re on your own
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Shifts in global bat diversity suggest a possible role of climate change in the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 - ScienceDirect
2021-02-20 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comTagged under: Climate Change
Climate change: Why Norway, the UK and Canada are climate hypocrites - CNN
2021-02-19 (or before) by in CNNIn Oslo, street lamps are powered by renewables. To conserve energy, the smart lights dim when nobody is around. The Norwegian capital, like the rest of the country, is proud of its exceptional green credentials. Its public transportation system too is powered entirely by renewable energy. Two thirds of new cars sold in the city are electric. There's even a highway for bees.
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Rescue plan for nature: How to fix the biodiversity crisis
2021-02-18 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change | Activism
Climate change: Don't raid home insulation scheme, MPs urge ministers - BBC News
2021-02-17 (or before) in BBCThe government hopes to claw back money from a £1.5bn fund to promote home insulation.
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A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids (Published 2021)
2021-02-16 in The New York TimesTagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change | Texas | Wind Power | Electricity Grid
The Economics of Immense Risk, Urgent Action and Radical Change: Towards New Approaches to the Economics of Climate Change
2021-02-16 (or before) in National Bureau of Economic Research | NBERFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Climate Change Risk Assessment for the Insurance Industry | The Geneva Association
2021-02-15 in The Geneva AssociationThis first report by the Geneva Association Task Force on Climate Change Risk Assessment for the Insurance Industry offers a decision-making framework for climate risk assessment and scenario analysis for P&C and life re/insurers. The analysis considers all physical and transition climate change risks for the liability and asset sides of the balance sheet, by line of business and over distinct time horizons and serves as a foundation for the Task Force’s work to drive future developments in this space.
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From anger to action: Differential impacts of eco-anxiety, eco-depression, and eco-anger on climate action and wellbeing
2021-02-14 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comResearch documents the experiences of depression and anxiety evoked by climate change, but little attention has been given to frustration and anger, o…
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Capitalism Is Struggling With the Language of Climate Change
2021-02-10 (or before) in BloombergThe technical terminology of science can sometimes be muddled in powerful climate messages from finance and political leaders.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Capitalism | Finance
‘Incredibly destructive’: Canada’s Prairies to see devastating impact of climate change | Globalnews.ca
2021-02-07 (or before) in Global News CanadaAccording to Environment and Climate Change Canada, the country is warming, on average, about double the global rate.
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change
A 5 Trillion Dollar Subsidy: How We All Pay For Fossil Fuels
2021-02-06 (or before) by in ForbesEach year, fossil fuel producers receive trillions of dollars in subsidies. This reflects an epic market failure. Our atmosphere is a vital shared resource, and current policies allow producers to treat it like a garbage dump. Climate action is key to protect our health and the health of the planet.
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The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
2021-02-06 (or before) by in The AtlanticOur climate models could be missing something big.
Tagged under: Oceans | Extreme Weather | Rainforests | Arctic | Climate Change | Antarctic | Sea Level
This popular and proven climate policy should be at the top of Congress’s to-do list
2021-02-04 by in VoxThe case for a national clean electricity standard.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | US Politics | Joe Biden | Climate Change | Electricity
Climate change disasters in B.C. likely to increase if industrial logging continues unchecked: report | CBC News
2021-02-03 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public BroadcasterA report commissioned by Sierra Club B.C. says keeping healthy, mature forests safe from industrial logging will help protect the province from catastrophic flooding, wildfires, droughts and heat waves caused by climate change.
Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought | Climate Change | Flooding | Health | Trees
The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2021-02-02 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThe Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review (2006) assessed a wide range of evidence on the impacts of climate change and on the economic costs.
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Ban on burning grouse moor peatland ‘not enough to tackle climate crisis’
2021-02-02 (or before) in The Independent‘It will be embarrassing if we’re still burning bogs when the climate conference meets,’ says Wildlife Trusts
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildlife
Biden’s Early Climate Blitz Goes Faster, Further Than Expected
2021-01-28 (or before) in BloombergIn less than a month, the new president has oil executives ‘aghast’ at the swift policy switch
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UN global climate poll: ‘The people’s voice is clear – they want action’
2021-01-27 in The GuardianBiggest ever climate change survey finds two-thirds of people think climate change is a global emergency
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Farming | Brazil | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Indonesia
Peat Fires Smolder in Siberia Despite Bone-Chilling Temperatures - The Moscow Times
2021-01-27 by in The Moscow Times“The summer fire didn’t stop,” local media reported.
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Alberta Inquiry Paid $28K for a Report Smearing Hundreds of Climate Journalists
2021-01-26 (or before) in VICEThe report, paid for by the Alberta government, suggests climate reporters are part of a coordinated ploy by George Soros and other progressive elites to quash capitalism and distribute climate change propaganda.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism
Global ice loss increases at record rate
2021-01-25 (or before) by in University of LeedsThe rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new research.
Tagged under: Arctic | Climate Change | Antarctic
Global ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds
2021-01-25 in The GuardianRate of loss now in line with worst-case scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Sea Level
Emissions Gap Report 2020
2021-01-20 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeThe 2020 report finds that the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century but a low-carbon pandemic recovery could reduce the worst impacts of climate change.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Net Zero | Climate Change Impacts
Extreme weather and climate opinion: evidence from Australia - Climatic Change
2021-01-19 (or before) in Springer VerlagExtreme weather patterns can be linked to the effects of anthropogenic climate change with increasing confidence. Evidence from the USA suggests a weak relationship between individuals’ experiences of many types of weather events and concern about climate change. Using data from Australia, we investigate the effects of experiences of increases in mean temperatures and drought on a range of measures related to individuals’ beliefs in, and concerns about, climate change. Our results show no association between recent experiences of elevated temperature relative to long-term average and views about climate change, thoug...
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Extreme Rainfall | Drought | Climate Change
After Climate Alarmism
2021-01-19 by in New York MagazineThe war on denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
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Climate change, fragmentation and collective trauma. Bridging the divided stories we live by*
2021-01-16 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsThis article explores psychological responses to climate change with the lenses of brain hemisphere imbalance, the fragmentation process of collective trauma and the Jungian maturation theory of tw...
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Climate change: what would 4°C of global warming feel like?
2021-01-15 by in The ConversationClimate models are likely underestimating the true severity of future warming in urban areas.
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Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought
2021-01-15 by in DeSmogThe American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 – much earlier than previously thought – according to newly discovered archival documents. API “was promulgating false and misleading information about climate change in 1980, nearly a decade earlier than previously known,” […]
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Decoding the Hype Behind the Natural Gas Industry’s Hydrogen Push
2021-01-14 by in DeSmogIt seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. What’s known as “green hydrogen” — which relies on renewable power for production — is getting the bulk of that attention. In December, ABC News ran an article with the headline “Why green hydrogen […]
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American Petroleum Institute Chief Promises to Fight Biden and the Democrats on Drilling, Tax Policy - Inside Climate News
2021-01-14 in Inside Climate NewsIt’s a tough time for the nation’s oil and gas industry. Last year was among its least profitable in memory, and companies are bracing themselves for a new president focused on climate change, a Congress controlled by Democrats who increasingly shun their financial support and a world beginning to look past fossil fuels towards a […]
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The World Needs to Wake Up: At Risk the Survival of Humanity - Impakter
2021-01-13 in ImpakterAt a time when the world, battered by COVID-19, is watching with dismay the rocky transition from Trump to President-Elect Biden, a group of 17 world
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Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
2021-01-13 (or before) in FrontiersWe report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms — including humanity — is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts. Second, we ask what political or economic system, or leadership, is prepared to handle the predicted disasters, or even capable of such action. Third, this dire situation places an extraordinary responsibility on s...
Tagged under: Economics | Predictions | Climate Change | Health | Sustainability | Extinction
Justice Barrett Should Join Colleague in Recusal Due to Deep Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry
2021-01-12 (or before) in Union of Concerned ScientistsSCOTUS slated to take up procedural issue related to lawsuit brought by Baltimore seeking to hold oil and gas companies accountable for climate change harms their products caused. Justice Amy Coney Barrett recuse herself.
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Climate Change Flyers
2021-01-12 (or before) in Environmental Science | CERES-ScienceTagged under: Climate Change
Shell case puts spotlight on energy groups’ role in climate change | Financial Times
2021-01-11 in Financial TimesIf successful, the legal action in the Netherlands could force companies to accelerate the shift to cleaner fuels
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Sir David Attenborough warns of climate 'crisis moment' - BBC News
2021-01-10 (or before) in BBCWe're at a pivotal point in efforts to tackle climate change, the naturalist and broadcaster warns.
Tagged under: Climate Change | David Attenborough
Support our work - Climate Outreach
2021-01-07 (or before) by in Climate OutreachWith your support, our team can continue to draw on a robust evidence base & drive meaningful public engagement with climate change. Donate today!
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There’s a simple way to green the economy – and it involves cash prizes for all | Henry D Jacoby
2021-01-05 in The GuardianThe ‘carbon dividend’ is so elegant that it seems too good to be true, says Henry D Jacoby, of MIT’s joint program on the science and policy of global change
Tagged under: Economics | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Optimistic vs. pessimistic endings in climate change appeals - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
2021-01-04 (or before) in NatureThe use of emotion in climate change appeals is a hotly debated topic. Warning about the perils of imminent mass extinction, climate change communicators are often accused of being unnecessarily ‘doomsday’ in their attempts to foster a sense of urgency and action among the public. Pessimistic messaging, the thinking goes, undermines engagement efforts, straining credulity and fostering a sense of helplessness, rather than concern. Widespread calls for more optimistic climate change messaging punctuate public discourse. This research puts these claims to the test, investigating how affective endings (optimistic vs. pe...
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COVID-19: a dashboard to rebuild with nature - World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
2021-01-04 (or before) in wbcsd.orgWBCSD is a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.
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Green growth is trusted to fix climate change – here’s the problem with that
2021-01-03 (or before) in The ConversationTagged under: Climate Change
S2E39: The cost of climate repair vs. COVID-19—w/ Sir David King & Rick Parnell
2021-01-02 (or before) in nori.comTagged under: Climate Change
Get Involved - UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021
2021-01-02 (or before) in UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC Ð Glasgow 2021The 26th UN Climate Change Conference will take place in November 2021, at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.
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How to Make the Paris Agreement Really Work | The New Republic
2020-12-29 (or before) in The New RepublicThe climate accord will only succeed if the Biden administration can think outside of it.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Climate change: The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about - BBC News
2020-12-28 (or before) in BBCCement is the source of about 8% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. How can this be changed?
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Massachusetts city to post climate change warning stickers at gas stations
2020-12-25 in The GuardianBright yellow stickers warn drivers burning of gasoline has ‘major consequences on human health and the environment’
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health
To Force Climate Action, We Need More Than Just Protests
2020-12-24 (or before) in JacobinTwo years ago, the Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion both captured media attention through bold direct action. Since then, Sunrise has combined protest with political work challenging fossil-fuel interests. XR and other groups tepid about electoral politics should do the same.
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Climate Change | Activism
Lloyd's of London steps back from coal in first climate change policy | Reuters
2020-12-16 (or before) in ReutersLloyd's of London is scaling back its exposure to coal and oil sands, the commercial insurance market said in its first sustainability report on Wednesday, in a reversal of its traditional hands-off approach to climate change strategy.
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change | Insurance | Sustainability
Mountain hares at risk as winter coats fail to camouflage in snowless Scottish Highlands
2020-12-16 in The GuardianMountain hares in Scotland failing to adapt to climate change, leaving them more vulnerable to predators
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildlife
Earth may be even closer to 1.5°C of global warming than we thought
2020-12-15 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change
Climate change fuels rising arsenic levels in rice. GM crop varieties, new growing techniques could cut toxic exposure
2020-12-14 in Genetic Literacy ProjectRice is particularly vulnerable to arsenic uptake because unlike most crops, it grows in flooded conditions with anoxic soil. Microbes that thrive in
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Guide to climate fixed income investing
2020-12-09 in Robeco International | Pure play asset managementWe explain how Robeco invests in tomorrow’s winners to mitigate climate change. And how we created the world’s first global fixed income strategy fully aligned with the Paris Agreement.
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The World Is Headed for 3 Degrees of Warming This Century, U.N. Report Warns—But a Green Pandemic Recovery Could Offer Hope
2020-12-09 in TIME MagazineThe world is behind on commitments to limit global warming, but a green recovery from Covid could set us back on track
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Opinion | You Should Have Listened, New York Tells Big Oil (Published 2020)
2020-12-09 in The New York TimesTagged under: Renewable Energy | BP | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
How Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era
2020-12-07 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News CoverageA warming world is expanding the range of deadly diseases and risking an explosion of new zoonotic pathogens from the likes of bats, mosquitoes, and ticks
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How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster
2020-12-01 (or before) in PoliticoTaxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Housing
In-depth Q&A: Does the world need hydrogen to solve climate change?
2020-11-30 in Carbon BriefFor the purposes of achieving net-zero emissions, hydrogen production will need to be switched from grey to green and blue.
Tagged under: Hydrogen | Climate Change | Net Zero
Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change - Climatic Change
2020-11-27 (or before) in Springer VerlagMedia reports and public polls suggest that young people in many countries are increasingly factoring climate change into their reproductive choices, but empirical evidence about this phenomenon is lacking. This article reviews the scholarship on this subject and discusses the results of the first empirical study focused on it, a quantitative and qualitative survey of 607 US-Americans between the ages of 27 and 45. While 59.8% of respondents reported being “very” or “extremely concerned” about the carbon footprint of procreation, 96.5% of respondents were “very” or “extremely concerned&r...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Women and Children | Climate Change Mitigation | Children
Climate Bonds Initiative
2020-11-27 (or before) in Climate Bonds Initiative | Mobilizing debt capital markets for climate change solutionsMobilizing debt capital markets for climate change solutions
Tagged under: Climate Change | Finance | Capitalism
Eight steps to turn the world around - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2020-11-27 (or before) in London School of EconomicsSean Kidney sets out eight steps to drive change in global capital and channel trillions towards investment in the green, resilient and inclusive economy of the future.
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Could we ever pull enough carbon out of the atmosphere to stop climate change?
2020-11-22 in Live SciencePlanting trees helps, but what are other ways?
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Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change - Nature Climate Change
2020-11-22 (or before) in NatureIn recent decades, the Arctic has warmed at over twice the global rate. This Perspective places these trends into the context of abrupt Dansgaard–Oeschger warming events in the palaeoclimate record, arguing that the contemporary Arctic is undergoing comparably abrupt climate change.
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Global crop yields projected to drop as temperatures rise, new study finds
2020-11-20 by in Genetic Literacy ProjectThe warmer temperatures associated with climate change are projected to significantly reduce yields of the world’s staple food crops, a new analysis
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Carbon Dioxide Concentration | NASA Global Climate Change
2020-11-19 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetVital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.
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5 Things We Know About Climate Change and Hurricanes (Published 2020)
2020-11-10 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change
Publications - Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels - Summary for Policymakers
2020-11-10 (or before) in The Heartland Institute - To discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
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2020-11-10 (or before) in Science | AAASMuch recent attention has focused on the potential of trees and forests to mitigate ongoing climate change by acting as sinks for carbon. Anderegg et al. review the growing evidence that forests' climate mitigation ...
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David Lammy: Climate justice can't happen without racial justice
2020-11-09 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth SpreadingWhy has there been so little mention of saving Black lives from the climate emergency? For too long, racial justice efforts have been distinguished from climate justice work, says David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, England. In a stirring talk about building a new movement to care for the planet, Lammy calls for inclusion and support of Black and minority leadership on climate issues and a global recognition that we can't solve climate change without racial, social and intergenerational justice.
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White House removes climate scientist Michael Kuperberg heading USGRP - The Washington Post
2020-11-09 in The Washington PostChange at Global Change Research Program may allow climate contrarian David Legates to take over.
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Colorado's record-breaking wildfires show "climate change is here and now" - CBS News
2020-11-04 (or before) in CBS NewsAs bad as this year has been, scientists warn it's "unlikely that the records from 2020 will stand for long."
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Climate change: Greenland's ice faces melting 'death sentence' - BBC News
2020-11-04 (or before) in BBCThe massive ice sheet covering Greenland may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists say.
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The Climate Is Breaking Down. Architect Bjarke Ingels Has a Masterplan for That
2020-10-31 (or before) in TIME MagazineIngels' next project redesigns the planet to cut greenhouse emissions, clean up pollution and adapt to climate change
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Indigenous Peoples are critical to nature-based solutions to climate change
2020-10-28 (or before) in iPolitics NewsTagged under: Climate Change
Climate change: China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated' - BBC News
2020-10-28 (or before) in The BBCScientists put new numbers on Chinese trees' ability to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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The Whole World Is on the Ballot | The New Republic
2020-10-28 (or before) in The New RepublicAs American democracy teeters, so does the fate of our burning planet.
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Net-zero carbon emissions won't be sustainable if social inequalities aren't addressed
2020-10-26 (or before) by in The ConversationThe effects of climate change and mitigation are not just unequal between countries but also within countries.
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Japan aims for zero emissions, carbon neutral society by 2050 - PM | Reuters
2020-10-26 (or before) in ReutersJapan is aiming to cut greenhouse gases to zero by 2050 and become a carbon-neutral society, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday as he unveiled a major shift in position on climate change.
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The Arctic is in a death spiral. How much longer will it exist?
2020-10-26 (or before) in The GuardianThe region is unravelling faster than anyone could once have predicted. But there may still be time to act
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War on NOAA? A Climate Denier’s Arrival Raises Fears the Agency's Climate Mission Is Under Attack - Inside Climate News
2020-10-25 in Inside Climate NewsIn the shadow of the Trump administration’s dismissal of climate change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has continued to press on with its work measuring the breadth and pace of the climate crisis. So far in 2020, NOAA recorded the nation’s hottest summer on record, the second-lowest Arctic sea ice minimum and the greatest […]
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US election 2020: What the results will mean for climate change - BBC News
2020-10-19 (or before) in BBCWho next occupies the White House could be decisive in the battle to limit global warming.
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How Should the Media Talk About Climate Change?
2020-10-17 (or before) in The New YorkerTagged under: Climate Change
Reply to Comment on 'Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014)' Supran and Oreskes (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019) - IOPscience
2020-10-16 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
New Climate Warnings in Old Permafrost: 'It’s a Little Scary Because it’s Happening Under Our Feet.' - Inside Climate News
2020-10-16 in Inside Climate NewsA dive deep into 27,000 years worth of muck piled up on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean has spurred researchers to renew warnings about a potential surge of greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost. By tracking chemical and organic fingerprints in long-buried layers of sediments remaining from previously frozen ground, the scientists showed that […]
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Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014) - IOPscience
2020-10-16 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
Jeff Bezos and the Golden Age of Climate Hypocrisy | The New Republic
2020-10-15 (or before) in The New RepublicAmazon has pledged to offset carbon emissions—while donating generously to Republicans who are bent on letting the planet burn.
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Read "Climate Change: Evidence and Causes: Update 2020" at NAP.edu
2020-10-15 (or before) in The National Academies PressRead chapter Front Matter: Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time. It is now more certain than ever, based on many lines of evidence, th...
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Academic Citations on the Pitfalls of Congressional Transparency
2020-10-15 (or before) by in The Congressional Research InstituteVia increased transparency Congress has gotten more corrupt and lobbyists have gained power. This dynamic drives climate change, the debt, incarceration and partisanship. We compile academic on this topic and investigate its roots in the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970
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Upcoming SCOTUS Climate Case Involves Oil Giant That Employed Barrett’s Father
2020-10-14 in The LeverBarrett told lawmakers she doesn’t have “firm views” on climate change. For decades, her father was a lawyer at Shell Oil, which now has a major climate case in front of the high court.
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Maui Has Begun the Process of Managed Retreat. It Wants Big Oil to Pay the Cost of Sea Level Rise. - Inside Climate News
2020-10-14 in Inside Climate NewsWith nearly 300 miles of coastline, the Hawaiian islands that make up Maui County face the threat of sea level rise from all sides. It’s that assault that has formed the foundation of a lawsuit Maui filed this week against 20 fossil fuel companies seeking compensation for the rising costs of climate change. The lawsuit […]
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Mark Carney says banks should link executive pay to Paris climate goals
2020-10-13 in The GuardianEx-Bank of England boss tells UN summit that boardroom pay link can help meet climate targets faster
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Boreal forest being driven to tipping point by climate change, study finds | CBC News
2020-10-13 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public BroadcasterClimate change is forcing the boreal forest that covers much of northern Canada to a tipping point, concludes a newly published study.
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How Will Global and UK Climate and Hazardous Weather Change in a 3°C World? | Professor Ted Shepherd
2020-10-13 (or before) in YouTubeProfessor Ted Shepherd from University of Reading, presents How Will Global and UK Climate and Hazardous Weather Change in a 3°C World?Professor Shepherd's p...
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German research vessel to return from 'dying Arctic' | DW | 12.10.2020
2020-10-12 (or before) by in Deutsche WelleThe German Alfred Wegener Institute's Polarstern ship is set to return to the port on Monday, bringing home devastating proof of a "dying Arctic Ocean" and warnings of ice-free summers in just decades.
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Rainforest at Biosphere 2 Offers Glimpse into Future of the Amazon
2020-10-12 in University of Arizona NewsTropical forests may be more resilient to climate change than previously thought, according to a new study. The results could help make climate prediction models more accurate.
