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Tony Abbott urges withdrawal from Paris agreement, despite signing Australia up as PM
Tony Abbott, the prime minister who signed Australia up to the Paris agreement before losing the Liberal party leadership in 2015, now says Australia needs to pull out of the treaty to end “the emissions obsession that’s at the heart of our power crisis”. In a significant escalation of his campaign against the national energy guarantee, and in an overt political attack on Malcolm Turnbull, Abbott used a speech to a group of climate sceptics...
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Scientists call for a Paris-style agreement to save life on Earth
Let’s be honest, the global community’s response to the rising evidence of mass extinction and ecological degradation has been largely to throw crumbs at it. Where we have acted it’s been in a mostly haphazard and modest way — a protected area here, a conservation program there, a few new laws, and a pinch of funding. The problem is such actions — while laudable and important — in no way match the scope and size of the problem where all markers indicate that life on Earth continues to slide into the dustbin.
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Young will pick up 'climate change bill'
Young people will be left to pick up the bill for climate change because politicians are dodging the issue, a UK report warns. The government must act faster to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from road traffic, homes and farming, the Committee on Climate Change says. Without action, the coming generation will have to pay much more to curb emissions in a heating world. The government says it is committed to being a world leader on climate change. It will introduce its low-carbon transport plan soon.
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Barents Sea seems to have crossed a climate tipping point
This is probably what a climate tipping point looks like—and we're past it.
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Urban 'forests' can store almost as much carbon as tropical rainforests
It's hard to measure the value of a tree, but scientists equipped with lasers have come one step closer.
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Coral reefs ‘will be overwhelmed by rising oceans’
Scientists have uncovered a new threat to the world’s endangered coral reefs. They have found that most are incapable of growing quickly enough to compensate for rising sea levels triggered by global warming. The study suggests that reefs – which are already suffering serious degradation because the world’s seas are warming and becoming more acidic – could also become overwhelmed by rising oceans.
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Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up?
James E. Hansen wiped sweat from his brow. Outside it was a record-high 98 degrees on June 23, 1988, as the NASA scientist testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a prolonged heat wave, which he decided to cast as a climate event of cosmic significance. He expressed to the senators his “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming.”
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More than 20 countries aim to toughen climate goals by 2020
More than 20 nations ranging from Canada to France to Britain to Pacific island states said on Thursday they would try to limit their greenhouse gas emissions more than already planned under the Paris climate agreement by 2020. They welcomed a decision by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to host a summit in September 2019 to review the fight against global warming since almost 200 governments signed up in 2015 for the Paris climate agreement.
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Methane leaks from US gas fields dwarf government estimates
Latest study suggests that emissions of the potent greenhouse gas could be coming from faulty equipment.
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What happened last time it was as warm as it’s going to get later this century?
Kids today will be grandparents when most climate projections end—does the past have more hints?
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Antarctica is melting faster than anyone thought, and we're not ready for the sea level rise that's coming
The melting rate of Antarctic ice has tripled in recent years. If the acceleration of ice melt were to continue, it could potentially cascade.
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The Strange, Fading Call of the Narwhal
Acoustics researchers have created an intimate sonic document of the life of the narwhal, the unicorn of the sea.
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Carbon Farmers Work to Clean Up the World’s Mess
In Costa Rica—and increasingly in other countries—sustainable agriculture is taking on new meaning and value due to climate change.
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June: Rising CO2
New research from the University of Oxford and collaborators at several other institutions, including the University of Bristol, provides compelling evidence that meeting the global warming target of 1.5°C may not be enough to limit the damage caused by extreme weather.
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Hurricanes are moving more slowly than they used to
Record shows a trend that could mean higher storm rainfall totals.
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Marine Heat Waves, Changing Ocean Currents and Capitalism's Threat to Life
On World Oceans Day, let's commit to preserving this vital ecosystem.
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The Number Of U.S. Cities Pledging To Go 100-Percent Renewable Doubled Since Last Year
The number of cities that pledged to convert to 100-percent renewable energy has doubled since last year, bolstering hopes that similar state and national policies could soon gain traction. Seventy cities and nine counties across the United States have now adopted ordinances setting targets to dramatically overhaul their electricity use, up from 36 cities before June 2017, according to a new Sierra Club analysis shared with HuffPost. The new total accounts for 10.3 million people using 2.5 percent of the country’s power output.
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Pope warns oil executives: Climate change may ‘destroy civilization’
Pope Francis on Saturday issued a dire warning to top oil executives, saying that climate change could “destroy civilization.” At a two-day conference at the Vatican, the pope called climate change a challenge of “epochal proportions,” according to Reuters. He also said that the world must move toward using clean energy and a reduction in the use of fossil fuels. “Civilization requires energy but energy use must not destroy civilization,” Pope Francis said.
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Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline
A team of scientists from Harvard University and the company Carbon Engineering announced on Thursday that they have found a method to cheaply and directly pull carbon-dioxide pollution out of the atmosphere. If their technique is successfully implemented at scale, it could transform how humanity thinks about the problem of climate change. It could give people a decisive new tool in the race against a warming planet, but could also unsettle the issue’s delicate politics, making it all the harder for society to adapt.
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Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline
A Harvard professor says his company should be able to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, at industrial scales, by 2021.
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