Climate Change Is Accelerating: ‘Things Are Getting Worse’ – The New York Times
More devastating fires in California. Persistent drought in the Southwest. Record flooding in Europe and Africa. A heat wave, of all things, in Greenland. Climate change and its effects are accelerating, with climate related disasters piling up, season after season….
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit a Record in 2019, Even as Coal Fades – The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide from fossil fuels hit a record high in 2019, researchers said Tuesday, putting countries farther off course from their goal of halting global warming. The new data contained glimmers of good news: Worldwide, industrial…
You just lived through the warmest decade on record – and it’s only going to get hotter – USA TODAY
Global warming shows no signs of letting up. The years from 2015 to 2019 and from 2010 to 2019 “are, respectively, almost certain to be the warmest five-year period and decade on record,” the World Meteorological Organization said in a…
UN Climate Report Says ‘Destructive’ Global Warming Will Result From Unchecked Emissions – Forbes
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World’s Current Fossil Fuel Plans Will Shatter Paris Climate Limits, UN Warns
Within a decade, planned coal, oil and gas production will more than double what’s allowable to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, and that gap only grows. The world’s top fossil fuel-producing nations are on track to extract enough…
How giant kelp may respond to climate change
Like someone from Minnesota being dropped into an Arizona heat wave, giant kelp living in cooler, high-latitude waters were more vulnerable to excessive heat than kelp already living in warmer, Southern California waters, according to a study of Chilean and Californian kelp.
Here’s your answer when someone asks ‘How can it be so cold if there’s global warming?’ – FOX 59 Indianapolis
The first significant cold snap of the season hits and somebody wonders what happened to global warming. × Here’s your answer when someone asks ‘How can it be so cold if there’s global warming?’ The first significant cold snap of the…
Climate change is the worst environmental problem in global history – Los Angeles Times
Even now that most of the world has acknowledged that climate change is real and caused by humans, combating it has proved daunting. Why? There are five features that combine to make global warming a more vexing environmental crisis than…
Turbulent times: How climate is altering major markers of planet Earth
As countries grapple with intense marine heat waves and stronger storms, the latest IPCC report says climate change has already altered our oceans, polar regions and high snowy mountains
Birds Are Telling Us It’s Time to Take Action on Climate
Global warming poses an existential threat to two-thirds of North American bird species—but there’s still time to protect them. Audubon’s new climate report says we have to act now. An onslaught of severe-weather events, years of record heat, and daily…
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