Our 'Scorched Planet' is getting hotter, and no one is immune to rising temperatures
1 year, 5 months ago

Our 'Scorched Planet' is getting hotter, and no one is immune to rising temperatures

NPR  

Our 'Scorched Planet' is getting hotter, and no one is immune to rising temperatures Author Jeff Goodell warns a new climate regime is coming: "We don't really know what we're heading into and how chaotic this can get." And one of the scary things that's happening right now - not just with heat, but heat is the clearest expression of it - is that, you know, the climate's reaction to the amount of CO2 we've put in the atmosphere is more dramatic and behaving in ways that is surprising even the most sort of educated and smartest climate scientists. Certainly one of the things that's really interesting that has happened during this Texas heat wave is that, you know, there was a lot of concern in the last couple of weeks as temperatures have spiked that the grid would go down - and if it did, as I just mentioned, that would be kind of catastrophic - because there's a lot of extra load on the grid during a heat wave. And, you know, it's a really hopeful kind of textbook study of why we need to shift away from generating power with fossil fuels and move faster towards renewable energy.

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2015-2024 declared hottest decade ever as COP29 kicks off in Baku
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1 month, 1 week ago

2015-2024 declared hottest decade ever as COP29 kicks off in Baku

India Today  

As COP29 convenes, the global community is met with a dire warning from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. The WMO’s State of the Climate 2024 Update issued a red alert, pointing at the swift acceleration of climate change within a single generation. From January to September 2024, global mean surface air temperatures were 1.54°C above pre-industrial levels, a significant increase …

Climate change: Planet endures 12 straight months of unprecedented heat
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate change: Planet endures 12 straight months of unprecedented heat

CNN  

CNN — The planet just marked a “shocking” new milestone, enduring 12 consecutive months of unprecedented heat, according to new data from Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service. The 12-month heat streak was “shocking but not surprising” given human-caused climate change, said Carlo Buontempo, the director of Copernicus, who warned of worse to come. Copernicus released its data the …

Two years to save the world from climate catastrophe
8 months, 1 week ago

Two years to save the world from climate catastrophe

Live Mint  

“Two years to save the world.” As far as opening lines of speeches go, that would be dramatic in most contexts. In fact, there’s growing disquiet among climate scientists that it is possible that the rate of climate impacts may have been understated—the world seems to be heading for runaway temperature rise; and climate “tipping points” that had seemed far …

Past decade was the hottest on record as climate change ‘surged alarmingly,’ WMO reports
1 year ago

Past decade was the hottest on record as climate change ‘surged alarmingly,’ WMO reports

CNN  

CNN — The decade between 2011 and 2020 was the hottest on record for the planet’s land and oceans as the rate of climate change “surged alarmingly,” according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization. Climate pollution from all fossil fuel types — coal, oil, and natural gas — increased around the world, the Global Carbon Project found, …

World severely off track to limit planet-heating emissions: U.N.
1 year, 1 month ago

World severely off track to limit planet-heating emissions: U.N.

The Hindu  

The world is “failing to get a grip” on climate change, the U.N. warned on November 14, as an assessment of current climate pledges shows only minor progress on reducing emissions this decade. In a report released just weeks before high-stakes climate negotiations, the United Nations climate change organisation said the world was failing to act with sufficient urgency to …

Planet Earth Is On Life Support, Scientists Warn
1 year, 1 month ago

Planet Earth Is On Life Support, Scientists Warn

Huff Post  

If Earth were a human, it would already be in the emergency room. An international team of scientists on Tuesday issued a new assessment of planetary health that says the world has entered “uncharted climate territory” and that “life on planet Earth is under siege.” The report, published in the journal BioScience, found that 20 of 35 identified “vital signs” …

Opinion: Climate change isn’t just about emissions. We’re ignoring a huge part of the fight
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: Climate change isn’t just about emissions. We’re ignoring a huge part of the fight

LA Times  

Last month, we heard yet again about the need to stop global warming at about 1.5 degrees centigrade above preindustrial levels. A national adaptation and resilience strategy would help states, in addition to the federal government, set goals for the right spending to ensure effective adaptation while also aggressively cutting emissions. For example, because the climate can change in unexpected …

Playing with fire: We are not just breaking heat records, we are smashing them
1 year, 4 months ago

Playing with fire: We are not just breaking heat records, we are smashing them

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The frequency and intensity of recent …

