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New Study Warns of an Imminent Spike of Planetary Warming and Deepens Divides Among Climate Scientists

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 06 November 2023 in Climate Change

James Hansen, the scientist who first sounded the climate alarm in Congress, sees a decrease in aerosol pollution driving a surge of warming and criticizes the U.N. climate science panel, drawing a backlash from other researchers. By Bob Berwyn November 2, 2023 During the past year, the needl...

Earth’s hottest August follows sizzling June, July ^Featured

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 28 September 2023 in Climate Change

SUMMER OF RECORDS By Delger Erdenesanaa The New York Times Temperature records continue to topple. Last month was the planet’s warmest August in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record, agency officials said Thursday. The global surface temperature for the mont...

The “forever” glaciers of America’s West aren’t forever ^Featured

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 19 September 2023 in Climate Change

By Somini Sengupta The New York Times MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash.>> Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-cov...

RECORD HEAT Scientists say those numbers paint the story of a warming world

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 25 July 2023 in Climate Change

By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press The summer of 2023 is behaving like a broken record about broken records. Nearly every major climate-tracking organization proclaimed June the hottest June ever. Then July 4 became the globe’s hottest day, albeit uno...

U.N.: Likelihood of hitting warming limit is growing

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 18 May 2023 in Climate Change

IN BRIEF U.N.: Likelihood of hitting warming limit is growing There’s a two-out-of-three chance that the world will hit a key warming limit temporarily within five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday. But it likely would be only a fleeting and less worrisome flirtation with th...

U.N. CONFERENCE IN EGYPT IN NOVEMBER Mideast nations wake up to damage from climate change ^Featured

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 02 August 2022 in Climate Change

By Lee Keath The Associated Press CAIRO » Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with greater frequency and severity. The Middle East is one of the most vul...

How fast can we stop Earth from warming?

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 08 April 2022 in Climate Change

By Richard Rood The Conversation Global warming doesn’t stop on a dime. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes...

Emissions cuts could halve the impact of melting ice on oceans ^Featured

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 17 May 2021 in Climate Change

By Henry Fountain © The New York Times Co. Scientists Wednesday reported another reason the world should sharply rein in global warming: Doing so would likely cut in half the current projected amount of sea level rise from the melting of ice this century. In a study that averaged results ...

2020 Ties 2016 as Earth’s Hottest Year on Record, Even Without El Niño to Supercharge It

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 08 January 2021 in Climate Change

Annual reports from European and Japanese climate agencies show that last year was yet another marked by extraordinary global heat. By Bob Berwyn European climate scientists have tallied up millions of temperature readings from last year to conclude that 2020 was tied with 2016 as the hottest ...

U.N. calls on humanity to end “war on nature,” go carbon-free ^Featured

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 04 December 2020 in Climate Change

By Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans The Associated Press As an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its “war on nature” and commits to a future free of planet-warming...

Climate change undermining UN goal to eradicate poverty, hunger

Posted by catalex on Wednesday, 10 July 2019 in Climate Change

UNITED NATIONS — Hunger is growing and the world is not on track to end extreme poverty by 2030 and meet other U.N. goals, mainly because progress is being undermined by the impact of climate change and increasing inequality, a U.N. report said Tuesday. The report on progress toward achieving the 1...

We may be underestimating future warming.

Posted by banne on Wednesday, 06 December 2017 in Climate Change

Washington, DC— The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current climate, according to a new paper from Carnegie’s Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira published by Nature. Their findings suggest that the model...

Americans want local leaders to fight warming

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 17 October 2017 in Climate Change

AP-NORC POLL By Seth Borenstein and Emily Swanson The Associated Press WASHINGTON»Americans want their local officials to take on the challenge of battling global warming now that President Donald Trump is withdrawing the nation an international climate change agreement. That’s ac...

The Most Important Trump Decision No One’s Talking About

Posted by adam12 on Thursday, 24 August 2017 in Earth Violators

By Andrew Rosenberg Over the weekend, the Trump administration decided not to renew the charter for the Federal Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment. This decision only makes sense if President Donald Trump wants to limit the amount of information state and local au...

Marine Expert Warns of Climate Emergency

Posted by CSea on Thursday, 15 June 2017 in Climate Change

Helen Davidson As climate change pushes marine species towards cooler waters, and the fishing industry expands around the globe, the tropics are emptying out, a leading fisheries expert has warned. The federal government is expected to release its new management pla...

Mark Zuckerberg Dumps Trump on Paris Agreement

Posted by marksery on Sunday, 04 June 2017 in Climate Change

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined the chorus of tech leaders who have denounced Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. "Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement is bad for the environment, bad for the economy, and it puts our children's future at r...

Trump Sets The World On Fire

Posted by lmarsh5 on Saturday, 03 June 2017 in Climate Change

By Naomi Klein NOW THAT IT SEEMS virtually certain that Donald Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, and the climate movement is quite rightly mobilizing in the face of this latest dystopian lurch, it’s time to get real about something: Pretty much everythin...

Can this work to slow down repeal of climate change rules?

Posted by gibby on Wednesday, 17 May 2017 in Climate Change

Supporters of the Obama administration’s climate change rule for power plants want a federal court to send the regulation back to the Environmental Protection Agency and let it consider changes. Environmentalists and renewable energy advocates say sending the Clean Power Plan back to the EPA — what...

Paris Agreement Feeling The Heat

Posted by voice on Tuesday, 09 May 2017 in Climate Change

Global temperatures could break through the 1.5°C barrier negotiated at the Paris conference as early as 2026 if a slow-moving, natural climate driver known as the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) has, as suspected, moved into a positive phase. New research published in Geophysical Res...

The Tragedy of Trump's Climate Attitude

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 14 February 2017 in Climate Change

Opinion piece originally published in The Denver Post November 20,2016 with permission of Author Auden Schendler, VP Aspen Skiing Company and board chair of Protect Our Winters On the day after Trump won, I walked with my family to a melting glacier in New Zealand. A waterfall several hundred...

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Earth’s hottest August follows sizzling June, July Featured

The “forever” glaciers of America’s West aren’t forever Featured

U.N. CONFERENCE IN EGYPT IN NOVEMBER Mideast nations wake up to damage from climate change Featured

Emissions cuts could halve the impact of melting ice on oceans Featured

U.N. calls on humanity to end “war on nature,” go carbon-free Featured

Earth’s hottest August follows sizzling June, July ^Featured

The “forever” glaciers of America’s West aren’t forever ^Featured

U.N. CONFERENCE IN EGYPT IN NOVEMBER Mideast nations wake up to damage from climate change ^Featured

Emissions cuts could halve the impact of melting ice on oceans ^Featured

U.N. calls on humanity to end “war on nature,” go carbon-free ^Featured