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‘Sense of Urgency’ for HHS Climate Change Office

Without money and permanent staff to address the public health effects of global warming, low-income and elderly populations risk devastating consequences, from weather emergencies to chronic diseases, leading to preventable deaths and costing billions of dollars to the world. government. Meanwhile, city and state public health officials say it will take hundreds of billions of […]

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New funding for KPU research to help agriculture recover from climate change impacts

New funding will help researchers at Kwantlen Polytechnic University study ways to help agriculture recover from the extreme impacts of climate change like the heat wave and flooding that hit British Columbia in 2021. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded the Institute for Sustainable Horticulture at KPU $440,000 over […]

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Climate variability may not be strongly linked to human evolution • Earth.com

Climate variability may not have been a primary driver of human and mammalian evolution, according to a new study from the University of Arizona. The researchers compared environmental data and the fossil record of large mammals that have lived across Africa for the past four million years. The results contradict the long-held theory that climate […]

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Climate variability may not be strongly linked to human evolution • Earth.com

Climate variability may not have been a primary driver of human and mammalian evolution, according to a new study from the University of Arizona. The researchers compared environmental data and the fossil record of large mammals that have lived across Africa for the past four million years. The results contradict the long-held theory that climate […]

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Economists care about climate change more than any other election issue

Offered a menu of issues to choose from as the most important in the May 21 election, Australia’s top economists have overwhelmingly focused on one. Three-quarters of the top 50 economists surveyed by The Conversation and the Australia Economic Society named “climate and environment” as the most important issue for the new government and the […]

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Many climate models may be fundamentally flawed

Most simulations of the future of our climate may be overly sensitive to melting Arctic ice as a cause of abrupt changes in ocean circulation, according to new research from scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Climatologists count the Atlantic Meridian Overturning Circulation (or AMOC) as one of the biggest tipping points on the path […]

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Disobedience to climate change in all its forms

I think in particular of the thousands of Massachusetts residents who showed up at hearings in Beacon Hill, signed petitions and lobbied their senators and state representatives, all in favor of the proposition that the use of fossil fuels must stop. I think of the activists who write countless letters to the editor to counter […]

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Climate Change and Workforce Development Top Topics on Day 1 of Arctic Encounter Symposium in Anchorage

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The United States is an Arctic nation because of Alaska, and Thursday the Symposium Encounter with the Arctic began at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center. At the event, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy hosted ambassadors from other Arctic nations “Our common interests include transportation, resource development including minerals, oil and gas, […]

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Kenya needs a new financing model in the war on climate change

Ideas & Debate Kenya needs a new financing model in the war on climate change Thursday 07 April 2022 Asokon Lomulin in his hut in Kamekwi village in Turkana during a prolonged drought in 2019. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA By Olufunso SomorinMore from this author Summary Urgent action is needed to build the resilience and […]

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Donors get $100m to benefit minorities on climate change

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of financial donors committed to racial equity plans to announce Tuesday that it has secured at least $100 million a year to benefit minority groups who are disproportionately affected by extreme weather events. The group, the Donors of Color Network, will also announce that 10 of the country’s top […]

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Pushing for an inquiry into the health impacts of climate change

“Extreme weather events have a huge impact on people’s mental health, in many cases for years after the events,” she said. “In communities across Australia, we have seen an increase in clinically diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, depression and suicide in the years following such events.” Falinski said national security, achieving net zero, the […]

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Climate variability boosts tropical tree growth during the dry season • Earth.com

A new study published in the journal nature geoscience found that the growth of tropical trees is driven by climatic variability during dry seasons. By analyzing tree ring data from tropical and subtropical trees – a reliable indicator of tree growth – a team of researchers led by the University of Arizona in the United […]

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Carbon cycle estimates – key to predicting climate change – are incorrect, Virginia Tech researchers show | VTX

Virginia Tech researchers, in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have discovered that key elements of the global carbon cycle used to track the movement of carbon dioxide through the environment are not correct, which could significantly alter the conventional models of the carbon cycle. Estimating the amount of carbon dioxide that plants extract […]

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Predicting Dengue Outbreaks Using Climate Variability and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques in a Stochastic Susceptible-Infected-Eliminated Model

This article was originally published here Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 31;12(1):5459. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-09489-y. ABSTRACT The recent increase in the global incidence of dengue has resulted in over 2.7 million cases in Latin America and numerous cases in Southeast Asia and has warranted the development and application of early warning systems (EWS) for futuristic epidemic forecasting. […]

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How bad is Ukraine’s war on climate change?

