The rise of ‘doomers’: The people who think climate change can’t be stopped – The Washington Post

When Sean Youra was 26 years old and working as an engineer, he started watching documentaries about climate change. Youra, who was struggling with depression and the loss of a family member, was horrified by what he learned about melting…

Climate Dread Is A Luxury Belief We Can No Longer Afford

Here we go again. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new document – the final part of its mammoth sixth report – and we all know what that means. More doomsday porn in the papers. More…

The state of the climate in 2023 – BBC

In the last few years, the world has experienced extreme weather, record temperatures and rapid ice melt. Where are we on key climate indicators? This week the UN’s climate science body is releasing a major report on the climate changes…

Facebook: Extending Its Legacy Of Science Denial And Censorship

To no one’s surprise, Facebook continues to reject any scientific data that does not support their “consensus” narrative of man-made catastrophic warming by rejecting an ad placed by the CO2 Coalition, in Arlington, Virginia. The ad is based on well-documented…

Sci-fi writer is visiting Utah with a message: Forget Mars and get ‘all hands on deck’ for climate change – Salt Lake Tribune

In the next hundred years, the oceans will rise precipitously, water will be more scarce, especially in arid places like Utah, forest fires will become more prevalent, species will die off, and core parts of our environment, from the oceans…

Smelly seaweed sargassum headed toward Florida, the Caribbean. Why? – USA TODAY

Beachgoers in Florida and the Caribbean could be greeted by heavy blankets of smelly seaweed in the weeks ahead as a 5,000 mile swath of sargassum drifts westward and piles onto white sandy beaches. Sargassum, a naturally-occurring type of macroalgae, has…

Biden approves Arctic Willow Oil Project, complicating climate legacy – Vox.com

The same president who passed the nation’s biggest law ever to slash climate pollution may have just undone part of that legacy. The Biden administration gave the green light on Monday to one of the largest-ever oil projects on public…

Why East Antarctica is a ‘sleeping giant’ of sea level rise – BBC

Scientists once thought the East Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough water to raise sea levels 52m (170ft), was stable. But now its ice shelves are beginning to melt. Jan Lieser had just started going through the dozens of satellite…

Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points

More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas facilities. The worst single leak spewed the pollution at a rate equivalent to 67m…

Antarctic ice on the run, with a 45-year low

Antarctic ice is melting. This February, it’s at its lowest extent in the 45-year satellite record. Also, a long-term melt study suggests a surprising speed-up.

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