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Democrats Fight Rule Making It Harder to Avoid Investing in Fossil Fuels
2020-10-11 (or before) in Cheddar NewsDemocratic lawmakers are speaking out against a proposed Labor Department rule that they argue would make it harder for retirement funds to consider important environmental factors when making investment decisions.
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Retirement Plans Push Back on Trump Rule Limiting Fossil Fuel Divestments
2020-10-11 (or before) in Cheddar NewsThe new rule would tweak the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), which regulates the fiduciary duties of private plan managers.
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The Energy Mix - The climate news you need
2020-10-11 (or before) in The Energy Mix - The climate news you needWe produce original climate news reporting, analysis, and exposés to shine a light on the urgent climate emergency, and the obstacles that stand in the way.
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His Holiness Pope Francis: Our moral imperative to act on climate change -- and 3 steps we can take
2020-10-11 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth SpreadingThe global climate crisis will require us to transform the way we act, says His Holiness Pope Francis. Delivering a visionary TED Talk from Vatican City, the spiritual leader proposes three courses of action to address the world's growing environmental problems and economic inequalities, illustrating how all of us can work together, across faiths and societies, to protect the Earth and promote the dignity of everyone. "The future is built today," he says. "And it is not built in isolation, but rather in community and in harmony." (In Italian with subtitles. Watch this talk in English at go.ted.com/popefrancis20 and Spanish at go...
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First Methane Leak Found on Antarctic Sea Floor Confirms Researchers' Fears
2020-10-11 (or before) by in ScienceAlertScientists have, for the first time, discovered an active leak of methane gas from the sea floor in Antarctica. It is a process that's likely to accelerate the process of global heating.
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We can’t have billionaires and stop climate change
2020-10-09 by in The CorrespondentEcological breakdown isn’t being caused by everyone equally. If we are going to survive the 21st century, we need to distribute income and wealth more fairly.
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Approximate calculations of the net economic impact of global warming mitigation targets under heightened damage estimates
2020-10-09 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceEfforts to mitigate global warming are often justified through calculations of the economic damages that may occur absent mitigation. The earliest such damage estimates were speculative mathematical representations, but some more recent studies provide empirical estimates of damages on economic growth that accumulate over time and result in larger damages than those estimated previously. These heightened damage estimates have been used to suggest that limiting global warming this century to 1.5 °C avoids tens of trillions of 2010 US$ in damage to gross world product relative to limiting global warming to 2.0 °C. However,...
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2020-10-09 (or before) in Climate Psychology AlliancePsychology for understanding and facing climate change and difficult truths – responding to ecological crisis and helping each other engage
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Church of England Unloads Exxon Shares on Failed Emission Goals
2020-10-09 (or before) in BloombergIts pensions board is now fully divested from the oil giant for not meeting key climate criteria
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New Study Casts Doubt On The Climate Benefits Of Natural Gas Power Plants
2020-10-09 in HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPostThe emissions and methane leaks from new gas plants zero out the CO2 cuts achieved from closing coal plants, a peer-reviewed analysis found.
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InfluenceMap Climate Change and Digital Advertising
2020-10-08 (or before) in InfluenceMapevoke web application engine
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Climate denial ads on Facebook seen by millions, report finds
2020-10-08 in The GuardianThe ads included calling climate change a hoax and were paid for by conservative US groups
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Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents
2020-10-05 (or before) in BloombergInternal projections from one of world’s largest oil producers show an increase in its enormous contribution to global warming
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Has the world started to take climate change fight seriously? - BBC News
2020-10-04 (or before) in BBCA surprise announcement at the UN General Assembly has transformed the politics of cutting carbon.
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The New Climate Math: The Numbers Keep Getting More Frightening
2020-10-02 (or before) in Yale E360Scientists keep raising ever-louder alarms about the urgency of tackling climate change, but the world’s governments aren’t listening. Yet the latest numbers don’t lie: Nations now plan to keep producing more coal, oil, and gas than the planet can endure.
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Antarctica could melt 'irreversibly' due to climate change, study warns
2020-09-29 in Live ScienceThe change will take thousands of years, but we only have a century to stop it.
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Another humiliation for British climate change deniers and their promoters in the media - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2020-09-28 (or before) in London School of Economics‘The Daily Telegraph’ has been forced today to publish corrections to an error-filled article about climate and energy policy by...
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China’s historic announcement on net-zero emissions - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2020-09-28 (or before) in London School of EconomicsNicholas Stern explains why President Xi’s historic pledge to cut China's emissions to net-zero by 2060, announced this week, could prove to be a key milestone on the path to a healthier, safer and more prosperous future.
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NATO must combat climate change - Op-ed article by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
2020-09-28 (or before) by in nato.intTagged under: Climate Change
Alarm at Proposal to Appoint Climate Science Denier Charles Moore BBC Chairman | Climate Change
2020-09-28 (or before) in Climate Change | IrelandÕs one-stop source of information and opinion on environmental, climate change and related issuesTagged under: Climate Change
An analysis of the Trump Administration’s economic and policy arguments for withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2020-09-28 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThis report investigates whether the evidence supports the reasons given by the Trump Administration to justify its decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, and concludes that the decision is irrational and does not promote the best interests of the American people.
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The economic case for the United States to remain in the Paris Agreement on climate change - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2020-09-28 (or before) in London School of EconomicsThis policy brief examines the economic case for the United States to continue its participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change and finds that withdrawing is a mistake.
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Fossil fuel companies ‘misleading’ Boris Johnson on green hydrogen
2020-09-26 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesBoris Johnson is being misled by Britain’s multibillion-pound fossil fuel lobby into backing climate change policies that risk unnecessarily pushing up energy b
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Insurance Circular Letter No. 15 (2020): Climate Change and Financial Risks
2020-09-26 (or before) in dfs.ny.govTagged under: Climate Change | Insurance
The Wasteland Underwater
2020-09-24 by in The Texas Observer: Investigating Texas Since 1954Lavaca Bay is already poisoned by mercury. Climate change will only make matters worse there—and at 944 other Superfund sites across the country.
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Sir David Attenborough warns of climate 'crisis moment' - BBC News
2020-09-23 (or before) in The BBCWe're at a pivotal point in efforts to tackle climate change, the naturalist and broadcaster warns.
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How the ‘carbon footprint’ originated as a PR campaign for big oil - Thred Website
2020-09-23 in Thred | Youth Culture + Social ChangeOne of the most successful marketing ploys of the 20th century was when BP framed you for climate change.
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Business Green
2020-09-22 (or before) in Business GreenThe UK's leading source of information for the green economy, delivering the latest news and in-depth analysis on green business and environmental issues.
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As Climate Change Worsens, A Cascade of Tipping Points Looms
2020-09-22 (or before) in Yale E360New research warns that the earth may be approaching key tipping points, including the runaway loss of ice sheets, that could fundamentally disrupt the global climate system. A growing concern is a change in ocean circulation, which could alter climate patterns in a profound way.
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Climate Week: Prince Charles calls for 'swift' action on climate change - BBC News
2020-09-21 (or before) in The BBCCovid-19 provides an opportunity to "reset" the economy for a more sustainable future, he says.
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How the oil industry made us doubt climate change - BBC News
2020-09-20 (or before) in The BBCEnergy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming.
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New analysis finds planet heading toward temperature threshold not seen in 34 million years
2020-09-14 in Alternet.orgA newly published study conducted by a team of climate scientists warns that—barring prompt and rigorous efforts to minimize greenhouse gas emissions—"Earth is on track for some of the strongest, fastest climate change the planet has ever experienced."Undertaking what Chelsea Harvey of Scientific Am...
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NOAA hires David Legates, who has a long record questioning human-caused climate change - The Washington Post
2020-09-13 in The Washington PostNOAA is appointing Legates to a top position, raising concerns about his influence on the agency's climate science work.
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A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views on Climate Change (Published 2020)
2020-09-12 in The New York TimesTagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Methane
The future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call | Peter Gleick
2020-09-11 in The GuardianScientists have been warning of the growing threat of climate change, and now those projections are a reality
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Climate change is already making California feel unlivable
2020-09-11 (or before) in The TelegraphThrough pandemic and wildfires, residents can no longer socialise indoors or out
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Broadcast TV networks’ August wildfire coverage missed key factors including climate change, coronavirus, and prison labor
2020-09-10 (or before) in Media Matters for AmericaAugust was a turbulent month for wildfire activity in the Western U.S. California alone suffered through two of its largest wildfires in recent history, and there are more than 80 other large, active fires burning in 15 states. Record-breaking temperatures and climate change are playing a role in the size and scale of the fires, and the coronavirus pandemic is complicating efforts to contain the blazes and safely evacuate those in their path. But a review by Media Matters found that these factors were largely ignored in broadcast TV news coverage of the month’s wildfires. Key Findings: Corporate broadcast TV ou...
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Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here's why
2020-09-09 by in The ConversationThis celebrated research gives governments a reason to give climate change a low priority, but is based on spurious empirical data.
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Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn
2020-09-09 (or before) by in ScienceAlertThe Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models.
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Charleston sues fossil fuel companies over climate change | The State
2020-09-09 (or before) in amp.thestate.comCharleston, SC, filed a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies, claiming the city has been damaged by climate change caused by the companies.
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Federal Report Warns of Financial Havoc From Climate Change (Published 2020)
2020-09-09 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Economics
What Climate Change Does to the Human Body
2020-09-01 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanAn ENT physician sees the effects in her patients all the time
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How SUVs conquered the world – at the expense of its climate
2020-09-01 in The GuardianExclusive new emissions analysis shows how much more dangerous SUVs are for the climate than smaller vehicles, and how they have become part of our lives
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Groups pressure Biden to exclude fossil fuel execs from team
2020-09-01 by in The HillMore than 100 climate and advocacy groups are asking Joe Biden's presidential campaign to commit to blocking fossil fuel representatives from its transition team or administration should the former vice president wi
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A Climate Change Skeptic, Mike Pence Brought to the Vice Presidency Deep Ties to the Koch Brothers - Inside Climate News
2020-08-31 in Inside Climate NewsFind profiles of all the presidential election candidates here. Vice President Mike Pence’s fight to block climate action began long before he became President Donald Trump’s stalwart second-in-command. The former Indiana governor came into Trump’s orbit with a reputation as a culture warrior who sought to restrict gay marriage and reproductive rights, and he has described […]
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Unless we change course, the US agricultural system could collapse | Tom Philpott
2020-08-26 in The GuardianOur food supply comes from an environmentally unsustainable system that is going to unravel
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California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Transformation of Wildfires Around the Globe - Inside Climate News
2020-08-22 by in Inside Climate NewsThe wildfires that exploded over the past few days in California and Colorado show clear influences of global warming, climate scientists say, and evidence of how a warming and drying climate is increasing the size and severity of fires from the California coast to the high Rocky Mountains. They may also be the latest examples […]
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California Reveals That the Transition to Renewable Energy Isn’t So Simple
2020-08-19 by in Slate MagazineSometimes the features of a wind-and-solar system turn out to be bugs.
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Home - System Change Not Climate Change
2020-08-19 (or before) in System Change Not Climate ChangeTagged under: Climate Change
Greta Thunberg: After two years of school strikes, the world is still in a state of climate crisis denial
2020-08-19 in The GuardianWe can have as many meetings as we like, but the will to change is nowhere in sight, says climate activist Greta Thunberg, and others
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Green Capitalism: How Multinationals Use Climate Change to Impose an Industrial Agricultural Model
2020-08-19 (or before) by Translated by Leslie Thatcher in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismAdvocates are questioning whether Big Ag's "climate-smart agriculture" will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Capitalism
Air pollution is much worse than we thought
2020-08-12 by David Roberts in VoxDitching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | India
Global Warming: What We Got Wrong | Simon Sinek
2020-08-10 (or before) in YouTubeThe climate crisis is a game that has no end. Our planet will survive, even if our species does not. It's time we reframe how we think and talk about climate...
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Five Years After Speaking Out on Climate Change, Pope Francis Sounds an Urgent Alarm - Inside Climate News
2020-08-07 in Inside Climate NewsWhen Pope Francis issued his landmark teaching document on climate change in 2015, his words went straight to the heart of Susan Varlamoff. Varlamoff, 70, a biologist, read Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the 1960s and speaks proudly of a Catholic faith that embraces science and calls on church members to take care of the […]
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Canada's Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses
2020-08-07 in HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPostThe Arctic has been warming at twice the global rate for the past 30 years.
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Letter from economists: to rebuild our world, we must end the carbon economy
2020-08-04 in The GuardianThe carbon economy amplifies racial, social and economic inequities, creating a system that is fundamentally incompatible with a stable future
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UK Climate Risk
2020-07-31 (or before) in UK Climate RiskUK Climate Risk hosts outputs from the Committee on Climate Change’s independent climate change risk assessment evidence report, which informs the UK Government’s third CCRA
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Supreme Court finds government climate plan falls "well short"
2020-07-31 (or before) by Lauren Boland in The JournalThe case was brought to the Supreme Court by Friends of the Irish Environment after the High Court rejected its case in September.
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ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
2020-07-29 (or before) in ResearchGateTagged under: Climate Change
The surprising reasons why people ignore the facts about climate change
2020-07-28 in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.Two new studies dig into the reasons why people ignore facts about climate change. The takeaway: Evidence alone isn’t enough.
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The Chinese Communist Party Is an Environmental Catastrophe - System Change Not Climate Change
2020-07-28 in System Change Not Climate ChangeAs China struggles to recover economically from the impact of the pandemic, it is set to deal a painful blow to global efforts to fight climate change. The party has […]
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Friederike Otto interview: Can we sue oil giants for extreme weather?
2020-07-27 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of 'Deep Adaptation'
2020-07-21 (or before) in openDemocracyThe claim that runaway climate change has made societal collapse inevitable is not only wrong – it undermines the cause of the climate movement.
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Negative emissions tech helps, but it's no magic bullet for the climate crisis | Tamsin Edwards
2020-07-20 in The GuardianSprinkling rock dust on fields is no replacement for reducing emissions, says the academic Tamsin Edwards
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Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change – World Weather Attribution
2020-07-16 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Heatwaves | Climate Change | Russia
A New Approach to the Intractable Problem of Climate Change
2020-07-16 in Boston Consulting GroupTo overcome climate inaction, we must understand the rationale for individuals’ behaviors, identify the groups that could change those behaviors, and work with those groups to transform the vicious cycle into a virtuous one.
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Climate change made Siberian heatwave 600 times more likely – study
2020-07-15 in The GuardianHuman fingerprint on record temperatures ‘has rarely, if ever, been clearer’
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Governments put 'green recovery' on the backburner
2020-07-15 in The GuardianG20 countries aim their pandemic bailout spending at fossil fuel industries, leaving Paris climate change targets in doubt
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This didn't go well, folks - by Emily Atkin - HEATED
2020-07-14 (or before) by in HEATED | Emily Atkin | SubstackWe tried to "bridge the generational divide" on climate change. We failed.
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Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation - Nature Climate Change
2020-07-14 (or before) in NatureClimate change laws are shown to reduce national CO2 emissions by 0.78% in their first three years and 1.79% in the longer term. These reductions add up to 38 GtCO2 of avoided emissions for 1999–2016—equal to a year of CO2 emissions.
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For Effective Climate Change Activism, Focus on Supply
2020-07-14 (or before) in BloombergTo effect change, climate activists need to pursue both divestment and limiting demand for carbon emissions.
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Carbon Captured
2020-07-14 (or before) in MIT PressA comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking.Climate change threatens the planet, and yet policy responses have varied widely across nations. Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off climate disaster, others have done little, and still others have passed policies that were later rolled back. In this book, Matto Mildenberger opens the “black box” of domestic climate politics, examining policy making trajectories in several countries and offering a theoretical explanation for national differences in the ...
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Ashden • Climate Change Charity
2020-07-13 in Ashden - Climate Solutions in ActionIn the UK and in developing countries, our networks and insights drive radical system change – building a fairer, better, more sustainable world.
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Ashden • Climate Change Charity
2020-07-13 in Ashden - Climate Solutions in ActionIn the UK and in developing countries, our networks and insights drive radical system change – building a fairer, better, more sustainable world.
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Global warming trends highlight 'enormous challenge' of meeting Paris climate pledge, WMO says | Reuters
2020-07-09 (or before) in ReutersGlobal temperatures will continue to warm over the next five years, and may even temporarily rise to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.
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Climate change: 'Rising chance' of exceeding 1.5C global target - BBC News
2020-07-09 (or before) in The BBCThe chance of breaching one of the Paris accord goals in the next five years has doubled, a study says.
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Climate change: New forecasts predict rising average temperatures, a warming Arctic and more Atlantic storms
2020-07-09 (or before) in Sky NewsThe analysis suggests annual global temperatures at least 1C above pre-industrial levels in each year between 2020 and 2024.
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Don't Try to Change the Minds of Climate-Denying Politicians. Vote Them Out
2020-07-09 in TIME MagazineThe right to vote is our most powerful tool to tackle climate change
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Co-Immunism In The Age Of Pandemics And Climate Change | NOEMA
2020-07-05 (or before) in Noema MagazineGerman philosopher Peter Sloterdijk speaks with Noema’s editor-in-chief, Nathan Gardels.
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Government climate advisers running scared of change, says leading scientist
2020-06-26 in The GuardianRapid transformation needed, Kevin Anderson says, particularly in lifestyles of rich
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Who is really to blame for climate change?
2020-06-24 (or before) in BBCWe know that climate change is caused by human activity, but pinning down exactly who is responsible is trickier than it might seem.
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Minnesota AG Keith Ellison to sue oil giants over climate change - Bring Me The News
2020-06-24 (or before) by in bringmethenews.comExxon Mobil, Koch Industries, and American Petroleum are named in the suit.
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Now Is Not The Time To Pump The Brakes On Fleet Electrification
2020-06-24 (or before) by in ForbesIn order to meet their long-term climate commitments as well as near-term policy requirements, fleet operators are continuing to accelerate their investments in electrification, even now.
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COVID-19 can be an historic turning point in tackling the global climate crisis - Climate Change Committee
2020-06-24 in Climate Change CommitteeMinisters must seize the opportunity to turn the COVID-19 crisis into a defining moment in the fight against climate change, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says today. In its annual report to Parliament, the Committee provides comprehensive new advice to the Government on delivering an economic recovery that accelerates the transition to a cleaner, net-zero emissions economy and strengthens the country’s resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good' - BBC News
2020-06-24 (or before) in BBCLarge-scale tree planting to fight climate change may backfire, two new studies have found.
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Absolute Impact: Why oil majors' climate ambitions fall short of Paris limits - Carbon Tracker Initiative
2020-06-24 (or before) in Carbon Tracker InitiativeThere is growing recognition that changes to oil and gas consumption are required to meet the finite limits of a global carbon budget and the goals of Paris
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Climate change communication and public engagement in interpersonal deliberative settings: evidence from the Irish citizens’ assembly
2020-06-23 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsCitizens are being increasingly called upon to participate in climate change policymaking. Citizen assemblies have been proposed as a viable and effective way of boosting public support for ambitio...
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Even ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short of Paris Agreement targets
2020-06-22 (or before) in The University of ManchesterNew research focusing on the UK and Sweden, demonstrates just how far even ‘climate progressive’ nations are from meeting our international commitments to avoid dangerous climate change. The researchers concluded that despite the UK and Sweden claiming to have world leading climate legislation, their planned reductions in emissions will still...
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Climate Change
2020-06-20 (or before) in World BankLatest news and information from the World Bank and its development work on Climate Change. Access facts, statistics, project information, development research from experts and latest news about Climate Change.
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ECIU
2020-06-20 (or before) in Energy & Climate Intelligence UnitInformed debate on energy and climate change.
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UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021
2020-06-20 (or before) in UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC Ð Glasgow 2021The 26th UN Climate Change Conference will take place in November 2021, at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.
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Why climate change is a civil rights battle
2020-06-18 by in The CorrespondentClimate disasters are not ‘natural’ – they’re human made. If we want to fight climate change, we first need to tackle inequality and racism.
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The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds
2020-06-16 (or before) by in The ConversationAustralia ranks third in the world in climate change deniers. It’s a bronze medal we don’t want.
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Climate-exodus expected in the Middle East and North Africa
2020-06-07 (or before) in mpg.deClimate change could lead to more climate refugees from the Middle East and North Africa according to calculations by a team of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, led by J. Lelieveld.
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UN climate negotiations delayed but climate action must continue
2020-05-29 (or before) in LDC Climate ChangeThimphu, Bhutan – “A delayed COP must not delay climate action”, emphasises the Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), representing more than 1 billion people living in some of the most vulnerable countries bearing the brunt of climate change. Today the COP Bureau announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, COP26 – the annual UN
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40 Years of Data Confirm Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger. Climate Models Were Right
2020-05-27 (or before) by in ScienceAlertThe most powerful storms on our planet have grown substantially stronger, and almost forty years' worth of hurricane satellite imagery suggest a warming planet might be fuelling the changes.
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Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services
2020-05-27 (or before) in Met Office UKThe Met Office Hadley Centre is one of the UK's foremost climate change research centres.
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Climate Change Might Trigger El Niño-like Pattern Over Indian Ocean by 2050: Study | The Weather Channel - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com
2020-05-24 (or before) in The Weather Channel and weather.comThe new study revealed that even a small increase in the surface temperature of the Indian Ocean can lead to the formation of El Niño-like patterns in the near future. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com
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Why Climate Change Caused Me To Rethink My Career Plans
2020-05-23 in HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost“I feel like I have no choice but to pursue an education and career path that will arm me with the weapons I need to fight this ‘global war.’"