Human-induced climate crisis responsible for killer heatwaves sweeping planet, scientists say
1 year, 4 months ago

Human-induced climate crisis responsible for killer heatwaves sweeping planet, scientists say

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. The researchers evaluated the role of climate crisis in these extreme heat events using peer-reviewed methods, weather station data …

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?
1 year, 6 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 …

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 …

‘Planet in the crosshairs’: UN chief demands rapid emission cuts
1 year, 9 months ago

‘Planet in the crosshairs’: UN chief demands rapid emission cuts

Al Jazeera  

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the latest report by UN climate scientists ‘could not come at a more pivotal time’. The head of the United Nations called for scientists to serve up “cold hard facts” to push governments into making policies that curb climate change before a key global warming threshold is passed. In a video address to delegates, UN Secretary-General …

Extreme heat is a health crisis, Columbia experts say
1 year, 9 months ago

Extreme heat is a health crisis, Columbia experts say

Associated Press  

The record-breaking heat Earth endured during the summer of 2022 will be repeated without a robust international effort to address climate change, a panel of scientists warned Monday. Radley Horton, a research professor at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, stated that human-induced climate change has caused the global average atmospheric temperature to warm by about 2 degrees in the last several …

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 …

After Cop27 – what next for the battle against the climate crisis?
2 years ago

After Cop27 – what next for the battle against the climate crisis?

The Independent  

Our planet is still in the emergency room – this was the parting shot of the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, at the end of the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt. If loss and damage was the crowning achievement of Cop27, it is widely accepted that the summit failed to make meaningful progress to reduce emissions The agreement also calls …

Earth is still 'on the brink of climate catastrophe' after the COP27 deal
2 years, 1 month ago

Earth is still 'on the brink of climate catastrophe' after the COP27 deal

Daily Mail  

This includes those on phasing out fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions However, some attendees were 'disappointed' by other 'weakened' pledges This will give financial aid to poorer countries more vulnerable to climate change The planet remains 'on the brink of climate catastrophe' after a deal was struck at the end of the COP27 summit yesterday, according to climate experts. …

World Falters in Containing Climate Crisis: Negotiators Head to Egypt for COP27
2 years, 1 month ago

World Falters in Containing Climate Crisis: Negotiators Head to Egypt for COP27

The Quint  

Although countries are slowly bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions, the efforts are woefully insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees by the end of the century, according to the 2022 NDC Synthesis Report published on October 26 by UN Climate Change, the agency that hosts the climate summit. “We are still nowhere near the scale …

UN warns the planet is heading for ‘climate catastrophe’
2 years, 1 month ago

UN warns the planet is heading for ‘climate catastrophe’

Al Jazeera  

UN Environment Programme reports that implementation of current government climate pledges will lead to a 2.4-2.6C temperature rise this century. The planet is heading for “climate catastrophe”, the UN has warned as a report showed how far off track nations are on cutting global warming pollution. The UN Environment Programme released its annual Emissions Gap report on Thursday, showing that …

Op-Ed: Climate change is nudging us toward the next pandemic
2 years, 2 months ago

Op-Ed: Climate change is nudging us toward the next pandemic

LA Times  

The threat of climate change conjures certain scenes: Smoke billowing from a forest aflame. Much like climate change’s effects on our environment, its effects on our health seem insidious — until they aren’t. A climate in flux brings us closer to thousands of potentially destructive viruses — a clear cause for concern, given that we are reaching nearly three years …

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 …

Does the climate crisis fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to
2 years, 5 months ago

Does the climate crisis fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to

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. Most people don’t want to read depressing news all the time, according to research – they just switch to …

High temperatures a ‘wake-up call on climate change’
2 years, 5 months ago

High temperatures a ‘wake-up call on climate change’

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The record temperatures predicted next week are a “wake-up call” …

UN climate chief: Don’t give in to despair on global warming
2 years, 6 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 …

Climate crisis: Invest in a holistic approach
2 years, 7 months ago

Climate crisis: Invest in a holistic approach

Hindustan Times  

The annual mean global surface temperature between 2022 and 2026 is likely to be between 1.1 and 1.7 degree Celsius higher than pre-industrial times, and there is a high chance that one of these years will be the warmest on record, dislodging 2016 from that dubious distinction, the World Meteorological Organization said this week. If the rising temperature prediction comes …