A car drives past the Gazprom Neft oil refinery in Omsk, Russia, February 10, 2020. Photo: Alexei Malgavko/REUTERS One of the most important side effects of the war in Ukraine is a reassessment of Western countries’ dependence on Russian oil and gas. I spoke with new York editor David Wallace-Wells on what this means for […]

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Scientist analyzes cloud data to improve climate models

Paquita Zuidema, a professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, is a researcher on a multi-year NASA-led project that will advance the short- and long-term accuracy of climate modeling. This is one of the remaining challenges for weather and climate modellers: understanding how variations in spatial cloud patterns affect weather patterns over […]

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Scientist analyzes cloud data to improve climate models

Paquita Zuidema, a professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, is a researcher on a multi-year NASA-led project that will advance the short- and long-term accuracy of climate modeling. This is one of the remaining challenges for weather and climate modellers: understanding how variations in spatial cloud patterns affect weather patterns over […]

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UN commission reaffirms women’s leadership in the fight against climate change

The 66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), the second largest United Nations intergovernmental meeting in New York, closed its two-week session, recognizing the important role of women and girls as agents of change for sustainable development, protecting the environment and combating the adverse effects of climate change. […]

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Crop adaptation to climate variability needs an hour: Councilor Bhatnagar – Jammu Kashmir Latest news | Tourism

Excelsior Correspondent SRINAGAR, March 24: Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor, Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar today stressed that adapting crops to climate variability and uncertainty is the need of the hour given the changing climatic conditions around the world.Advisor Bhatnagar made the comments during the inaugural three-day session of the “National Conference on Weather and Climate Risk […]

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Loss of forests due to alterations in temperature and rainfall compounds the problem of deforestation

India’s forest loss could become an even bigger problem than expected in the coming years, with new research revealing that climate change has caused major recent losses. The first-ever nationwide study on the relationship between forest loss and rainfall and temperature trends in India, conducted by the University of Reading, found that they may have […]

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Agrology System deploys sensors, IoT and AI to help farmers manage climate change – IoT World Today

The startup’s product was first used in California’s wine country as wildfires damage crops A Virginia-based startup has deployed what he calls the first “predictive farming system” capable of using AI, IoT and machine learning to provide winemakers and specialty crop farmers with agronomic data that can be used to predict and solve problems. issues […]

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Indian banks unprepared for financial impacts of climate change: report

An analysis of major Indian banks by think tank Climate Risk Horizons warned on Tuesday that the country’s banking sector is unprepared for the financial impacts of climate change. The report, “Unprepared: India’s Big Banks Perform Poorly on Climate Challenge,” ranks the country’s 34 largest banks (based on market capitalization) according to a series […]

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Climate variability may explain annual spike in ozone-destroying gas: study

Forest fires fueled by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon could be responsible for the short-term spikes in methyl bromide, a known destroyer of the ozone layer If future ENSOs become stronger or more frequent, adding methyl bromide could delay the recovery of the ozone hole, scientists say. Photo: iStock Wildfires fueled by the […]

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Climate variability may explain annual spike in ozone-destroying gas: study

Forest fires fueled by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon could be responsible for the short-term spikes in methyl bromide, a known destroyer of the ozone layer If future ENSOs become stronger or more frequent, adding methyl bromide could delay the recovery of the ozone hole, the scientists say. Photo: iStock Wildfires fueled by […]

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Do you have allergies? Climate change is making the pollen season longer and longer

By Yingxiao Zhang and Allison L. Steiner 5 minutes Read Get ready, allergy sufferers – new research shows that the pollen season is going to get much longer and more intense with climate change. Our latest research reveals that the United States will face up to 200% increase in this century’s total pollen if the […]