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Thousands in Michigan evacuate after 2 dams are breached, and the governor warns city could soon be under '9 feet of water'
2020-05-22 (or before) in Climate SignalsClimate Signals Summary: In the Midwest, climate change is increasing extreme and total precipitation, which is greatly increasing the risk of severe flooding, like the current Michigan flooding.
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Climate Signals
2020-05-22 (or before) in Climate SignalsClimate Signals is a nonprofit, nonpartisan project of Climate Nexus that curates cutting-edge attribution science and provides resources in real time explaining how climate change worsens extreme events.
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Oroville Dam Spillway Overflow February 2017
2020-05-22 (or before) in Climate SignalsA series of weather systems has delivered record-breaking heavy precipitation to California since early January 2017. On top of heavy precipitation, warm weather systems dropped rainfall in mountain regions where snow pack was forced to melt back to higher elevations and the resulting melt water joined the mountain run-off from the passing storms. Climate change contributes to both heavy precipitation as well as warmer temperatures that prematurely melt snow pack. The combination of heavy precipitation and snow-pack melt has driven the state from drought to flood. Natural climate variability in California is extremely ...
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'I don't want to be seen as a zealot': what MPs really think about the climate crisis
2020-05-21 in The GuardianThe long read: In return for anonymity, MPs agreed to speak candidly about climate change. The difference between what they say in private and in public is striking – and shows us how we can make climate action central to post-pandemic politics
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Climate change is turning parts of Antarctica green, say scientists
2020-05-20 in The GuardianResearchers map ‘beginning of new ecosystem’ as algae bloom across surface of melting snow
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Trump admin slaps solar, wind operators with retroactive rent bills | Reuters
2020-05-19 (or before) in ReutersThe Trump administration has ended a two-year rent holiday for solar and wind projects operating on federal lands, handing them whopping retroactive bills at a time the industry is struggling with the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, according to company officials.
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UC becomes nation's largest university to divest fully from fossil fuels
2020-05-19 in Los Angeles TimesThe University of California has fully divested from all fossil fuels, the nation's largest university to do so as pressure grows at Harvard, Stanford and other campuses to join the fight against climate change.
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Former Archbishop of Canterbury urges churches to reduce ‘lethal dependence’ on fossil fuels - Premier Christian News | Headlines, Breaking News, Comment & Analysis
2020-05-15 (or before) in Premier Christian News | Headlines, Breaking News, Comment & AnalysisThe former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has spoken of the responsibility of churches to fight climate change, following a new report. Christian
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Guest post: A brief history of climate targets and technological promises
2020-05-13 in Carbon BriefOver the past three decades, the perceived wisdom for how to approach climate targets has changed several times. From initial ideas of climate stabilisation, suggested approaches have focused on percentage CO2 emissions cuts, atmospheric CO2 concentrations, carbon budgets and today’s dominant framing of temperature rise limits.
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Michael Moore's new film turns heroes into villains and villains into heroes | Opinion
2020-05-13 (or before) in NewsweekTagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change
Home - Transition Pathway Initiative
2020-05-12 (or before) by in Transition Pathway InitiativeThe Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) is a global, asset-owner led initiative which assesses companies' preparedness for the transition to a low carbon economy.
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Publications and news - Transition Pathway Initiative
2020-05-12 (or before) by in Transition Pathway InitiativeThe Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) is a global, asset-owner led initiative which assesses companies' preparedness for the transition to a low carbon economy.
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Potentially fatal bouts of heat and humidity on the rise, study finds
2020-05-08 in The GuardianScientists identify thousands of extreme events, suggesting stark warnings about global heating are already coming to pass
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Young people face 'altered world', say lawyers in child climate case
2020-05-06 by in The Straits Times - Breaking News, Lifestyle & Multimedia NewsLONDON (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) - Young people face a "fundamentally altered world" that threatens their human rights and safety unless governments take effective action to curb climate change, lawyers for Greta Thunberg and other child climate activists said on Tuesday (May 5). . Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Letter: Building a resilient recovery from the COVID-19 crisis to Prime Minister Boris Johnson - Climate Change Committee
2020-05-06 (or before) in Climate Change CommitteeThis is a letter from Lord Deben, Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, and Baroness Brown, Chair of the CCC’s Adaptation Committee, to Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP Prime Minister of the UK. As the Government considers its approach to rebuilding after the COVID-19 crisis we are writing to advise on how climate policy can play a core part.
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Climate change and coronavirus: Five charts about the biggest carbon crash - BBC News
2020-05-06 (or before) in The BBCHow the global pandemic is limiting carbon emissions and what this will mean for climate change.
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Net Zero Watch - News on net zero
2020-05-05 (or before) in Net Zero Watch - News on net zeroNews and opinion on net zero - from climate change science, to energy policy, to the costs and the impact of net zero on the poor.
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To fix Climate Change, stop being a techie and start being a human | by Paul Johnston | Medium
2020-05-05 (or before) in MediumI have many conversations with people in tech who want to know how to get involved in the Climate Change fight. This is my response
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Disobedience, Protest, and the Pandemic: Climate Change and Citizen Action under Conditions of Social Distancing | Blog by Graeme Hayes
2020-05-05 in CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable ProsperityCivil disobedience is not just a checklist of components, but a tradition of morally purposeful action and an expression of citizenship, CUSP Fellow Graeme Hayes writes. As the pandemic ushers in new social norms, and political and economic interests may seek to capitalise on the crisis to further deepen social inequality, how social movements rethink their tactics may have profound consequences for the effectiveness of future protests.
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Climate change is getting worse but it is no worse than we predicted - Climate Change Committee
2020-05-04 in Climate Change CommitteeWorsening climate change should not be mistaken for individual events that are worse than expected. Recent extremes give a clear picture of the impacts and risks that come with a human-driven warming climate. Extreme events also emphasise the urgency of action to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change, write Professor Piers Forster and Professor Corinne Le Quéré.
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Siberian Wildfires Burn an Area Three Times the Size of Delaware
2020-05-03 (or before) in Earther | GizmodoIt’s spring in an era of rapid climate change so that means Russia is being lit up by monster fires. But in an era of coronavirus, a confluence of factors has made the wildfires even worse.
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Martin Jucker
2020-04-30 (or before) in Martin JuckerMartin Jucker, Lecturer, Climate Change Research Centre, The University of New South Wales. Research in Atmospheric Sciences and Scientific Visualization. Builder and user of General Circulation Models.
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Western US Heat Wave April 2020
2020-04-29 (or before) in Climate SignalsRecord-breaking triple digit heat has taken hold in the southwestern US. The heat wave is expected to break all time monthly temperature records for April in several locations. Recent years have shown an uptick in the number of extreme, record-breaking heat events in the region. The increase in extreme heat events is a clear signal of climate change. Around 80 percent of monthly hot temperature records in the Southwest from 2001 to 2010 were due to climate change.[1] Four out of five record-hot days globally are now amplified by the trend in global warming.[2]
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Nutrient dilution and climate cycles underlie declines in a dominant insect herbivore
2020-04-25 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceParsing variation in long-term patterns underlying insect abundances and assigning mechanisms are critical in light of recent reports of dramatic insect declines. Grasshopper abundances in a North American prairie exhibited both 5-y cycles and >2%/y declines over the past 20 y. Large-scale climate oscillations predicted the cycles in grasshopper abundances. Moreover, plant biomass doubled over the same period—likely due to changes in climate and increasing atmospheric CO2—diluting the concentrations in plant tissue of key nutrients which in turn predicted the declines of a dominant herbivore. Nutrient dilution, li...
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How to explain climate change? With comic books - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
2020-04-22 in Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsClimate change seems to be a problem almost designed to defy our understanding. We are not good at dealing with intangible entities, and in climate change both causes and effects remain mostly invisible in our daily lives. But comics can make the invisible visible, and tell human stories.
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Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases
2020-04-19 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismGlobal warming can lead to compromised immune systems, which in turn makes individuals more susceptible to diseases.
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How to Persuade Workers It's Time to Move on From Oil and Gas
2020-04-15 (or before) in VICEWith crude prices crashing and companies looking to government bailouts, climate change activists are sharpening their pitch to hard-hit industry workers.
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Analysis: How ‘carbon-cycle feedbacks’ could make global warming worse - Carbon Brief
2020-04-14 in Carbon BriefYet climate change also depends on an under-appreciated factor known as “carbon-cycle feedbacks”. Accounting for uncertainties in carbon-cycle feedbacks means that the world could warm much more – or a bit less – than is commonly thought.
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Climate Change Won’t Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic
2020-04-14 (or before) by in Pro PublicaThe next several months could bring hurricanes, floods and fire, on top of the pandemic currently raging through the country. How do you shelter in place during an evacuation?
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Insurance, pandemics and climate change - Insure Our Future Global
2020-04-13 in unfriendcoal.comCOVID-19 shows the insurance industry was aware of the threat of a global pandemic but failed to convince decision-makers to take precautions.
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Rise in temperatures and CO2 follow each other closely in climate change
2020-04-10 by in Niels Bohr InstituteNew research from the Niels Bohr Institute indicates that, contrary to previous opinion, the rise in temperature and the rise in the atmospheric CO2 follow each other closely in terms of time.
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Connecticut Insurance Companies Invest $247 Billion in Fossil Fuels According to Report — INSURE OUR FUTURE — end fossil insurance
2020-04-09 (or before) in Insure Our Future - end fossil insuranceConnecticut Citizen Action Group, Sierra Club Connecticut, and 10 other Connecticut organizations, released “Connecticut Insurers: Ensuring the Climate Crisis.” The report spells out how the Connecticut insurance industry is ensuring climate change by continuing to underwrite fossil fuel projects and invest in fossil fuels.
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Addressing climate change in a post-pandemic world
2020-04-09 (or before) in McKinsey & CompanyTagged under: Climate Change | Sustainability
The Coronavirus Is a Preview of Our Climate-Change Future
2020-04-08 by in New York MagazineThe warming of the planet will lead to pandemics that are far more dangerous and disruptive.
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The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change - Nature
2020-04-08 (or before) in NatureUsing annual projections of temperature and precipitation to estimate when species will be exposed to potentially harmful climate conditions reveals that disruption of ecological assemblages as a result of climate change will be abrupt and could start as early as the current decade.
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Climate CoLab
2020-04-07 (or before) in Climate CoLabHarnessing collective intelligence on global climate change
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Blue Gold : Hydro-Agricultural Infrastructure & Climate Change in the Sahel - Climate CoLab
2020-04-07 (or before) in Climate CoLabA vision for renewing agricultural infrastructure in the Office du Niger in Mali, transferable to the 4 major watersheds of the Sahel.
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Broadcast and cable news are ignoring the brazen Big Polluter agenda happening under the cover of the coronavirus
2020-04-06 (or before) in Media Matters for AmericaAs the nation grapples with the deadly coronavirus pandemic and the economy is brought to a standstill, the Trump administration is moving forward with its deregulatory agenda which severely threatens public and environmental health -- and in some cases, makes us more vulnerable to COVID-19. While polluting industries have long sought sweeping deregulatory changes, the collective national focus on the coronavirus pandemic now gives them the perfect opportunity to accelerate those changes and pursue additional oversight rollbacks only possible during a national crisis. Climate reporters, digital outlets, and some legacy news m...
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Don’t believe the hype – electric cars are not the saviours of humanity | The Independent | The Independent
2020-04-05 (or before) in The IndependentBuying just one electric car would produce more carbon dioxide than 15 and a half years of electricity usage for the average UK family home, writes Donnachadh McCarthy
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Greenland And Antarctica Are Melting Six Times Faster Than In The 1990s
2020-03-31 (or before) by in ForbesThis month, a comprehensive assessment of the changing ice sheets published in the journal Nature, found that in the 2010s, the rate of ice loss has risen by a factor six.
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Antarctica: what it means when the coldest place on Earth records an unprecedented heatwave
2020-03-31 in The GuardianAntarctica’s weather has worldwide impacts and can be a ‘canary in the mine’ for patterns of change elsewhere
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We need health warning labels on points of sale of fossil fuels - The BMJ
2020-03-30 in BMJ BlogsMike Gill and colleagues explain how the implementation of fossil fuel labelling could have a significant impact on the awareness of climate change. This article is part of The BMJ’s Health [...]More...
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Why Did an Expert Who Warned About COVID-19 Have So Much Trouble Being Heard?
2020-03-26 by in New York MagazineThough we often feel that we live in a sea of panic, it may be that the general din prevents us from hearing most important warning cries.
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Great Barrier Reef suffers third mass bleaching in five years - BBC News
2020-03-26 (or before) in The BBCThe third such event in five years prompts scientists to renew urgent warnings about climate change.
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Too Hot to Handle?, By Rebecca Willis
2020-03-25 (or before) in Bristol University PressToo Hot to Handle? - The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change; This book explores why climate is such a challenge for political systems, even when policy solutions exist. It argues that more democracy, not less, is needed to tackle the climate crisis, and suggests practical ways forward.
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Why rich people use so much more energy
2020-03-20 by David Roberts in VoxIt’s mainly all the traveling, says a comprehensive new study.
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Antarctica : What happens if the 'Doomsday' Glacier collapses?
2020-03-19 (or before) in YouTubeAntarctica is home to some of the world's largest ice sheets and glaciers. They existed in a stable equilibrium of ebb and flow for millions of years until g...
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The stark truth about UK government climate action: there is no one in charge
2020-03-12 (or before) by in The ConversationThe Committee on Climate Change criticises slow progress, but has little to say about how to reconfigure government to make climate action a priority.
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Pope urges politicians to take 'drastic measures' on climate change | Reuters
2020-03-10 (or before) in ReutersPope Francis challenged governments on Sunday to take "drastic measures" to combat global warming and reduce the use of fossil fuels, saying the world was experiencing a climate emergency.
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The Current Global Warming Trend Is Directly Related To Human Emissions Of Greenhouse Gases
2020-03-06 (or before) by in ForbesAtmospheric CO2 concentrations have reached 414 ppm because humans are emitting 36.6 gigatons of CO2 a year.
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Conservative activists: there is no Climate Emergency. Our survey. | Conservative Home
2020-03-03 (or before) in Conservative Home - Comprehensive, independent coverage of the UK Conservative PartyThey reject the claim that there is one by about two-thirds to one third. Our other survey findings on the same theme will also be published this week.
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Our survey. Almost half of Party members believe that human activity is driving global warming. Almost a third don't. | Conservative Home
2020-03-03 (or before) in Conservative Home - Comprehensive, independent coverage of the UK Conservative PartyOur sense is that Conservative MPs will be very roughly where our panel is - although we have to admit that we've no evidence for that.
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Inside the Fossil-Fuel Industry’s Plan to Profit From Climate Change
2020-03-03 by in New York MagazineI went to one of Shell’s private meetings and took notes.
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Finnish scientists suggest ‘no experimental evidence’ for man-made climate change
2020-03-03 (or before) in Russia TodayA Finnish study has found little evidence to support the idea of man-made climate change. The results have been slammed by critics in the science community.
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Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion
2020-03-02 (or before) in NatureSandy beaches occupy more than one-third of the global coastline1 and have high socioeconomic value related to recreation, tourism and ecosystem services2. Beaches are the interface between land and ocean, providing coastal protection from marine storms and cyclones3. However the presence of sandy beaches cannot be taken for granted, as they are under constant change, driven by meteorological4,5, geological6 and anthropogenic factors1,7. A substantial proportion of the world’s sandy coastline is already eroding1,7, a situation that could be exacerbated by climate change8,9. Here, we show that ambient trends in shoreline dy...
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The role of climate change education on individual lifetime carbon emissions
2020-03-02 (or before) in email.mg1.substack.comStrategies to mitigate climate change often center on clean technologies, such as electric vehicles and solar panels, while the mitigation potential of a quality educational experience is rarely discussed. In this paper, we investigate the long-term impact that an intensive one-year university course had on individual carbon emissions by surveying students at least five years after having taken the course. A majority of course graduates reported pro-environmental decisions (i.e., type of car to buy, food choices) that they attributed at least in part to experiences gained in the course. Furthermore, our carbon footprint analysis...
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The UK’s first climate change refugees?
2020-03-02 (or before) in The BBCFairbourne is the first community set to be decommissioned due to rising sea levels.
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If Plan A is to Mitigate Climate Change, What’s Plan B? | ArchDaily
2020-02-29 in ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture WorldwideThis article was originally published on Washington Post, courtesy of Common Edge. Hundred-year floods. Record-breaking Antarctic heat. Wildfires...
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Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
2020-02-24 (or before) by in ForbesThe woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement has called in a new book for political engagement on climate change that goes well beyond the voting booth.
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2020-02-24 (or before) in InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
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G20 sounds alarm over climate emergency despite US objections
2020-02-23 in The GuardianGroup’s first reference during Trump administration to global heating signals growing economic concerns over climate change
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Teck Resources pulling application for Frontier oil sands mine - The Globe and Mail
2020-02-23 in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & AnalysisThe Teck mine had already passed a lengthy regulatory review and Ottawa was expected to decide this week whether to approve the project
Tagged under: Oil Industry | Canada | Climate Change | Economics | Finance
BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Myles Allen on understanding climate change
2020-02-22 (or before) in The BBCThe physicist behind net zero. Prof Myles Allen talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
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The $2 trillion stranded assets danger zone: How fossil fuel firms risk destroying investor returns - Carbon Tracker Initiative
2020-02-22 (or before) in Carbon Tracker InitiativeFossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $2.2 trillion in the next decade, threatening substantially lower investor returns, by pursuing projects that could be uneconomic in the face of a perfect storm of factors including international action to limit climate change to 2˚C and rapid advances in clean technologies.
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Trump, Putin and the Pipelines to Nowhere | by Alex Steffen | The Nearly Now
2020-02-22 (or before) by Alex Steffen in The Nearly NowAmerican journalists, pundits and media executives have largely convinced themselves that climate change is not a serious political issue, because they think the polls tell them that. A majority of…
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Jeff Bezos’s $10 Billion Climate Pledge Sparks Praise and Criticism
2020-02-18 in Chronicle of PhilanthropyHewlett Foundation President Larry Kramer was among those heaping praise on the pledge as a game-changer, while others cited Amazon’s role in contributing to carbon emissions.
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How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
2020-02-18 (or before) in Gizmodo | The Future Is HereIn a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure companies, Rockwell Automation and Schlumberger Limited, announced a joint venture called Sensia. The new company will “sell equipment and services to advance digital technology and automation in the oilfield,” according…
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UK must prepare for more intense storms, climate scientists say
2020-02-17 by Jonathan Watts in The GuardianGovernment urged to create more natural drainage systems to cope with impact of crisis
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How Germany closed its coal industry without sacking a single miner
2020-02-16 (or before) by in Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.auAfter Coal: Can Australia learn from Germany's efforts to end its coal era while protecting its workers and communities?
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Post Davos: Elite's Climate Strategy is Flawed | Age of Awareness
2020-02-13 (or before) in MediumWhen solving climate change, we don’t have the choice of option A or B when one of those choices almost certainly leads to a climate…
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The Heartland Lobby
2020-02-11 in CORRECTIV Ð Recherchen fŸr die GesellschaftDONATE A joint investigation from CORRECTIV and Frontal21 reveals how the American Heartland Institute is supporting climate change deniers in Germany with the goal of undermining climate protection measures. We […]
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Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change - Carbon Brief
2020-02-10 in Carbon BriefTipping points are thresholds where a tiny change could push a system into a completely new state.
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Australian bushfires intensify scrutiny on insuring, investing in coal
2020-02-06 (or before) in S&P Global S&P GlobalBushfires across Australia are drawing increased attention to the financial risks of climate change, even as the country recently completed a year of record coal exports with plans to further increase production.
Tagged under: Insurance | Bushfires | Coal | Climate Change
California communities suing Big Oil over climate change face a key hearing Wednesday
2020-02-05 in Los Angeles TimesFor nearly three years, a group of California communities have been suing oil companies for damages incurred by climate change.
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A Cold War lesson for the climate change era: Why we need a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
2020-02-04 in Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsFrom non-proliferation to disarmament to peaceful use, there are many things we could learn from the model of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, when it comes to dealing with climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Nuclear Power
Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdown
2020-02-04 in VICEWe are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it—another reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Economics | Oil Industry | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Bubble | Climate Change
Change climate policy now to avert oil market crisis, warns thinktank
2020-01-31 in The GuardianGovernments risk derailing global fossil fuel demand with ‘handbrake turns’ in future
Tagged under: Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Chevron
Social tipping points are the only hope for the climate
2020-01-29 by David Roberts in VoxA new paper explores how to trigger them.
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Let's abandon climate targets, and do something completely different | George Monbiot
2020-01-29 in The GuardianSetting targets for climate action sounds sensible, but is actually impeding progress, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Tagged under: Climate Change | Committee on Climate Change UK
Climate change: Can Finland be carbon-neutral in 15 years?
2020-01-29 (or before) in The BBCFinland has pledged to be carbon-neutral by 2035 - that’s twice as fast as the UK Government target. But to achieve this, they will have to make big changes, particularly in the peat industry, which currently provides energy, heating and jobs. Can the Finns turn an ambitious plan into reality?
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Climate Change Committee
2020-01-28 (or before) in Climate Change CommitteeThe UK's independent adviser on tackling climate change
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Weathercasters are talking about climate change — and how we can solve it
2020-01-28 in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.As more weathercasters talk about the science of climate change on the air, some are taking the next step and discussing how to solve it.
