Climate change: Over 99.9% of studies agree that global warming is mainly caused by humans
3 years, 2 months ago

Climate change: Over 99.9% of studies agree that global warming is mainly caused by humans

Daily Mail  

Emissions Carbon dioxide Carbon dioxide is one of the biggest contributors to global warming. Nitrogen dioxide The gas nitrogen dioxide comes from burning fossil fuels, car exhaust emissions and the use of nitrogen-based fertilisers used in agriculture. Air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels, cars, cement making and agriculture Scientists measure the rate of particulates in the air by cubic metre. Particulate matter is sent into the air by a number of processes including burning fossil fuels, driving cars and steel making. Problems in pregnancy Women exposed to air pollution before getting pregnant are nearly 20 per cent more likely to have babies with birth defects, research suggested in January 2018.

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Climate change ‘dystopian future already here’
1 year, 3 months ago

Climate change ‘dystopian future already here’

Al Jazeera  

Climate change is causing human rights emergencies around the world, the United Nations human rights chief says, specifically highlighting Iraq’s “spiralling damage” from global warming. In view of the record global temperatures this year, Guterres last week called for much more ambition in the fight against climate change to prevent “the worst climate chaos”. At last year’s UN COP27 climate …

What is the Paris Agreement on climate change and why is it important?
3 years, 1 month ago

What is the Paris Agreement on climate change and why is it important?

The Telegraph  

The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 by almost every global nation, with the aim of tackling climate change and limiting its negative consequences. Over the next 20 years developing countries became increasingly involved in interim agreements, and the rigid, legally binding structure of Kyoto was gradually abandoned, laying the foundation for the Paris Agreement. Developing countries, and those which …

Explained | Where will climate change strike?
3 years, 4 months ago

Explained | Where will climate change strike?

The Hindu  

The story so far: In one of the most categorical statements from a scientific body in the U.N. system, a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report released on August 9 that human activities were unequivocally the principal driver of changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere, in other words, of climate change. …

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