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REPORTS & PAPERS 2022

2022 REPORTS AND PAPERS

REPORTS AND PAPERS

2022 REPORTS & PAPERS

ESSD 11/11/22
ESSD

Global Carbon Budget 2022

By Pierre Friedlingstein, Michael O'Sullivan and Others 11/11/22
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the development of climate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and…
The Washington Post

World has nine years to avert catastrophic warming, study shows

By Sarah Kaplan 11/11/22
Nations will likely burn through their remaining carbon budget in less than a decade if they do not significantly reduce greenhouse gas pollution, a new study shows, causing the world to blow past a critical warming threshold and triggering catastrophic climate impacts...
UNESCO 11/1/22
UNESCO

World heritage glaciers: sentinels of climate change

01/01/22
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C could save glaciers in two-thirds of World Heritage sites Glaciers are crucial sources of life on Earth as they provide vital water resources to half of humanity for domestic use, agriculture and hydropower. They are also sacred places for many local communities and attract millions…
The Washington Post

Glaciers in Yosemite and Africa will disappear by 2050, U.N. warns

By Rick Noack 11/03/22
Glaciers in at least one-third of World Heritage sites possessing them, including Yosemite National Park, will disappear by mid-century even if emissions are curbed, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization warned in a new report Thursday.
The Hill

UNESCO says a third of World Heritage glaciers will vanish by 2050

By Sharon Udasin 11/03/22
A third of global glaciers located at World Heritage sites will disappear by 2050, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) warned on Thursday.
NPR

Glaciers from Yellowstone to Kilimanjaro are predicted to disappear by 2050

By Laurel Wamsley 11/03/22
In North America and around the globe, 50 UNESCO World Heritage sites are home to glaciers. A new study warns that glaciers in a third of them will disappear by 2050 due to carbon emissions warming the planet.
Climate Signals

Glacier and Ice Sheet Melt

11/01/22
The melting of ice sheets and glaciers around the world is accelerating and contributing to rising sea levels. Melting in Greenland is particularly dramatic, with the record year of 2012 witnessing surface melt far in excess of any earlier year in the satellite record.
Nexus Media News

Glacier Dam Overwhelmed by South Asian Heatwave

05/10/22
As schools across India close early for the summer — unable to operate amid the extreme heat and resulting power shut offs — a massive glacial lake outburst in Pakistan wiped out a bridge, two power plants, and flooded a village as the record-breaking, months-long heatwave grinds on. Record-high temperatures…
GREENPEACE 10/27/22
GREENPEACE

Circular Claims Fall Flat Again

10/27/22
A recent Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report projects that global plastic use and waste will nearly triple by 2060 with a meager increase in plastic recycling, resulting in a doubling of global plastic pollution. The United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) estimated that the volume of…
Earth911

Recycling, Like Everything Else, Needs an Upgrade

By Mitch Ratcliffe 10/31/22
Much has been written about Greenpeace report decrying the state of plastic recycling. Our recycling system is not just broken but considered a joke, a defeatist view that will cost us in the long run if we abandon the idea of recycling. Indeed, at a meeting of climate professionals in…
CAT 10/27/22
Climate Action Tracker

State Of Climate Action 2022

By Joel Jaeger, Sophie Boehm and Others 10/27/22
Our climate is already changing dramatically, with 1.1°C of global average warming since the preindustrial era. This past year, an unbearable, deadly heatwave scorched India and Pakistan, with the highest temperatures ever recorded (Coleman 2022). Unprecedented heat also reached Antarctica, where temperatures were roughly 39°C above normal (Samenow and Patel…
The Washington Post

World falls ‘pitifully short’ of meeting climate goals, U.N. report says

By Sarah Kaplan 10/27/22
Despite a high-profile promise to boost ambitions at last year’s U.N. climate summit, nations have shaved just 1 percent off their projected greenhouse gas emissions for 2030, a new United Nations report found — leaving Earth on track to blow past a safe temperature threshold by almost a full degree.
UNEP 10/27/22
UNEP

Emissions Gap Report 2022

By Anne Olhoff, John Christensen and Others 10/27/22
As growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet the Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that the international community is falling far short of the Paris…
Grist

