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Global ocean circulation appears to be collapsing due to warming
Researchers have found a correlation between melting Arctic sea ice and changes in the planet's largest water circulation system that could lead to the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
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Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report
The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration. The draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has not yet been made public, concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now.
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Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year
Fossil fuels have two major problems that paint a dim picture for their future energy dominance. These problems are inter-related but still should be discussed separately. First, they cause climate change. We know that, we’ve known it for decades, and we know that continued use of fossil fuels will cause enormous worldwide economic and social consequences.
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Extreme weather 'could kill up to 152,000 a year' in Europe by 2100 - BBC News
Weather-related deaths could surge by 2100 if nothing is done to curb climate change, scientists say.
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The Church of England Takes on Climate Change — and Generates a 17% Return
The low-key $10 billion fund that finances missions, cathedral costs and clergy pensions was instrumental in passing Exxon shareholder resolution.
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Methane-eating bacteria have been discovered deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet—and that’s pretty good news
Bacteria that eat methane, a greenhouse gas, have been discovered in an Antarctic lake that has been isolated from the atmosphere for thousands of years. Their presence could significantly reduce the potential risk of warming posed by reservoirs of gas locked up in the ice, scientists say.
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Climate change to cause humid heatwaves that will kill even healthy people
Extreme heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike parts of the Indian subcontinent unless global carbon emissions are cut sharply and soon, according to new research. Even outside of these hotspots, three-quarters of the 1.7bn population – particularly those farming in the Ganges and Indus valleys – will be exposed to a level of humid heat classed as posing “extreme danger” towards the end of the century.
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Donald Trump and Ryan Zinke Are Purging Climate Scientists for Telling the Truth
Dozens of senior officials have been reassigned at the Department of the Interior, including Dr. Virginia Burkett, who contributed to the IPCC reports that won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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We're cooked: Earth's atmosphere to warm by at least another 2 degrees
A new study said that the Earth's atmosphere will warm by at least another 2 degrees C, regardless of what we do to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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An inevitable warm-up for Earth
Even if humans could instantly turn off all emissions of greenhouse gases, Earth would continue to heat up about two more degrees Fahrenheit by the turn of the century, according to a sophisticated new analysis published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. If current emission rates continue for 15 years, the research shows, odds are good that the planet will see nearly three degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 Celsius) of warming by then.
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Planet has just 5% chance of reaching Paris climate goal, study says
There is only a 5% chance that the Earth will avoid warming by at least 2C come the end of the century, according to new research that paints a sobering picture of the international effort to stem dangerous climate change.
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Are We Doomed? Let’s Have a Talk.
My most recent essay, in which I discussed a highly publicized controversy over the efficacy of plans for a comprehensive transition to an all-renewable energy future, garnered some strong responses. “If you are right,” one Facebook commenter opined, “we are doomed. Fortunately you are not right.” (The commenter didn’t explain why.) What had I said to provoke an expectation of cataclysmic oblivion?
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We only have a 5 percent chance of avoiding ‘dangerous’ global warming, a study finds
Climate pessimism has had quite a run lately. Maybe we need to redefine what optimism means.
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Mysterious craters blowing out of Russia could mean trouble for the whole planet
Mysterious craters blowing out of Russia could mean trouble for the whole planet Mysterious craters blowing out of Russia could mean trouble for the whole planet. In northern Siberia, rising temperatures are causing mysterious giant craters — and even more dire consequences could be in store, say climate scientists. The Russian province's long-frozen ground, called permafrost, is thawing, triggering massive changes to the region's landscape and ecology. It could even threaten human lives.
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Utilities Knew About Climate Change Back In 1968 And Still Battled The Science
Oil giants like Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell aren’t the only corporations that understood what was happening to the climate decades ago and covered that knowledge up. Utility companies recognized that emissions from burning fossil fuels warmed the planet as far back as 1968, according to a report released Tuesday.
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It’s Not Your Imagination. Summers Are Getting Hotter.
Summer temperatures have shifted toward more extreme heat over the past several decades.
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Scientists dim sunlight, suck up carbon dioxide to cool planet
Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet. Backers say the risky, often expensive projects are urgently needed to find ways of meeting the goals of the Paris climate deal to curb global warming that researchers blame for causing more heatwaves, downpours and rising sea levels.
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A third of marine megafauna died in a mass extinction that we didn’t even know about
Ancient climate change was to blame.
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France’s response to Trump may make it a climate science hub
Most world leaders reacted with horror to President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accords. French President Emmanuel Macron responded with what was largely considered a troll: a short address in which he invites scientists and entrepreneurs to move to France and "make our planet great again." But it turned out to be more than just a troll; France has put research funding on the table and has apparently been drawing lots of interest from scientists.
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All hell breaks loose as the tundra thaws
Strange things have been happening in the frozen tundra of northern Siberia. Last August a boy died of anthrax in the remote Yamal Peninsula, and 20 other infected people were treated and survived. Anthrax hadn’t been seen in the region for 75 years, and it’s thought the recent outbreak followed an intense heatwave in Siberia, temperatures reaching over 30C that melted the frozen permafrost.
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