End of humanity begins in 2050, most climate change models too 'conservative': Report
5 years, 7 months ago

End of humanity begins in 2050, most climate change models too 'conservative': Report

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“The end is near.” That’s the crux of the latest in a series of reports from an Australian think-tank, published on their website. Titled ‘ Existential Climate-Related Security Risk ’, it highlights a new method of analysis of the “existential” climate and security risks the world is facing with regard to climate change. They claim that studies addressing climate change, related findings and learnings used as a basis for policymakers are “conservative” and “reticent”. Instead, the authors have chosen to explain their findings using “scenario analysis” – a look at potential future events by considering many possible alternative outcomes based on data. In an interview with The Guardian, Wagner said, “Our inability to stop climate change is like the efforts to stop world war one – we knew for years it was coming, they arranged all sorts of conferences, but still they didn’t prevent it.” At the rate we are going, the scenario analysis warns that by the mid-century we will reach a tipping point – the point of no return, which the IPCC Special Report 2018 has left fairly ambiguous.

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Year 2024 was the world’s warmest but 2025 could be a year of climate optimism
2 days, 15 hours ago

Year 2024 was the world’s warmest but 2025 could be a year of climate optimism

Live Mint  

As 2024 came to an end, a number of alarming articles have been published in various global and national media on 2024 being the hottest year on record, the disastrous impact of extreme events due to climate change, the need to enhance climate action in the face of contentious climate negotiations in Azerbaijan and an American election that does not …

Why do so many people ignore major threats like climate change?
1 month ago

Why do so many people ignore major threats like climate change?

Salon  

Earlier last month, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that Earth’s average temperature in 2024 had been on average 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. “For too long now, scientific and media communications have presented the subject of climate change in ways that have failed to trigger an adequate threat warning among readers and viewers, and have also …

The upside of climate pessimism
1 month, 1 week ago

The upside of climate pessimism

Salon  

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Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is

LA Times  

To the editor: Climate change is the biggest threat facing us? Soon, that list may include the leaders of North Korea and Iran — and who knows how many others as the nuclear genie multiplies throughout the world? It is long past time for thought leaders to wake up to the world’s most urgent threat and get a real conversation …

How do I feel about climate change? Terrified — but action is essential
3 months, 3 weeks ago

How do I feel about climate change? Terrified — but action is essential

LA Times  

When I was a child, the possibility of apocalypse due to climate change seemed too distant for me to worry about. I never would have imagined that climate change would be an existential threat not in a few centuries, but within our modern era. I had watched a goofy comedy skit on YouTube when I was around 9 that suggested …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Climate change is driving extreme weather By all accounts, …

Random Forays: Climate change- understanding what we can do
7 months, 1 week ago

Random Forays: Climate change- understanding what we can do

Hindustan Times  

Aren’t we feeling smothered by the searing heat which has melted all previous records this summer? Though everyone cannot plant mini forests, there are organisations like Eco Sikhs which are assisting those desirous of planting volumes of trees. At the recent launch of advocate Jatinder ‘Jay’ Cheema’s book titled “Climate Change- The Policy, Law and Practice”, the aspect of individual …

A leading data scientist's journey from doomism to climate hope
11 months ago

A leading data scientist's journey from doomism to climate hope

BBC  

A leading data scientist's journey from doomism to climate hope Angela Catlin The Oxford data scientist Hannah Ritchie urges action to secure climate hope Data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that planetary damage could be about to peak – but that the US election result could be "pivotal". Ritchie speaks to BBC Future Planet about what shifted her mindset, why the …

Climate change in the classroom
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate change in the classroom

The Hindu  

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The best climate books of 2023 — and the titles we’re excited for in 2024
1 year ago

The best climate books of 2023 — and the titles we’re excited for in 2024

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Goodell tells us how heat stroke melts your insides, killing you from the inside out; why American air-conditioning …

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 …

Opinion: On the climate crisis, it’s time to lean into pessimism
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: On the climate crisis, it’s time to lean into pessimism

LA Times  

The state of the environment in California — as in the U.S. — is grim this summer. In fact, if you’ve read about the environment lately, you’ve surely heard arguments in favor of “climate optimism,” the view that humanity will figure out how to fix the damage we’ve done before we reach social and biological collapse, often characterized as “climate …

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?
1 year, 7 months ago

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?