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Climate change: Smoke from wildfires is destroying the ozone layer, new study finds

However, the damage was temporary, and ozone levels returned to pre-wildfire levels as the smoke cleared from the stratosphere. Smoke from wildfires, which have become a common occurrence around the world, can destroy the Earth’s ozone layer, a new study has found. The ozone shield in the Earth’s stratosphere absorbs ultraviolet rays from the sun. […]

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Behavioral economics in action – climate change

If you were to count the number of times in a day that your actions do not match your intentions, in your opinion, what would the count be? It’s a perfect example of what behavioral economics rotates on; the famous intention-action gap. Here, Joshua Gordon, writing for FirstRand, gives everyday examples of how easily things […]

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Corrective machine learning to improve climate models

Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent articles written by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Advances in Earth System Modeling A new generation of global atmospheric models with 1-5 kilometer grid spacing can accurately simulate extreme weather conditions, such as heavy local rainfall from thunderstorm systems and flow through complex mountain ranges. They could also […]

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Ramalingam Saravanan *90 explains how to interpret climate patterns

The book: The weather demon (Cambridge University Press) takes the complex science and research behind climate models and makes them accessible to the general public. Ramalingam Saravanan *90, an expert in the mathematical and physical aspects of the climate system, takes readers by the hand to explain how to interpret and use the predictions provided […]

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Arab youth to fight climate change in new project launched at Expo 2020 Dubai

Within the framework of this partnership, the two parties will cooperate to implement an interactive curriculum project accessible to all students of universities, colleges and higher institutes in the Arab world in order to have direct access, based on the principle of open source, various educational programs, awareness and training materials on the causes of […]

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This investor is fighting climate change by pushing portfolios towards a net zero carbon footprint

Nili Gilbert has always enjoyed solving difficult problems. As a young girl, she spent hours poring over the mind-bending book The Lady or the Tiger? And other logic puzzles. Years later, while working as a quantitative investor, he was modeling human behavior which turned out to be a particularly difficult puzzle. Today, as Vice President […]

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Northern Ireland MPs pass Edwin Poots climate change bill

Northern Ireland is set to officially have its own climate change legislation after Stormont MPs passed a bill from Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots. r Poots and Green Party leader Clare Bailey had both proposed climate change bills, but Ms Bailey withdrew her bill on Wednesday. Northern Ireland is currently the only part of the UK […]

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Using plankton shells to assess the accuracy of climate models

Earth scientists in the US and UK have compiled a comprehensive record of latitudinal sea surface temperature (SST) gradients over the past 95 million years of Earth’s history using δ18O data obtained from planktonic foraminifera shells. Earth scientists have compiled a comprehensive record of latitudinal sea surface temperature (SST) gradients over the past 95 million […]

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Agriculture development in Mekong Delta must adapt to climate change (Vietnamese PM)

March 8, 2022 KIEN GIANG — Agricultural development in the Mekong Delta region must adapt to climate change and be closely linked to the growth of industry and services, said Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính. He made the statement while presiding over a meeting jointly held in Kiên Giang province in the Mekong Delta on […]

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The fundamentals of climate models are sound – the proof is in the plankton

Continents are reconfiguring, oceans are shifting, and ice caps are thickening and melting, but over the past 95 million years, Earth’s engine for distributing ocean heat has remained remarkably constant. That’s one of the findings of a new Yale-led study that tracks the evolution of Earth’s climate system with a new approach to calculating the […]

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Councils reflect on the costs of climate change as a whole in Waikato

Thames-Coromandel District Council Coastal flooding on the Coromandel Peninsula last year – long term coastal protection costs could be high. Calculating the long-term costs of climate change for the Waikato is a bit like guessing the proverbial length of a very elongated piece of string. But, although no rough estimate of the costs has yet […]

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Climate change bills split to focus in House

As Maryland senators wrestle with a massive overarching bill to zero the state’s carbon footprint, members of the House of Delegates are tackling these climate change issues in four separate bills. One such bill, requiring the state to gradually convert to an all-electric fleet, has already passed the House. Two others, calling for new construction […]

