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Climate risk is going to rise among younger generations
A study has estimated population totals, cohort sizes and life expectancy for countries at the ISIMip grid scale. The study says these datasets at present do not account for the impact of climate on population dynamics, for example through changes in migration, fertility and mortality. The data comes from a database. GDP per capita is…
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The US will reverse its climate policy because of Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to withdraw the country from the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change. The Paris Agreement commits countries to reduce greenhouse emissions and submit five-yearly updates on their climate plans to achieve agreed goals on reducing emissions. It has been over two years since the…
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Special counsel defends the Trump indictment
Climate scientists have said that there are fewer days below freezing in many parts of the US and beyond, as compared to a world without climate change. “We’ve kind of put the climate on steroids,” Alex Hall, a climate scientist at University of California, Los Angeles, said. He added, “We could see that rain of…
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The hottest year on record was in 2024
The world’s temperature in 2023 was 1.1C above the average 1850-1901 period, and Earth is 1.3C prior to El Nio, NOAA said. Last year’s temperature was 1.5C above the average 1850-1901 period, according to its data. “The real punchline is, it was another really warm year,” said Russell Vose, a climate scientist at NOAA’s National…
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What are the Santa Ana winds doing to the LA wildfires?
As the wildfires in California continue to rage, a climatologist from UCLA said, “This situation is likely to get worse over the next couple of days.” Park Williams, who heads aUCLA research group called HyFiVeS, said that the current scenario is an “unbelievable sequence of extreme climate and weather events over the past two years”.
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Is the climate deal a breakthrough or a let-down?
Environmental activists and delegates at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku have criticised the US over its pledge to provide $12.2 billion in climate finance each year by 2030. “We’ll see…massive hole in global climate finance provided [by US] just as…climate impacts are intensifying and accumulating,” said Clare Shakya, head of…
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Is the climate deal a breakthrough or let-down?
US President Joe Biden’s administration was to provide $11.4 billion in climate finance annually by 2024, around 10% of the current annual global total. “There is no doubt that we’ll see a massive hole in…global climate finance provided [by the US] just as Climate impacts are intensifying and accumulating,” said Clare Shakya, head of climate…
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The start of global climate negotiations were shadowed by Trump’s reelection
As many as 60 countries and organisations will gather at UN’s Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan this month to discuss new targets to combat climate change. The summit is aimed to help poor countries transition to cleaner energy and adapt to worsening climate calamities. US President-elect Donald Trump had withdrawn the US from the Paris…
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European court has rules on cases that attempt to get countries to meet climate goals
Europe’s top human rights court began its session on Tuesday to help force countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A group of people, including climate activist Greta Thurling, gathered in front of the court building to cheer and wave flags, including Greta Thurling who was released after being arrested at a protest in the Netherlands.
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If you want a heat pump, these states are trying to make you do it
Nine US states and the city of New Jersey have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a climate action plan to discourage the use of fossil fuel-powered heating systems in residential buildings. Fossil-fueled heating equipment across the states creates more than 138,000 tons of nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution and 6,000 tons of fine particulate…
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Evidence of human influence on snow
Water level variability across a single hemisphere for all climate models using standard deviations across multiple datasets from 1981 to 2020 and in situ at the same time. The model trained on gridded observational products predicts fully out-of-sample March SWE at 2,961 in situ sites from SNOTEL, CanSWE and NH-SWE datasets. The reconstruction model predictions…
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Deleting carbon from the atmosphere is controversial
The COP28, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) meeting that ended on Wednesday, called for a 60% drop in carbon emissions by 2035. The COP28 agreement states that “COVID-19 levels need to be reduced by at least 80% by mid-century”. The COP28 is the UN’s annual climate summit, which will be held…
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India makes a point at the climate summit
Anjal Prakash, a climate policy researcher at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, said that India won’t sign any agreement for climate change unlesswealthy nations show they can decarbonize. “India’s domestic goals are in line with its self-imposed 2070 deadline for reaching net-zero emissions,” she added. India aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2070…
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Climate researchers need help to become scientists
Scientists at the ongoing UN climate summit have changed their tactics after a group of people who blocked the train were arrested and released, according to a scientist. The scientists will be performing a ‘die in’ in front of the parliament building to show their discontent at the lack of action at the climate summit.
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Global Warming Talks Begin amidst Tensions
During the UN climate conference, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al- Maktoum announced that the country will establish the Global Climate Fund (GCF) for losses and damage due to climate change. He added that the fund would be made available to all countries. The fund is part of the agreement reached between the world’s…
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Global science is getting more fragmented, and this is creating a problem
A report by The New York Times (NY Times) has said that China and the US have signed a climate agreement, the first of its kind, to ” deepen their collaboration on COVID-19 research and policy.” The agreement’s details were not released. The deal was signed during the first official meeting between US Vice President…
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This is how far behind the world has been in controlling pollution
With humans extracting and burning oil, gas and coal, world is on track to warm between 2.5 and 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, according to a report by UN Climate Panel. “It does show us that it’s possible,” Anne Olhoff, Chief Scientist at UN climate panel said. The global temperature is…
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Ahead of the Biden-Xi summit, China and the US pledged to step up their climate efforts
UN Climate chief Miguel Arias Cann said that there’s “no time left for delays” and that the upcoming international climate talks to be “a turning point” where countries will be able to agree on plans to fight climate change. He further said that countries’ climate action plans are still far behind what’s needed to curb…
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In the United States major climate disasters occur every three weeks
The US on Wednesday said its greenhouse gas emissions fell by around 17% between 2005 and 2021, according to the latest US Emissions Report to the UN Climate Convention. US President Joe Biden has announced over $6 billion in new investments for climate action, $3.9 billion of which is going towards modernizing the grid.
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The IEA says fossil fuel demand will peak soon because of global shift to clean energy
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that the pace of the transition towards a low-carbon economy will have to quicken in order to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial times. The agency said, “The pace of the transition will have to quicken…to avoid some of the worst-case scenarios in a changing climate.” It…
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There was a record-breaking heat in September
The world recorded the warmest September on record with a temperature of 1.65C (3.15F) above the pre-industrial times, the climate scientist at Berkeley Earth Observatory said. According to Copernicus Sentinel, it was the highest September temperature since records began in Copernicus Sentinel in 1850. “For long-term temperature averages, 1.5C (2.7F) is the global threshold goal,”…
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The areas that are prone to flooding are a big part of urban development
Climate Risk and Urbanisation in the World Settlement Footprint is a study of the Rise and Fall of the Asia-Pacific Region and the Challenges to Resilience to Climate Change. The study aims to identify high-risk developments early on and publicize success stories to building people’s resilience to climate change. The authors plan to continue monitoring…
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FTX fraud trial begins; how tech shapes our bodies
Climate Solutions Week has been organised by the United Nations Security Council on Climate Solutions (COP18) to highlight the issues related to climate change. This year’s theme is ‘Let’s Start the New Era against its own Evils’. The Security Council called on all countries to take steps to end climate change and create a sustainable…
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The world is committed to the plan to save humanity
As many as 36 of the 169 targets that accompany the overarching Goals for Sustainable Development ( SDGs) were analysed by researchers involved in the four-yearly Global Sustainable Development Report (GSD). “The only way you’re going to deliver on climate mitigation and adaptation is through the SDGs, and you can’t meet the SDGs unless you…
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Science funding needs to align with the goals of the world
UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres on Monday said that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “need a global rescue plan”. He added that the UN is still making the mistake oftreating sustainable development and climate as separate issues, including by holding separate summits in New York this week. Guterres also proposed an increase in funding for sustainable…