Live Mint  

When we talk about the cost of the climate crisis, the implications are almost always depicted in financial terms. “For every 0.1ºC of warming above present levels, about 140 million more people will be exposed to dangerous heat,” said Professor Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, and one of the co-authors of the …

This is what the world will look like in 100 years if we do nothing to stop climate change
1 year, 8 months ago

This is what the world will look like in 100 years if we do nothing to stop climate change

Salon  

Aside from its meteorological effects, climate change is also wreaking havoc on our minds: Younger generations are bitterly denouncing their elders in climate protests and mental illnesses are spreading as people feel powerless to avert catastrophe. Related We now know how badly our cities will be flooded due to climate change Food will be scarcer As far as eating is …

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future
1 year, 9 months ago

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future

Al Jazeera  

Hitting the 2015 Paris Agreement temperature goals will require a massive reduction in fossil fuel use and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, IPCC reports say. Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a “liveable” future at …

Climate Change ‘Doom Loop’: How to reclaim the narrative of urgent climate action
1 year, 10 months ago

Climate Change ‘Doom Loop’: How to reclaim the narrative of urgent climate action

Live Mint  

The fight to battle climate change and global heating has always been one led by narrative. Despite decades of irrefutable scientific work that has shown the extent to which we are skirting with global disaster, the reality of climate change and its reason—our energy dependence on fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas—needed to overcome the denial and obfuscation of …

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster

LA Times  

New climate data show that 2022 was among the hottest years on record but that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions just keep rising. Another study showed the amount of heat being taken up by Earth’s oceans reached another record high last year. And it’s another stark reminder that despite some recent progress on climate policy, such as the passage of the …

Is climate change affecting global health?
2 years, 1 month ago

Is climate change affecting global health?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Even as countries are meeting at the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Egypt, a recent report by Lancet, has traced in detail the intimate link between changing weather events and their impact on the health of people. The 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels points out that …

The climate films shaping society
2 years, 2 months ago

The climate films shaping society

BBC  

The climate films shaping society Marvel/Walt Disney Black Panther shows a visionary landscape of Wakanda: an anticolonial society powered by clean energy We need a subtler, more varied portrayal of climate change in film than just climate disaster blockbusters, says Becca Warner In a fictional hospital in Seattle, surgeons are sweating through their scrub caps as a heatwave descends on …

Climate impacts heading into ‘uncharted territories of destruction’ – UN chief
2 years, 3 months ago

Climate impacts heading into ‘uncharted territories of destruction’ – UN chief

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Climate impacts are heading into “uncharted territories of destruction”, the head of the UN has …

‘Climate endgame’: Potential for environmental crisis to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Climate endgame’: Potential for environmental crisis to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “There are plenty of reasons to believe climate change could become catastrophic, even at modest levels of warming,” said …

If we are to have a future, climate justice needs a legal footing
2 years, 6 months ago

If we are to have a future, climate justice needs a legal footing

Al Jazeera  

Most, if not all societies, are traditionally founded on respect; respect for each other, and respect for the natural world that ultimately sustains us all. It will provide much-needed support for the crucial Paris Agreement process – which itself references climate change’s effect on human rights. At the United Nations climate change summit in Paris seven years ago, we, the …

UN climate chief: Don’t give in to despair on global warming
2 years, 7 months ago

UN climate chief: Don’t give in to despair on global warming

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Nations must keep up hope and focus on tackling global warming despite the many obstacles now to international cooperation — including the war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, food shortages and rising energy costs, the U.N. climate chief urged Monday. Look at what we have accomplished in the last six years.” Many of the key issues delegates gathered …

5 climate change books that you must read
2 years, 7 months ago

5 climate change books that you must read

Live Mint  

As we come up to World Environment Day on 5 June, I have been wondering what books to recommend to people for a better understanding of the climate crisis. It’s also a great place to gain hope that we can still stop it, because Mann gives equal importance to listing the positive work that is being done to mitigate climate …

Column: The end of the world is coming, even if you’ve heard it all before
2 years, 9 months ago

Column: The end of the world is coming, even if you’ve heard it all before

LA Times  

Icebergs in a fjord after breaking off from glaciers in southeastern Greenland. I am continually amazed that the IPCC scientists don’t throw up their collective hands in disgust at humanity’s inability to awaken from its slumbers and stop issuing reports altogether. According to the panel’s newest report, released Monday, the world is right on track to blow past the critically …

No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk
2 years, 9 months ago

No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk

Associated Press  

It’s not the end of the world. There’s no such thing as pass-fail when it comes to the climate crisis.” “It’s really, really, really hard to walk people back from that ledge,” Gill said. “Everybody knows it’s going to get worse,” said Woodwell Climate Research Center scientist Jennifer Francis. So I’m seeing people do things.” Pennsylvania State University climate scientist …

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report
2 years, 10 months ago

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report

LA Times  

Felisa Benitez, 86, wipes sweat from her brow while taking a break from cleaning a standing electrical fan outside her Pacoima home in August. “If we want to have effective climate change policy, we have to look at those human dimensions, and particularly those equity dimensions, and protecting some of the most vulnerable populations,” said Michael Méndez, an assistant professor …

‘Delay means death’: New climate report issues stark warnings
2 years, 10 months ago