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Antarctica's doomsday glacier is melting. Can we save it in time?
2020-01-28 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Antarctic | Ice Melting | Sea Level
For the Economy, Climate Risks Are No Longer Theoretical
2020-01-28 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoClimate crises in the next 30 years may resemble financial crises in recent decades: potentially quite destructive, largely unpredictable and, given the powerful underlying causes, inevitable.
Tagged under: Economics | Wildfires | Climate Change | Economic Growth
Trump's magical mystery climate solutions - by Emily Atkin
2020-01-27 (or before) by in HEATED | Emily Atkin | SubstackIn Davos, the president promised secret "scientific breakthroughs" to fight climate change. Here's why, and what they might be.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Innovation
House Republicans caught between Trump and young voters on climate change
2020-01-27 (or before) in PoliticoGOP leaders are putting together their own more modest set of climate policies that their party can rally behind.
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Take Action for the Sustainable Development Goals
2020-01-26 (or before) in United NationsThe Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. Learn more and take action. Watch the global broadcast ‘Nations United” On the 75th anniversary of the United
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Regenerative Farming And The Green New Deal
2020-01-26 (or before) in Data For ProgressThe Green New Deal is a broad and ambitious agenda that includes a commitment by the federal government to invest in communities, infrastructure, technology, and good jobs to help the United States meet the challenges of climate change and achieve economic and environmental justice.
Tagged under: Economics | Farming | Climate Change | Climate Justice
Is the Sun causing global warming?
2020-01-25 (or before) in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetNo. The Sun can influence the Earth’s climate, but it isn’t responsible for the warming trend we’ve seen over the past few decades.
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Nigel Topping appointed UK High Level Climate Action Champion | UNFCCC
2020-01-24 (or before) in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeJoint announcement by the incoming UK Presidency of COP26 and UN Climate Change 23 January 2020 - Nigel Topping has today been appointed by the UK Gove...
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The role of citizens’ assemblies
2020-01-24 (or before) in Green World | Green Party News and FeaturesAs the UK’s Climate Assembly prepares to meet for the first time in Birmingham this weekend (24-26 January), Caroline Lucas explains why citizens’ assemblies have a vital role to play in the fight against climate change.
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The New Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
2020-01-24 (or before) in YouTubeFor the last five years, Alex Epstein's 2014 New York Times bestseller, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, has been one of the most important books in the worl...
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Nigel Topping appointed UK High Level Climate Action Champion - UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021
2020-01-23 by in UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC Ð Glasgow 20215 minute read
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BP CEO hits Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders on Green New Deal
2020-01-23 (or before) in CNBC"The world needs all forms of energy," BP's Bob Dudley said in a CNBC interview from Davos, Switzerland. "Less emissions, but all forms of energy."
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Climate Change Could Blow Up the Economy. Banks Aren’t Ready. (Published 2020)
2020-01-23 in The New York TimesTagged under: Economics | Climate Change
Ignore the Fake Climate Debate
2020-01-23 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoThe deniers and alarmists may make headlines, but behind the scenes, an expert consensus is taking shape on how to respond to global warming.
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BP lobbied Trump to weaken climate safeguards on oil and gas projects
2020-01-23 in Greenpeace UK - UnearthedTogether with the American Petroleum Institute, BP asked Trump to largely exclude the climate impacts of oil projects from environmental assessments
Tagged under: BP | Donald Trump | Climate Change | Greenpeace | Climate Change Impacts
Trump weakened environmental laws after BP lobbying
2020-01-23 in The GuardianLetter suggests oil firm pushed for changes whereby fewer projects would need impact assessments
Tagged under: BP | Donald Trump | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | US Politics
Politics & Global Warming, November 2019 — Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
2020-01-23 (or before) in Yale Program on Climate Change CommunicationOur latest report describes how Democratic, Independent, and Republican registered voters view global warming and related issues.
Tagged under: Public Opinion | Global Warming | US Politics | Climate Change
Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050
2020-01-22 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceAchieving a rapid global decarbonization to stabilize the climate critically depends on activating contagious and fast-spreading processes of social and technological change within the next few years. Drawing on expert elicitation, an expert workshop, and a review of literature, which provides a comprehensive analysis on this topic, we propose concrete interventions to induce positive social tipping dynamics and a rapid global transformation to carbon-neutral societies. These social tipping interventions comprise removing fossil-fuel subsidies and incentivizing decentralized energy generation, building carbon-neutral cities, div...
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Tipping Points
UK solar company secures funding to build two major solar plants in Spain - Business Leader News
2020-01-22 in Business News - Business LeaderUK-based solar energy company, Solarcentury, has secured new financing to build two of the largest solar plants in Spain demonstrating the UK’s leadership on climate change. UK Export Finance (UKEF), the […]
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Word of Mouth - Communicating Climate Change - BBC Sounds
2020-01-22 (or before) in The BBCMichael Rosen talks to George Marshall about how best to communicate climate change.
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DeSmog
2020-01-20 (or before) by in DeSmogAward winning website researching and exposing campaigns attacking climate change science.
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The Turning Point in Vimeo Staff Picks
2020-01-20 (or before) in Vimeo'The Turning Point' explores climate change, the destruction of the environment and species extinction from a different perspective. Music by Wantaways…
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Climate politics, metaphors and the fractal carbon trap - Nature Climate Change
2020-01-20 (or before) in NatureIn this Perspective, the authors argue that defining the climate change problem as one of decarbonization rather than emissions reduction suggests a new guiding metaphor — the global fractal — which may be a more productive conceptualization for research and policy than the global commons.
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Leeds Climate Change Citizens' Jury Recommendations
2020-01-19 (or before) in YouTubeVideo: Members of the Leeds Climate Change Citizens' Jury present their recommendations in response to the question they were tasked to address: "What should...
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Court Quashes Youth Climate Change Case Against Government (Published 2020)
2020-01-17 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Litigation
Court Quashes Youth Climate Change Case Against Government (Published 2020)
2020-01-17 in The New York TimesTwo of three judges on the panel said that climate change was an issue for lawmakers, not the courts.
Tagged under: Activism | USA | Litigation | Climate Change
Why do we ignore the imminent climate catastrophes? • Ban Private Jets
2020-01-16 by in banprivatejets.orgMost people ignore the imminent climate catastrophes. Maybe because no leader is acting like climate change threats humanity?
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Oceans are warming at the same rate as if five Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second - CNN
2020-01-16 (or before) by in CNN InternationalThe world's oceans are now heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second, scientists have said.
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“Serious threat to oil and gas industry’s social licence” – OGA chairman
2020-01-16 in DRILL OR DROP? - Independent journalism on UK fracking, onshore oil and gas and the reactions to itOil and gas companies have been warned by their regulator to stop “navel gazing” and do much more to solve the challenges of climate change.
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The Reason Fossil Fuel Companies Are Finally Reckoning with Climate Change
2020-01-16 (or before) in TIME MagazineProtesters have swarmed Shell's headquarters in recent years
Tagged under: Shell | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Activism
BlackRock C.E.O. Larry Fink: Climate Crisis Will Reshape Finance (Published 2020)
2020-01-14 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Finance
James Murdoch Slams Fox News and News Corp Over Climate-Change Denial
2020-01-14 in The Daily BeastRupert Murdoch’s younger son and his wife issued a rare public rebuke of the family’s media empire and its promotion of climate-change skeptics during Australia’s bushfire crisis.
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Why do record ocean temperatures matter?
2020-01-13 by Damian Carrington in The GuardianEverything you need to know about the significance of the heat record set last year
Tagged under: Marine Life | Heatwaves | Global Warming | Oceans | Climate Change | Wildlife
Roger Federer responds to climate crisis criticism from Greta Thunberg
2020-01-12 in The GuardianRoger Federer has issued a cautiously worded response to mounting criticism, including from climate activist Greta Thunberg, over his sponsorship deal with Credit Suisse
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Bushfires | Climate Change
Opinion | How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change (Published 2020)
2020-01-10 in The New York TimesTagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change
A Lesson in How Not to Mitigate Climate Change
2020-01-10 (or before) in Verso BooksCapitalist climate governance has always relied on pseudo-reforms that leave the richest free to accumulate capital, while dumping taxes on working people to nudge them in the 'right direction'. But as the protests of the gilets jaunes show, many working people no longer accept the moralising terms of capitalist approaches to climate change. In this article, Andreas Malm argues that if we really want to save this Planet, we must pursue a different kind of climate politics, one that could learn a great deal from the methods and tactics of the gilets jaunes.
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Joe Biden on Climate Change: Where the Candidate Stands - Inside Climate News
2020-01-10 in Inside Climate News“It’s almost like denying gravity now. … The willing suspension of disbelief can only be sustained for so long.” —Joe Biden on climate denial, March 2015 Been There Among the current candidates, only former Vice President Joseph Biden has debated a Republican opponent during a past contest for the White House—when he was Barack Obama’s running […]
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Banking on Climate Change 2019 - Banking on Climate Chaos
2020-01-10 (or before) in Rainforest Action NetworkFossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019 - The tenth annual fossil fuel finance report card grades banks on their fossil fuel-related policy commitments and calculates their financing for fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement.
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Eco-Socialism or Eco-Barbarism
2020-01-10 (or before) in New Socialistby Andrew Key // What good is theory in the face of catastrophic climate change? In "The Progress of the Storm" Andreas Malm articulates a strong case for a red-green, anti-fascist, anti-colonialist politics
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Dirty Power: Big Coal’s network of influence over the coalition government
2020-01-09 (or before) in YouTubeFind out more: https://act.greenpeace.org.au/dirtypowerWe’ve uncovered the web of connections between the world’s biggest coal giants, industry groups, lobby...
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Greenpeace
‘High likelihood of human civilisation coming to end’ by 2050, report finds | The Independent | The Independent
2020-01-09 (or before) in The IndependentOver-conservative climate scenarios mean we could face ‘world of outright chaos’, says analysis authored by former fossil fuel executive and backed by former head of Australia’s military
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change
How Feedback Loops Are Making the Climate Crisis Worse
2020-01-07 in The Climate Reality ProjectIf you want to understand how our climate will change in the coming decades, you’ve got to understand feedback loops.
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Climate change: focusing on how individuals can help is very convenient for corporations
2020-01-07 (or before) by in The ConversationFrom eating less meat to foregoing flying, individual obligations make up our understanding of how to fight climate change, letting polluters off the hook and stifling real change.
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Australia Will Lose to Climate Change
2020-01-06 (or before) in The AtlanticEven as the country fights bushfires, it can’t stop dumping planet-warming pollution into the atmosphere.
Tagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | Climate Change | Australia | Bushfires | Wildfires | Economic Growth | Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs
Exxon Mobil Beats New York’s Climate-Change Accounting Case
2020-01-06 (or before) in BloombergExxon Mobil Corp. won a closely watched trial over its accounting for the financial risks of climate change, in an outright rejection of New York state’s claim that the energy giant engaged in a cynical scheme to mislead investors for years.
Tagged under: Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Exxon’s Climate Trial Is Over, But the Legal War Is Just Beginning
2020-01-06 (or before) in BloombergA dozen “public nuisance” lawsuits accuse fossil fuel giants of hiding, and denying, their knowledge of global warming.
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Russia announces plan to ‘use the advantages’ of climate change
2020-01-05 in The GuardianKremlin website recognises global heating as a problem but lists ‘positive’ economic effects
Tagged under: Russia | Climate Change | Greenhouse Gases | Vladimir Putin | Economics
Centre for Alternative Technology
2020-01-05 (or before) in Centre for Alternative TechnologyTo avoid disastrous climate change we must take radical action now. CAT offers practical solutions and hands-on learning to help create a zero carbon world.
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Australia’s Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like
2020-01-05 (or before) by in Scientific American Blog Network - Scientific American Blog NetworkThe catastrophic fires raging across the southern half of the continent are largely the result of rising temperatures
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Big oil asks government to protect its Texas facilities from climate change - CBS News
2020-01-05 (or before) in CBS NewsTexas Gulf Coast project would shield petroleum industry, which is blamed for contributing to global warming and now wants safeguards against the consequences
Tagged under: Global Warming | Lobbying | Oil Industry | Texas | Climate Change
Opinion: Mourning a disappearing world as Australia burns
2020-01-04 (or before) in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & AnalysisAs fires rage, destroying homes, habitats and lives, it’s difficult not to see this tragedy as a deadly consequence of decades of neglect
Tagged under: Bushfires | Wildfires | Climate Change | Wildlife
Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning (Published 2020)
2020-01-03 in The New York TimesTagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Climate Emergency Action Plan
2020-01-03 (or before) in Centre for Alternative TechnologyDemand government action on climate change - sign CAT's petition
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Climate change will make fire storms more likely in southeastern Australia
2020-01-01 (or before) by in The ConversationExtreme fire risk will overlap with weather patterns to create fire tornadoes more often under climate change.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Merkel Issues Warning on ‘Real, Dangerous’ Climate Change
2019-12-31 (or before) in BloombergChancellor Angela Merkel called global warming “real” and “dangerous” in her New Year’s address, saying she will do everything in her power to ensure Germany makes a meaningful contribution to tackling it.
Tagged under: Germany | Climate Change | ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance
Global Apathy Toward the Fires in Australia Is a Scary Portent for the Future
2019-12-31 by in New York MagazineA months-long climate disaster in a wealthy, white country is tailor-made to dominate news coverage. It hasn’t.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change
Climate change: yes, your individual action does make a difference
2019-12-30 (or before) by in The ConversationGlobal problems need global solutions. But what you do personally can shift what’s seen as ‘normal’.
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The environment in 2050: flooded cities, forced migration – and the Amazon turning to savannah
2019-12-30 in The GuardianUnless we focus on shared solutions, violent storms and devastating blazes could be the least of the world’s troubles. Civilisation itself will be at risk
Tagged under: Deforestation | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Drought | Amazon Rainforest | IPCC | Climate Change | Geoengineering
Water supply could dwindle as climate change sets in, experts warn
2019-12-30 (or before) in Brighton ArgusA WORRYING report has revealed Sussex’s water supply will dwindle unless action is taking to combat climate change.
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Conservationists are ignoring climate change, risking mass extinctions
2019-12-29 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change | Extinction
Record hit for most ice to melt in Antarctica in one day, data suggests: "We are in a climate emergency"
2019-12-29 (or before) in NewsweekTagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic
Planting trees is only a good news story if it’s done right | Bibi van der Zee
2019-12-25 by Bibi van der Zee in The GuardianIn the fight against global warming, we’d be better off preserving natural forests than planting new monoculture plantations, says Guardian journalist Bibi van der Zee
Tagged under: Global Warming | Activism | Carbon Capture and Storage | Forests | Trees | Deforestation | Climate Change
Dutch supreme court upholds landmark ruling demanding climate action
2019-12-20 in The GuardianCourt rules Dutch government has duty to protect citizens’ rights in face of climate change
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Boris Johnson unveils plan to increase number of flights, despite global climate emergency: 'A total disregard for the planet' | The Independent | The Independent
2019-12-19 (or before) in The IndependentNew aviation bill promises to squeeze more flights into same airspace and growth for sector
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero
Goldman Sachs Curbs New Lending on Coal and Arctic Oil
2019-12-19 (or before) in BloombergGoldman Sachs Group Inc. has tightened its policy on fossil fuel financing in a move welcomed by environmental groups, just as global talks on climate change faltered in Madrid over the weekend.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Arctic | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change
Climate change poses major threat to United States, new government report concludes | Science | AAAS
2019-12-18 (or before) in Science MagTagged under: Climate Change
Climate May Force Millions to Move and U.S. Isn’t Ready, Report Says
2019-12-18 (or before) in BloombergGlobal warming may push millions of Americans away from the coast, and the U.S. isn’t prepared for the consequences of such a mass migration, scientists from across the federal government warned on Friday.
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Secretary-General's statement on the results of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 | United Nations Secretary-General
2019-12-17 (or before) in United NationsTagged under: Climate Change
Australia took a match to UN climate talks while back home the country burned | Julie-Anne Richards
2019-12-16 in The GuardianThe gleeful coal lobby stalked the Madrid COP25 meeting halls as the Morrison government threw out compassion and international citizenship
Tagged under: Bushfires | Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
We must adapt to climate decline
2019-12-13 (or before) in Green World | Green Party News and FeaturesIn the aftermath of the Conservatives’ historic majority at the 2019 general election, Rupert Read, Professor at the University of East Anglia, reflects on the implications for the struggle to respond the climate emergency adequately, calling for the focus of the Green movement to move from climate change mitigation to adaptation to the impacts of climate decline, and to move beyond electoral politics to non-violent direct action.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Mitigation
Why hurricanes are getting crappier | Emily Atkin | TEDxShinnecockHills
2019-12-12 (or before) in YouTubeIn this talk we learn about the long overdue for investment in the american sewege system and the importance of not jumping in puddles after a rainstorm. Cu...
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Australia ranked worst of 57 countries on climate change policy
2019-12-11 in The GuardianThinktank report deems Morrison government ‘an increasingly regressive force’
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change
Exxon found not guilty of fraud over true cost of climate regulations
2019-12-10 in The GuardianJudge says prosecutors did not prove oil giant had misled investors – but does not absolve it of responsibility for global heating
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NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming
2019-12-10 (or before) in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetTagged under: Climate Change
Arctic report card: Melting permafrost is transforming the region into a carbon source - The Washington Post
2019-12-10 in The Washington PostA new federal report on the Arctic finds the region is in the midst of drastic and sudden changes as a result of human-caused warming.
Tagged under: Arctic | Climate Change
Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
2019-12-10 by Fiona Harvey in The GuardianScale and speed of loss much higher than predicted, threatening inundation for hundreds of millions of people
Tagged under: Oceans | Predictions | Science | Glaciers | Global Warming | Ice Melting | Greenland | Climate Change | Sea Level
UN climate talks failing to address urgency of crisis, says top scientist
2019-12-08 in The GuardianCOP25 in Madrid criticised for focusing on details instead of agreeing deep cuts to emissions
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Carbon Offsetting | Extinction Rebellion | Extinction
Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise - BBC News
2019-12-07 in The BBCA warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Fish
Oceans losing oxygen at unprecedented rate, experts warn
2019-12-07 in The GuardianSharks, tuna, marlin and other large fish at risk from spread of ‘dead zones’, say scientists
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Fish | Wildlife
Greta Thunberg says school strikes have achieved nothing
2019-12-06 in The GuardianActivist says 4% greenhouse gas emissions rise since 2015 shows action is insufficient
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Climate change: Emissions edge up despite drop in coal - BBC News
2019-12-05 (or before) in BBCEmissions of CO2 have risen in 2019, say researchers, as oil and gas use continues to grow.
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change
Carbon dioxide emissions continue to grow amidst slowly emerging climate policies - Nature Climate Change
2019-12-05 (or before) in NatureA failure to recognize the factors behind continued emissions growth could limit the world’s ability to shift to a pathway consistent with 1.5 °C or 2 °C of global warming. Continued support for low-carbon technologies needs to be combined with policies directed at phasing out the use of fossil fuels.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Europe’s state of the environment 2020: change of direction urgently needed to face climate change challenges, reverse degradation and ensure future prosperity
2019-12-04 (or before) in European Environment AgencyEurope will not achieve its 2030 goals without urgent action during the next 10 years to address the alarming rate of biodiversity loss, increasing impacts of climate change and the overconsumption of natural resources. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) latest ‘State of the Environment’ report published today states that Europe faces environmental challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency. The report says, however, there is reason for hope, amid increased public awareness of the need to shift to a sustainable future, technological innovations, growing community initiatives and stepped up EU action lik...
Tagged under: Consumption | Sustainability | Biodiversity Loss | Climate Change | European Union | Europe | Climate Change Impacts | Economics
Climate models have accurately predicted global heating, study finds
2019-12-04 in The GuardianFindings confirm reliability of projections of temperature changes over last 50 years
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change
Tackling degraded oceans could mitigate climate crisis - report
2019-12-04 in The GuardianSanctuaries and treaties to restore seas’ ecosystems would boost their capacity to absorb heat and store carbon
Tagged under: Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Wildlife | Greenpeace
Emissions Gap Report 2019
2019-12-04 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeAs the world strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit climate change, it is crucial to track progress towards globally agreed climate goals. For a decade, UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report has compared where greenhouse gas emissions are heading against where they need to be, and highlighted the best ways to close the gap. As the world strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit climate change, it is crucial to track progress towards globally agreed climate goals. For a decade, UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report has compared where greenhouse gas emissions are heading against where they need to be, and highlighted th...
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Net Zero
City Bonds May Be Hit by Climate Change. Moody's Can Now See How
2019-12-04 (or before) in BloombergFor Moody’s Investors Service, it’s no longer enough for cities to have plans addressing their risks from climate change. The company’s municipal-bond analysts, armed with data, will soon determine how those strategies compare with others -- and may change their credit ratings as a result.
Tagged under: Climate Change | California
Australia weather: 50C temperatures could become the norm as hundreds of climate records broken in 90 days, report finds | The Independent | The Independent
2019-12-04 (or before) in The Independent‘Climate change is supercharging the extreme weather events we are witnessing,’ says expert panel
Tagged under: Bushfires | Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Loss and damage: Who pays for the impacts of the heated Earth?
