NSW and Queensland flooded the same week a major climate report was released. We need to talk about it
2 years, 9 months ago

NSW and Queensland flooded the same week a major climate report was released. We need to talk about it

ABC  

As the rain bucketed down 10 days ago, residents of a nearby house in our neighbourhood in the outskirts of Brisbane were woken by a loud cracking. Explore Mt Resilience Go on a "virtual field trip" to an Australian town that's been designed around the impacts of climate change and extreme weather in ABC Science's award-winning AR project. Some of Australia's iconic and unique natural ecosystems are headed for irreversible damage if we keep emitting carbon at current rates, climate experts warn. Federal Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor has been speaking about carbon capture and storage technology this week as part of the Federal Government's push to overhaul clean energy investment in Australia. It feeds the inertia if we follow the sentiment that "now's not the time" to talk about climate change — at times when we've all got our hands full cleaning up its mess.

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IPCC work on seventh climate assessment threatened by shorter timelines | Explained
10 months, 2 weeks ago

IPCC work on seventh climate assessment threatened by shorter timelines | Explained

The Hindu  

Established in 1988, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been bringing out climate change assessment reports on a periodic basis. The second GST is due in 2028 and submissions so far from member countries have requested the IPCC to publish its AR7 assessment reports before the stocktake. The full assessment reports – which nearly all the member countries …

‘A year of extremes’: What World Meteorological Organization’s 2022 report says about the state of global climate
1 year, 8 months ago

‘A year of extremes’: What World Meteorological Organization’s 2022 report says about the state of global climate

Firstpost  

The UN agency’s 2022 report has some worrying findings about climate change that has fuelled extreme weather events. Published on Friday, the State of Global Climate 2022 report by the World Meteorological Organization makes some worrying revelations about record-high temperatures, melting glaciers and rising pollution. What have the findings of WMO’s report on the state of global climate revealed about …

How to defuse the climate change time bomb
1 year, 9 months ago

How to defuse the climate change time bomb

Live Mint  

“The climate time bomb is ticking. Prepared by the UN’s top climate science body, the IPCC, the Assessment Report 6 cycle formally came to an end with the publication of the concise Climate Change 2023 report on 20 March. This fact was firmly established by one of the special reports of the AR6 cycle—the so-called “1.5-degree report” from 2018—which fundamentally …

U.N. panel calls for rapid action against climate change to secure a liveable future
1 year, 9 months ago

U.N. panel calls for rapid action against climate change to secure a liveable future

The Hindu  

Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health and there is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report on March 20, 2023. “Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, …

What the latest IPCC science says about climate change
2 years, 1 month ago

What the latest IPCC science says about climate change

Al Jazeera  

COP27 delegates will be relying on UN climate science agency studies to make decisions about future energy plans. At the COP27 conference in Egypt, delegates will be relying on decades of scientific research published by the UN climate science agency to sway decisions about future energy plans and global warming trajectories. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produces reports roughly …

Climate change has made old measures predicting weather events in Australia 'essentially worthless'
2 years, 7 months ago

Climate change has made old measures predicting weather events in Australia 'essentially worthless'

ABC  

When Jo Groves bought her property in Lismore, she worked hard to make it her own and thought she would grow old in it. Key points: Statistical measures like the "one-in-100-year flood" level are used by authorities in Australia to determine safe building standards Experts say climate change has made those measures "essentially worthless" They say accurate climate change projections …

What the latest IPCC climate report has to say
2 years, 8 months ago

What the latest IPCC climate report has to say

Live Mint  

The fossil fuel age is effectively over. This is the message of the third major climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN’s apex climate science body. The report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation Of Climate Change, was released on 4 April, hard on the heels of two earlier reports: one in August last year that conclusively proved …

NSW, Queensland floods on track to be among country's worst-ever natural disasters, Climate Council says
2 years, 9 months ago

NSW, Queensland floods on track to be among country's worst-ever natural disasters, Climate Council says

ABC  

The ongoing floods in Queensland and New South Wales are on track to be one of Australia's worst-ever natural disasters. The Brisbane "rain bomb", for instance, dropped more water on the city than typically falls in London over an entire year, and the volume flowing through the Brisbane River far exceeded the 2010-11 floods. The total value of the insurance …

Climate emergency unfolding in 'deadly ways': IPCC
2 years, 9 months ago

Climate emergency unfolding in 'deadly ways': IPCC

The Hindu  

A stark picture of an unfolding climate crisis that is especially impacting vulnerable communities fills the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. "Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership," said U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres. Themed …

Rise in Sea Level to Affect Mumbai, Kolkata May Have to Brace for Storms. What IPCC's New Report Reveals
2 years, 9 months ago