‘Delay means death’: New climate report issues stark warnings

Al Jazeera  

World has a ‘brief and rapidly closing window’ to stem the worst effects of climate change, latest UN report warns. Climate change is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer and way more dangerous by 2040 with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, and there remained only “a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable …

Urgent action needed to address climate change’s catastrophic threats, U.N. report warns
2 years, 10 months ago

Urgent action needed to address climate change’s catastrophic threats, U.N. report warns

LA Times  

A new United Nations report says climate change poses major threats to people and ecosystems around the world, and warns that effects could be catastrophic if humanity fails to quickly curb planet-heating emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. “The world’s biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home.” The report, which was released Monday by the Intergovernmental …

Jordan Peterson says he got his climate info from an Exxon-funded climate denir
2 years, 11 months ago

Jordan Peterson says he got his climate info from an Exxon-funded climate denir

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “And that’s a huge problem when you’re trying to model over 100 years because the errors compound just like …

‘Betrayal of people, planet’: World reacts to COP26 climate pact
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Betrayal of people, planet’: World reacts to COP26 climate pact

Al Jazeera  

Mixed reactions to Glasgow Climate Pact as UN, US, China welcome deal and activists denounce more ‘blah blah blah’ from two weeks of talks. “It’s time to go into emergency mode.” US climate envoy John Kerry welcomed the agreement, saying good compromises leave everyone slightly unsatisfied. “There’s still a long, long way to go before we can say we’ve dealt …

Study: More than half of young people think "humanity is doomed"
3 years, 3 months ago

Study: More than half of young people think "humanity is doomed"

Salon  

Growing up was already hard enough. The largest study of its kind shows that the environmental crisis is causing widespread psychological distress for young people across the globe. In a paper released Tuesday, researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Finland found that 45 percent of teens and young adults say climate anxiety is affecting their daily lives and …

IPCC Report 2021: Climate change is very real
3 years, 4 months ago

IPCC Report 2021: Climate change is very real

The Hindu  

Several of Bihar’s 38 districts are flood-hit — people have lost lives, homes continue to get damaged, and countless agricultural fields have been inundated. These are numbing data, as numbing as the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ’s Sixth Assessment Report. It adds that these temperature changes are further ‘amplified at the regional scale by regional processes such as …

The Antidote To Climate Dread
3 years, 4 months ago

The Antidote To Climate Dread

Huff Post  

The reality of the climate crisis is dire — and it can be overwhelming. “We are now in an all-hands-on-deck moment,” said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of Yale University’s program on climate change communication. There are small things we can do, but governments and corporations have much more power than single researchers and individual communities.” Rivera-Collazo said she’s “particularly worried” for …

Op-Ed: Here’s how the U.S. military can better fight the ‘existential threat’ of climate change
3 years, 4 months ago

Op-Ed: Here’s how the U.S. military can better fight the ‘existential threat’ of climate change

LA Times  

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III declared global warming an existential threat to U.S. national security at a White House climate summit earlier this year. The plan also included the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions at U.S. military installations and their energy suppliers by 34% relative to 2008. However, the Pentagon has yet to outline specific actions or …

Greta Thunberg responds to IPCC report, saying global warming must be treated as 'crisis'
3 years, 4 months ago

Greta Thunberg responds to IPCC report, saying global warming must be treated as 'crisis'

ABC  

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says people can still avoid "the worst consequences" of climate change, but only if we treat it for what it is: "a crisis". Key points: The IPCC says Earth could be a decade away from heating by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius It warns this is likely to result in frequent and more severe fires, …

UN report finds extreme flooding, wildfires and heatwaves from climate change already hitting the US
3 years, 5 months ago

UN report finds extreme flooding, wildfires and heatwaves from climate change already hitting the US

Daily Mail  

US President Joe Biden has sounded the alarm on climate change following the release of a bombshell United Nations report dubbed a 'a code red for humanity.' These graphs show how human influence has warmed the climate at a rate unprecedented in at least the last 2,000 years The UN scientists modelled the changes in annual mean temperatures worldwide based …

Harrowing New UN Report Finds Humans Are The ‘Unequivocal’ Cause Of Climate Change
3 years, 5 months ago

Harrowing New UN Report Finds Humans Are The ‘Unequivocal’ Cause Of Climate Change

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A new United Nations report reaffirms what world governments have known and failed to deal with for decades: that climate change is our fault, is already causing devastation around the globe and will continue to get worse. SEAN DAVEY via Getty Images The lengthy document — authored by 234 scientists from 66 countries and which cites more …

Opinion: Stop blaming yourself for the climate crisis
3 years, 5 months ago

Opinion: Stop blaming yourself for the climate crisis

CNN  

Editor’s Note: John D. Sutter is a CNN contributor, National Geographic Explorer and MIT science journalism fellow. These numbers sound abstract, but they are the keys to how the world looks and feels for us and for future generations – the keys to whether New York is underwater or whether the Amazon dries up; to whether the West remains habitable …

