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Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate
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Climate models have accurately predicted global heating, study finds
Climate models have accurately predicted global heating for the past 50 years, a study has found. The findings confirm that since as early as 1970, climate scientists have had a solid fundamental understanding of the Earth’s climate system and the ability to project how it will respond to continued increases in the greenhouse effect. Since climate models have accurately anticipated global temperature changes so far, we can expect projections of future warming to be reliable as well.
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Outlook for the Polar Regions in a 2 Degrees Warmer World
With 2019 on pace as one of the warmest years on record, a major new study from the University of California, Davis, reveals how rapidly the Arctic is warming and examines global consequences of continued polar warming. The study, published today in the journal Science Advances reports that the Arctic has warmed by 0.75 C in the last decade alone. By comparison, the Earth as a whole has warmed by nearly the same amount, 0.8 C, over the past 137 years.
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We need to halve emissions by 2030. They rose again in 2019.
And greenhouse gases will continue to climb until nations collectively commit to much more aggressive action.
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The Climate Crisis Isn't Just Taking Pacific Islanders' Homes, It's Taking Our Identities
According to traditional knowledge, in Southeast Asia at the end of the last Ice Age, “fenua imi,” the swallowing of land, forced people to relocate to faraway atolls in a region now called Oceania. About 4,500 years of global stability allowed for the island cultures to develop and thrive in ways specifically tied to the local environment.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger says environmental protection is about more than convincing Trump
Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said that environmental protection efforts need to be bigger than just focusing on President Donald Trump. In an appearance on Meet The Press Sunday, Schwarzenegger and former Secretary of State John Kerry spoke about their efforts to bring awareness to climate change and environmental issues through World War Zero, a climate coalition that includes both men as members.
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Global heating driving spread of mosquito-borne dengue fever
Rising temperatures across Asia and the Americas have contributed to multiple severe outbreaks of dengue fever globally over the past six months, making 2019 the worst year on record for the disease.
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Scientist's theory of climate's Titanic moment the 'tip of a mathematical iceberg'
When is an emergency really an emergency? If you’re the captain of the Titanic, approaching a giant iceberg with the potential to sink your ship becomes an emergency only when you realise you might not have enough time to steer a safe course. And so it is, says Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, when it comes to the climate emergency.
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Coal knew, too
“Exxon knew.” Thanks to the work of activists and journalists, those two words have rocked the politics of climate change in recent years, as investigations revealed the extent to which giants like Exxon Mobil and Shell were aware of the danger of rising greenhouse gas emissions even as they undermined the work of scientists.
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Nine climate tipping points now 'active,' warn scientists
More than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now "active", a group of leading scientists have warned. This threatens the loss of the Amazon rainforest and the great ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, which are currently undergoing measurable and unprecedented changes much earlier than expected.
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How Peru’s potato museum could stave off world food crisis
Agri-park high in the Andes preserves the expertise to breed strains fit for a changing climate
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Our Planet May Be Barreling Toward a Tipping Point
A thawing Antarctica, a transforming Amazon, and other devastating changes may be more likely than scientists previously believed.
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Warming Waters, Moving Fish: How Climate Change Is Reshaping Iceland
Ocean temperatures are on the rise and warming waters are causing fish to swim for their lives, causing financial disruption and international conflicts.
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‘Generation Greta’: Angry youths put heat on climate talks
It’s safe to say that anyone flying to this year’s global climate conference in Madrid had better have a watertight excuse if they meet Greta Thunberg. The Swedish teen has set a high standard for government officials, scientists and environmental campaigners attending the Dec. 2-13 talks by deciding to sail back across the Atlantic following a last-minute switch of venue from Chile.
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European parliament declares 'climate emergency'
The European Parliament voted on Thursday to declare a "climate and environment emergency" in a symbolic gesture just ahead of the latest UN global crisis summit. The legislature, sitting in Strasbourg, backed the motion by a comfortable 429 to 225 majority, increasing pressure on EU capitals and the European Commission to take more drastic action.
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Climate emergency: world 'may have crossed tipping points’
Warning of ‘existential threat to civilisation’ as impacts lead to cascade of unstoppable events
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Losing Nemo: Clownfish 'cannot adapt to climate change' due to their specific mating habits, scientists say
The star of Pixar's blockbuster "Finding Nemo" may be about to vanish again - this time for good - as its peculiar mating habits put it at risk from climate change, scientists said on Tuesday. They observed the vibrantly coloured clownfish - which live in anemones - for more than 10 years around Kimbe Island off eastern Papua New Guinea.
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Koalas are not functionally extinct, but populations are being wiped out
The koala is one of the most iconic Australian marsupials. The gray fuzzballs spend nearly all their time in the trees, surviving on a diet of toxic leaves and a healthy routine of extended naps. As Australia suffered through unprecedented bushfires over the past few weeks, the plight of the koala has been front page news.
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Greenhouse gases surge to record in 2018, exceeding 10-year average rate: U.N
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2018, exceeding the average yearly increase of the last decade and reinforcing increasingly damaging weather patterns, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday.
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How to erase 100 years of carbon emissions? Plant trees.
Increasing the Earth’s forests by an area the size of the United States would cut atmospheric carbon dioxide 25 percent.
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