Report: Global climate ambitions still fall short ahead of COP27

By Emily Pontecorvo 10/27/22
Last November, world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations’ annual climate conference, to negotiate a new pact to keep global warming at bay. Although many countries had scaled up their commitments to cut emissions prior to the meeting, officials at the conference determined that these plans…
NPR

Climate promises are still not enough to avoid catastrophic global warming, U.N. says

10/27/22
A new report from the United Nations finds that the world has less than a decade to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45%. This is if the world wants to limit the worst climate damage. Scientists say we need to keep global warming to within 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. But many…
The Guardian

Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’

By Damian Carrington 10/27/22
There is “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place”, the UN’s environment agency has said, and the failure to reduce carbon emissions means the only way to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies”.
AP

UN report: Climate pollution reductions ‘highly inadequate’

By Seth Borenstein 10/27/22
The world, especially richer carbon polluting nations, remains “far behind” and is not doing nearly enough -- not even promising to do enough -- to reach any of the global goals limiting future warming, a United Nations report said.
The Washington Post

World falls ‘pitifully short’ of meeting climate goals, U.N. report says

By Sarah Kaplan 10/27/22
Despite a high-profile promise to boost ambitions at last year’s U.N. climate summit, nations have shaved just 1 percent off their projected greenhouse gas emissions for 2030, a new United Nations report found — leaving Earth on track to blow past a safe temperature threshold by almost a full degree.

“Emissions gap” putting world on course for climate “catastrophe,” U.N. chief says

10/27/22
The world, especially richer carbon polluting nations, remains "far behind" and is not doing nearly enough — not even promising to do enough — to reach any of the global goals limiting future warming, a United Nations report said.
CBS NEWS

“Untold human suffering” is in the near future as U.N. warns climate change is pushing Earth closer to extreme warming

By Li Cohen 10/10/22
Three new reports from the United Nations paint a grim picture of what's to come in the near future as the world falls short in mobilizing against climate change. According to the reports, nations are failing to create and act on sufficient plans to reduce warming as global greenhouse gas…
IEA 10/27/22
IEA

World Energy Outlook 2022

10/27/22
With the world in the midst of the first global energy crisis – triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine – the World Energy Outlook 2022 (WEO) provides indispensable analysis and insights on the implications of this profound and ongoing shock to energy systems across the globe.
Carbon Brief

Analysis: EU’s CO2 emissions fall 5% in three months after post-Covid surge

By Lauri Myllyvirta 11/03/22
The EU’s emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from energy use have fallen by 5% over the past three months compared with the same period in 2021, new analysis shows.
Carbon Brief

In-depth: Russia’s war means fossil fuels will peak within five years, IEA says

By Simon Evans 10/31/22
Fossil fuel use will peak within five years, says the World Energy Outlook 2022 from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The 524-page outlook says the global energy crisis and Russia’s war have “turbo-charged” the shift away from fossil fuels. For the first time, coal, oil and gas will each peak,…
The New York Times

War in Ukraine Likely to Speed, Not Slow, Shift to Clean Energy, I.E.A. Says

By Brad Plumer 10/27/22
The energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is likely to speed up rather than slow down the global transition away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner technologies like wind, solar and electric vehicles, the world’s leading energy agency...
Inside Climate News

Global Energy Report: Pain at the Pump, High Energy Costs Could Create a Silver Lining for Climate and Security

By James Bruggers 10/27/22
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the reverberation in energy markets will hasten the transition to clean energy, and peak fossil fuel use is finally within sight...
POLITICO Pro

Putin’s war marks ‘turning point’ for global fossil fuel demand, IEA says

By Victor Jack 10/27/22
The global energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks a “turning point” for global fossil fuel demand and could accelerate the world’s green transition, the International Energy Agency said in landmark report Thursday.
The Hill

Higher gas prices could lead to cleaner energy: report

By Julia Mueller 10/27/22
The global energy crisis causing higher prices at the pump may speed up the world’s transition toward cleaner energy, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.
AP

