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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

Let’s dive into each piece of this puzzle to understand what has changed between SR1.5 C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. Nature Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Warming to date – SR1.5

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What should cities of the future look like?

Our Environment

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to stay within 1.5-degree

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Anna Savage – The canary in the coal mine

Frontiers

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15 Life on Land is about aiming to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. We can let evolution do its job.

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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Frontiers

Kornberg , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006. UN Sustainable Development Goals – Quality Education. The initiative is also part of Frontiers’ commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 4 – Quality Education.

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The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

Vermont Law

In India, the 2013 flash floods in the Kedarnath Valley occurred due to a climate-change-aggravated melting of glaciers triggered by hordes of tourists banking themselves in the mountains yearly. Governments must enforce stringent regulations, conduct carrying capacity assessments, and invest in infrastructure development.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Gleick disagrees and defends the Malthusian notion that future food surpluses are highly uncertain due to climate change, and argues that I ignore such risks.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.