The best climate change books that help you to understand the crisis
2 years, 8 months ago

The best climate change books that help you to understand the crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Today is Earth Day 2022 – which means the …

Window to save ourselves from climate change 'rapidly closing', IPCC warns
2 years, 9 months ago

Window to save ourselves from climate change 'rapidly closing', IPCC warns

ABC  

The world’s climate scientists and governments have declared climate change is now a threat to human wellbeing and warned we are about to miss the window to “secure a liveable and sustainable future for all”. Regardless of our actions now, the report says regional and urban areas will face irreversible changes that will impact millions of people's lives, including: Sea …

‘Delay means death’: New climate report issues stark warnings
2 years, 9 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 …

Editorial: 1 in 3 Americans now ‘alarmed’ by climate change. Why aren’t our leaders?
2 years, 11 months ago

Editorial: 1 in 3 Americans now ‘alarmed’ by climate change. Why aren’t our leaders?

LA Times  

New results from a long-running public opinion survey show that about 1 in 3 Americans is now “alarmed” by global warming. The share of the U.S. adult population alarmed by global warming nearly doubled over the last five years from 18% to an all-time high of 33%, with about half of that increase occurring between December 2020 and September 2021, …

How to Not Melt Down Over Our Warming Planet
3 years ago

How to Not Melt Down Over Our Warming Planet

Wired  

“I’m hopeful seeing leaders who care come together, and I have a pit in my heart and stomach thinking that humanity probably doesn’t have much longer on this earth,” says Cheyenne Carter. Carter is a 24-year-old West Virginian who closely followed the recent UN Climate Change Conference and the political machinations behind the historic $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill recently signed …

Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year
3 years, 1 month ago

Climate change reshaped Earth with extreme weather this year

Associated Press  

Climate change in 2021 reshaped life on planet Earth through extreme weather. Heat waves proved deadly and unprecedented, pushing temperatures in the Northwest and even reaching 116 degrees Fahrenheit in Portland, Oregon, a city known for its mild climate. “These events would have been impossible without human-caused climate change,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. A report from AIR Worldwide, a …

‘Everything is at stake’ as world gathers for climate talks
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Everything is at stake’ as world gathers for climate talks

Associated Press  

More than one world leader says humanity’s future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. We cannot drink oil, and we cannot breathe so-called natural gas.” Her words were echoed by a man tasked with steering one of the world’s richest economic blocs through the climate …

‘Climate catastrophe’: World faces 2.7C temperature rise
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Climate catastrophe’: World faces 2.7C temperature rise

Al Jazeera  

Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for a “catastrophic” average 2.7-degree Celsius temperature rise this century, the United Nations has said, the latest stark warning ahead of crunch climate talks. Just days before the COP26 climate summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow, the UN’s Environment Programme said on Tuesday national plans to reduce …

There’s a Silver Lining in the Extremely Bleak New Climate Report
54 years, 11 months ago

There’s a Silver Lining in the Extremely Bleak New Climate Report

Slate  

The United Nations’ climate change research group issued a new report on Monday with an unequivocal finding: We’re in deep trouble. The worldwide cohort of 234 scientists who contributed to the report stated that humans are “unequivocally” responsible for this state of affairs, which will affect “all regions” of the globe—including supposedly climate-friendly cities—by hastening the frequency of heat waves, …

Harrowing New UN Report Finds Humans Are The ‘Unequivocal’ Cause Of Climate Change
3 years, 4 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 …

Key report on climate crisis may issue stark warnings
3 years, 4 months ago

Key report on climate crisis may issue stark warnings

Hindustan Times  

A key document on the state of the climate is on Monday expected to issue stark warnings to world leaders about the climate crisis and its consequences, experts said, in a development that comes after hundreds of scientists and government representatives reviewed the report. The report is expected to provide the most updated physical understanding of climate crisis impacts – …

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 …

Climate won’t warm as much as we feared, but will cross the limits we've set, scientists say
4 years, 5 months ago

Climate won’t warm as much as we feared, but will cross the limits we've set, scientists say

Firstpost  

Researchers explain why relaxed efforts against carbon emissions will not avoid substantial warming. Scientists study this in terms of “equilibrium climate sensitivity” – the temperature rise for a sustained doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations. If equilibrium climate sensitivity lies at the low end of the range, climate change might be manageable with relatively relaxed national policies. For example, the 2013 …

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