Report: Global crises can speed up move to clean energy

By Sibi Arasu 10/27/22
Spiraling energy costs caused by various economic factors and the Ukraine war could be a turning point toward cleaner energy, the International Energy Agency said in a report Thursday. It found the global demand for fossil fuels, including coal, oil, and natural gas, is set to peak or plateau in…
WMO 10/26/22
WMO

Greenhouse Gas Bulletin

By Andy Crotwell, Ed Dlugokencky and Others 10/26/22
The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin represents the latest analysis of observations from the WMO GAW Programme. It shows globally averaged surface mole fractions for carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) and compares them with the mole fractions during the previous year and with the preindustrial levels. It also…
Inside Climate News

Global Energy Report: Pain at the Pump, High Energy Costs Could Create a Silver Lining for Climate and Security

By James Bruggers 10/27/22
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the reverberation in energy markets will hasten the transition to clean energy, and peak fossil fuel use is finally within sight...
The Washington Post

Climate-warming methane emissions rising faster than ever, study says

By Steven Mufson and Sarah Kaplan 10/26/22
The amount of methane in the atmosphere is racing ahead at an accelerating pace, according to a study by the World Meteorological Organization, threatening to undermine efforts to slow climate change...
WMO

More bad news for the planet: greenhouse gas levels hit new highs

10/26/22
In yet another ominous climate change warning, atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reached new record highs in 2021, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...
LANCET 10/25/22
Lancet Countdown

Explore the key findings of the 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown

By Marina Romanello, Claudia Di Napoli and Others 10/25/22
This year’s report finds that a persistent fossil fuel addiction is amplifying the health impacts of the concurrent crises we face...
The Washington Post

World falls ‘pitifully short’ of meeting climate goals, U.N. report says

By Sarah Kaplan 10/27/22
Despite a high-profile promise to boost ambitions at last year’s U.N. climate summit, nations have shaved just 1 percent off their projected greenhouse gas emissions for 2030, a new United Nations report found — leaving Earth on track to blow past a safe temperature threshold by almost a full degree...
NABCI 10/22/22
State of the Birds

State of the Birds 2022

10/22/22
The United States and Canada have lost 3 billion breeding birds since 1970—a loss of 1 in 4 birds, according to research published in Science in 2019. This steep decline in abundance can be reversed with new scales of conservation actions that benefit not only birds but also wildlife and…
Inside Climate News

What’s Good for Birds Is Good for People and the Planet. But More Than Half of Bird Species in the U.S. Are in Decline

By Katelyn Weisbrod 10/22/22
A new report identifies 70 bird species that are at a “tipping point,” meaning that their populations have declined so significantly that they could face endangerment or even extinction in the coming years...
WRI 10/19/22
World Resource Institute

The State of Nationally Determined Contributions: 2022

By Taryn Fransen, Christopher Henderson and Others 10/19/22
This report takes stock of countries’ latest NDCs and examines how these commitments have evolved since the Paris Agreement entered into force, identifying overall trends and pinpointing the elements where further action is needed. It finds that countries are making incremental progress on strengthening their NDCs, but what we really…
BLOOMBERG

Keeping Climate Change Under Control Requires Six Times More Ambition

By Laura Millan Lombrana 10/19/22
New promises by countries to reduce their carbon footprint will cut emissions by 7% from 2019 levels, falling short from the 43% reduction needed. The international community needs to be six times more ambitious than it has been in the past year if it wants to avoid catastrophic climate change…
REUTERS

‘Massive gaps’ seen in countries’ plans to tackle climate change -study

By Timothy Gardner 10/19/22
The latest pledges by countries to tackle global warming under the Paris Agreement are "woefully inadequate" to avert a rise in global temperatures that scientists say will worsen droughts, storms and floods, a report said...
IEA 10/19/22
IEA

Defying expectations, CO2 emissions from global fossil fuel combustion are set to grow in 2022 by only a fraction of last year’s big increase

10/19/22
Despite concerns about the effects of the current energy crisis, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion are expected to grow by just under 1% this year, only a small fraction of their increase last year, as a strong expansion of renewables and electric vehicles prevents a much…
Climate Wire

