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Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds

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According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. There are a handful of high-impact “tipping points” that could drastically change global or regional water cycles.

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

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For months, international’s organizations have blamed the calamity on climate change. International organizations had blamed the calamity on climate change, but a new study rejects that assumption. And so [climate change] will only make things more difficult for these regions in the world.”.

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Are Wildfires Getting Worse Due to Climate Change?

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A significant body of research suggests that the likelihood and impact of wildfires today may be greater as a result of climate change. Fire seasons vary in duration based on location - and lengthening fire seasons may be due in large part to climate change as winter snowpacks melt earlier and forests’ dry periods are stretched longer.

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New Study Warns of an Imminent Spike of Planetary Warming and Deepens Divides Among Climate Scientists

Inside Climate News

In summer and fall, monthly global temperature anomalies spiked beyond most projections, helping to drive those extremes, and they may not level off anytime soon, said James Hansen, lead author of a study published today in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change that projects a big jump in the rate of warming in the next few decades.

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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. Ekwurzel was joined by Heede, then-UCS climate scientist Peter Frumhoff , and four other scientists.

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Think climate change is messy? Wait until geoengineering

Environmental News Bits

Someone’s bound to hack the atmosphere to cool the planet. So we urgently need more research on the consequences, says climate scientist Kate Ricke. Read the full story in Wired. Read more →

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Satellites may have underestimated warming in the lower atmosphere

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New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) climate scientists and collaborators shows that satellite measurements of the temperature of the troposphere (the lowest region of the atmosphere) may have underestimated global warming over the last 40 years. Read more →