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UNM Physics and Astronomy hosts symposium on new climate change report : UNM Newsroom

University of New Mexico climatologist David Gutzler lectures at a physics and astronomy symposium on Volume 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently published, assessing climate change impacts and adaptation strategies. The discussion takes place on Friday 4 March at 3.30 p.m. in room 1100 of the PAIS building. The discussion can […]

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Nine research finds Australians want brands to show leadership on climate change

A new study from Nine and leading market research firm Crowd.DNA shows that the loss of faith in government policy to act on climate change is seeing Australians want big companies and brands to come up with bold plans to a sustainable future. The research, published today at Nine’s State of the Nation The virtual […]

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Not too late to reduce the cost of climate change

The economic toll of climate change is set to worsen in cities and regions across Australia, but market experts say there is still time for stronger action. Increasingly frequent and severe events will hit crucial supply chains, markets, finance and trade, reducing the availability of goods in Australia and raising their price, an international report […]

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Climate change advice Pollination attracts investment from ANZ

ANZ Banking Group has taken a minority stake in sustainability investment and consultancy firm Pollination, with the complementary partnership to accelerate the company’s net zero aspirations. Specialist climate change investment and advisory Pollination has attracted a $50 million investment from Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) banking group as part of its Series B funding round, […]

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Stockton teacher takes part in Climate Change Studies program pilot

STOCKTON, Calif. (KTXL) – A Stockton teacher is among a select group of California high school educators participating in a climate change pilot program. Scott Jorgensen, a teacher at Pacific Law Academy, teaches a program developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the San Joaquin and Kern county Bureau of Education departments. He teaches the […]

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Visakhapatnam: Existing climate models need to be scaled down for better compatibility with hydrological datasets, says NGRI director

“A 1 cm rise in sea level can influence groundwater a few kilometers inland with seawater intrusion” “A 1 cm rise in sea level can influence groundwater a few kilometers inland with seawater intrusion” A two-day national seminar on hydrology, whose central theme was “Climate change and extreme hydrological events”, kicked off here on Friday. […]

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Climate change: these cities will be under water, according to the ranking

A ranking based on population and elevation places Vancouver in the top 20 when it comes to cities that will be submerged as sea levels rise. The ranking of coastal towns has been drawn up on the basis of a “conservative estimate” of an elevation of up to 1.5 metres, although project officials say other […]

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NCAR pits Azure Cloud against its own big iron for climate models

When people think of supercomputers, they think of two different performance vectors (intentional pun), but usually the first thing they think about is the performance of a large parallel machine, since it is performing a massive task scaling across tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of cores working in concert. It’s what gets all […]

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Women should be at the center of climate change conversations

Women planting cassava on newly prepared land in Nigeria, July 12, 2017. [AFP, Courtesy] A walk through Nairobi’s Karura Forest on a cool morning is nostalgic. One cannot help but marvel at various native trees and shrubs. A shrub, we learned, is known as mutatis in Gikuyu language (umbrella tree). Its leaves and branches are […]

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What are Earth System and Climate Models?

By US Department of Energy February 20, 2022 Earth system models and climate models are a complex integration of environmental variables used to understand our planet. Earth system models simulate how chemistry, biology, and physical forces work together. These models are similar to but much more comprehensive than global climate models. To understand Earth system […]

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Western mega-drought worst in 1,200 years, intensified by climate change, study finds | News

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Climate change: US climate envoy slams countries that don’t embrace science

New Delhi, February 17 (IANS): Stating that only 20 countries on the planet account for 80% of all emissions, US Presidential Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry said that unfortunately not all countries are adopting science-based plans to limit the rise in temperature. “Unfortunately, some of these countries have not yet adopted plans to […]

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Climate change and extreme weather will have complex effects on disease transmission

Temperature fluctuations such as heat waves can have very different effects on infection rates and disease outcomes depending on the average background temperature, according to a report published today in eLife. The study suggests that it will become increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of climate change on host-pathogen interactions as global temperatures rise and […]

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Discrepancy between terrestrial and marine data resolved; shows that ice sheets are vulnerable to small fluctuations in carbon dioxide