Boom in wind, solar blunts global rise in energy emissions

By Benjamin Storrow 10/20/22
Coal consumption has increased, but the emissions impact has been largely offset by record setting growth in renewables, IEA said. The agency found that the growth in renewables alone likely avoided 600 million tons in additional CO2 emissions, or slightly less than the 646 million tons of CO2 produced by…
The Hill

Carbon emission increases down steeply in 2022: analysis

By Zack Budryk 10/19/22
Carbon emissions rose at a significantly slower pace this year than the year before, due largely to increased deployment of renewable energy, according to an analysis by the International Energy Administration (IEA)...
protocol

Carbon dioxide emissions grew less than expected this year

By Michelle Ma 10/19/22
Somewhat good news for the planet: Global carbon dioxide emissions are set to grow less than 1% this year, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. The rise of renewable energy and electric vehicles are helping slowly bend the emissions curve, but there's still a lot of…
REUTERS

Global CO2 emissions to grow less than 1% this year thanks to renewables- IEA

By Nina Chestney 10/19/22
Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are expected to rise by just under 1% this year, as the expansion of renewables and electric vehicles outweighed coal demand, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said...
WWF 10/13/22
WWF

Living Planet Report 2022

By Rob Alkemade, Francisco Alpfzar and Others 10/13/22
The Living Planet Report 2022 is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. This flagship WWF publication reveals an average decline of 69% in species populations since 1970. While conservation efforts are helping, urgent action is required if we are to reverse nature…
The Crucial Years

A Fast-Emptying Ark

By Bill McKibben 10/14/22
A vast new study finds there are 70 percent fewer wild animals sharing the earth with us than there were in 1970. A vast new study finds there are 70 percent fewer wild animals sharing the earth with us than there were in 1970...
NPR

Animal populations shrank an average of 69% over the last half-century, a report says

By Joe Hernandez 10/14/22
Global animal populations are declining, and we've got limited time to try to fix it. That's the upshot of a new report from the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, which analyzed years of data on thousands of wildlife populations across the world and found a downward…
The Guardian

Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals

By Patrick Greenfield 10/13/22
Earth’s wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% in just under 50 years, according to a leading scientific assessment, as humans continue to clear forests, consume beyond the limits of the planet and pollute on an industrial scale.
Forbes

While Human Population Doubled, Wildlife Decreased By Almost 70%

By Eric Mack 10/13/22
On average, most wildlife species number less than a third what they did in 1970, during a period when we added over four billion humans to the planet. That’s the latest startling statistic from the Living Planet Report for 2022 from the World Wildlife Fund...
Our World in Data

Living Planet Index: what does an average decline of 69% really mean?

By Hannah Ritchie 10/13/22
The Living Planet Index is the biodiversity metric that always claims the headlines. Unfortunately many of these headlines are wrong. The index is very easy to misinterpret. The Living Planet Index reports an average decline of 69% across tens of thousands of wildlife populations since 1970. This does not tell…
ABC NEWS

Populations of monitored vertebrate species have declined 69% globally since the 1970s: WWF report

By Julia Jacobo 10/13/22
Drastic declines in animal species over the past several decades paints a grim picture for the future of healthy ecosystems, which in turn impact human health, according to a new report. Populations of monitored vertebrate species around the world, including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, have plunged a whopping…
The New York Times

Researchers Report a Staggering Decline in Wildlife. Here’s How to Understand It.

By Catrin Einhorn 10/12/22
It’s clear that wildlife is suffering mightily on our planet, but scientists don’t know exactly how much. A comprehensive figure is exceedingly hard to determine. Counting wild animals — on land and at sea, from gnats to whales — is no small feat. Most countries lack national monitoring systems...
IM 9/1/22
Influence Map

Big Oil’s Real Agenda on Climate Change 2022

09/01/22
Extensive analysis finds that the five supermajors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on a systematic strategy to portray themselves as positive and proactive on the climate change emergency. This is found to be inconsistent with the companies' plans for capital investment in their business. It is…
The Grist