2019-12-03 in Climate Home NewsThe current system for accounting for loss and damage from climate change is contentious and up for review at UN talks in Madrid
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
The UN's 'woke' climate change propaganda is an insult to science
2019-12-03 (or before) in The TelegraphI was always a 'middle-grounder', rather than a 'denier' – until I discovered the extent of the dishonesty
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Scientists Reach 100% Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming - James Powell, 2017
2019-12-03 (or before) in Sage JournalsThe consensus among research scientists on anthropogenic global warming has grown to 100%, based on a review of 11,602 peer-reviewed articles on “climate change...
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Brexit Party and Tories worst for climate change policies, Greenpeace analysis shows | The Independent | The Independent
2019-12-03 (or before) in The IndependentConservative support for polluting industries, such as aviation, oil and gas ‘at odds with their net zero target’, analysis says
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | Greenpeace
After climate change apocalypse, kindness will be most important survival skill | Lexington Herald Leader
2019-12-03 (or before) in Lexington Herald Ledger KentuckyA survival skills teacher says that in order to survive in post climate-change apocalypse, we’ll need empathy, generosity, and courage to survive. Kindness and fairness will be more valuable than any survival skill.
Tagged under: Climate Change | India
Latest climate models confirm need for urgent mitigation - Nature Climate Change
2019-12-03 (or before) in NatureMany recently updated climate models show greater future warming than previously. Separate lines of evidence suggest that their warming rates may be unrealistically high, but the risk of such eventualities only emphasizes the need for rapid and deep reductions in emissions.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation
Decade of 'exceptional' heat likely to be hottest on record, experts say
2019-12-03 in The GuardianWorld Meteorological Organization says 2019 is likely to be second or third warmest year ever
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Explaining how the water vapor greenhouse effect works
2019-12-03 (or before) in Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examinedTagged under: Global Warming | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Climate Change: The Science and Global Impact | edX
2019-12-03 (or before) in edX | Build new skills. Advance your career. | edXWe need to understand the science behind global warming to avoid the most damaging and irreversible climate change impacts on people and planet.
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COP25: youth ‘leadership’ contrasts with government inaction, says UN chief
2019-12-02 in The GuardianAhead of Madrid climate change conference António Guterres says political will missing
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General election 2019: Why you should think climate change not Brexit
2019-12-02 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change
CO2-guzzling bacteria made in the lab could help tackle climate change
2019-12-02 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
US Congress commits to act on climate crisis, despite Donald Trump
2019-12-02 in The GuardianNancy Pelosi tells UN conference in Madrid that commitment is ‘iron-clad’
Tagged under: US Politics | Donald Trump | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Weatherwatch: restore peat bogs to fight climate change
2019-12-02 in The GuardianPeat moors store far more carbon dioxide than forests, as well as helping to control flooding
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Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against
2019-12-02 (or before) in NatureThe growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions. The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions.
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New Zealand begins genetic program to produce low methane-emitting sheep
2019-12-01 in The Guardian‘Global first’ project will help tackle climate change by lowering agricultural greenhouse gases
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John Kerry Launches Star-Studded Climate Coalition (Published 2019)
2019-11-30 in The New York TimesTagged under: Coal | Climate Change
Why We Strike Again | by Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer and Angela Valenzuela - Project Syndicate
2019-11-29 by Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer and Angela Valenzuela in Project SyndicateGreta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer and Angela Valenzuela vow to do whatever it takes to push world leaders to act, beginning at the UN conference in Madrid.
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The five corrupt pillars of climate change denial
2019-11-28 by in The ConversationHow to identify and understand different types of denial: scientific, economic, humanitarian, political and crisis.
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Renewables in the 2019 General Election
2019-11-26 in RenewableUK BlogIt’s less then three weeks to go till the general election and, though the final decision of the public still remains very hard to predict, nearly all of the major parties have published their manifestos, giving us a glimpse into the future. In this RenewableUK blog, Senior Public Affairs Manager, Nathan Bennett, compares the major parties' manifesto commitments to renewables. Climate change has been a higher feature of this election than any one previously. To add to this, renewables have never
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A global movement for green & fair economies
2019-11-25 (or before) in Green Economy CoalitionChampioning equality. Tackling climate change. Protecting nature. Safeguarding prosperity. We're the world's largest alliance for green economic reform.
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Green New Deal Author Wants To Expand Anti-Corruption Laws To Cover Climate
2019-11-25 in Huffington Post UKMassachusetts Sen. Ed Markey's latest bill could extend the kind of financial sanctions the U.S. slapped on Russia and North Korea to countries such as Brazil.
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Climate change: Greenhouse gas concentrations again break records - BBC News
2019-11-25 (or before) in The BBCThe World Meteorological Organization says the levels of warming gases continue to reach new highs.
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It's time to retire metrics like GDP. They don't measure everything that matters | Joseph Stiglitz
2019-11-24 by Joseph Stiglitz in The GuardianThe way we assess economic performance and social progress is fundamentally wrong, and the climate crisis has brought these concerns to the fore
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On Your Farm - Carbon Counting - BBC Sounds
2019-11-24 (or before) in The BBCHow much does the carbon footprint of a Cumbrian family farm contribute to climate change?
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Addressing climate change through price and non-price interventions - ScienceDirect
2019-11-24 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comTagged under: Climate Change
Don't 'demonise and ostracise' us in climate change debate, says BP
2019-11-23 (or before) in Sky NewsActivists, who posed as living statues and doused themselves in oil, say the British Museum should be ashamed of its links to BP.
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China Set for Massive Coal Expansion in Threat to Climate Goals
2019-11-23 (or before) in BloombergChina has enough coal-fired power plants in the pipeline to match the entire capacity of the European Union, driving the expansion in global coal power and confounding the movement against the polluting fossil fuel, according to a report.
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Why I Got Baptized at the Extinction Rebellion Protests
2019-11-22 by in SojournersI choose to take part in Extinction Rebellion as a Christian because I need God beside me.
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Rupert Murdoch says 'there are no climate change deniers around' News Corp
2019-11-21 in The GuardianMurdoch was responding to a question at AGM about time given to ‘climate deniers’ by News Corp outlets in Australia
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Why climate change is an irrelevance, economic growth is a myth and sustainability is forty years too late | Global Comment
2019-11-20 in Global CommentHave climate-change activists got it wrong? This is what Kevin Casey thinks the real problem is
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Activism | Economic Growth | Sustainability
Opinion: Green energy will gut more than the oil market
2019-11-20 (or before) in Detroit NewsTagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Oil Industry | Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Climate Central: A Science & News Organization
2019-11-18 (or before) in Climate CentralClimate Central bridges the scientific community and the public, providing clear information to help people make sound decisions about the climate.
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Oliver Shah: Flighty investors won’t solve climate change | Business | The Sunday Times
2019-11-18 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesLast month, the Royal Shakespeare Company announced it would sever ties with BP, its sponsor of eight years, due to discomfort over the oil major’s role in climate change. National Galleries Scotland followed suit, citing its “responsibility to do all we can to address the climate emergency”.These i
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Steel and concrete are climate change's hard problem. Can we solve it?
2019-11-17 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Climate Change
Extinction Rebellion climate protesters block Geneva’s private jet terminal
2019-11-17 in South China Morning PostCivil disobedience movement stages day of action at airport terminal demanding halt to ‘absurd’ form of luxury transport.
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Norway Is Walking Away From Billions of Barrels of Oil
2019-11-16 (or before) in BloombergWestern Europe’s biggest petroleum producer is falling out of love with oil.
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Psychologists from 40 countries pledged to use their jobs to address climate change
2019-11-16 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterThe climate crisis has major mental-health impacts. Psychologists want to do something about it.
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Does Greta Thunberg’s Lifestyle Equal Climate Denial? One Climate Scientist Seems To Suggest So.
2019-11-15 (or before) by in ForbesThe climate debate has taken an interesting turn. It is no longer a shouting match between climate affirmers and climate deniers. Now the debate is taking place among climate affirmers on the subject of personal responsibility for combating climate change.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | IPCC | Climate Change
Home - Carbon Brief
2019-11-15 (or before) in Carbon BriefWe cover climate science and climate & energy policy, specialising in clear, data-driven articles to improve the understanding of climate change.
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The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
2019-11-14 (or before) in The LancetThe Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Children
Coal Mine Methane - Ember
2019-11-14 (or before) in Ember | Clean Energy Policy | Coal to clean energy policyTagged under: Methane | Coal | Climate Change
Sanders’s Climate Ambitions Thrill Supporters. Experts Aren’t Impressed. (Published 2019)
2019-11-14 in The New York TimesTagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Carbon Capture and Storage
The age of Arctic sea ice
2019-11-14 (or before) in YouTubeNew research finds the Arctic’s oldest and thickest ice is more mobile and is vanishing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic. The new study in AGU’...
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Climate change may be behind fall of ancient empire, say researchers
2019-11-13 in The GuardianDramatic shift from wet to dry climate could have caused crop failure in Neo-Assyrian empire
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These U.N. Climate Scientists Think They Can Halt Global Warming for $300 Billion
2019-11-13 (or before) in TIME MagazineThe solution would stabilize CO2 emissions for 15-20 years, they say
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Climate Conversations: changing minds, not just lightbulbs
2019-11-13 (or before) in EventbriteThe climate crisis presents the biggest imaginable challenge to 'business as usual'. But climate change is not just an innovation problem, it is a very human and social problem, notoriously immune to reason and logic. So what’s to be done? Conversations are one of the most powerful tools we have for creating large scale consciousness shifts - conversations are how we evolve our collective thinking and change the story we are all a part of. But not all conversations are created equal - we need to learn and practice a different way of talking about the climate crisis that emboldens us, brings us together, invites others in,...
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Climate change: do more now or risk catastrophe, warns energy agency
2019-11-13 in The GuardianIEA says deep disparity between words and action on climate change risks failing to cap global temperatures
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Bacteria may contribute more to climate change as planet heats up
2019-11-13 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyAs bacteria adapt to hotter temperatures, they speed up their respiration rate and release more carbon, potentially accelerating climate change.
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Climate Fury: “They don’t need the ravings of some pure, enlightened and woke capital city greenies” | Watts Up With That?
2019-11-13 in Watts Up With That?Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack MP, who represents the rural seat of Riverina, is fed up with ignorant inner city greens trying to exploit Australia's ongoing bushfire catastrophe for political gain. Deputy PM slams people raising climate change in relation to NSW bushfiresBy David CroweNovember 11, 2019 — 8.33amDeputy Prime
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Venice floods: Climate change behind highest tide in 50 years, says mayor - BBC News
2019-11-13 (or before) in The BBCA state of disaster is declared as the Italian city is hit with a high tide of more than 1.87m.
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Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist
2019-11-12 in resilienceCarbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is the greatest waste by weight produced by industrial economies. Climate change is a waste management problem!
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How should billionaires spend their money to fight climate change? I asked 9 experts.
2019-11-12 by Sigal Samuel in VoxIs it better to invest in developing clean energy technologies, say, or in trying to get a Democrat elected president?
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Climate change deniers’ new battle front attacked
2019-11-09 in The Guardian‘Pernicious’ campaign is unfair on well-meaning people who want to help – expert
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Climate change: Asia 'coal addiction' must end, UN chief warns - BBC News
2019-11-09 (or before) in The BBCAntónio Guterres says Asian countries must use greener energy sources to tackle the climate crisis.
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Opinion | How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong (Published 2019)
2019-11-08 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change | Methane | Antarctic
Alex Steffen Keynote - UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (2018)
2019-11-08 (or before) in YouTubePlanetary futurist Alex Steffen gives a keynote speech at the 1st meeting of the 2018 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (2018 HLPF).Yo...
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Are Employees Pushing Insurers to Shun Coal in Climate Change Movement?
2019-11-07 in Insurance Journal - Property Casualty Insurance NewsSeventeen insurers have restricted insurance services to coal projects in the past two years. A dozen insurers have adopted policies to stop all direct
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2019 Billion-Dollar Disasters
2019-11-07 (or before) in Climate Central2019 marks the fifth straight year with at least ten U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters—showing the increasing cost of extreme weather as the climate warms.
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Tory election hopeful called climate crisis 'socialist Trojan horse'
2019-11-07 in The GuardianConservatives criticised for picking climate change sceptic Craig Morley as candidate
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Jane Fonda Explains Her “Fire Drills Friday” Climate Protest Plan: “It’s Grannies Unite!”
2019-11-06 by in The Hollywood Reporter - Movie news, TV news, awards news, lifestyle news, business news and more from The Hollywood Reporter.Jane Fonda talks about her Fire Drill Fridays and getting arrested in Washington, D.C., for protesting climate change.
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Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
2019-11-05 by Damian Carrington in The GuardianStatement sets out ‘vital signs’ as indicators of magnitude of the climate emergency
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11,000 scientists from 153 countries warn of 'climate crisis' | ITV News
2019-11-05 in ITVThe declaration is based on analysis of more than 40 years of publicly available data. | ITV National News
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Former Trump official says climate change is ‘imaginary threat’ invented by ‘insular and paranoid' scientists
2019-11-05 in washingtonexaminer.comWilliam Happer failed at the chance of his lifetime.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Wikipedia
2019-11-05 (or before) in WikipediaTagged under: Climate Change
Most countries' climate plans 'totally inadequate' – experts
2019-11-05 in The GuardianUS and Brazil unlikely to meet Paris agreement pledges - while Russia has not even made one
Tagged under: Brazil | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Russia | The Paris Agreement
Climate change: ‘Clear and unequivocal’ emergency, say scientists - BBC News
2019-11-05 (or before) in BBCAround 11,000 scientists have endorsed research that says the world is facing a climate emergency.
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Issues | systems change not climate change
2019-11-05 (or before) in Issues | systems change not climate changeTagged under: Climate Change
Oil And Gas Giants Spend Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies [Infographic]
2019-11-05 (or before) by in ForbesA recent report from InfluenceMap claims that the world's biggest oil and gas companies spend $200 million every year to weaken and oppose legislation aimed at fighting global warming.
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Dr Rowan Williams "the future of the human race is now at stake" | 2019 | Extinction Rebellion UK
2019-11-04 (or before) in YouTubeRowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet. He served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from D...
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Activism | Extinction
Bernie Sanders’s new bet: a climate change message can win him the Iowa caucuses
2019-11-04 by in VoxIn the final 100 days before Iowa’s caucuses, Sanders is going all in on a climate change message.
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A Scary Year for Climate Change
2019-11-03 (or before) by in Scientific American Blog Network - Scientific American Blog NetworkScientists’ warnings about climate change have intensified over the past 12 months. Will world leaders finally listen?
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Climate change: Thousands invited to join citizens' assembly - BBC News
2019-11-02 (or before) in The BBCThe MPs' initiative will look at what members of the public can do to reduce CO2.
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Climate Home
2019-11-01 (or before) in Climate Home NewsClimate change news, analysis, commentary, video and podcasts focused on developments in global climate politics
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Climate policies 'will transform UK landscape' - BBC News
2019-11-01 (or before) in The BBCBritain's countryside could be transformed by policies to combat climate change.
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Caroline Lucas: Don't let Boris Johnson make this the Brexit election – it's the climate election
2019-10-31 (or before) in The IndependentOur prime minister is cynically exploiting Brexit to his personal advantage while ignoring the most urgent emergency the human species has ever faced
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Jonathan Safran Foer and the Limits of Liberal Climate Politics
2019-10-29 in The NationAddressing climate change will take a whole lot more than changing our diets.
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Fourth National Climate Assessment: Chapter 25: Southwest
2019-10-29 (or before) in Fourth National Climate AssessmentThis report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the second of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990.
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How deadly disease outbreaks could worsen as the climate changes
2019-10-28 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Deforestation | Climate Change
Secret Deal Helped Housing Industry Stop Tougher Rules on Climate Change (Published 2019)
2019-10-26 in The New York TimesThe arrangement, in place for years, guarantees industry representatives a bloc of seats on two powerful committees that recommend building codes.
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Half a century of dither and denial – a climate crisis timeline
2019-10-26 (or before) by in The GuardianFossil fuel companies have been aware of their impact on the planet since at least the 1950s
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action | Reuters
2019-10-26 (or before) in ReutersAlmost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict "incalculable human suffering."
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The real reason scientists downplay the risks of climate change | Dale Jamieson, Michael Oppenheimer and Naomi Oreskes
2019-10-25 in The GuardianClimate deniers often accuse scientists of exaggerating the threats associated with climate change, but if anything they’re often too conservative
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What happens when you can see disaster unfolding, and nobody listens?
2019-10-25 (or before) in Mother Jones - Smart, fearless journalismThe distinct burden of being a climate scientist
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming
2019-10-25 (or before) in Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examinedDirect observations find that CO2 is rising sharply due to human activity. Satellite and surface measurements find less energy is escaping to space at CO2 absorption wavelengths. Ocean and surface temperature measurements find the planet continues to accumulate heat. This gives a line of empirical evidence that human CO2 emissions are causing global warming.
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Why is the Paris climate agreement important for COP26? - BBC News
2019-10-24 (or before) in The BBCNations are under pressure to improve on environmental commitments made six years ago in Paris.
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Hundreds of people hold 'funeral' for Swiss glacier lost to global warming | The Independent | The Independent
2019-10-24 (or before) in The Independent'It is like the dying of a good friend,' says scientist
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Climate change: 'Trump effect' threatens Paris pact - BBC News
2019-10-24 (or before) in The BBCPresident Trump's actions are restricting global efforts to cut carbon, a study suggests.
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Climate change: Report warns of growing impact on US life - BBC News
2019-10-24 (or before) in The BBCClimate change could cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and damage health, a major report warns.
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WIREs Climate Change: Vol 0, No 0
2019-10-24 (or before) in Wiley Online LibraryClick on the title to browse this issue
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Large-scale afforestation of African savannas will destroy valuable ecosystems: African scientists speak out about global plans to plant trees on their continent in order to fight climate change
2019-10-23 (or before) in Science DailyScientists from around the world argue that the suggested afforestation of large areas of Africa to mitigate climate change will destroy valuable ecological, agricultural, and tourist areas, while doing little to reduce global CO2 levels.
Tagged under: Africa | Climate Change | Trees
Open Forum: Climate change is already affecting your health
2019-10-23 (or before) by in San Francisco ChronicleAs physicians, we already see the ways in which climate change is damaging the health of...
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Exxon sowed doubt about climate crisis, House Democrats hear in testimony
2019-10-23 by Emily Holden in The GuardianSubcommittee laid out four decades of evidence just a day after oil behemoth began a trial over misleading investors
Tagged under: US Politics | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Exxon | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Russia’s Thawing Permafrost May Cost Economy $2.3 Billion a Year
2019-10-22 (or before) in BloombergRussia plans to pay more attention to the impact climate change is having on its vast permafrost area.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Economics | Vladimir Putin | Russia
Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region - Nature Climate Change
2019-10-22 (or before) in NatureWinter warming in the Arctic will increase the CO2 flux from soils. A pan-Arctic analysis shows a current loss of 1,662‚ÄâTgC per year over the winter, exceeding estimated carbon uptake in the growing season; projections suggest a 17% increase under RCP 4.5 and a 41% increase under RCP 8.5 by 2100.
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ExxonMobil faces trial over allegations of misleading investors on climate crisis
2019-10-22 in The GuardianNew York lawsuit alleges company was ‘exposed to far greater risk from climate change than investors were led to believe’
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The Guardian view on Extinction Rebellion: numbers alone won’t create change | Editorial
2019-10-21 in The GuardianEditorial: People being in the streets isn’t effective without a strategy, and XR needs a clearer one for what could be years of non-violent struggle
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Climate Change | Activism
Sadiq Khan to fight government attempt to water down green policies
2019-10-21 in The GuardianExclusive: mayor to reject changes to his London Plan which aims to protect green belt and stop Heathrow expansion
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Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since Trump took office
2019-10-21 (or before) by in The ConversationDespite scientists’ initial concerns, federal climate change data sets are still available. But other documents and web pages have changed over the last year.
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America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change | Center For Climate Change Communication
2019-10-21 (or before) in Center For Climate Change CommunicationOver the past few decades, the fossil fuel industry has subjected the American public to a well-funded, well-orchestrated disinformation campaign about the reality and severity of human-caused climate change. The purpose of this web of denial has been to confuse the public and decision-makers in order to delay climate action and thereby protect fossil fuel Continue Reading
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Climate change: Oil industry argues for maximum production levels - BBC News
2019-10-19 (or before) in BBCEnvironmental campaigners say the industry needs to "get serious" about tackling climate change.
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Climate change: Trump's rollback of climate change regulations will be felt far beyond his presidency - CNNPolitics
2019-10-19 (or before) by in CNNIn his time in office, President Trump has rolled back dozens of environmental regulations, and critics say the impacts of his policies will be felt for generations to come.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
What climate change will do to three major American cities by 2100
2019-10-19 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterHow the worst-case climate scenario will play out, decade by decade, in St. Louis, San Francisco, and Houston.
Tagged under: Climate Change | California | Cities | Texas
The methane gun
2019-10-18 in Julian Cribb BlogBy Julian Cribb FRSA FTSE In all the sound and fury over climate change, too little public and media attention has been devoted to the ‘methane gun’ [1] – and yet this terrifying phenomenon could u…
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No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes - Nature Climate Change
2019-10-17 (or before) in NatureObservational data show a continued increase of hot extremes over land during the so-called global warming hiatus. This tendency is greater for the most extreme events and thus more relevant for impacts than changes in global mean temperature.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Climate change could be the spark that sets global productivity on fire
2019-10-16 (or before) in The TelegraphDonald Trump has said many silly things in his time, but among the silliest was his insistence that “trade wars are good and easy to win”.
