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The Arctic is in even worse shape than you realize
Over the past three decades of global warming, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has declined by a stunning 95 percent, according the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card. The finding suggests that the sea at the top of the world has already morphed into a new and very different state, with major implications not only for creatures such as walruses...
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If we want to stop the climate breakdown, we need new words to communicate it
California is experiencing one of the most destructive wildfire seasons on record. Among the many different factors that led to it, several experts agree that climate change also played a role. Moreover, a major climate assessment by the US government reports that "projected climate changes suggest that western forests in the United States will be increasingly affected by large and intense fires that will occur more frequently."
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In 200 years, humans reversed a climate trend lasting 50 million years, study says
What do scientists see when comparing our future climate with the past? In less than 200 years, humans have reversed a multimillion-year cooling trend, new research suggests. If global warming continues unchecked, Earth in 2030 could resemble its former self from 3 million years ago, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.
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Chomsky joins Extinction Rebellion's call to ‘rise up’ against government complacency on climate change
US ACADEMIC and activist Noam Chomsky is among 100 eminent people to sign a global call to arms on climate change. The open letter published today, written by representatives of Extinction Rebellion (XR), calls on concerned global citizens to “rise up and organise” against the “current complacency” over ecological and climate emergency.
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While Paris and Washington fought over climate measures, Costa Rica went 300 days on renewable energy alone
While the west battles itself over the reality of climate change, reasonable diesel tax and how to make their countries sustainable and eco-friendly, Costa Rica has broken their own renewable energy record. The entirety of Costa Rica went 300 days using only renewable energy, beating their own 2015 record of of 299 days on renewable energy, according to The Independent.
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US and Russia ally with Saudi Arabia to water down climate pledge
The US and Russia have thrown climate talks into disarray by allying with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to water down approval of a landmark report on the need to keep global warming below 1.5C. After a heated two-and-a-half-hour debate on Saturday night, the backwards step by the four major oil producers shocked delegates at the UN climate conference in Katowice as ministers flew in for the final week of high-level discussions.
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A Conference on Climate Change Became a Conference on Coal
At the summit in Poland, a missed opportunity.
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The Colorado River is evaporating, and climate change is largely to blame
An hour’s drive from Las Vegas stands America’s Hoover Dam, a commanding barrier of concrete holding back the trillions of gallons of Colorado River water held inside Lake Mead. The dam is a proud place, built by thousands of hands and with 5 million barrels of concrete. Its golden elevator doors, Gotham-esque pillars, and stoic guardian angel statues line the lofty walkways atop the structure. A U.S. flag beating patriotically over the desert gets swapped out...
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Greenland's ice sheet melt has 'gone into overdrive' and is now 'off the charts'
The icy realm of Greenland is getting hot under the collar. The melting of Greenland's massive ice sheet has now accelerated, scientists announced Wednesday, and shows no signs of slowing down, according to a new study. "Melting of the Greenland ice sheet has gone into overdrive," said Luke Trusel, a glaciologist at Rowan University and lead author of the study. "Greenland melt is adding to sea level more than any time during the last three and a half centuries, if not thousands of years," he said.
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The 'great dying': rapid warming caused largest extinction event ever, report says
Rapid global warming caused the largest extinction event in the Earth’s history, which wiped out the vast majority of marine and terrestrial animals on the planet, scientists have found. The mass extinction, known as the “great dying”, occurred around 252m years ago and marked the end of the Permian geologic period. The study of sediments and fossilized creatures show the event was the single greatest calamity ever to befall life on Earth, eclipsing even the extinction of the dinosaurs 65m years ago.
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Beef-eating 'must fall drastically' as world population grows
People in rich nations will have to make big cuts to the amount of beef and lamb they eat if the world is to be able to feed 10 billion people, according to a new report. These cuts and a series of other measures are also needed to prevent catastrophic climate change, it says.
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200 MPs calls for pension fund to divest from fossil fuels
A cross-party group of 200 current and former MPs has called for the parliamentary pension fund to stop investing in fossil fuel companies. The group, which includes two-thirds of MPs representing Scottish seats, signed a pledge calling for the fund to review fossil fuel investments and commit to phasing them out on climate change grounds.
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‘A kind of dark realism’: Why the climate change problem is starting to look too big to solve
In the daunting math of climate action, individual choices and government policies aren’t adding up. Solar panels are being nailed to rooftops, colossal wind turbines bestride the plains and oceans, and a million electric vehicles are on U.S. roads — and it isn’t enough. Even if the world did an unlikely series of about-faces — halting deforestation, going vegetarian, paying $50 a ton carbon taxes, boosting energy efficiency, doubling car mileage, and more — it would not be enough.
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Unable to Bury Climate Report, Trump & Deniers Launch Assault on the Science
President Donald Trump's administration and its allies in the climate denial community have mounted a campaign to try to discredit the Fourth National Climate Assessment, an effort that has escalated in intensity since the report's release during the Thanksgiving weekend. Trump could not halt the peer-reviewed assessment by the U.S. government's climate scientists. The report—the most comprehensive and authoritative report on climate change and its impacts in the United States—is mandated by a law Congress passed in 1990.
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The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods
An intricate system of dams, levees and tunnels defends the Japan’s capital. Will it be able to cope with climate change?
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Hawaii Climate Commission Pushes For State Carbon Tax
The state climate commission has unanimously agreed to back legislation next session that would establish a carbon tax geared toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Hawaii’s ground transportation sector. State Land and Natural Resources Director Suzanne Case, who co-chairs the 22-member commission, said the group made a “powerful statement” Tuesday by reaching a consensus on the concepts needed to “transform our society.”
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Snowpack declines may stunt tree growth and forests' ability to store carbon emissions
Researchers conducting a 5-year-long study examining snow cover in a northern hardwood forest region found that projected changes in climate could lead to a 95 percent reduction of deep-insulating snowpack in forest areas across the northeastern United States by the end of the 21st century. The loss of snowpack would likely result in a steep reduction of forests' ability to store climate-changing carbon dioxide and filter pollutants from the air and water.
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Half the world’s annual rain falls in just 12 days
Climate change could shorten the time it talks for the world’s to receive half its annual precipitation from 12 days to 11 by 2100.
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Last four years are 'world's hottest'
The year 2018 is on course to be the fourth warmest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization. It says that the global average temperature for the first 10 months of the year was nearly 1C above the levels between 1850-1900. The State of the Climate report says that the 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years, with the 2015-2018 making up the top four.
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Trump on climate change: ‘People like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers.’
President Trump on Tuesday dismissed a landmark report compiled by 13 federal agencies detailing how damage from global warming is intensifying throughout the country, saying he is not among the “believers” who see climate change as a pressing problem. The comments were the president’s most extensive yet on why he disagrees with his own government’s analysis, which found that climate change poses a severe threat to the health of Americans, as well as to the country’s infrastructure, economy and natural resources.
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