New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geological record that pitted studies of marine ice sheet behavior against those that reconstructed past conditions on land. The research, recently published in the journal Geology, and funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Environment Research Council, lends […]

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Advanced ocean robots provide better global climate models

A team of researchers from the University of Gothenburg has deployed advanced ocean robots to conduct an international study of storm-watching above the waters around Antarctica. The study found that these storms cause outgassing of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and can help experts better understand climate change and develop better global climate models. Intense […]

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How climate change pushed the koala into the ‘endangered’ category

Beautiful picture of Koala According to the sources, the Australian government has listed the the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), the cuddly marsupial that is the country’s icon, as well as “In danger” recently in the states of Queensland and New South Wales, as […]

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Climate science: what about these colors and their link to climate change? | Opinion

Let’s take a look at some chemistry first. Don’t worry, please stick with it and there are no tests. Hydrogen is the first element of the periodic table and its atomic number is 1. It is a clear, colorless, odorless and highly combustible gas. Also of note, hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in […]

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ESA will host a flagship office to coordinate global climate models

TAMPA, Fla. — The European Space Agency announced Feb. 9 plans to host an international office to coordinate global climate modeling efforts for at least five years. From March, the office of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), which is partly sponsored by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization, will be housed alongside ESA’s existing […]

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Study finds US companies talk cheap about climate change

Compelling academic articles The Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment is a collaboration of universities committed to producing high-quality, interdisciplinary research and teaching programs in sustainable finance and investment. In this series, we highlight compelling papers presented at the last GRASFI conference, with commentary from a BNP Paribas Asset Management ‘practitioner’. As the […]

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Floating greenhouses explored to cope with climate variability

Turning car parks into urban horticultural farms, creating floating greenhouses and building container farms are just some of the opportunities explored in a new report that investigates high-tech cultivation solutions to Australia’s increasing climate variability. Commissioned by Hort Innovation and developed by agricultural consultancy RMCG in partnership with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and […]

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Climate change impacts air composition: study

In a landmark study of airborne microorganisms from ground level down to 3,500 meters, NTU Singapore scientists found that bacteria and fungi populate the planet’s lower atmosphere in very specific ways and, if they are modified, may have a negative impact on human health and the food supply. In their latest article published in the […]

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Implications of the status quo versus climate change adaptation

CLIMATE CHANGE By Peter Makwana AS climate change-related emissions continue to rise, leading to long-term impacts, well-known global emitters are trying to circumvent regulatory procedures and standards by opting for the business as usual (BAU) concept while continuing to issue and adapt. The concept of business as usual as an information tool for future energy […]

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WINTER’S END, Noëlle Janaczewska’s contemporary commentary on climate change from an admirer of the cold opens at the Griffin Theater

Thursday, February 3, 2022, 7 p.m., SBW Stables Kings Cross Part dramatic monologue, part TED Talk, Noëlle Janaczewska’s THE END OF WINTER is a moving personal story of one woman’s realization of loss on many levels as she contemplates the future of her favorite season. Interspersed with historical and scientific facts, personal memories and more […]

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Mantashe adopts China and India as climate models

Gwede Mantashe. Photo: Getty Images Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has held up the world’s biggest coal users, China and India, as role models in the fight against climate change and railed against communities and environmental activists who hamper oil exploration in the country. In an extensive television interview on Thursday evening, Mantashe, who is also […]

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Mantashe adopts China and India as climate models

Gwede Mantashe. Photo: Getty Images Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has held up the world’s biggest coal users, China and India, as role models in the fight against climate change and railed against communities and environmental activists who hamper oil exploration in the country. In an extensive television interview on Thursday evening, Mantashe, who is also […]

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Climate change will deprive the oceans of precious oxygen

The emergence of deoxygenation is expected to be widespread in large areas of the oceans before 2080. Photo: Pixabay/joker When it comes to climate change, there is bad news and there is even worse news. Into this last category falls a new study in which scientists predict that more than two-thirds of the world’s oceans […]

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Why protesting outside politicians’ homes can help reverse climate change

As President Biden’s Build Back Better Act, which contains a landmark $555 billion investment in clean energy, stalls in Congress, climate advocates are preparing to act in an unconventional approach. “I am convinced that the only way to achieve this level of policy change is through collective awakening,” Margaret Klein Salamon, executive director of the […]

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If the atmosphere is chaotic, how can we trust climate models?

