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A science-based move to climate change adaptation

Real Climate

It’s also urgent because the oceans act like a flywheel, making sure that cuts in emission of greenhouse gases will have a lagged effect on global warming. Climate change adaptation was addressed in the Paris Agreement from 2015, the Climate Adaptation Summit in January 2021 , and will be one of four key priorities during the upcoming COP26.

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Physicists rise to the climate challenge: the October 2021 issue of Physics World

Physics World

“A code red for humanity” is how António Guterres, the United Nations’ secretary general, described the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , which summarizes our current scientific understanding of the Earth’s climate and the potential impact that changes to it could have on the planet. challenges.

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The Stream, August 12, 2021: Major Rivers in India Are Rising To Dangerous Levels

Circle of Blue

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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HotSpots H2O: Ongoing Madagascar Famine Is Driven By Poverty, Not Climate Change

Circle of Blue

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — December 6, 2021. Friederike Otto, one of the study’s co-authors, said that the ongoing famine highlights the risks faced by vulnerable nations, even without climate breakdown. And so [climate change] will only make things more difficult for these regions in the world.”.

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COP28: Sombre climate report indicates we are on track for 3 degrees C warming

A Greener Life

According to the Emissions Gap report, released annually and which looks at the pledges made by countries to tackle climate change, the world faces between 2.5C The point of no return Climate scientists warn that facing a scenario where the world warms by 3 degrees C, we would pass a point of no-return tipping points.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). All this can be explained by physical processes and an enhanced greenhouse effect.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

In my opinion the press conference on 9 August 2021 didn’t do justice to the vast effort that went into it. There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems.