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IEA chief warns climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead
May 14, 2022 12:11Revelations by the Guardian show nearly 200 carbon bomb projects are in planning, or have already started pumping, that will each result in at least 1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over their lifetimes, equivalent to about 18 years of current global emissions.
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Earth now has 50% chance of hitting 1.5°C of warming by 2026
May 14, 2022 12:07The 1.5°C figure is not some random statistic," said the head of the World Meteorological Organization. "It is rather an indicator of the point at which climate impacts will become increasingly harmful for people and indeed the entire planet.
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Treaties protecting fossil fuel investors threaten global efforts to save the climate—and could cost countries billions
May 12, 2022 13:30Fossil fuel companies have access to an obscure legal tool that could jeopardize worldwide efforts to protect the climate, and they’re starting to use it. The result could cost countries that press ahead with those efforts billions of dollars.
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Study warns only 'rapid action' can prevent worst marine extinction in 250 million years
May 07, 2022 12:24Reversing greenhouse gas emissions trends would diminish extinction risks by more than 70%, preserving marine biodiversity accumulated over the past ~50 million years of evolutionary history
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Climate change will force new animal encounters — and boost viral outbreaks
May 06, 2022 10:43Over the next 50 years, climate change could drive more than 15,000 new cases of mammals transmitting viruses to other mammals, according to a study published in Nature.
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The outrageous—and largely hidden—$5.9 trillion annual subsidy to the fossil fuel industry that is killing people
Apr 19, 2022 16:30Western governments have been heavily subsidizing their own fossil-fuel industries even as they exhort much poorer countries to do more to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But the full extent of these subsidies has been hidden by the methods used to measure them.
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‘Black carbon’ threat to Arctic as sea routes open up with global heating
Apr 12, 2022 14:42As climate crisis allows new maritime routes to be used, sooty shipping emissions accelerates ice melt and risk to ecosystems.
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The cost of not acting on climate?
Apr 08, 2022 15:53Throughout this century, the crisis will accelerate unless we stop burning coal, gas, and petroleum now. It's not all or nothing, the question is: how bad are we going to let it be?
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UN weather agency sounds alarm on extreme events in Antarctica
Apr 06, 2022 12:04Scientists with the United Nations weather agency have expressed fresh concern over the climate crisis following recent extreme events in Antarctica—an area they say should not be taken "for granted."
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'Unthinkable': Scientists shocked as polar temperatures soar 50 to 90 degrees above normal
Mar 24, 2022 10:39Startling heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles are causing alarm among climate scientists, who have warned the “unprecedented” events could signal faster and abrupt climate breakdown.