World leaders attended a dinner hosted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II during the G-7 summit. Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales used the occasion to urge them to tackle climate change with the same energy that they mobilized against the coronavirus pandemic.
The Berlin Senate decided on tuesday to ban gasoline powered vehicles from the city center, in the next years – but before 2030. Berlin senator Regine Guenther further announced that in a second step, the so called Zero-Emission-Zone will be extended to the entire city. Along with this shift to greener transportation technologies, it is…
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The study, “Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming” by Nico Wunderling, Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Kurths, and Ricarda Winkelmann from the Potsdam Institute finds potential severe consequences from continued climate change. The Guardian has a study breakdown, which can be accessed here. Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C…
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By Harold R. Wanless, professor of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami, published by EOS. The climate emergency is bigger than many experts, elected officials, and activists realize. Humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions have overheated the Earth’s atmosphere, unleashing punishing heat waves, hurricanes, and other extreme weather—that much is widely understood. The larger problem is…
DetailsCarbonBrief recently published a guest article by Robert M. DeConto, Pamela Pearson, and David Pollard, called Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica. Here is now a text-to-speech conversation for people who like to listen to it. Visit Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica to follow…
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The 2021 published study Non-Monotonic Response of the Climate System to Abrupt CO2 Forcing (10.1029/2020GL090861) involves research from the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Center for Climate System Research, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The study key points are: We examine the response of the climate system…
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An international team of scientists, from Texas A&M University, the University of Southampton and the Swiss University ETH Zürich, led by the University of St Andrews, published their findings in the study, Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives. The international team pulled together data collected over the last 15 years using high-tech laboratory techniques. The combined data spans the…
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A NASA / JPL study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology found that the potent greenhouse gas methane is leaking from the Permian Basin oilfield, located in Texas and New Mexico. Sensor-equipped aircraft probed the atmosphere over the region for a month, and identified 123 hot spots – leaking 55 tons (50 metric…
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A new study be the University of Manitoba, finds that for every degree of global warming, the open water period in the Arctic will increase by roughly one month. The study, Arctic open-water periods are projected to lengthen dramatically by 2100 – published in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment, notes: The shrinking of Arctic-wide…
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Climate scientist James Hansen in his latest blog, Fighting the Battles, Winning the War – once again reminds us of the carbon fee-and-dividend. And that President Joe Biden has the authority to bring it forward. Meanwhile, Canada already has a carbon fee-and-dividend, with British Columbia operating a system very similar to Fee and Dividend, as…
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In the past view weeks the price of Bitcoin went from $48,000 down to $26,000! Bitcoin lost almost 50%! This trend came after Elon Musk’s Tesla announced to stop accepting Bitcoin. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any…
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June Update: A month after Hansen’s post – the index changed considerably, in June NOAA made the following post By James Hansen and Makiko Sato, 13th May 2021. Global temperature in April continues to be much less than a year ago (Fig. 1: left side). ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) is the principal cause of…
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