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New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

Inside Climate News

‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’ By Bob Berwyn Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out.

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Scientists strive for negative emissions

A Greener Life

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Basalt is a porous rock formed from cooling lava. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Science denial is still an issue ahead of COP28

Real Climate

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. It’s not hard to understand.

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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered

Legal Planet

But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? It turns out this is a critical question for understanding what carbon budgets we have in terms of emissions, if we seek to meet temperature thresholds like 2 degrees Celsius.

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The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?

Real Climate

If the AMOC weakens, this region will cool. And in fact it is cooling – it’s the only region on Earth which has cooled since preindustrial times. Not in summer when the ocean is covered by a shallow surface mixed layer heated by the sun and highly dependent on weather conditions.) From Rahmstorf and Ganopolski 1999.

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Analysis: How fast can we stop Earth from warming??

A Greener Life

The ocean retains heat for much longer than land does. The radiators are, in fact, cooling down, but their stored heat is still warming the air in the room. Over the years, scientists added oceans , land, ice sheets, chemistry and biology. The heat is distributed around the world through weather and oceanic currents.

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Wild Facts About Algae

Ocean Conservancy

Enter a true star of the ocean: algae! Algae are known as phototrophs, meaning they utilize (you guessed it) the process of photosynthesis, harnessing the power of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to provide themselves with essential nutrition. Love ocean content? Built-in sunscreen sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it?