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Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows: study
Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows: study Paris (AFP) – Colonies of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out last year as global warming eroded their icy homes, a study published Thursday found, despite the birds’ attempts to adapt to the shrinking landscape. The study by the British Antarctic Survey found that record-low sea […]
2023 Was Even Hotter Than Predicted, Raising Fears We’re in Uncharted Territory
2023 Was Even Hotter Than Predicted, Raising Fears We’re in Uncharted Territory Sea surface temperature anomalies for 9 April 2024. (NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio) Last year Earth warmed around 0.2 °C more than climate models predicted. While that may not seem like much in isolation, when you consider it’s a measure across an entire planet it […]
China can’t quit coal by 2040, researchers say, despite global climate goals
China can’t quit coal by 2040, researchers say, despite global climate goals A general view of a coal mine during a Huawei-organised media tour, in Yulin city, Shaanxi province, China April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab BEIJING, April 23 (Reuters) – China’s coal consumption will fall by just one-third by 2040, according […]
Science Snippets: Planting Trees in Some Locations Warms Earth
Science Snippets: Planting Trees in Some Locations Warms Earth Draft script: A paper in Phys.Org published 31 March 2024 is titled Planting trees in wrong places heats the planet: Study. The study referenced in the title appeared in Nature Communications on 26 March 2024. It was produced by 11 scholars. One of the study’s co-authors was quoted in the Phys.Org article: “There […]
Accelerating Climage Change and Rising Global Conflict
ACCELERATING CLIMATE CHANGE AND RISING GLOBAL CONFLICT. THE STORM IS RISING As the sun sets on another day in what could be called the Anthropocene epoch, we stand at the precipice, watching as the once-stable climate system of our planet lurches toward a cascade of ecological tipping points, accelerating “faster than expected.” Recent phenomena, such […]
‘We were in disbelief’: Antarctica is behaving in a way we’ve never seen before. Can it recover?
‘We were in disbelief’: Antarctica is behaving in a way we’ve never seen before. Can it recover? Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back. A small boat glides around patches of sea ice in the water off Deception Island in […]
Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert
Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert Illnesses such as dengue and malaria to reach unaffected parts of northern Europe, America, Asia and Australia, conference to hear Mosquito-borne diseases are spreading across the globe, and particularly in Europe, due to climate breakdown, an expert has said. The insects spread illnesses such as […]
The Politics and Policy of a National Climate Emergency Declaration
The Politics and Policy of a National Climate Emergency Declaration If climate and energy policy matter, then here are the three questions to ask instead Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that the Biden Administration is once again considering declaring a national “climate emergency,” explaining that such a declaration could be used to “halt [fossil fuel] exports, drilling.” Today, I […]
Scientists Terrified by How the Climate is Falling Apart
Scientists Terrified by How the Climate is Falling Apart “If the fracturing of our once stable climate doesn’t terrify you, then you don’t fully understand it!” “While those of us working in the climate science field know the true picture, and understand the implications for our world, most others do not,” he wrote. “And this is […]
What did they expect?
What did they expect? My house backs on to a railway line which is now exclusively for passenger trains. It wasn’t always this way though. There was a time when the relative peace was broken six times a day by the roar of freight trains heading up the Rhymney Valley. Their destination was the coal […]
Pinning down climate change’s role in extreme weather
Pinning down climate change’s role in extreme weather and did climate change contribute to the flooding in Dubai? In the wake of any unusual weather event, someone inevitably asks, “Did climate change cause this?” In the most literal sense, that answer is almost always no. Climate change is never the sole cause of hurricanes, heat […]
Europe’s historic temperature shift, from summer to winter in just one day
Europe’s historic temperature shift, from summer to winter in just one day Europe has experienced one of the most rapid temperature flips on record in April 2024 — moving from numerous record-breaking summer-like temperatures at the beginning of the month to record-breaking late April records and frost. Climatologist Maximiliano Herrera said Europe has never seen […]
Protect the Arctic Region: Already Threatened Arctic Ecology Can be Devastated Further by Rapid Militarization
Protect the Arctic Region: Already Threatened Arctic Ecology Can be Devastated Further by Rapid Militarization The Arctic region is warming at twice the global rate, leading to rapid melting of ice–some have even predicted ice-free summers by year 2034. This has brought unprecedented threats to various species of the region including the polar bear. Some […]
0.04%: Small Does Not = Immaterial
0.04%: Small Does Not = Immaterial Think CO2 Concentration at 0.04% is Low? These 10 Toxins are Deadly at Far Lower Concentrations. Photo by Markus Spiske / Unsplash If you follow me on Twitter , you’re probably familiar with the onslaught of nonsense from the anti-science crowd. I’m fine with respectful, reasoned responses, but many of the […]
Accepting Our Lack of Agency
Accepting Our Lack of Agency An early morning picture at Black Rock Mountain State Park in Georgia The last month has been focused on acceptance, and has been building up to the inexorable, immutable, and irrevocable truth that besets us within the confines of the set of predicaments we face. The one thing I constantly see and […]
