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Canada’s wildfires likely worsened due to human-driven climate change
Weather that increases fire risk is “getting more severe as climate change gets worse”, said a climate scientist from Imperial College London in a case study on climate impacts on fire-weather conditions in the Pacific and Southern Hemisphere. The study looked at human-caused climate impacts on fire weather, the conditions that make a spark likely…
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Scientists are clashing over critical currents
Scientists have studied the rise of the Arctic Ocean to the bottom of Atlantic Ocean and found it is a “bedrock of our climate system”. They compared the temperature before and after fossil fuel burning in order to understand changes to the climate. An assistant scientist who wasn’t involved in the study said that AMOC…
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Here’s what happened during the UN’s climate negotiations
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has said that corporations should cover the costs of sea level rise and hurricanes, in places like her country that do not have the money to protect themselves from climate change. Distribution of climate budgets across countries of the world is a priority, she added. “The world doesn’t have any money…
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Friederike Otto has hard evidence for climate enforcement
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist has said it is difficult to include climate Context in real-time weather warnings. NOAA is currently reviewing how it communicates with the public about climate change, she said, in part because of a flood of interest from the public and from local officials who are grappling with…
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Outcry as scientists are sanctioned for a protest
Scientists at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) held a panel discussion on’Adaptation, Loss and Damage’ during the COP 27 climate conference on Thursday. In the session, scientists from countries across the world discussed what steps they would take to protect vulnerable populations from the impacts of climate change. The panel was moderated by UNEP chief…
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‘The World is getting more Grim by the Day’ is an opinion penned by Greta Thunberg
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, in an interview, said, “I think it covers a lot of issues concerning the climate crisis.” “At a time when thousands of people are losing their lives and livelihoods during a climate emergency…it’s necessary to do that,” she added. Thunberg had started the climate protests at the age of 15,…
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The world is getting more Grim by the day
Climate scientist Saleemul Huq has said that “the most devastated” communities by climate change are mostly poor people of colour. The way in which communities prepare for climate disasters isn’t usually seen in the global north, she added. Frequent flying is the most climate-destructive activity you can engage in, she further said.
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The Climate Summit will be addressed by Biden in Egypt
Climate activist Jonathan Foley has said that he feels “a lot more heartened” about climate change now than he ever has. Foley led weekly marches across the globe that drew millions of people through the year. He added that he feels that the climate crisis is not affecting future generations but a problem that all…
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The weather is getting more severe because of climate change.
A climate scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has said that climate change may make storms “worse”. Rhome added that federal forecasters, such as those at the National Hurricane Center, could also be effective messengers for climate information. As per the latest research, climate change isn’t making storms to form in the Atlantic.
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The United Nations’ biodiversity conference has reached a historic agreement to protect nature.
The US has joined a group of 26 other countries who have formed the Forest and climateLeaders’ Partnership. The agreement aims to reduce the costs of fighting climate change and minimise the impact of CO2 emissions on the world’s forests. The partnership, chaired by the US and Ghana, is made up of countries that account…
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The majority of the world’s countries agreed to protect at least a third of the planet.
The UN climate summit COP 15 will be held in Montreal, Canada, from December 11 to 15. The meeting is the first-ever time that over 190 countries will join together to address the issue of biodiversity and create an agreement to fight climate change. The agreement will aim to protect at least 30% of the…
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It’s time to tell a new story about climate inequity.
Climate Justice President Colette Pichon Battle said, “Instead of the traditional forms of media…we now have young people who are able to get in front of a camera and say in five seconds what they think the major headline is.” She added, “We now have young people who are able to get in front of…
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The climate crisis may be changing the behavior of tornadoes.
Climate scientists have estimated that climate change caused a storm to drop at least 10% more rain than it would’ve without global warming. In a preliminary analysis, they said climate change caused the storm to drop at least 10% more rains than it would’ve without global warming. This comes days after Hurricane Ian made landfall…
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The climate talk was already nailed by tiny Vanuatu in 1991.
The United Nations said that it doesn’t amount to enough money to meet the needs of developing nations to prepare for climate risk. At the UN climate conference, developed countries were urged to double their funding for adaptation from 2019 levels by 2025. “There have been many promises,” Mahmoud Mohieldin, the UN’s climate change high-level…
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Developing nations will be in need of financial aid to cope with climate change.
As the United Nations climate conference opened in Egypt on Tuesday, the most critical discussions will likely focus on the soaring costs of limiting and adapting to global warming, especially in the world’s most vulnerable countries. The bloc will push for funds to help developing countries adapt to droughts, floods and other climate-related events as…
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Climate change hitting countries hardest need more money to prepare.
The UN’s Climate Change Conference urged the developed nations to double their funding for adaptation by 2025, from the current levels. The UN report said there are “mounting and ever-increasing climate risks” after the floods in Pakistan that killed 1,500 people. “The discourse needs to be raised significantly…so that you can…meet the adaptation needs,” a…