Before they can understand how our planet’s climate is changing, scientists must first understand the basic principles of this complex system – the gears that turn Earth’s climate. You can create simple models with simple interactions, and that’s what happened in the first part of the 20th century. But from the 1950s and 1960s, researchers […]

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Climate change a growing concern for the Fed as candidates face a hearing | Economic news

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — How far the Federal Reserve can go to force banks to factor climate change implications into their lending policies could be the focus of a Senate hearing Thursday on the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin and two economists on the influential Fed Board of Governors. The […]

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Helping customers fight climate change through biodiversity

Climate change is the greatest existential crisis we face today. Unless urgent action is taken, it will devastate future generations and transform life on our planet. As lawyers and human beings, we have a responsibility to help preserve our planet and help our clients do the same by helping them navigate the law. Indeed, the […]

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How to teach kids about climate change, inspire hope and take action to change the future

By Maya K Gislason, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University and Angel M Kennedy, PhD Student, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University Vancouver, January 30 (The Conversation) Children and Youth know that climate change is altering lives, environmental patterns and futures. Human-induced climate change is altering the intensity of the likelihood […]

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Teaching Climate Change Blog Gets National Recognition

A blog of a Kapiʻolani community college The professor received an honorable mention for the John Lovas Award for an outstanding online project largely devoted to academic pursuits. The Lovas Prize is awarded annually by Kairos at a conference on computing and writing. Krista Hiser by Krista Hiser Blog, “Teaching Climate Change Field Notes”, is […]

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“Salad of nonsense words”: scientists denounce Jordan Peterson’s comments on climate models | Climate crisis

Prominent climate scientists have ridiculed and criticized controversial Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson’s comments during an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast. During a new four-hour interview on Spotify’s most popular podcast, Peterson – who is not a climate change expert – claimed that the models used to predict the future state of the climate […]

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“Salad of nonsense words”: scientists denounce Jordan Peterson’s comments on climate models | Climate crisis

Prominent climate scientists have ridiculed and criticized controversial Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson’s comments during an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast. During a new four-hour interview on Spotify’s most popular podcast, Peterson – who is not an expert on climate change – claimed the models used to predict the state could not be trusted. […]

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Climate change webinar participants urge cities to do more | Community

Acterra, a Palo Alto-based nonprofit, hosted a webinar on Jan. 14 to educate policymakers and Bay Area residents about actions they can take in response to climate change. The webinar, titled “Code Red for Humanity: What Municipalities Can Do,” focused on strategies cities can adopt to eliminate carbon emissions by 2030, a much higher target […]

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IPCC reports on climate change, conclusions, significance, purpose and history of reports

History of IPCC reports The IPCC has been sounding the alarm on climate change for decades, publishing regular and comprehensive assessments that summarize the most recent research on the warming of our planet. Periodically, it also publishes special reports on topics such as land use, the ocean and the cryosphere (frozen parts of the earth) […]

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Climate change could cause more kidney stones

Climate change over the next few decades could lead to an increase in cases of kidney stones, which would incur huge costs for health systems, according to research by scientists in the United States. A study, published in Scientific Reports, found that even if measures were put in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there […]

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IGT becomes the latest gaming company to fight climate change

iGaming is a billion dollar industry, with hundreds of companies trying to position themselves on the online map. And it’s not something new either, as we’ve seen for years how companies in this internet marketplace strive to improve both their product and their reputation. One company that has caused a stir is IGT. They joined […]

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UK hemp tech enables processor to fight climate change and boost agriculture | City & Business | Finance

Organic farmers in Zambia are the first this year to take part in the free trial of the company’s patent-pending Transportable Smartbox, a compact shipping container-sized system that operates flexibly across sites ground. Here, the whole harvested plant, including the fiber that is not used at the moment, can be transformed into raw material for […]

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The fight against climate change is in our hands

As for the cooling industry, researchers have estimated that by 2050 the number of room air conditioners will quadruple to 4.5 billion worldwide, becoming at least as ubiquitous as cell phones are today. . By the end of the century, greenhouse gas emissions from air conditioning will account for up to 0.5 degrees Celsius of […]

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Climate Change States | We

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It’s time for businesses to adapt to climate change. How should they do it?

