The report is concrete, careful and scarier than any horror movie you’ve ever seen. It gives upper and lower estimates, depending on whether humankind gets its act together. Given the oil-drenched buffoons now in charge, you’d want to bet on the higher and more dangerous numbers in each case.
Source: Scientists Leak Study on Global Heating Impact b4 Trump can Suppress it | Informed Comment
By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | – – By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we …
Source: If we don’t Dump Fossil Fuels *Now*, we’re Sticking our Kids with 0 Trillion in Debt
More frequent severe droughts, coral bleaching are on the agenda with more extreme El Nino events predicted even with ambitious climate goals.
Source: Extreme El Nino events to double in number even with 1.5-degree warming: study
Absence of climate and energy policy has left Australia lagging dangerously behind, missing out on investment and facing major electricity disruptions.
Richard B. Rood | (The Conversation) | – – Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. We know this from billions of …
Since 1880, after carbon dioxide emissions took off with the Industrial Revolution, the average global temperature has increased. With the help of internal variations associated with the El Niño weather pattern, we’ve already experienced months more than 1.5℃ above the average. Sustained temperatures beyond the 1℃ threshold are imminent. Each of the last three decades has been warmer than the preceding decade, as well as warmer than the entire previous century.
Source: It’s going to Get a lot Hotter; how Hot depends on You
By John Church, Christopher Watson, Matt King, Xianyao Chen, and Xuebin Zhang | (The Conversation) | – – Contributions to …
Source: Rate of Sea Level Rise increasing, As Greenland Melts | Informed Comment
As the Turnbull government struggles to convince internal dissenters of the need for tougher carbon reduction measures, forces on the green energy side are positioning for a renewed climate change debate in coming months.
Source: Climate forces consolidate as coal backers rush for government help
For precious decades experts have explained, over and over, that the science of climate change is incontrovertible, the consequences of blindly sticking with fossil fuels catastrophic and the costs of inaction far higher than switching to a low-emissions economy.But these facts had no impact on the sceptics, who cling to a worldview where they find “alternative facts”, where fossil fuel power is the only path to prosperity and mounting environmental and economic evidence to the contrary is some kind of dastardly leftwing plot.
The president called the 2015 international agreement a “deal that punishes the United States,” but added that the US will try to negotiate “a deal that’s fair.
The only other two countries that aren’t supporting the deal are Nicaragua and Syria. https://twitter.com/axios/status/869879115981221888 …
Source: Trump Announced That The US Is Pulling Out Of The Paris Climate Deal
This is what’s happening. You have an American president who is now taking a meat ax to the only American industry that is growing. The clean energy sector in America is producing jobs —
There is no doubt sea levels are rising but how are we preparing to deal with the devastating consequences?
Source: Seven crazy things that are going to happen as sea levels rise
How does it get so hotThere are two processes we think explain the extreme underground conditions at our drill site. An earthquake on the Alpine Fault ha
Source: New Zealand’s Alpine Fault reveals extreme underground heat and fluid pressure | IFLScience
April 2017 was the second-warmest April in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
Source: Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: April 2017 was second-warmest April on record
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke “is committed to restoring trust in the Department’s decision-making,” a spokeswoman said.
Every car sold in India will be powered by electricity by the year 2030, according to plans unveiled by the country’s energy minister. The move is intended to lower the cost of importing fuel and lower costs for running vehicles. “We are going to introduce electric vehicles in a very big way,” coal and mines minister Piyush Goyal said at the Confederation of Indian Industry Annual Session 2017 in New Delhi.
The ugly end of decarbonisation is being yanked in different directions by political messaging, in both the US and Australia
Bloomberg recently announced the creation of a new website that will provide audiences with important reporting on the economic and business implications of climate change. The move comes at a time when big businesses around the world are urging governments to take action as they increasingly recognize the reality and the risk of climate change.
Source: Bloomberg Editors On New Climate Website: Climate Change “Is Fundamentally An Economic Story”
Cyclone Cook is bearing down on New Zealand and is set to be the worst storm system in nearly 50 years.
Source: States of emergency declared as Cyclone Cook bears down on New Zealand
Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef is now devastated by severe coral bleaching aerial surveys show, Queensland scientists say.
“Fortunately, in the United States, there are dissenting voices.”
