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A resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
The ElephantA resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
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
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
Fifth National Climate Assessment
2023-11-14 (or before) in nca2023.globalchange.govThe Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United States.
Tagged under: US Politics | Climate Change Impacts | USA
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
More than 70% of farmers have already seen large impacts of climate change on their farm, new global research across 8 countries reveals | Headlines
2023-09-22 in devdiscourse.comTo conduct the Farmer Voice, life science company Bayer commissioned an agency to independently interview 800 farmers globally, representing farms large and small from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Kenya, Ukraine, and the United States in equal numbers.Farmers expect the repercussions of climate change to continue.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Collapse | Agriculture
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
How expensive the climate change is ? - interview with prof. Anders Levermann
2024-05-13 (or before) in YouTubeThe recent research published in Nature revealed that climate change can cost the world even 19% of income cut till 2049. But those are rather conservative e...
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Economics
Smoke, heat keeping Canadian kids indoors instead of exercising: report - Greater Victoria News
2024-05-07 in vicnews.comParticipaction says climate change is not helping in the push to move kids away from their screens
Tagged under: Children | Canada | Climate Change Impacts | Forest Fires
Detection of H5N1 avian influenza virus from mosquitoes collected in an infected poultry farm in Thailand - PubMed
2024-04-24 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology InformationBlood-engorged mosquitoes were collected at poultry farms during an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Central Thailand during October 2005. These mosquitoes tested positive for H5N1 virus by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Results were confirmed by limited se …
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Disease
Large areas face challenging start to the season
2024-04-22 (or before) in joint-research-centre.ec.europa.euAccording to the March edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin crop monitoring in Europe, winter crop areas in several parts of Europe have been negatively impacted by unfavourable weather conditions since the start of the season. In the north, the most severely affected fields are expected to be resown wi
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Europe | Agriculture
Study on the Impact of Climate Change on China’s Import Trade of Major Agricultural Products and Adaptation Strategies - PMC
2024-04-15 (or before) in National Center for Biotechnology InformationWith global warming, China’s agricultural products are facing severe production conditions and a complex international trade situation. In order to clarify the relationship between climate change and China’s agricultural trade, this paper uses the GTAP model to explore the impact of climate change on China’s agricultural trade from the perspectives of agricultural production and supply, energy substitution and trade policy.
Tagged under: China | Climate Change Impacts
B.C. winemakers rethinking industry after climate catastrophes | CBC News
2024-03-14 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public BroadcasterRecord-breaking heat, destructive cold snaps and wildfires have almost completely wiped out this year's crop of B.C. wines. Now, vineyards are figuring out how to rebuild from the ground up.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Extreme Weather | Agriculture | Canada
Jerome Powell just revealed a hidden reason why inflation is staying high: The economy is increasingly uninsurable
2024-03-12 in FortuneHousing and auto insurance costs are soaring because of climate change and more expensive car parts, says Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
Tagged under: USA | Economics | Climate Change Impacts | Insurance
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
Strong increase in thawing of subsea permafrost in the 22nd century caused by anthropogenic climate change
2024-03-10 (or before) in TC - RecentAbstract. Most earth system models (ESMs) neglect climate feedbacks arising from carbon release from thawing permafrost, especially from thawing of subsea permafrost (SSPF). To assess the fate of SSPF in the next 1000 years, we implemented SSPF into JSBACH, the land component of the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM). This is the first implementation of SSPF processes in an ESM component. We investigate three extended scenarios from the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). In the 21st century only small differences are found among the scenarios, but in the upper-end emission scenari...
Tagged under: Ice Melting | Climate Change Impacts | Permafrost
Europe unprepared for rapidly growing climate risks, report finds
2024-03-10 in The GuardianDangers of wildfires, extreme weather and other factors outgrowing preparedness, European Environment Agency says
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Extreme Weather | European Union | Europe | Climate Change Adaption
Festivals and events cancelled as autumn heatwave hits four states
2024-03-09 (or before) in SBS | TV, Radio, On Demand, News, Sport, Food, MoviesTagged under: Extreme Heat | Australia | Climate Change Impacts
Food Supplies Threatened in Southern Africa After Driest February on Record - Bloomberg
2024-03-08 in BloombergZambia has declared protracted dry spell a national disaster as price of staple food surges.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Drought | Agriculture | Zimbabwe | Africa | Economics
Warning as major supermarkets could see empty shelves of staple vegetable this summer - Mirror Online
2024-03-08 by in The MirrorTagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Agriculture | UK
Somerset Levels farming may become 'unsustainable' due to floods
2024-03-08 in The BBCAlan Franks' family has been in dairy farming since the 1950s but he now fears for his business.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | UK | Agriculture | Flooding
The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone
2024-03-07 by in The AtlanticAs far as humanity is concerned, the transformation of our seas is “effectively permanent.”
Tagged under: Extreme Heat | Climate Change Impacts | Oceans | Sea Level
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
Higher temperatures force New England fishers off ice early: ‘Global warming is real’
2024-03-06 in The GuardianFor generations, residents have hauled tiny fishing shacks on to frozen lakes, but milder winters are forcing them to quit early
Tagged under: Fish | Climate Change Impacts | Ice Melting | USA | Fishing
Water rescues reported in Atlanta as millions face severe weather, flash flood threats in South
2024-03-05 in FOX WeatherFlash flooding and water rescues were reported in the Atlanta metro area on Wednesday morning, and millions of people will continue to be at risk of seeing severe weather across the South through the rest of the week.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | USA | Flooding | Florida
Financial toll of climate crisis hitting women harder, UN says
2024-03-05 in The GuardianRural households led by women lose about 8% more income to heat stress than male-led families, data shows
Tagged under: Extreme Heat | Economics | Climate Change Impacts | Women and Children
Southern France hit by severe floods for third time in six months | Voice of Europe
2024-03-05 in voiceofeurope.comShare this:FacebookXEmailGoogle+LinkedIn Read more: Severe storms hit central Tennessee, killing six people and injuring nearly two dozen others 22 dead: wettest July day in decades as deadly floods hit northern...
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Extreme Weather | Flooding | France
On the brink: California’s luxe clifftop mansions in peril after record rain
2024-03-05 in The GuardianHomeowners in wealthy towns watching anxiously in face of heavy storms that have caused flash floods and coastal erosion
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Extreme Rainfall | California
Extreme weather conditions are causing avalanches, floods and landslides in Italy and France | Voice of Europe
2024-03-04 in voiceofeurope.comShare this:FacebookXEmailGoogle+LinkedIn Read more: Severe weather ravages Europe: landslides in Italy and flash floods in Austria Europe braces for weather shift: heat wave to cool down amid extreme weather surges...
Tagged under: Europe | Climate Change Impacts | Extreme Weather | France | Italy
Edward Burtnysky on climate crisis: 'We should be screaming fire… but we're rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic'
2024-03-02 in Sky NewsLandscape photographer Edward Burtynsky's work explores human impact on the surface of the planet, shooting the Coast mountains in the Canadian province of British Columbia, soil erosion in Turkey, and coal mines in Australia for his latest exhibition, New Works.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Activism | Media | Canada
Ski resorts’ era of plentiful snow may be over due to climate crisis, study finds
2024-03-02 in The GuardianUS ski industry is losing billions as average season has become five to seven days shorter in past half century
Tagged under: USA | Climate Change Impacts | Ice Melting
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers ‘extensive’ coral bleaching, as scientists fear seventh mass bleaching event | CNN
2024-02-29 by in CNNThe southern Great Barrier Reef is suffering from extensive coral bleaching due to heat stress, the reef’s managers said Wednesday, raising fears that a seventh mass bleaching event could be unfolding across the vast, ecologically important site.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Extreme Heat | Coral Reefs | Great Barrier Reef | Australia
New ecosystems, unprecedented climates: more Australian species than ever are struggling to survive
2024-02-19 by in The ConversationWe’ve brought some species back from the brink – but more and more are being threatened. Here’s why
Tagged under: Wildlife | Climate Change Impacts | Australia
How Therapists Treat Anxiety, Stress Over Climate Change - Bloomberg
2024-02-16 in BloombergMental health experts are reporting a rising number of patients experiencing high levels of stress over global warming and its impacts. How are they treating it?