Rise in Sea Level to Affect Mumbai, Kolkata May Have to Brace for Storms. What IPCC's New Report Reveals

News 18  

A report curated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday ringed alarm that several disasters induced by climate change are likely in the next two decades even if greenhouse gas emission is reduced. While placing India at the high-risk zone, the IPCC report also noted that over 3.5 billion people or 45 per cent of the global population …

Half the world threatened by climate crisis: Latest IPCC report
2 years, 9 months ago

Half the world threatened by climate crisis: Latest IPCC report

Hindustan Times  

At least half the world’s population lives in regions vulnerable to the climate crisis, which has become complex, with several interacting factors likely to increase food prices, reduce household incomes, and lead to malnutrition and climate-related deaths, especially in tropical regions, according to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was released Monday. Mass mortality events …

The climate crisis worsens
2 years, 9 months ago

The climate crisis worsens

Hindustan Times  

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ’s report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, released on Monday, is an unvarnished account of the expanding footprint of the climate crisis on the world. Mass mortality events on land and ocean; first climate-driven extinctions; loss of hundreds of local species; death and disease due to extreme heat are some of the …

IPCC Report 2021: Climate change is very real
3 years, 3 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 …

IPCC report: 14 ways to fight the climate crisis after publication of ‘Code Red’ warning
3 years, 4 months ago

IPCC report: 14 ways to fight the climate crisis after publication of ‘Code Red’ warning

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 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, considered the most robust accounting of the climate …

Eight key takeaways from the IPCC report that prove we need to put in the work to fight climate change
3 years, 4 months ago

Eight key takeaways from the IPCC report that prove we need to put in the work to fight climate change

Firstpost  

The new IPCC report is “a code red for humanity”, says UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “This report tells us that recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid and intensifying, unprecedented in thousands of years,” said IPCC Vice-Chair Ko Barrett. Michael Mann told the Independent the effects of climate change will be felt in all corners of the world and …

Leaders and experts speak up after the release of the new IPCC report
3 years, 4 months ago

Leaders and experts speak up after the release of the new IPCC report

Firstpost  

The report is titled Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis and is the most detailed assessment of climate science ever undertaken. This report sends the clear message that the planet is in mortal danger and with it its inhabitants… The positive signal that it sends is that we can counteract this, and that’s why it is so important that …

The IPCC has released the most comprehensive climate change report ever. Here's what you need to know
3 years, 4 months ago

The IPCC has released the most comprehensive climate change report ever. Here's what you need to know

ABC  

Worse fires, longer droughts, and more severe floods — the projections from one of the world's most significant reports on climate change make for scary reading. The latest IPCC report says that within a decade, global warming could push temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and calls on policymakers to take urgent action on climate change. The next …

IPCC report: 10 key takeaways from world’s most comprehensive climate assessment
3 years, 4 months ago

IPCC report: 10 key takeaways from world’s most comprehensive climate assessment

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. Humans’ role in climate crisis ‘unequivocal’ The summary of the report begins with a stark opening message: “It is …

234 Scientists Read 14,000+ Research Papers to Write the IPCC Climate Report: Here's What You Need to Know and Why It's a Big Deal
3 years, 4 months ago

234 Scientists Read 14,000+ Research Papers to Write the IPCC Climate Report: Here's What You Need to Know and Why It's a Big Deal

News 18  

Hundreds of scientists from around the world just finalised a new report assessing the state of the global climate. Every seven years or so, the IPCC releases a report essentially a state of the climate summarizing the most up-to-date, peer-reviewed research on the science of climate change, its effects and ways to adapt to and mitigate it. The IPCC essentially …

Climate change report from IPCC a 'code red for humanity', United Nations chief warns
3 years, 4 months ago

Climate change report from IPCC a 'code red for humanity', United Nations chief warns

ABC  

The Earth could be just 10 years from heating by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius — a threshold beyond which even more serious and frequent fires, droughts, floods and cyclones are expected to wreak havoc on humanity. Key points: Global warming would likely increase to 1.5C by about 2030, the IPCC report says, based on our current trajectory The effects …

As India & World Witness Adverse Weather Events, IPCC Report Could Show Us the Way
3 years, 4 months ago

As India & World Witness Adverse Weather Events, IPCC Report Could Show Us the Way

News 18  

Extreme climate events are not “equal opportunity” threats. The Importance of IPCC Reports In this context, the ongoing two week-long virtual meeting of IPCC where scientists are discussing the impact of climate change on the world is crucial. Governments all over the world rely on IPCC predictions even as they develop policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, implement laws, and …

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