Source: Vatican Urges Trump To Change Climate Change Position | The Huffington Post
ExxonMobil may not be considered a natural ally to the environmental movement, but these are not normal times we’re living through. Officials from the worl
Source: ExxonMobil Write Letter To Trump Urging Him To Keep Paris Climate Agreement | IFLScience
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin has abruptly become a climate-change denialist, apparently …
Source: Putin joins ranks of Climate Denialists in support of Trump | Informed Comment
A supervisor at the Energy Department’s told staff this week not to use the phrases “climate change,” “emissions reduction” or “Paris Agreement” in written memos, briefings or other written communication.
Source: Climate Reality
Michael Mann vs. the House “science” committee.
Team Trump begins to roll out its plan to kill climate action, making up facts and ruining your children’s future.
Source: Four-and-a-half false statements EPA head Scott Pruitt made in just one interview
In 2016, PBS NewsHour once again surpassed its nightly news competitors in climate coverage, devoted significant airtime to a range of climate-related issues, and hosted a number of scientists. But President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would take aim at the network that has long been the nightly news leader in terms of climate co
Source: Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut Support For The Network Leading The Way In Climate Reporting
The average sea level around China is at its highest level
Source: China’s coastal sea levels rise to record high, experts blame climate change: Shanghaiist
For two straight years — 2015 and 2016 — atmospheric carbon dioxide has climbed by more than 3 parts per million.
Source: Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising at the fastest rate ever recorded – The Washington Post
Nearly 90 percent of Queensland is in drought; meanwhile severe storms linger across parts of New South Wales.
Source: Eastern Australia hit by drought and floods | News | Al Jazeera
NBC weatherman Al Roker debunked EPA head Scott Pruitt’s false claim that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming during an appearance on MSNBC Live, explaining that there is “no credible science or scientist” to support Pruitt’s statement.During the March 10 segment, Roker addressed Pruitt’s comments on the Marc
Source: Al Roker Debunks EPA Head Scott Pruitt’s Stunning Denial On Human-Caused Climate Change
You may have noticed it’s been a bit hot lately. In fact, if you were born after 1985, you have never experienced a cooler than average month. Let’s just read that again so it really sinks in – if you were born after 1985, you have never experienced a cooler than average month. The UK…
Source: Climate change, power and coal – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Sydneysiders have endured their hottest summer since records began, with official data revealing records across the city were smashed during the 2016-17 season.
Weatherwatch If the third warmest January on record occurred during a La Niña event, scientists are asking what El Niño has in store
Source: Australia’s summer heat hints at worse to come | Environment | The Guardian
Trump’s appreciation of the environment extends only as far as the manicured grass of his golf courses.
Bushfires, floods and heatwaves are the new standard, leading climate scientists say, but they are growing fatigued trying to convince people.
As we’ve sweltered through this terrible summer – and lately, as bushfires have raged – what a comfort it’s been to know that climate change doesn’t exist and isn’t happening.
Source: What a relief that climate change doesn’t really exist
Humans are driving the warming of the Earth 170 times faster than natural forces, according to a new mathematical formula.
By Keith Antonysen Various contrarian opinions are based on the fundamental premise of anthropogenic climate change in relation to how light interacts with radiated infrared. Seth Miller, a scientist, provides some history; and then, criteria in relation to how science matters can be rationally evaluated (1). Seth Miller uses 9 criteria to show the strength…
Source: Abrupt Climate Change: there’s strength in the science – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Pressure is building on the Government to outline how it will mitigate against the biggest risks from climate change after ministers were criticised for “burying” a report highlighting the major global warming threats to Britain.
The Government has been accused of trying to bury a major report about the potential dangers of global warming to Britain – including the doubling of the deaths during heatwaves, a “significant risk” to supplies of food and the prospect of infrastructure damage from flooding. The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Report, which by law has to be produced every five years, was published with little fanfare on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) website on 18 January.
Source: Government ‘tried to bury’ its own alarming report on climate change | The Independent
The world’s major meteorological agencies have declared 2016 to the hottest year on record – making it three new highs in as many years – as increases in greenhouse gases drove global warming.
Source: ‘Extreme year’: 2016 declared hottest year on record as climate change builds on big El Nino
We are not members of the Greens faction but it’s hard to understand the anger expressed at people who believe capitalism is a problem
Nearly a quarter of the Great Barrier Reef is dead and there has been no discernible political response.
Source: Death of the Great Barrier Reef: One scientist’s planetary tipping point
