A streak of record-setting #heat that began last summer has now persisted for an entire year across the globe, researchers announced Wed, pushing #Earth closer to a dangerous threshold that the #world’s nations had pledged not to cross.
Temperatures surpassed the 1.5°C #warming threshold over the past year, & scientists warn they will again soon.
It's a good enough book, a bit of an introspection of one man's anxiety about how we're destroying the planet. He doesn't come to any real conclusions, just sort of hints at them. He makes some killer observations and has a sense of humor that will catch you off guard.
Temperatures in India's capital soared to a national record-high of 52.3 degrees Celsius (126.1 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, the government's weather bureau said.
At the poles, more heat radiates out into space than is absorbed from the sun.
Rocket Lab launches NASA cubesat to study heat lost from Earth's poles
"The PREFIRE duo "will criss-cross over the #Arctic and #Antarctica measuring thermal infrared radiation — the same type of energy emitted from a heat lamp — that will make #climate models more accurate and help predict changes caused by #GlobalWarming," Rocket Lab wrote in a mission description."
2023 marked the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in 2000 years, almost 4°C warmer than the coldest summer in the same period. #ClimateCrisis#GlobalWarming
-- Sarah Collins reports. From Cambridge University -- thanks
Key Findings of Oil Change International's "Big #Oil Reality Check" - Oil majors fail to align with international agreements to phase out #FossilFuels and to limit global temperature rise to 1.5ºC ... Combined, 8 ('oil majors') companies’ current oil and #gas extraction plans are consistent with more than 2.4°C of global temperature rise, likely leading to global devastation."
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Every company is “Grossly Insufficient” or “Insufficient” on a majority of criteria.
Three companies (Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil) are “Grossly Insufficient” — our lowest rating — on all criteria.
These 8 companies alone are on track to use 30% of our remaining carbon budget to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.
Of the 8 analyzed companies, 6 have explicit goals to increase oil and gas production. Even those without such plans are advancing new #FossilFuel projects and selling polluting assets rather than shutting them down, masking their actions as contributing to an energy transition while perpetuating #climate pollution.
Integrity: None of the companies we analyzed have set comprehensive targets to ensure their total emissions decline rapidly and consistently, starting now. Every company intends to rely on carbon capture and storage (CCS), offsets, and/or other methods that delay and distract from ending fossil fuels, and prolong the health and community safety impacts of dirty energy.
People-Centered Transitions: All companies fail to meet basic criteria for just transition plans for workers and communities where they operate. All companies fail to meet basic criteria on upholding human rights."
"According to a recent survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and CVoter International, a staggering 91% of Indians are worried about #GlobalWarming, and an impressive 86% support the government’s ‘Net Zero’ commitment to reduce #India’s carbon pollution to nearly zero by 2070."
Heavy rains flooded Lombardy, in particular the fashion capital Milan. Other northern regions - Veneto and Piedmont - were also affected. Over the past 24 hours, more than a thousand rescue operations have been carried out here, the Italian fire and rescue service reported.
"‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable #jet#fuel not realistic, report finds - #IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace #kerosene within timeframe needed to avert #ClimateDisaster"
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“It’s a huge #greenwashing exercise by the #aviation industry. It’s magical thinking that they will be able to do this.”
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"Burning sustainable aviation fuels still emits some #carbon dioxide, while the land use changes needed to produce the fuels can also lead to increased #pollution. #Ethanol biofuel, made from #corn, is used in these fuels, and meeting the Biden administration’s production goal, the report found, would require 114m acres of corn in the #US, about a 20% increase in current land area given over to to the crop.
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This sustainable fuels target will require an enormous 18,887% increase in production, based on 2022 production levels, this decade, the new report found.
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In the #UK, meanwhile, 50% of all agricultural land will have to be given up to sustain current flight passenger levels if jet fuel was entirely replaced."
Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming
Exxon Mobil objects to the Securities and Exchange Commission's rule on shareholder proposals. So why is it suing these small investors instead of the SEC? #press
Major bad #ClimateCrisis news just published in today's #Guardian - "Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for #humanity poll of hundreds of scientists finds - World’s top #climate scientists expect #GlobalHeating to blast past 1.5C target.
Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and the #planet, an exclusive Guardian survey has revealed.
Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( #IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3C (5.4F). Only 6% thought the internationally agreed 1.5C (2.7F) limit will be met."
Numerous experts said they had been left feeling hopeless, infuriated and scared by the failure of governments to act despite the clear scientific evidence provided.
“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” said Gretta Pecl, at the University of Tasmania. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future.”