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System change, not climate change! What 'The Good Place' can teach us about climate action
2019-10-16 (or before) in openDemocracyIt’s pointless to blame Extinction Rebellion activists for eating McDonalds. Like in the TV show The Good Place, it’s the system that’s broken.
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Activism | Climate Change
High Court grants Extinction Rebellion to challenge London-wide ban on protests
2019-10-16 in Morning StarTagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Climate Change | Activism
Climate change requires government action, not just personal steps
2019-10-15 (or before) in USA TodayMany individual actions to slow climate change are worth taking. But they distract from the systemic changes that are needed to avert this crisis.
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Home | Ecotricity
2019-10-15 (or before) in ErrorFight climate change with Britain’s greenest energy supplier. Switch to Ecotricity’s renewable green electricity and gas for your home or business.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Electricity
Central heating boilers 'put climate change goals at risk' - BBC News
2019-10-15 (or before) in BBCThe UK will not meet its climate change targets without a revolution in home heating, a think tank says.
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Behaviour change, public engagement and Net Zero (Imperial College London) - Climate Change Committee
2019-10-14 (or before) in Climate Change CommitteeThe Committee on Climate Change (CCC) appointed Dr. Richard Carmichael from Imperial College London to work with us on understanding the potential for people to make choices that can contribute to reducing emissions, and what this means for policy.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | Committee on Climate Change UK
Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think
2019-10-14 by Jillian Ambrose in The GuardianPace of progress raises hope that fossil fuel companies could lose their domination
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Oil Industry | Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Wind Power | Fossil Fuels
Climate change is making it easier to send ships through the Arctic - Axios
2019-10-13 (or before) by in AxiosTagged under: Arctic | Climate Change
The Massive Cost of Not Adapting to Climate Change
2019-10-13 (or before) in BloombergThe world must invest $1.8 trillion by 2030 to prepare for the effects of global warming. A new report said the payoff could be four times that.
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Economic Growth
Fossil fuel bosses must change or be voted out, says asset manager
2019-10-12 in The GuardianState Street chief says it could use shareholder powers to force boards to act on climate
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Climate change: Big lifestyle changes are the only answer - BBC News
2019-10-12 (or before) in The BBCThe experts tell us that small, easy changes alone will not be enough to combat climate change.
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Extinction Rebellion protester, 83, happy to 'go to jail to save his grandkids' - Mirror Online
2019-10-11 by Amy Coles in The MirrorTagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Climate Change | Activism
Macroeconomic and Financial Policies for Climate Change Mitigation: A Review of the Literature
2019-10-11 (or before) by in International Monetary FundClimate change is one of the greatest challenges of this century. Mitigation requires a large-scale transition to a low-carbon economy. This paper provides an overview of the rapidly growing literature on the role of macroeconomic and financial policy tools in enabling this transition. The literature provides a menu of policy tools for mitigation. A key conclusion is that fiscal tools are first in line and central, but can and may need to be complemented by financial and monetary policy instruments. Some tools and policies raise unanswered questions about policy tool assignment and mandates, which we describe. The literature is ...
Tagged under: Economics | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation
There are three types of climate change denier, and most of us are at least one
2019-10-09 by in The ConversationIt’s easy to spot outright rejection of the facts on climate change. But it’s far harder to see our own biases and excuses that lead us to delay or deny the need for real action.
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‘Inspirational': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez applauds mayors’ Global Green New Deal
2019-10-09 in The GuardianMayors of more than 90 of the world’s biggest cities voice support for bold proposal to fight climate change as they lambast ‘failed’ UN climate summit
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Extinction Rebellion
Climate technology primer (1/3): basics
2019-10-05 in Longitudinal Science - Cross-disciplinary road-mapping and analysis of science and technology topicsThis is the first of a series of three blog posts intended as a primer on how technology can help to address climate change. Note: you can annotate this page in Hypothes.is here: Excellent document…
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Greta Thunberg is right: It’s time to haul ass on climate change
2019-10-04 by David Roberts in VoxEconomically and politically, early ambition is better.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change | Economics
Climate change: what faith groups can do
2019-10-03 in Bath Quakers - Local meeting of the Religious Society of FriendsChristine Goodgame-Nobes sends an article from Marigold Bentley of the Quaker Committee for Christian & Interfaith Relations (QCCIR), under the heading Quakers, churches and sustainability in Q…
Tagged under: Climate Change | Religion | Sustainability | Committee on Climate Change UK
Climate change: Marine heatwaves kill coral instantly - BBC News
2019-10-03 (or before) in BBCMarine heat waves, associated with climate change, cause the rapid death of corals, research reveals.
Tagged under: Coral Reefs | Heatwaves | Climate Change
Algae might be a secret weapon to combatting climate change
2019-10-02 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterThe secret weapon to combatting climate change isn't just planting trees—it's growing algae
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Ex-police chiefs to join Extinction Rebellion activists in biggest protest yet - Mirror Online
2019-10-02 (or before) by Milo Boyd in The MirrorTagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Activism | Heatwaves | Climate Change
Australia’s vast carbon sink releasing millions of tonnes of CO2 back into atmosphere
2019-10-01 in The GuardianAustralia’s mangroves and seagrass meadows absorb 20m tonnes of CO2 a year but report warns damage to ecosystems contributing to climate change
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Climate change is about how we treat each other
2019-09-30 by in The CorrespondentOur weather has changed so rapidly that we now stand on the brink of collapse. But simply speaking about the impending apocalypse will do nothing to change it. We need to reimagine human relationships.
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The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work
2019-09-29 in Cleantech News Ñ #1 In EV, Solar, Wind, Tesla NewsThe following are the climate change solutions or approaches that I see from my investigations and discussions as gaining consensus and consilience on their viabiilty. It's not the how, but the what.
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Introduce frequent flyer levy to fight emissions, government told - BBC News
2019-09-27 (or before) in The BBCThe Committee on Climate Change says the extra tax would help curb the growing demand for air travel.
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Companies Expect Climate Change to Cost Them $1 Trillion in 5 Years
2019-09-27 (or before) in WIRED MagazineTagged under: Climate Change
A Postmortem for Survival: on science, failure and action on climate change | by Julia Steinberger | Age of Awareness | Medium
2019-09-25 (or before) in MediumFailing to learn from past mistakes is the only truly unforgivable mistake in science. And on climate change, the scientific community (by…
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The Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG): A Climate Security Plan for America
2019-09-24 in The Center for Climate & Security « Exploring The Security Risks of Climate ChangeThe Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG): “A Climate Security Plan for America: A Presidential Plan for Combating the Security Risks of Climate Change” On September 24, 2019, sixty-fou…
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Climate change: Scientists to report on ocean 'emergency' caused by warming - BBC News
2019-09-24 (or before) in The BBCResearchers from around the world meet to finalise a study on the impact of warming on oceans and icy regions.
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Greta, not Trump, is the true leader of the free world | Opinion
2019-09-24 in NewsweekTagged under: Greta Thunberg | Donald Trump | Climate Change
Greta Thunberg, 15 kids file UN complaint to force nations to fight climate change
2019-09-23 in Climate Liability Newsprint By Karen Savage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people from around the world have filed a human rights complaint against five countries for continuing to promote fossil fuels and failing to reduce carbon emissions. The group has asked the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to …
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Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks - BBC News
2019-09-22 (or before) in The BBCA snapshot of the latest science, published as politicians gather in New York, says climate change is speeding up.
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RCP 8.5: Business-as-usual or a worst-case scenario?
2019-09-22 in Climate Nexus | Changing the Conversation on ClimateThere is debate over whether the climate change scenario RCP 8.5 represents a "business as usual” scenario, a “high emissions”, or a "worst-case" scenario.
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St. Greta Spreads the Climate Gospel
2019-09-22 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and VideoA movement that believes in sin, penance and salvation doesn’t sound very scientific.
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The hard truths of climate change — by the numbers
2019-09-22 (or before) in NatureA set of troubling charts shows how little progress nations have made toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.
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This isn't extinction, it's extermination: the people killing nature know what they're doing | Jeff Sparrow
2019-09-20 by Jeff Sparrow in The GuardianThe climate strike must be a beginning and not an end. Warming won’t be stopped by symbolism
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Greta Thunberg: I have a dream that the powerful will take the climate crisis seriously
2019-09-20 (or before) in The IndependentIn a highly anticipated speech in Congress after travelling half the way across the Atlantic by boat, Greta Thunberg urges US senators to learn from the sacrifices of Martin Luther King and other civil rights activists in the fight against climate change. Here is the transcript
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Climate change is morally wrong. It is time for a carbon abolition movement | Eric Beinhocker
2019-09-20 in The GuardianThose who fought against slavery did not agonise over the costs and benefits. Their goal was clear: make it illegal, says Eric Beinhocker, a professor of public policy practice
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With Greenland's Extreme Melting, a New Risk Grows: Ice Slabs That Worsen Runoff - Inside Climate News
2019-09-18 in Inside Climate NewsScientists have added a new item to the long list of Greenland Ice Sheet woes. Along with snow-darkening algae and increasing rainfall, giant slabs of ice have been thickening and spreading under the Greenland snow at an average rate of two football fields per minute since 2001, new research shows. The slabs prevent surface meltwater […]
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'We're losing the race': UN secretary general calls climate change an 'emergency'
2019-09-18 in The GuardianAntónio Guterres cites ‘fantastic leadership’ of young activists and is counting on public pressure to compel governments to honor the 2015 Paris Agreement
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Parents told not to terrify children over climate change as rising numbers treated for 'eco-anxiety'
2019-09-17 (or before) in The TelegraphRising numbers of children are being treated for “eco-anxiety”, experts have said, as they warn parents against “terrifying” their youngsters with talk of climate catastrophe.
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'Trollbots' Swarm Twitter with Attacks on Climate Science Ahead of UN Summit - Inside Climate News
2019-09-16 by in Inside Climate NewsCNN’s seven-hour climate change town hall for presidential candidates was not a TV ratings bonanza, but it set off a marked surge of activity on Twitter aimed at ridiculing the Democrats and dismissing the science. “Climate change” became the top two-word trending topic on Twitter for several hours after the event among the accounts being […]
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Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says - BBC News
2019-09-16 (or before) in The BBCThe UK should advance its climate targets by 10 years, says the UK’s former chief scientist.
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With $32 Trillion In Assets, Investors Demand Immediate Action On Climate Change
2019-09-09 (or before) by in ForbesA global group of 415 investors managing $32 trillion in assets just released a combined statement urging governments to accelerate their actions to mitigate climate change.
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How climate change will transform business and the workforce - BBC Future
2019-09-09 (or before) by in BBCOur planet is already feeling the effects of climate change, but it’s also poised to cause irreversible shifts in the ways we work, and the skills that employers need.
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How Greta Thunberg Captured Our Attention on Climate
2019-09-09 by in Slate MagazineWe’re finally ready to absorb her bleak message, and maybe act on it.
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Luisa Neubauer: Why you should be a climate activist
2019-09-07 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth Spreading"I dream of a world where geography classes teach about the climate crisis as this one great challenge that was won by people like you and me," says climate activist Luisa Neubauer. With Greta Thunberg, Neubauer helped initiate "Fridays For Future," the momentous international school strike movement that protests the lack of action on the climate crisis. She shares four first steps that anyone, regardless of age, can take to become a climate activist. "This is not a job for a single generation. This is a job for humanity," she says.
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Other Climate & Weather Graphics| ACCAP
2019-09-05 in ACCAP - Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and PolicyOther Graphics Current conditions, changes in extremes, and long time period perspectives. Topics include rain and snow, storminess, and wildfires.
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The deadly hidden risks within the most prominent economic model of climate change
2019-09-04 in The WeekGlobal warming is an emergency, not a trifle to be dealt with decades hence
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The Uncanny Power of Greta Thunberg’s Climate-Change Rhetoric
2019-08-31 (or before) in The New YorkerTagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change
Why the fight against climate change will never be won with capitalism
2019-08-24 (or before) by in Eco-Business.com - Asia Pacific's Sustainable Business CommunityOur current socio-economic system relies on the exploitation of both people and planet. In saving a world on the brink of ecological and social disaster, calls for a greener, more efficient...
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Media creates false balance on climate science, study shows
2019-08-22 in Home | University of CaliforniaAbout half of mainstream media visibility goes to climate-change deniers, many of whom are not climate scientists.
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How plastics contribute to climate change » Yale Climate Connections
2019-08-20 in Yale Climate ConnectionsThey generates heat-trapping gases at every stage of their life cycle.
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Why carbon offsetting is not the panacea Harry and Meghan might think it is
2019-08-20 by Emine Saner in The GuardianElton John claimed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s private jet use was ‘carbon neutral’. The reality is more complicated
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage | Carbon Offsetting | Air Travel | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians - Nature Communications
2019-08-18 (or before) in NatureThe role of climate change (CC) contrarians is neglected in climate change communication studies. Here the authors used a data-driven approach to identify CC contrarians and CC scientists and found that CC scientists have much higher citation impact than those for contrarians but lower media visibility.
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Teenage activists and an IPCC triumph
2019-08-17 (or before) in NatureThe latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a well-timed blueprint for action. Decision makers must now pay attention — a nascent youth movement is showing them how. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a well-timed blueprint for action.
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NASA Studies How Arctic Wildfires Change the World – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
2019-08-17 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetNASA is studying why boreal forest and tundra fires have become more frequent and powerful and what that means for climate forecasting, ecosystems and human health.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Wildfires | Science | Arctic | Climate Change | Forest Fires | Health | Trees
Climate crisis: CO2 levels rise to highest point since evolution of humans | The Independent | The Independent
2019-08-15 (or before) in The Independent‘We don’t know a planet like this’
Tagged under: Wildfires | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Coral Reefs | Sea Level
Jacinda Ardern says Australia has to 'answer to Pacific' on climate change
2019-08-14 in The GuardianNew Zealand prime minister warns Scott Morrison about Canberra’s stance but refuses to call for Australia to transition out of coal
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change | Pacific Ocean
'Ecological grief': Greenland residents traumatised by climate emergency
2019-08-12 by Dan McDougall in The GuardianIslanders are struggling to reconcile impact of global heating with traditional way of life, survey finds
Tagged under: Arctic | Ice Melting | Global Warming | Greenland | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Change
Pseudo scientific hysteria is the wrong answer to climate change
2019-08-03 in New York Post Ð Breaking News, Top Headlines, Photos & VideosA year ahead of the US presidential election, exaggeration about global warming is greater than ever. While some politicians continue (incorrectly) to insist it’s made up, far more insist (also inc…
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Australia’s climate stance is inflicting criminal damage on humanity | Ian Dunlop and David Spratt
2019-08-02 in The GuardianThe government opts for conflict rather than change, while suppressing details on the implications of its climate inaction
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The most effective ways to curb climate change might surprise you
2019-08-01 (or before) in CNN InternationalWe need unprecedented action to stop climate change. Take CNN's quiz to see how much you know about the most effective solutions.
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Starvation deaths of 200 reindeer in Arctic caused by climate crisis, say researchers
2019-07-30 in The GuardianComparable death toll has been recorded only once before, says Norwegian Polar Institute
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Scientists say climate change is pushing Alaska’s weather ‘into record territory.’ - The Washington Post
2019-07-30 in The Washington PostAlaska will soon shatter its record for warmest month, and between sea ice loss, permafrost melt and skyrocketing temperatures, scientists say climate change is thrusting its weather “into record territory.”
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Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
2019-07-28 (or before) in MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyToday’s carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle with devastating consequences, according to a new MIT study.
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Air travel is a huge contributor to climate change. A new global movement wants you to be ashamed to fly.
2019-07-25 by in VoxGreta Thunberg gave up flights to fight climate change. Should you?
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Oceans Are Melting Glaciers from Below Much Faster than Predicted, Study Finds - Inside Climate News
2019-07-25 in Inside Climate NewsBeneath the ocean’s surface, glaciers may be melting 10 to 100 times faster than previously believed, new research shows. Until now, scientists had a limited understanding of what happens under the water at the point where land-based glaciers meet the sea. Using a combination of radar, sonar and time-lapse photography, a team of researchers has […]
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Those 3% of scientific papers that deny climate change? A review found them all flawed
2019-07-25 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterScientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.
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What is climate change?
2019-07-24 (or before) in Met Office UKClimate change refers to a large-scale, long-term shift in the planet's weather patterns and average temperatures.
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We Have to Stop Meeting Like This: The Climate Cost of Conferences | The Tyee
2019-07-24 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaA UBC study looked at the carbon cost of conferences and other academic travel. It’s enormous.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Air Travel | Sustainability
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months - BBC News
2019-07-24 (or before) in BBCThere's a growing consensus that the next year-and-a-half are key in the battle against rising temperatures.
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But the Greatest of These is Love | by Mary Annaïse Heglar | Medium
2019-07-17 (or before) in MediumTo face climate change, hope won’t be enough. Fear won’t be enough. And neither will anger. What we really need is love. Hear me out.
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The Interview - Jane Goodall on climate change: 'Something's got to give'
2019-07-15 in France 24At the age of 26, Dr Jane Goodall pioneered new ways of researching animals including by living with them. Now, aged 85 and a UN Messenger of Peace, she travels more than 300 days a year to share the…
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9 things you can do about climate change
2019-07-09 (or before) in sway.office.comTagged under: Climate Change
Treat climate change like the crisis it is, says journalism professor | CBC Radio
2019-07-07 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public BroadcasterMore Canadians than ever are troubled by the state of our planet. But Sean Holman believes the news media have been slow to catch up.
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Last Month Just "Obliterated" Temperature Records as The Hottest June to Date
2019-07-05 (or before) by in ScienceAlertEurope's record-breaking heat wave last week, it turns out, was the emphatic conclusion to the hottest June ever recorded.
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Climate change made European heatwave at least five times likelier
2019-07-02 in The GuardianSearing heat shows crisis is ‘here and now’, say scientists, and worse than predicted
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Predictions | Climate Change
Trump dismisses need for climate change action: ‘We have the cleanest water we’ve ever had, we have the cleanest air’ | The Independent | The Independent
2019-07-01 (or before) in The Independent‘It doesn’t always work with a windmill,’ says US president as he rejects green energy
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California was warned about climate change 30 years ago. Now it's feeling the effects
2019-06-27 in Los Angeles TimesA report issued in 1989 warned that California would see more droughts, floods, and fires under climate change. Those projections are now coming true.
Tagged under: Drought | Predictions | Climate Change | California
It’s time to change the climate disaster script. People need hope that things can change | Nicky Hawkins
2019-06-26 in The GuardianThe climate story must balance talk of urgency with inspiring and creative ideas if we are to inspire positive change, says the communications strategist Nicky Hawkins
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Extreme Weather | Climate Change | Extinction
Elizabeth Warren thinks corruption is why the US hasn’t acted on climate change
2019-06-22 by in VoxHere’s how she intends to fight greenhouse gases and money in politics.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | US Politics
Trump ditches sole climate rule that aimed to reduce coal plant pollution
2019-06-19 in The GuardianAdministration to roll back Obama-era Clean Power Plan as experts say move shows Trump’s ‘determination to avoid action to address climate change’
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Barack Obama
Boaty McBoatface makes major climate change discovery on maiden outing
2019-06-18 (or before) in The TelegraphBoaty McBoatface’s maiden outing has made a major discovery about how climate change is causing rising sea levels.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Sea Level | David Attenborough
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
2019-06-16 (or before) in arXiv.org e-Print archiveClimate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine learning experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate. From smart grids to disaster management, we identify high impact problems where existing gaps can be filled by machine learning, in collaboration with other fields. Our recommendations encompass exciting research questions as well as promising business opportunities. We call on the machine learning community to join the global effort against climate change...
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Pope Francis declares 'climate emergency' and urges action
2019-06-14 by Jillian Ambrose in The GuardianAddressing energy leaders, pope warns of ‘catastrophic’ effects of global heating
Tagged under: Global Warming | Pope Francis | Religion | Climate Change
Theresa May’s net-zero emissions target is a lot less impressive than it looks | Caroline Lucas
2019-06-12 in The GuardianThe government’s pledges on climate change are too little, too late, says Green party MP Caroline Lucas
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Net Zero | Committee on Climate Change UK
What will it take for the UK to reach net zero emissions?
2019-06-12 in The GuardianWe will have to change almost everything, from our homes to our meals
Tagged under: Farming | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Net Zero
Watch the Live-streams from the conference - 14th International Conference on Climate Change
2019-06-12 (or before) in Heartland Institute - 15th International Conference on Climate ChangeSunday, October 17 Breakfast and Lunch Keynotes Breakfast Keynote – 8:00am – 9:00am PT This plenary meal session includes a keynote presentation by meteorologist Joe Bastardi of WeatherBell and a keynote speech by Naomi Seibt. Lunch Keynote – 1:15pm – 2:00pm PT In this plenary meal session, Lord Christopher Monckton is giving a keynote presentation […]
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Schedule - 14th International Conference on Climate Change
2019-06-12 (or before) in Heartland Institute - 15th International Conference on Climate ChangeSubject to change. Last updated October 14, 2021. Click on a session to see more details about the presentations.
