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According to recent data from NOAAs National Center for Environmental Information, 2024 is likely to be even warmer than 2023. Scientists are sounding the alarm because this warming is shockingly bigbigger than what we would have expected given the long-term warming trend from fossil fuel-caused climate change.
is on when it comes to the war on scientists. That war was on display recently in the defamation trial of two right-wing bloggers who attacked climatescientist Michael Mann to try to smear his work and ultimately climate science itself.
After record temperatures in 2024, climatescientists had expected this year to be cooler, but instead the planet seems to be heading for a second year above the 1.5C climate goal
There has been comparatively less attention to the decision by climatescientist Dr. Susan Avery not to seek re-election to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Yet this shift in corporate leadership is significant, marking the end of a chapter in ExxonMobil’s long and ongoing history of climate deception and disinformation.
Today there exist AI tools that can translate a scientist’s Powerpoint presentation into something that is more pedagogic and understandable for a lay person, so maybe this situation will improve. Obviously, the message from climatescientists has not reached those decision-makers who could bend the Keeling curve downwards.
As 2024 winds down, with its parade of climate-and extreme weather-fueled disasters , people across the nation are feeling the sharp pinch of rising insurance premiums and dropped policies. Further, his work analyzing premium increases at the county level shows a stark correlation with places that are more exposed to climate risks.
Climate impacts contributed to overall poor cereal harvests The poor harvests should be seen in the light of record-breaking rain in the 2023/24 winter, which climatescientists say is exacerbated by climate change. Additionally, a wet July disrupted and delayed the harvesting of spring cereals.
Off the scale The climatescientist remarked: “2023 was off the end of the scale.” The climate stripes are all about starting conversations about climate change, and 2024 has to be the year we turn conversations into faster action,” Prof Hawkins concluded.
C above pre-industrial times – a milestone that should spur urgent action, say climatescientists This year’s average global temperature is almost certain to exceed 1.5°C
There has been a lot of commentary about perceived disagreements among climatescientists about whether climate change is, or will soon, accelerate. Li, "Global warming in the pipeline", Oxford Open Climate Change , vol. 467-467, 2024. Zelinka, "Climate simulations: recognize the ‘hot model’ problem", Nature , vol.
And yet there’s no mention of the obvious source of fear, terror, and dread in 2024 when it comes to planet earth. Read out of context, that description fits climate change too, of course. When New Year’s Eve 2024 rolls around, will we mark this event with anything akin to the buzz of the total eclipse?
Such arguments against “climatescientists becoming climate activists” are happily boosted by climate denialists, delighted to have another stick with which to beat climate science and to insinuate that climate scholarship is biased. Some fear alienating publics from science and scholarship.
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Accelerating risks from climate change are colliding with shortcomings in insurance markets—such as a lack of transparent information and affordability provisions—to create a perfect storm for people and communities on the front lines of floods, droughts, and wildfires.
The subsequent rise of attribution science has been able to prove the direct correlation between climate change and specific disasters like drought, wildfires, and extreme heat. Climatescientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) even have linked disasters to individual companies , some of which are state-owned like Saudi Aramco.
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Sharma is also a faculty member in the Department of Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and holds a joint appointment as a climatescientist at Argonne National Laboratory. For more information about the spring 2024 series, visit the EarthTalks website.
He retired in January 2024. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E. Mann, one of the world's best-known climatescientists and author, with the Climate Champion Award for his life's research on climate studies and the impacts of human-caused climate change.
It would counter the expertise of climatescientists, and would damage the label’s credibility internationally,” said Julie Segal, Senior Manager of Climate Finance at Environmental Defence Canada. “To
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– if so P … S …), the climate change which is driven by the burning of fossil fuels , combined with the emergence of the natural El Nino climate pattern in the Eastern Pacific, are the joint forces that pushed the world into record territory this year.
On September 19, Stroud Water Research Center bestowed the 2024 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence to Paul Greenberg, the award-winning and bestselling food and environmental writer at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Delaware. presents the 2024 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence to Paul Greenberg (right).)
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