Tagged under: Health | Climate Anxiety and Grief | Climate Change Impacts
$270 Billion in Trade Rests on Finding a Fix to the Panama Canal - Bloomberg
2024-01-03 in BloombergA combination of climate change and infrastructure is to blame for critical shipping delays at the canal.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Drought
The Security Problem With Climate Migration Isn’t the Migration
2024-01-02 by in Just Security - A Forum on Law, Rights, and U.S. National SecurityClimate migration isn't a security risk, but the backlash is, jeopardizing human security and democratic norms, amplifying tensions, empowering extremists, and worsening State fragility.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts
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
The climate disaster strikes: what the data say
2023-12-13 in NatureA series of impact assessments highlight India’s vulnerability to extreme weather events and the risks they pose to human health. A series of impact assessments highlight India’s vulnerability to extreme weather events and the risks they pose to human health.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change Impacts | India | Health
Climate Tipping Points: Insights for Effective Policy Action | en | OECD | OCDE
2023-12-09 (or before) in OECDThis report reviews evidence that overshooting 1.5°C may push the earth over several tipping points, leading to irreversible and severe changes in the climate system. If triggered, tipping point impacts will rapidly cascade through socio-economic and...
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Tipping Points
Compounding natural hazards and high vulnerability led to severe impacts from Horn of Africa flooding exacerbated by climate change and Indian Ocean Dipole – World Weather Attribution
2023-12-07 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Oceans | Climate Change Impacts | Africa
At the beginning of every disaster movie they ignore people like this... | STROMBO
2023-12-07 (or before) in YouTubeThere’s no question that climate change is affecting our world. Visit Greenland with me to put it in a first-hand perspective. Right now, the Greenland ice s...
Tagged under: Collapse | Climate Change Impacts | Greenland
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
The Doom Loop | Advait Arun
2023-11-22 by in Phenomenal WorldInsurance markets and climate risk
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Insurance
Fifth National Climate Assessment
2023-11-14 (or before) in nca2023.globalchange.govThe Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United States.
Tagged under: US Politics | Climate Change Impacts | USA
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
How Climate Change Affects Water Markets Globally
2023-10-18 in BloombergMore extreme weather is reshaping the availability of water, a commodity embedded in almost every product bought and sold in international markets
Tagged under: Drought | Economics | Climate Change Impacts | Water Resources | Rivers
Impact Map | Climate Impact Lab
2023-10-13 (or before) in Climate Impact LabThe Climate Impact Map provides a highly localized picture of future climate impacts across the US and the globe. Explore how climate change will affect you.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts
Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans
2023-10-10 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News ReleasesTagged under: Collapse | Extreme Heat | Climate Change Impacts
“No research on a dead planet”: preserving the socio-ecological conditions for academia
2023-10-06 (or before) in FrontiersEmergency declarations, most academics continue to operate according to 'businessas-usual'. However, such passivity increases the risk of climate impacts so severe as to threaten the persistence of organised society, and thus HEIs themselves. This paper explores why a maladaptive cognitive-practice gap persists and asks what steps could be taken by members of HEIs to activate the academy. Drawing on insights from climate psychology and sociology, we argue that a process of 'socially organised denial' currently exists within universities, leading academics to experience a state of 'double reality' that inhibits feelings of accoun...
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Sustainability
The Faith Factor in Climate Change: How Religion Impacts American Attitudes on Climate and Environmental Policy | PRRI
2023-10-04 in PRRIThe majority of all Americans (61%) believe that climate change is caused mostly by human activity such as burning fossil fuels, according to a national survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) examining Americans’ assessments of the threats of climate change, how it affects their lives and voting behavior, and what steps they are willing to take to combat climate change, with particular focus on the impact of religion on such views.
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Climate Change Impacts | Religion
Have some economists severely underestimated the financial hit from climate change? Recent evidence suggests yes
2023-10-03 by in The ConversationWhen economists model climate impacts, they look to what past weather shocks have done to the economy. But this does not remotely capture what climate change could do.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts
More than 70% of farmers have already seen large impacts of climate change on their farm, new global research across 8 countries reveals | Headlines
2023-09-22 in devdiscourse.comTo conduct the Farmer Voice, life science company Bayer commissioned an agency to independently interview 800 farmers globally, representing farms large and small from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Kenya, Ukraine, and the United States in equal numbers.Farmers expect the repercussions of climate change to continue.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Collapse | Agriculture
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
Candida Auris: An Unforeseen Threat Amplified by Climate Change
2023-09-20 in Popular MechanicsCandida auris is a fungal infection already deadly for humans. Meanwhile, Valley fever infections will only continue to grow as global temperatures rise.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Disease
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Change Impacts | Heatwaves
Past and projected climate change impacts on heat-related child mortality in Africa - IOPscience
2023-07-10 (or before) in IOPscienceTagged under: Children | Climate Change | Africa | Climate Change Impacts
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 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 | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Justice
Climate Coloniality – Dr. Farhana Sultana
2023-06-22 in Farhana SultanaClimate Coloniality: The extremely uneven and inequitable impacts of climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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
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
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.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Litigation | Climate Change Impacts
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 …
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Change Impacts | Wildfires | Trees
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.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Change Impacts
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.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Sustainability
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
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.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Antarctic | Collapse | Climate Change Impacts
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...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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...
Tagged under: Predictions | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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…
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beyond fed up: six hard trends that lead to food system breakdown
2023-03-01 by in Insight, the University of Cumbria's institutional repositoryThis paper is a preprint of a chapter in the forthcoming book Breaking Together (Bendell, 2023). It analyses six hard trends that are already happening, and lead to food system breakdown. First, the biophysical limits of food production are being reached. Second, current food production systems are actively destroying the very resource base upon which they rely. Third, the majority of food production and all its storage and distribution is critically dependent upon fossil fuels, not only making the food supply vulnerable to price and supply instability, but also presenting an impossible choice between food security and reducing ...
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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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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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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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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In-depth Q&A: The IPCC's sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world - Carbon Brief
2022-02-28 by in Carbon BriefThe sixth report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the threat that climate change poses to human well-being and the health of the planet is “unequivocal”.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Soil Properties
2021-12-14 (or before) by in AdaptNSWClimate change modelling and predictions for the NSW and ACT
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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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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.
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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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ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
2021-10-15 (or before) in ResearchGateTagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
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.
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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.
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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...
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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.
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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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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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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…
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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...
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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 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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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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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
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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.
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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...
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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
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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Climate change communicators’ carbon footprints affect their audience’s policy support - Climatic Change
2019-05-24 in Springer VerlagGlobal warming is caused mainly by CO2 emission from burning fossil fuels and is beginning to have large negative impacts on human well-being and ecosystems (IPCC 2014; IPCC 2018). Policies that mitigate CO2 emissions will require public support. Here, we examine how support for several possible decarbonization policies varies as a function of the personal carbon footprint of a researcher who advocates the policy. We find that people are more likely to support policies if the advocate for these policies has a low carbon footprint. Replicating our prior work, we find that the communicators’ carbon footprint massively affect...
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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 […]
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Atlas Network, the right-wing libertarians | MR Online
2018-09-07 in MR OnlineAram Aharonian and Álvaro Verzi Rangel, co-directors of the Observatory in Communication and Democracy (OCD) and Latin-American Centre of Strategic Analysis (CLAE), wrote a detailed analysis of the Atlas Network and its deep impacts in Latin America. We will be sharing a translated version of this article in parts, the first part is about the network itself and the later parts will address specific country cases.
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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
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
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
UK poorly prepared for climate change impacts, government advisers warn
2016-07-12 in The GuardianA 2,000 page report by Committee on Climate Change predicts global warming will hit UK with deadly heatwaves, more flooding and water shortages
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change Impacts | Heatwaves
'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
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