Opinion: Seeking your climate refuge? Consider this
3 years, 5 months ago

Opinion: Seeking your climate refuge? Consider this

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jamie Beck Alexander is director of Drawdown Labs at Project Drawdown, a nonprofit dedicated to using existing solutions to stop global warming. Jamie Beck Alexander c/o Jamie Beck Alexander In California, many are now considering what only a few years ago was unthinkable: In a time of accelerating fossil-fueled climate impacts, how much longer will we stay? Second, …

Leaked UN draft report warns of accelerating climate devastation
3 years, 6 months ago

Leaked UN draft report warns of accelerating climate devastation

Al Jazeera  

Devastating climate effects from unliveable heat to more widespread disease are accelerating and will become obvious within 30 years, draft UN report says. That goal is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Agreement, adopted by nearly 200 nations which pledged to collectively cap warming at “well below” two degrees Celsius – and 1.5 degrees if possible. But the UN draft report …

The good news about climate change: there’s still hope
3 years, 8 months ago

The good news about climate change: there’s still hope

Salon  

When ecologist Craig Allen looks across the brown, grassy shrublands on the east flank of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico, he feels no satisfaction that he was right. "It's hard not to feel…well, it has felt like failure there," says Allen, who recently retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, and has monitored landscape change in these mountains since …

Jonathan Safran Foer at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: A (near) faithful transcription, and some (scattered) notes
3 years, 10 months ago

Jonathan Safran Foer at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: A (near) faithful transcription, and some (scattered) notes

Firstpost  

So there I was on a Sunday — my second consecutive working Sunday — making furious notes from the 10th and final day of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2021. I forgot to save the screenshot I took during the session, so here’s a description of what the setting looked like: Jonathan Safran Foer — literary wunderkind of Everything Is Illuminated …

Climate Change Tracker: Why 2021 is a crucial year to stop global warming
3 years, 10 months ago

Climate Change Tracker: Why 2021 is a crucial year to stop global warming

Live Mint  

2021 is already shaping up as an important year for climate change mitigation. Moreover, in the run-up to the crucial UN climate change summit in Glasgow in November, Western nations are also driving a change in policy vocabulary by labelling climate change a global security threat. While commentators have weighed in on both the pros and cons of this, 2021 …

Climate crisis ‘biggest security threat humans have faced’, Sir David Attenborough tells UN
3 years, 10 months ago

Climate crisis ‘biggest security threat humans have faced’, Sir David Attenborough tells UN

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The climate crisis presents the “biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced”, …

Greta Thunberg demands ‘crisis’ response to climate change
4 years, 5 months ago

Greta Thunberg demands ‘crisis’ response to climate change

Hindustan Times  

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg urged European leaders on Thursday to take emergency action on climate change, saying people in power had practically “given up” on the possibility of handing over a decent future to coming generations. The letter called for climate policies to be designed to protect workers and the most vulnerable and reduce economic, racial and gender inequalities, as …

2020: The decade of climate crisis
5 years, 1 month ago

2020: The decade of climate crisis

India Today  

We have finally entered the last 90 days of the 2010s. If the 90s were famous for liberalization, the 2000s for the Internet and 2010s for smartphones and social media, 2020s will make a mark for climate change, global warming, environmental crisis, and plastic waste epidemic. One of the biggest dissonances about climate change is between the few experts/activists/scientists who …

Scientists Declare A Climate Emergency, Warn Of ‘Untold Human Suffering’
5 years, 2 months ago

Scientists Declare A Climate Emergency, Warn Of ‘Untold Human Suffering’

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries have declared a climate emergency, warning in a new report that “untold human suffering” is “unavoidable” without drastic action. Ripple, one of the study’s authors, called for a holistic solution that also addresses social justice issues and honors “the diversity of humans around the world.” The scientists’ warning comes one …

Climate emergency: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
5 years, 2 months ago

Climate emergency: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’

CNN  

CNN — How many scientists does it take to convince the world to take climate change seriously? More than 11,000 researchers from around the world on Tuesday issued a grim warning of the “untold suffering” that will be caused by climate change if humanity doesn’t change its ways. The group said that as scientists, they have the “moral obligation to …

‘No Planet B’: Millions take to streets in global climate strike
5 years, 3 months ago

‘No Planet B’: Millions take to streets in global climate strike

Al Jazeera  

From New York to Istanbul, young activists abandon school to demand immediate action on climate change. “The preliminary numbers say there are at least 3 million people in today’s #ClimateStrike And that is before counting North and South America,” tweet Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen, who was in New York to lead the climate strike ahead of the UN Climate …

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