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

Circle of Blue

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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2023 confirmed as the warmest year ever recorded

A Greener Life

But the extraordinary findings by the European Union’s (EU) Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), unveiled this week, were more significant than perhaps many expected. The Copernicus Climate Change Service added, that in 2023 the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to the highest level ever recorded at 419 PPM.

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Unrelenting Heat Requires Accountability and Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

Right in the middle of Danger Season , we are going through a period of unprecedented global extreme temperatures driven by fossil-fueled climate change. With El Niño beginning, natural climate variability will push the already extreme temperatures occurring due to climate change even higher in the coming months.

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Emergency? Part 4

Legal Planet

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. Next time: ending deforestation.

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Emergency? Part 3

Legal Planet

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. Ultimately, the message conveyed by Moore is renewable technology is not enough to save our planet from climate change and the only way forward is for the human race to slow down. How green are renewables? So, what?”. Ocean energy.

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ESA & COP26:: Day 2: Progress

ESA

Methane is a greenhouse gas that has more heat-trapping power than CO2, although it also clears out of the atmosphere much faster than does CO2. The deforestation accord is especially encouraging because it has so many side benefits. Will countries agree to make serious new cuts in their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning?