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Environment and energy

Getting physical with the climate crisis

06 Oct 2021 James Dacey
Taken from the October 2021 issue of Physics World.

With world leaders set to gather in Glasgow next month for the United Nations’ COP26 climate summit, James Dacey examines four vital challenges where physicists can help the world to decarbonize and adapt to the reality of global warming

severe flooding in Germany in 2021
Grim warning Global warming of more than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels will make countries at higher latitudes cloudier, wetter and more likely to suffer from flooding. The extreme flooding that resulted in at least 200 fatalities, the majority in Germany and Belgium, in 2021 could be a sign of worse to come.(Courtesy: Shutterstock/bear productions)
Making pledges is easy. More than 130 nations have so far promised to become “net-zero” carbon e

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James Dacey is a multimedia journalist based in Madrid
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