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Urgency is what's demanded by young activists. But they're met with crumbling complacency | Eve Livingston
2019-06-11 in The GuardianThere’s a generational divide between an establishment desperate for gradual change and a youth fired up for overhaul, says journalist Eve Livingston
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Personal Vehicles Evaluated against Climate Change Mitigation Targets
2019-06-10 (or before) in American Chemical SocietyMeeting global climate change mitigation goals will likely require that transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions begin to decline within the next two decades and then continue to fall. A var...
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Trump lied to Prince Charles's face - and to the world | Opinion
2019-06-06 (or before) in NewsweekTagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Donald Trump tells Prince Charles US has 'clean climate'
2019-06-05 in The GuardianPresident blames other countries for environmental crisis, in long talk with prince
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The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response | Joseph Stiglitz
2019-06-04 in The GuardianCritics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake
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How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
2019-06-03 (or before) in Splinter | The Truth HurtsIn 2005, at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., the National Association of Evangelicals was on the verge of doing something novel: affirming science. Specifically, the 30-million-member group, which represents 51 Christian denominations, was debating how to advance a new platform called “For the Health of a Nation
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U.N. Climate Report Merely a Blueprint for Destroying the World Economy
2019-06-03 (or before) by in The Heritage FoundationWhat will it take to keep the planet habitable? According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism — the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering. The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report led Eric Holthaus, a Grist writer, to tweet enthusiastically, “The world’s top scientists just gave rigorous backing to systematically dismantle capitalism as a key requirement to maintaining civilization and a habitable planet.”
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Climate change: 'We've created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself – I'm terrified', writes Earth scientist
2019-06-03 (or before) by in The ConversationWhy radical changes to society are needed if we are to escape environmental disaster.
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It is a fantasy to think that financial markets will self-regulate when it comes to climate risk
2019-06-03 in LSE Blogs | Expert analysis & debate from LSEAbby Innes explains how the current financial incentive framework is stacked against any traded company that tries to care about climate change. She warns that without government regulation, the ec…
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The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less
2019-05-31 (or before) in VICEThe degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. But is it a utopian fantasy?
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Treat Our Climate Crisis Like Our House Is On Fire – Because It Is
2019-05-30 in Huffington Post UKSolving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge we have ever faced. The solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it.
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More natural gas isn’t a "middle ground" — it’s a climate disaster
2019-05-30 by David Roberts in VoxTo tackle climate change, natural gas has got to go.
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The Anti-Flying Movement Is Slowly Starting to Hurt European Airlines
2019-05-28 by in Skift: Travel News, Airline News and Hotel NewsTeenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg gained plenty of plaudits for her impassioned speech at a recent protest in London, but the way she got to
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"I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle."
2019-05-28 by in VoxStop obsessing over your environmental "sins." Fight the oil and gas industry instead.
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An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
2019-05-22 by in Pro PublicaThe hunger for these offsets is blinding us to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't — and won't — deliver the climate benefit they promise.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Climate Change | Forests | Carbon Capture and Storage | Carbon Offsetting | Trees
Police chief says Extinction Rebellion protesters will be arrested 'very, very fast' and suggests officers were not assertive enough last time | The Independent | The Independent
2019-05-15 (or before) in The Independent'Next time we will have to quite simply have more people earlier, and be very very fast and assertive about getting people arrested,' Cressida Dick says
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Single-use plastics a serious climate change hazard, study warns
2019-05-15 in The GuardianProduction must end now, says first ever estimate of plastic’s cradle-to-grave impact
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Factcheck: How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change
2019-05-13 in Carbon BriefElectric vehicles (EVs) are an important part of meeting global goals on climate change. They feature prominently in mitigation pathways that limit warming to well-below 2C or 1.5C, which would be inline with the Paris Agreement’s targets.
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Anthroposphere | The Multidisciplinary Climate Magazine
2019-05-13 (or before) in Anthroposphere | The Multidisciplinary Climate MagazineAnthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review is a climate magazine for interdisciplinary critique, analysis, and ideas on climate change now published bi-annually. Read our in-print issues or online articles.
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As English fans get set to cross Europe, anger rises at football’s carbon bootprint
2019-05-11 in The GuardianPlanes going to the finals in Spain and Azerbaijan will emit 35,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide – climate activists want change
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Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard: ‘Denying climate change is evil’
2019-05-10 in The GuardianThe octogenarian entrepreneur, who prefers gardening to meetings, says capitalism is destroying earth
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Loss of biodiversity is just as catastrophic as climate change | Robert Watson
2019-05-06 in The GuardianNature is being eroded at rates unprecedented in human history, says scientist Robert Watson
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Wildlife | Extinction | Biodiversity Loss
We are full of bright ideas to solve ecological problems. So let’s act on them | Chris Packham
2019-05-06 in The GuardianThere is hope in the face of environmental crises. But we must all embrace change, says naturalist Chris Packham
Tagged under: Farming | Activism | Climate Change | Wildlife
Trump Will Meet With Top Advisers To Discuss Plans To Challenge Climate Change Reports, Source Says
2019-05-02 (or before) in dailycaller.comPresident Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with officials to discuss creating a commission to scrutinize climate change reports, according to a source.
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Events Archive - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
2019-05-02 (or before) in London School of EconomicsTagged under: Climate Change
‘This report will change your life’: what zero emissions means for UK
2019-05-01 in The GuardianCommittee on Climate Change sets out how UK can reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero | Committee on Climate Change UK
Now we know: conventional campaigning won’t prevent our extinction | Roger Hallam
2019-05-01 by Roger Hallam in The GuardianI helped to found Extinction Rebellion because only non-violent civil disobedience will stop the destruction of our natural world, says Roger Hallam
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Climate Change | Extinction | Activism
We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says
2019-04-30 (or before) by in ForbesThe level of carbon now in the atmosphere hasn't been seen in 12 million years, a Harvard scientist said in Chicago Thursday, and this pollution is rapidly pushing the climate back to its state in the Eocene Epoch, more than 33 million years ago, when there was no ice on either pole.
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Let’s seize the moment and create a Green New Deal for the UK | Ed Miliband, Caroline Lucas and Laura Sandys
2019-04-30 in The GuardianWe are coming together across party lines to ally the issue of climate change with social transformation, say Ed Miliband, Caroline Lucas and Laura Sandys
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change | Activism | Extinction Rebellion | Extinction
It's time for nations to unite around an International Green New Deal | Yanis Varoufakis and David Adler
2019-04-23 in The GuardianSeveral countries have proposed their own versions of a Green New Deal, but climate change knows no borders. We need a global response
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A Green New Deal
2019-04-23 (or before) in New Economics FoundationJoined-up policies to solve the triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and high oil prices
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Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact – study
2019-04-23 in The GuardianStudy shows how destabilised natural systems will worsen man-made problem
Tagged under: Arctic | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Greta Thunberg backs climate general strike to force leaders to act
2019-04-22 in The GuardianSwedish activist says world faces ‘existential crisis’ and must achieve goals of Paris deal
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Greta Thunberg | Activism | Climate Change | Extinction
Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help - BBC News
2019-04-19 (or before) in The BBCWe look at how hot the world has got and what can we can all do to tackle global warming.
Tagged under: Climate Change
New York City unveils ambitious plan for local steps to tackle climate change
2019-04-18 in The GuardianNew law aims for 40% cut by 2030 in city where buildings account for 67% of climate change emissions
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
The financial sector must be at the heart of tackling climate change
2019-04-17 in The GuardianThe industry is key to achieving a low-carbon economy, say Mark Carney, François Villeroy de Galhau and Frank Elderson
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change
Mark Carney tells global banks they cannot ignore climate change dangers
2019-04-17 in The GuardianFinancial sector warned it risks losses from extreme weather and its stakes in polluting firms
Tagged under: Economics | Extreme Weather | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Activism | Extinction Rebellion | Extinction
Emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost may be 12 times higher than thought, scientists say
2019-04-17 in The Independent‘This needs to be taken more seriously than it is right now,’ says author of new study
Tagged under: Global Warming | Arctic | Alaska | Feedback Loops | Ice Melting | Methane | Permafrost | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
EU, China agree to work together on clean energy
2019-04-10 in Climate Home NewsAfter a Brussels summit dominated by trade tensions, the two major powers presented a united front on climate change and clean energy
Tagged under: China | Climate Change | European Union
Your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag
2019-04-09 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterYou have to use a cotton tote thousands of times to make up for its environmental impact.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate change group scrapped by Trump reassembles to issue warning
2019-04-04 in The GuardianPanel was disbanded after a Trump official voiced concerns that it did not have enough members ‘from industry’
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
Climate change denial is evil, says Mary Robinson
2019-03-26 in The GuardianExclusive: chair of Elders group also says fossil fuel firms have lost their social licence
Tagged under: Climate Change
Britain has its first new deep coal mine in decades – a result of pretending climate change isn't political
2019-03-23 (or before) by in The ConversationCumbria council has approved the £165m Woodhouse colliery – and highlighted the failings of national climate policy.
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change
Climate Activists Must Come To Grips With The Role Natural Gas Will Have
2019-03-23 (or before) by in ForbesThe International Energy Agency has released its World Energy Outlook, noting that the role of renewables will escalate to 40% of all global power generation by 2040. But it also means an increased role for natural gas to back up those green fuels, all to combat climate change.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Activism | Climate Change
Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report
2019-03-22 in The GuardianAd campaigns hide investment in a huge expansion of oil and gas extraction, says InfluenceMap
Tagged under: BP | Exxon | Climate Change | Chevron | Fossil Fuels
UK gets new £5 million climate change research centre
2019-03-21 (or before) in Cardiff UniversityUnderstanding the society-wide transformations urgently required to bring about a sustainable, low-carbon future
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate change could make insurance too expensive for most people – report
2019-03-21 in The GuardianMunich Re, world’s largest reinsurance firm, warns premium rises could become social issue
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Climate Change | Insurance
Global Warming Energy Restrictions Threaten U.S. National Security | Watts Up With That?
2019-03-20 in Watts Up With That?March 5, 2019 By James Taylor Download the PDF A review of all risk factors reveals that imposing carbon dioxide restrictions on the U.S. economy would diminish, rather than enhance, American military preparedness. Global warming activists claim climate change poses a threat to America’s military and national security. Their primary assertion is that alleged negative
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Activism
Why climate action is the antithesis of white supremacy | Rebecca Solnit
2019-03-19 in The GuardianBehind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation
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Climate study warns of vanishing safety window on reducing carbon emissions—here’s why
2019-03-17 (or before) in National GeographicMillions of possible scenarios were analyzed, and only a few are acceptable, the scientists said.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Time
2019-03-10 (or before) in TIME MagazineBreaking news and analysis from TIME.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science and entertainment news.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health
Why Aren't We Using More Nature-Based Solutions to Fight Climate Change? - Pacific Standard
2019-03-08 (or before) by in psmag.comForests, mangroves, and wetlands are sometimes seen as the easy option—yet using nature to tackle climate change can be surprisingly controversial.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wetlands | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Investing in development of electricity from renewables | Airclim
2019-03-05 (or before) in Airclim | The Air Pollution and Climate SecretariatAmbitious countries and companies are showing the way with a strategy that could help eliminate the risk of unmanageable climate change.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Electricity
Italy sees 57% drop in olive harvest as result of climate change, scientist says
2019-03-05 in The GuardianExtreme weather blamed for plunge in country’s olive harvest – the worst in 25 years – that could leave the country dependent on imports by April
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
The Truth About Greenhouse Gases | William Happer
2019-03-03 (or before) in First Things | America's Most Influential Journal of Religion & Public LifeThe object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances . . . .
Tagged under: Environmental Protection Agency USA | CO2 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
GreenHouse Gas Online - Greenhouse Gas News, Research and Resources
2019-03-03 (or before) in GreenHouse Gas Online - Greenhouse Gas News, Research and ResourcesGreenhouse Gas Online. Welcome to GHG online - Greenhouse Gas News, Research and Resources
Tagged under: Global Warming | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Methane | Kyoto Agreement
'Very disappointed': Ministers berate coal miner over climate change commitment
2019-03-01 (or before) by in Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.au"My colleagues have given companies like Glencore a lot of support and I think it's a kick in the guts for us," Coalition MP Michelle Landry said.
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change
Youth climate strikers: 'We are going to change the fate of humanity'
2019-03-01 in The GuardianExclusive: Students issue an open letter ahead of global day of action on 15 March, when young people are expected to strike across 50 nations
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change
Don't trust the adults in the room on climate change | Kate Aronoff
2019-02-25 in The GuardianOlder politicians are too quick to write off younger climate activists. But where are their solutions to the climate crisis?
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change | US Politics
Climate change 'cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises'
2019-02-21 in The GuardianReport says few headlines sparked by food crises that ravaged Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change | Africa | Famine and Food Insecurity | Caribbean | Madagascar
Greta Thunberg tells EU: your climate targets need doubling
2019-02-21 in The GuardianSwede, 16, says EU cannot just ‘wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge’
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | European Union
Arctic Bogs Hold Another Global Warming Risk That Could Spiral Out of Control - Inside Climate News
2019-02-19 in Inside Climate NewsIncreasing spring rains in the Arctic could double the increase in methane emissions from the region by hastening the rate of thawing in permafrost, new research suggests. The findings are cause for concern because spring rains are anticipated to occur more frequently as the region warms. The release of methane, a short-lived climate pollutant more […]
Tagged under: Arctic | Methane | Climate Change
School climate strikes: what next for the latest generation of activists?
2019-02-18 by in The ConversationFour pieces of advice for young people wanting to fight climate change.
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change
Opinion | Time to Panic (Published 2019)
2019-02-16 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change
Landmark Australian ruling rejects coal mine over global warming
2019-02-11 (or before) in NatureThe case is the first time a mine has been refused in the country because of climate change. The case is the first time a mine has been refused in the country because of climate change.
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change
The False Choice Between Economic Growth and Combatting Climate Change
2019-02-09 (or before) in The New YorkerTagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Economic Growth
UK pupils to join global strike over climate change crisis
2019-02-08 in The GuardianThousands of pupils to walk out of lessons amid growing concern over global warming
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change
A Green New Deal can give us the freedoms to allow humanity to flourish
2019-02-07 in The GuardianFranklin Delano Roosevelt sought to redefine freedom in the face of war. The Green New Deal imagines goals for a colorful democracy
Tagged under: Climate Change | US Politics | Health
Climate change is the deadliest legacy we will leave the young | John Lanchester
2019-02-06 in The GuardianProperty prices, pensions and austerity will pale into insignificance compared with the effects of global warming, says author John Lanchester
Tagged under: Climate Change
Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change
2019-02-05 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth SpreadingTagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Climate Change | Sustainability
Elites' response to climate change must be fair, says EU official
2019-01-29 in The GuardianGilets jaunes’ anger shows that companies must do their bit, says Frans Timmermans
Tagged under: France | Climate Change | European Union | Activism
What the 2018 climate assessments say about the Gulf Stream System slowdown
2019-01-28 in RealClimateLast year, twenty thousand peer reviewed studies on ‘climate change’ were published. No single person can keep track of all those – you’d have to read 55 papers every single day. (And, by the way, that huge mass of publications is why climate deniers will always find something to cherry-pick that suits their agenda.) That is why climate assessments are so important, where a lot of scientists pool their expertise and discuss and assess and ...
Tagged under: Gulf Stream (AMOC) | Science | Climate Change
Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change
2019-01-27 (or before) by in TED: Ideas Worth SpreadingTagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Climate Change | Sustainability
An Audacious Toolkit: Actions Against Climate Breakdown (Part 1: A is for Advocacy)
2019-01-27 (or before) by Julia Steinberger in MediumWhat can we do when confronted with planetary catastrophe? The answer is EVERYTHING. Wait, wait. This is not an overly optimistic “Change is easy and painless! We just all need to do X Y Z!” column…
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change
How to build a circular economy | Ellen MacArthur Foundation
2019-01-25 (or before) in Ellen MacArthur Foundation - How to Build a Circular EconomyHelp build a circular economy: a better system that can help fight climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Explore circular solutions for businesses and policymakers plus courses, circular economy examples and more.
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Biodiversity Loss
Climate change: Is nuclear power the answer? - BBC News
2019-01-22 (or before) in The BBCHow green is nuclear power and what are the other options?
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Climate Change
The battle on the frontline of climate change in Mali - BBC News
2019-01-22 (or before) in The BBCClimate change is aggravating the conflict in Mali and making it harder to survive. writes Lyse Doucet.
Tagged under: Africa | Global Warming | Conflict | Climate Change | Mali
David Attenborough tells Davos: ‘The Garden of Eden is no more’
2019-01-21 in The GuardianHuman activity has created a new era yet climate change can be stopped, says naturalist
Tagged under: Climate Change | David Attenborough
The primacy of climate change | Environment | The Guardian
2019-01-16 (or before) in The Guardian<strong>Letter:</strong> All discussion of Brexit or any other issue should be in the context of the need for government to enter emergency mode, writes <strong>Caro New</strong>, campaigns co-ordinator of the Green party
Tagged under: Climate Change
Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study
2019-01-15 in The GuardianScientists say it may still technically be possible to limit warming to 1.5C if drastic action is taken now
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
How China’s Big Overseas Initiative Threatens Global Climate Progress
2019-01-10 (or before) in Yale E360China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a colossal infrastructure plan that could transform the economies of nations around the world. But with its focus on coal-fired power plants, the effort could obliterate any chance of reducing emissions and tip the world into catastrophic climate change.
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change
Climate change: LED lights making dent in UK energy demand - BBC News
2019-01-03 (or before) in The BBCEnergy efficiency is more important in the battle against climate change than wind and solar power, research shows
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Climate Change
'Momentum is growing': reasons to be hopeful about the environment in 2019
2019-01-02 in The GuardianAs we reflect on a year of extreme weather and ominous climate talks, 2019 could see some much-needed breakthroughs
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Time for politicians to make 'stark choices' over climate change
2019-01-01 in The GuardianMPs must show leadership on issues such as meat production and air travel, says Clive Lewis
Tagged under: Climate Change | Meat Production | Air Travel | Food Production and Consumption
Kathy Castor named to lead restored House panel on climate change
2018-12-29 in The GuardianNancy Pelosi revives special committee axed by Republicans, a move welcomed by progressive Democrats who have pushed for a ‘Green New Deal’
Tagged under: Climate Change
BBC's London HQ put on lockdown over climate change protest
2018-12-21 in The GuardianExtinction Rebellion group calls for environment to be made ‘top editorial issue’
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Climate Change | Activism | Extinction
Climate change activists vow to step up protests around world
2018-12-17 in The GuardianCampaigners say they will force governments to act after lack of progress at UN summit
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change | Greenpeace
Teen tells climate negotiators they aren't mature enough
2018-12-17 (or before) in CNN International - Breaking News, US News, World News and VideoGreta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student from Sweden, captured the attention of the world recently when she shamed climate change negotiators at a United Nations climate summit in Poland.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change
UN climate talks set stage for humanity’s two most crucial years
2018-12-17 in The GuardianDecisions made from now to 2020 will determine to what extent Earth remains habitable
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
To take on climate change, we need to change our vocabulary
2018-12-16 in The GuardianWhen we talk about saving the planet, we employ the narrative of war. Does it only deepen our divisions?
Tagged under: Communication | Climate Change
Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint? - BBC News
2018-12-16 (or before) in The BBCCheck the environmental impact of what you eat and drink.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Web Neutral Project
2018-12-14 (or before) in Web Neutral ProjectJoin the fight against climate change. Make your website carbon neutral today.
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You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change
2018-12-14 (or before) in YouTubehttps://democracynow.org - Fifteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. plenary last night in Katowice, Poland, condemning glo...
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change | Activism | Climate Justice
Revealed: FBI kept files on peaceful climate change protesters
2018-12-13 in The GuardianA protest at a BP plant in Indiana landed three sixtysomething campaigners in a federal surveillance report, documents released to the Guardian under the Freedom on Information Act show
Tagged under: BP | Climate Change | Activism | India
'Window is narrowing': scientists urge action at UN climate talks
2018-12-11 in The GuardianGilet jaunes protests cast shadow as concerns raised over backlash against rapid change
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change | Wind Power | Activism
Sunrise Movement - We Are The Climate Revolution
2018-12-10 (or before) in Sunrise Movement - We Are The Climate RevolutionThe Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate change: COP24 fails to adopt key scientific report - BBC News
2018-12-09 (or before) in The BBCA major climate conference in Poland has failed to adopt a key report after a dispute over a form of words.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Save millions of lives by tackling climate change, says WHO
2018-12-05 in The GuardianGlobal warming and fossil fuel pollution is already killing many, with the cost of action far lower than the benefits, UN climate summit told
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Health
The Guardian view on climate change: too much, too soon | Editorial
2018-12-05 in The GuardianEditorial: We are losing the war against climate change; the use of fossil fuels is driving higher carbon emissions when they need to be coming down
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Bolsonaro | Arctic | Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Yellow vests: Macron's fuel tax was no solution to climate chaos
2018-12-04 by in rs21 | revolutionary socialism in the 21st centuryWhy Macron's 'eco-tax' on fuel was never a fair or effective way to tackle climate change
Tagged under: Climate Change
'We are last generation that can stop climate change' – UN summit
2018-12-03 in The GuardianBig cuts in carbon emissions and a rise in protection from extreme weather urgently needed
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Sir David Attenborough: Climate change 'our greatest threat' - BBC News
2018-12-02 (or before) in The BBCNaturalist Sir David Attenborough says climate change is humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years.
Tagged under: Climate Change | David Attenborough
WN? Brighton Climate & Culture meeting
2018-11-30 (or before) in EventbritePlease come to the Barge to talk climate change and culture in the second What Next? Brighton meeting exploring what’s going on and how arts sector practitioners can join forces for positive action locally. The agenda is open – please contact persephone@onca.org.uk with ideas. To get to the Barge: https://onca.org.uk/the-barge/visit/
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Past four years hottest on record, data shows
2018-11-29 in The GuardianWorld running out of time to combat climate change, warns meteorological organisation
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Greenhouse Gases | IPCC | Climate Change
Climate change already a health emergency, say experts
2018-11-28 in The GuardianDeadly heatwaves and spread of diseases affect people’s health today – report
Tagged under: Heatwaves | Climate Change | Health
Why water will be the next battleground in the fight against climate change
2018-11-28 in The GuardianIn the third part of our series looking at the climate report Trump tried to bury over Thanksgiving, we look at its alarming projections for our water supplies
Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | US Politics | California | Donald Trump
World must triple efforts or face catastrophic climate change, says UN
2018-11-27 in The GuardianRapid emissions turnaround needed to keep global warming at less than 2C, report suggests
Tagged under: Drought | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Fourth National Climate Assessment: Summary Findings
2018-11-26 (or before) in Fourth National Climate AssessmentThis report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the second of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990.
Tagged under: Climate Change
She trolled Trump, but can she lead a green wave across Europe?
2018-11-24 in The GuardianSwedish minister Isabella Lövin found fame in a jibe aimed at the White House. Now she aims for change beyond Twitter
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Fish
I was arrested at a climate change protest – it was worth it | Gavin Turk
2018-11-20 in The GuardianOnly direct action will wake up our political system, says the artist Gavin Turk
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Climate Change | Activism
The arts have a leading role to play in tackling climate change | Arts Council England | The Guardian
2018-11-20 (or before) in The GuardianCultural organisations can help to initiate conversations about the environment, says Nicholas Serota, chair of Arts Council England
Tagged under: Climate Change
Artist Gavin Turk arrested in London climate change protest
2018-11-18 in The GuardianTurk held for obstructing public highway and has no regrets in taking part in mass civil disobedience
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Climate Change | Activism
Habitat loss threatens all our futures, world leaders warned
2018-11-17 in The GuardianBiodiversity experts say mass extinction of wildlife is as big a danger as climate change
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildlife | Extinction | Biodiversity Loss
John Kerry: Europe must tackle climate change or face migration chaos
2018-11-16 in The GuardianThe ex-US secretary of state, speaking at a Guardian Live event, predicts mass movement from Africa
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Africa | European Union
Policies of China, Russia and Canada threaten 5C climate change, study finds
2018-11-16 by Jonathan Watts in The GuardianRanking of countries’ goals shows even EU on course for more than double safe level of warming
Tagged under: China | Canada | Russia | Global Warming | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Jonathan Franzen: 'Climate change isn't only reason for bird decline'
2018-11-14 in The Guardian‘The two things I love most are novels and birds, and they’re both in trouble,’ says The Corrections author, one of the world’s most famous birdwatchers
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildlife
G20 nations still led by fossil fuel industry, climate report finds
2018-11-14 in The GuardianCoal, oil and gas subsidies risking rise in global temperatures to 3.2C, well beyond agreed Paris goal
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change
Home | Ecotricity
2018-11-13 (or before) in EcotricityFight climate change with Britain’s greenest energy supplier. Switch to Ecotricity’s renewable green electricity and gas for your home or business.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Electricity
Neil Young criticises Trump after losing his home in California fires
2018-11-12 in The GuardianSongwriter says state is vulnerable because of climate change and accuses US president of defying science
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Wildfires | Climate Change | California
Things aren’t looking good for climate change content on the EPA’s website
2018-11-08 (or before) in ThinkProgressTagged under: Climate Change
Is climate change making hurricanes worse?
2018-11-08 (or before) in The GuardianThe 2018 Atlantic hurricane season was expected to be ‘below normal’ but long-term trends paint a worrying picture
Tagged under: Climate Change
Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
2018-11-06 in The GuardianThe world has two years to secure a deal for nature to halt a ‘silent killer’ as dangerous as climate change, says biodiversity chief
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildlife | Extinction | Biodiversity Loss
'It's a ghost page': EPA site's climate change section may be gone for good
2018-11-01 in The GuardianMaterial that said humans were warming the planet was taken down last year for an ‘update’
Tagged under: Climate Change
A Radically Realistic Climate Vision | by Barbara Unmüßig - Project Syndicate
2018-11-01 by Barbara Unmüßig in Project SyndicateBarbara Unmüßig argues that limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is both possible and essential.
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change
Climate change is exacerbating world conflicts, says Red Cross president
2018-10-21 in The Guardian‘It’s obvious some of the violence we are observing … is directly linked to climate change,’ says Peter Maurer
Tagged under: Conflict | Climate Change | Africa | Committee on Climate Change UK
Could carbon-capture technology be a silver bullet to stop climate change?
2018-10-17 in The GuardianFew companies specialize in carbon removal and the tools they produce are currently still expensive
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Capture and Storage
'It'll change back': Trump says climate change not a hoax, but denies lasting impact
2018-10-15 in The GuardianClimate scientists have political agendas, US president says in interview with 60 Minutes
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change
So you’re ready to take action against climate change…
2018-10-14 in grandgather | more pleasure less fuelHere’s one way to think about it: are you a YES or a NO kind of person?
Tagged under: Climate Change
Mary Robinson on climate change: ‘Feeling “This is too big for me” is no use to anybody’
2018-10-12 by Rory Carroll in The GuardianThe former president of Ireland has a new raison d’être: saving the planet. Yet, despite the dire warnings of this week’s IPCC report, she is surprisingly upbeat
Tagged under: Mary Robinson | Climate Change | IPCC
Climate Science Deniers Respond to IPCC 1.5C Report with Anger, Fear, and Distortion
2018-10-11 by in DeSmogA big UN report arrived on Monday, saying in no uncertain terms that the world has up to two decades to massively cut emissions by transforming the global economy if we want to avoid terrible climate impacts. Given the implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) findings — government intervention, progressive social policies, more international aid […]
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation | Climate Change Impacts | Economics
People Love to Say “We” Are Causing Climate Change. But Who Is We?
2018-10-10 by in Slate MagazineEveryone is not equally complicit here.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Dutch appeals court upholds landmark climate change ruling
2018-10-09 in The GuardianNetherlands ordered to increase emissions cuts in historic ruling that puts ‘all world governments on notice’
Tagged under: Activism | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
2018-10-08 in The GuardianUrgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC
Tagged under: Oceans | Drought | IPCC | Climate Change | Sea Level
World 'nowhere near on track' to avoid warming beyond 1.5C target
2018-09-27 in The GuardianExclusive: Author of key UN climate report says limiting temperature rise would require enormous, immediate transformation in human activity
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change
Taller Arctic Plants Could Speed Dangerous Warming Feedback Loop - EcoWatch
2018-09-27 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and LifeClimate change is giving Arctic plants a growth spurt. A study published in Nature examined seven key plant characteristics over 30 years of warming at 117 locations in the Arctic or alpine tundra and found that plants were growing taller at all locations studied. Plant height could actually speed up as well as signal the warming process.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Arctic | Climate Change
Fossil fuel dependence poses 'direct existential threat', warns UN chief
2018-09-11 in The GuardianA rapid global shift to clean energy is needed to prevent runaway climate change, says António Guterres
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Museums as key sites to accelerate climate change education, action, research and partnerships | UNFCCC
2018-09-11 (or before) in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeTagged under: Climate Change
BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’
2018-09-07 in The GuardianBriefing sent to editorial staff on global warming says ‘you do not need a denier to balance the debate’
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate change: local efforts won't be enough to undo Trump's inaction, study says
2018-08-30 in The GuardianOnus still falls on national governments to cut emissions to stave off worst impacts of climate change, Yale researchers say
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Don’t despair – climate change catastrophe can still be averted | Simon Lewis
2018-08-07 in The GuardianThe future looks fiery and dangerous, according to new reports. But political will and grassroots engagement can change this, says academic Simon Lewis
Tagged under: Climate Change
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change (Published 2018)
2018-08-01 by in The New York TimesWe knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.
Tagged under: CO2 | US Politics | Climate Change | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Economics
Extreme global weather is 'the face of climate change' says leading scientist
2018-07-27 in The GuardianExclusive: Prof Michael Mann declares the impacts of global warming are now ‘playing out in real-time’
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job
2018-07-20 in Esquire MagazineTagged under: Climate Change
UK politicians 'failing to rise to the challenge of climate change'
2018-07-16 in The GuardianGovernment’s top climate adviser warns policymakers will be judged harshly by future generations if they don’t act now
Tagged under: Climate Change
Ex-Nasa scientist: 30 years on, world is failing 'miserably’ to address climate change
2018-06-19 in The GuardianJames Hansen, who gave a climate warning in 1988 Senate testimony, says real hoax is by leaders claiming to take action
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | US Politics
Guest post: A new way to assess ‘global warming potential’ of short-lived pollutants
2018-06-07 by in Carbon BriefThe Paris Agreement on climate change envisages a periodic “stocktake” for countries to assess whether their emissions reduction targets, and progress towards them, are on track to meet the long-term temperature goal. Or if they fall short and need adjusting.
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like
2018-05-07 by David Roberts in VoxNew scenarios show how to hit the most stringent Paris targets.
Tagged under: Climate Change
'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will dare mention
2018-04-26 by Patrick Barkham in The GuardianThe 86-year-old social scientist says accepting the impending end of most life on Earth might be the very thing needed to help us prolong it
Tagged under: Extinction | Climate Change | Greenhouse Gases
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God • Skeptical Science
2018-04-07 by in Skeptical ScienceThe faith of evangelicals is no longer one that is driven by the teachings of Jesus, but instead is one that is founded and built upon a belief in oil. This is funded and driven by fossil fuel interests.
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change | Religion
These Climate Pollutants Don't Last Long, But They’re Wreaking Havoc on the Arctic - Inside Climate News
2018-03-19 in Inside Climate NewsWhen people talk about climate change, the focus is often on carbon dioxide, and for good reason. The CO2 pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels today will hang around for centuries, building up over time and continuing to warm the planet. It isn’t the only culprit, though. Mixing in are other pollutants that […]
Tagged under: Arctic | Methane | Climate Change
The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction
2018-02-25 in The GuardianScientists are alarmed by a rise in mass mortality events – when species die in their thousands. Is it all down to climate change?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Extinction
Devil's Bargain
2018-02-08 in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.We already have planet-cooling technology. The problem is, it’s killing us.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Geoengineering
Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than Expected, and It’s More Extreme - Inside Climate News
2017-12-26 in Inside Climate NewsIn the past year, the scientific consensus shifted toward a grimmer and less uncertain picture of the risks posed by climate change. When the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its 5th Climate Assessment in 2014, it formally declared that observed warming was “extremely likely” to be mostly caused by human activity. This year, […]
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
The Geoengineering Fallacy | by Barbara Unmüßig - Project Syndicate
2017-10-12 by Barbara Unmüßig in Project SyndicateBarbara Unmüßig raises serious doubts about the viability and safety of proposed technological fixes for climate change.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Geoengineering | Carbon Capture and Storage
Coffee faces dual threat of farmland loss and bee decline in a warmer climate - Carbon Brief
2017-09-11 by in Carbon BriefTrouble could be brewing for the Latin American coffee industry, as it faces declines in suitable farmland and bee species as a result of climate change.
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change
How Can We Talk About Global Warming?
2017-07-18 in Sierra ClubIt’s time for the climate story to go beyond hope and fear
Tagged under: Climate Change
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals | Martin Lukacs
2017-07-17 in The GuardianStop obsessing with how personally green you live – and start collectively taking on corporate power
Tagged under: Climate Change
The most effective individual steps to tackle climate change aren't being discussed
2017-07-16 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyGovernments and schools are not communicating the most effective ways for individuals to reduce their carbon footprints, according to new research.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Global risk of deadly heat - Nature Climate Change
2017-06-19 in NatureClimatic conditions that challenge human thermoregulatory capacity currently affect around a quarter of the world’s population annually. Such conditions are projected to increase in line with CO2 emissions particularly in the humid tropics.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Extreme Heat | Climate Change
The fossil fuel industry's invisible colonization of academia | Benjamin Franta and Geoffrey Supran
2017-03-13 in The GuardianBenjamin Franta and Geoffrey Supran: Corporate capture of academic research by the fossil fuel industry is an elephant in the room and a threat to tackling climate change.
Tagged under: BP | Shell | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Chevron
How climate change triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes
2016-10-16 in The GuardianGlobal warming may not only cause more destructive hurricanes, it could also be shaking the ground beneath our feet
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change
Climate change could push risk of ‘megadrought’ to 99% in American southwest
2016-10-05 in Carbon BriefA megadrought spanning several decades could be almost certain to hit the American southwest this century if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
World's largest carbon producers face landmark human rights case
2016-07-27 in The GuardianFilipino government body gives 47 ‘carbon majors’ 45 days to respond to allegations of human rights violations resulting from climate change
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Greenpeace | Activism
Climate Change Indicators: U.S. and Global Temperature | US EPA
2016-06-27 in U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyThis indicator describes trends in average surface temperature for the United States and the world.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Editorials: Where UK newspapers stand on climate change and energy
2016-04-28 in Carbon BriefCarbon Brief has isolated and summarised editorials on a variety of topics related to energy and climate change from the past five years.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Guest post: Understanding CO2 fertilisation and climate change - Carbon Brief
2016-04-25 in Carbon BriefProf Richard Betts explains CO2 fertilisation and its consequences on photosynthesis.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate sceptic Maurice Newman says world leaders embracing junk science
2015-12-28 in The GuardianThe former business adviser to Tony Abbott accuses world leaders of acting like ancient druids and pursuing ‘collectivist visions’ at the cost of ‘private choice’
Tagged under: Climate Change
Interactive: The Paris Agreement on climate change - Carbon Brief
2015-12-18 by in Carbon BriefWe've produced an interactive graphic that outlines and explains all the fundamental components of the Paris agreement climate deal.
Tagged under: Climate Change | The Paris Agreement
Ask Randall: Climate Change - Who Are The Real Deniers?
2015-10-16 in Sacred Geometry International - The World Is Our ClassroomIt is too bad that the term “denial” has become such a weasel word, invoked whenever a global warming proponent attempts to avoid any real debate. But what does this name calling say about the intellectual integrity these modern pharisees?
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Keep fossil fuels in the ground to stop climate change | George Monbiot
2015-03-10 in The GuardianGeorge Monbiot: Once coal, oil and gas are produced, they will be used. And yet, after 23 years of UN negotiations there have been almost no steps taken to stop the production – rather than the use of – fossil fuels
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
'Thousands of models': Planetary boundaries, values & power - STEPS Centre
2015-01-16 in Steps Centre - Exploring Pathways to SustainabilityThe role of current patterns of human habitation in earth systems processes is pushing beyond planetary boundaries; which is to say our impacts on climate and biosphere risk tipping our environments into states dangerous to our societies. As Katherine Richardson from Copenhagen University puts it, “Earth is familiar with large environmental changes, but modern human...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Tipping Points
Engaging with oil companies on climate change is futile, admits leading UK environmentalist
2015-01-15 in The GuardianAfter years working on sustainability projects with BP and Shell, Jonathon Porritt says he came to the conclusion it was ‘impossible’ for today’s oil and gas companies to adapt to the need to exit fossil fuels
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | BP | Shell | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Sustainability
Leave fossil fuels buried to prevent climate change, study urges
2015-01-07 in The GuardianNew research is first to identify which reserves must not be burned to keep global temperature rise under 2C, including over 90% of US and Australian coal and almost all Canadian tar sands
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
Opinion | Playing Dumb on Climate Change (Published 2015)
2015-01-03 in The New York TimesTagged under: Climate Change
Two degrees: The history of climate change's speed limit’ - Carbon Brief
2014-12-08 by in Carbon BriefLimiting warming to no more than two degrees has become the de facto target for...
Tagged under: Climate Change
What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change
2014-11-18 in IEEE SpectrumToday’s renewable energy technologies won’t save us. So what will?
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Coal | Climate Change | Economics | Innovation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Google, GE and others contribute to climate-change deniers in Congress, report finds
2014-09-22 in The GuardianWhat’s behind pro-sustainability companies’ donations to climate-change deniers in Congress?
Tagged under: US Politics | Climate Change | Legislation | Sustainability
We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy | Desmond Tutu
2014-09-20 in The GuardianOn the eve of the UN Climate Summit, Desmond Tutu argues that tactics used against firms who did business with South Africa must now be applied to fossil fuels to prevent human suffering
Tagged under: South Africa | Africa | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels
IPCC attribution statements redux: A response to Judith Curry
2014-08-27 in RealClimateI have written a number of times about the procedure used to attribute recent climate change (here in 2010, in 2012 (about the AR4 statement), and again in 2013 after AR5 was released). For people who want a summary of what the attribution problem is, how we think about the human contributions and why the IPCC reaches the conclusions it does, read those posts instead of this one. The bottom line is that multiple ...
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change
Penguins suffering from climate change, scientists say
2014-01-30 in The GuardianHeatwaves killing Magellanic penguin chicks in Argentina, and Adelie penguins in Antarctica are finding it harder to feed
Tagged under: Argentina | Climate Change | Antarctic | Wildlife | Heatwaves
Why climate change will likely be worse than the models predict
2013-09-04 by in blog.rsb.org.ukDr Aaron Thierry is a quantitative ecologist who recently graduated from The University of Sheffield’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences. He is extremely concerned about the level of un…
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | IPCC | Predictions | Climate Change
How To Win The Media War Against Grassroots Activists: Stratfor's Strategies
2013-07-29 in MintPress NewsThe playbook: isolate the radicals, "cultivate" the idealists and "educate" them into becoming realists. Then co-opt the realists., Activists, Bart Mongoven, Global Intelligence Files, Intelligence, radicals, Stratfor, Wikileaks,
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Activism | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
Thomas Jones · How can we live with it? How to Survive Climate Change · LRB 23 May 2013
2013-05-16 (or before) by in Lyris EmailLabsIf climate change is not only inevitable but already underway, how are we to live with it...
Tagged under: Climate Change
Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy
2012-10-30 in HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPostGlobal warming is real, and it is here. It is causing -- yes, causing -- death, destruction, and vast economic loss. And the causal effects are getting greater with time. We cannot merely adapt to it. The costs are incalculable. What we are facing is huge.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Climate change: iceberg right ahead? - DevelopmentEducation.ie
2012-04-16 in DevelopmentEducation.ie - online development education resourceLast week the 3 hour documentary Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron aired on television, thanks to the National Geographic, boasting the latest data and computer graphics in reanimating the final moments of the famous vessel. On the 100th anniversary of the fateful voyage of the most ambitious unsinkable ship of its time, Cameron […]
Tagged under: Climate Change
House Republicans cut funding to UN climate science body
2011-02-21 in The GuardianFunding ban to IPCC part of cuts package that would slash spending on environmental protection
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | US Politics
Democrat opens fire, literally, on Obama's climate change agenda | Suzanne Goldenberg
2010-10-12 in The GuardianSuzanne Goldenberg: Democrats facing a tough fight in mid-terms are distancing themselves from Obama. Now one says he will stand and fight
Tagged under: Climate Change | Barack Obama | US Politics
The surprisingly complex truth about planes and climate change | Duncan Clark
2010-09-09 in The GuardianDuncan Clark: A new study suggests that planes cause more warming than cars, while ships are cooling enough to counteract them both
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Cars
People’s Agreement of Cochabamba
2010-04-24 in World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth | Building the People's World Movement for Mother EarthWorld People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth April 22nd, Cochabamba, Bolivia PEOPLE’S AGREEMENT Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is …
Tagged under: Climate Change
James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change
2010-03-29 in The GuardianIn his first in-depth interview since the theft of UEA emails, the scientist blames inertia and democracy for lack of action
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
How climate change sceptic Ian Plimer dodges valid criticism | James Randerson
2009-12-14 by James Randerson in The GuardianJames Randerson: His book Heaven and Earth has fuelled sceptics the world over, but when I talked to Professor Plimer he sidestepped vital points
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation
The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it's working | George Monbiot
2009-12-07 in The GuardianGeorge Monbiot: Think environmentalists are stooges? You're the unwitting recruit of a hugely powerful oil lobby – I've got the proof
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Start here
2007-05-22 in RealClimate[Note this is page is updated regularly. Please notify us of any dead links. Last update: 26 Jan 2020.] We're often asked to provide a one stop link for resources that people can use to get up to speed on the issue of climate change, and so here is a selection. Unlike our other postings, we'll amend this as we discover or are pointed to new resources. Different people have different needs and so we ...
Tagged under: Climate Change
George Monbiot on climate change and Big Tobacco
2006-09-19 in The GuardianFor years, a network of fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies has been claiming that science of global warming is inconclusive. They set back action on climate change by a decade. But who funded them? Exxon's involvement is well known, but not the strange role of Big Tobacco. In the first of three extracts from his new book, George Monbiot tells a bizarre and shocking new story.
Tagged under: Exxon | Climate Change
1965 API President "Meeting the Challenges of 1966" - Climate Files
1965-11-08 in Climate Files - Hard to Find Documents All in One PlaceThese remarks, uncovered by Benjamin Franta, reflects the then API President's awareness of climate change and the Science Advisory Committee's 1965 report.
Tagged under: Climate Change
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