Opinions expressed by Contractor the contributors are theirs. The outcome of COP26 left many disappointed. Although 151 parties have submitted new or updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) ahead of the conference, commitments to reduce emissions continue to lag significantly behind what is needed to limit the global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030. Calls […]

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Banks warned about climate change policies signal change is in the air

Breadcrumb Links PF Finance PF Economy Banking Kevin Carmichael: A joint public-private effort could mitigate the bleak future predicted by Bank of Canada models Publication date : January 14, 2022 • 13 hours ago • 4 minute read • 11 comments Bank buildings in Toronto’s financial district. Photo by Photo Peter J Thompson/National Post Files […]

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As a first step, potential climate change hotspots were mapped | India News

NEW DELHI: The State of India’s Forests Report (ISFR) has for the first time mapped climate change hotspots in the country under three scenarios of future periods of 2030, 2050 and 2085. It observed that Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are expected to see the highest temperature increase, while the Andaman and […]

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Two-time Canadian Olympian hopes to fight climate change at IOC Athletes’ Commission

Two-time Canadian Olympian Seyi Smith aims to fight climate change on the world stage. Smith, 34, is running for election to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission, which represents the interests of athletes at the IOC table, where he hopes to lead Olympians around the world in promoting the durability. “I want to help […]

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How migratory birds could have tracked past climate change

Organism responses to past climate extremes offer a useful perspective for understanding the impacts of ongoing and accelerating climate change. Flying organisms can disperse over long distances, allowing them to find and colonize new habitats during times of change. However, the ability to travel long distances does not necessarily imply increased responsiveness or resilience to […]

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Biden calls fire in Colorado another sign of climate change

[ad_1] Joe Biden in Louisville, Colorado on January 7, 2022 & nbsp; Biden called the Colorado fire another sign of climate change The President and the First Lady visited the city of Louisville, which was badly damaged by a wildfire last week President Joe Biden, who visited the site of the worst wildfire in Colorado […]

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Unmanned Ground Vehicle Market – Know-how supply chain disruptions, climate change etc. could turn out to be a disaster, key players -HORIBA Ltd., FLIR Systems, Inc.

[ad_1] the Unmanned land vehicles the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.21% and is expected to reach $ XX Billion by 2027 from $ XX Billion in 2021 the Unmanned Land Vehicle Market Report promulgated by DECISIVE MARKETS INSIGHTS offers in-depth study on various segments of the modern global market such […]

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It’s time for Europe to shine in the fight against climate change

[ad_1] PARIS – After doing so much to elevate the global climate debate to the highest diplomatic levels, the European Union and the main governments of the Member States will soon be faced with a fundamental paradox. The world’s leading player and author of climate change standards are heading into a year of murderous and […]

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The climate change emergency cannot be solved by disintegrating democracies

[ad_1] President BidenJoe Biden Biden Tells US Zelensky Allies “Will Respond Decisively” If Russia Invades Biden, Harris Will Speak On The Anniversary Of The Capitol Uprising.The climate agenda of was launched with hopes, prayers and the expectation of leadership for all democracies around the world, like a glorious ship setting off on a maiden voyage: […]

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Temperatures of the past 24,000 years find unprecedented global warming

[ad_1] The study reveals that greenhouse gas concentrations have been increasing since the last ice age. A University of Arizona study looked at Earth’s climate since the last Ice Age around 24,000 years ago, highlighting the main drivers of climate change and how far human activity has pushed the climate system out of bounds. The […]

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Point of View: Denial Worsens Climate Change

[ad_1] Mark Twain once said that “denial is not just a river in Egypt”. Twain’s quip, a joke about ignoring things, pretty much sums up most people’s thoughts on the threats posed by climate change. It’s easier not to think about it. Yet climate change is a huge problem that affects everyone in the world. […]