Oil companies say they’re going green, but their investments tell another story

By Kate Yoder 09/09/22
Well over half of Big Oil’s advertisements promote the message that they have embraced clean energy and emissions reductions, and other such “green claims,” according to a new report from InfluenceMap, a think tank based in London. Researchers found that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and TotalEnergies spent an estimated $750…
EDIE

Report warns of ‘systematic misalignment’ between oil giants’ green advertising and spending plans

By Matt Mace 09/08/22
The new InfluenceMap study was published on Thursday (8 September) and outlines the green spending data on the world’s largest fossil fuel firms – namely BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies.
Renews.biz

Oil majors ‘over-publicise’ green investments

09/08/22
Oil and gas “supermajors” are collectively spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to promote their climate action efforts, compared with a tenth of investment in “low carbon” development, a new study has claimed.
Forbes

From BP to Shell: Energy majors exaggerate green performance while drilling deeper into oil, gas

By AFP 09/08/22
Paris, France: Energy majors are exaggerating their green credentials in public messaging while continuing to allocate the majority of new investment to oil and gas projects, according to an industry analysis released Thursday.
The Boston Globe

The word ‘greenwashing’ is now in the dictionary

By Dharna Noor 09/08/22
Words like “sustainable” and “eco-friendly” are everywhere — labels, ads, even oil companies’ environmental plans. Sometimes, those terms might refer to real action taken to protect the environment. But often, they’re eco-tinged marketing.
POLITICO Pro

Big Oil highlights climate, even as it keeps drilling

By Corbin Hiar 09/08/22
Public relations campaigns of the largest oil and gas companies are overwhelmingly focused on their climate efforts, even though the majority of their investments go toward producing fossil fuels, according to a new report.
Eco-Business

All talk? Oil majors big on green claims, slow on clean energy investments: study

By Robin Hicks 09/08/22
Oil and gas firms are positioning themselves as allies in the fight against climate change. But while 60 per cent of the communications of Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, TotalEnergies and BP are green claims, only 12 per cent of their investments are on renewables, a study finds.
The Guardian

Oil and gas firms’ green investments fail to match promise of publicity – study

By Damien Gayle 09/08/22
Big oil and gas companies are spending tens of millions publicising their environmental work, while only about a 10th of their investment goes into low-carbon development, a report claims.
CNN

Big oil companies are spending millions to appear ‘green.’ Their investments tell a different story, report shows

By Lauren Kent 09/08/22
Big oil companies are spending millions to portray themselves as taking action on climate change, but their investments and lobbying activities don’t live up to their planet-friendly claims, according to a new report.
Gizmodo

Oil Companies Want You to Buy Their New ‘Green’ Image

By Lauren Leffer 09/08/22
Five of the world’s biggest fossil fuel giants aren’t putting their money where their mouths are. Shell, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies are all spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to look better on climate change—while at the same time investing a relative pittance in their own company-identified,…
GEM 9/1/22
Global Energy Monitor

Crude Awakening: Oil industry pursuing massive build-out of new pipelines, led by projects in U.S., India, China, Russia

By Baird Langenbrunner 09/01/22
Buoyed by record profits, the oil industry is developing 24,166 km of new oil pipelines—enough to stretch nearly two-thirds around Earth— of which 10,351 km of which are already under construction, according to new data from Global Energy Monitor (GEM)...
The Guardian

Huge expansion of oil pipelines endangering climate, says report

By Damian Carrington 09/27/22
More than 24,000km of new oil pipelines are under development around the world, a distance equivalent to almost twice the Earth’s diameter, a report has revealed. The projects, led by the US, Russia, China and India, are “dramatically at odds with plans to limit global warming to 1.5C or 2C”,…
IEEFA 9/1/22
IEEFA

The carbon capture crux: Lessons learned

By Bruce Robertson and Milad Mousavian 09/01/22
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a 50-year-old technology with variable results in capturing and storing carbon dioxide. Project developers have almost always reused the captured carbon for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), producing oil and gas and more emissions...
The Crucial Years

What Planet Do I Live On?

By Bill McKibben 09/16/22
Rep. Ro Khanna’s energy subcommittee of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee released a tranche of documents from various Big Oil companies, designed in part to build support for a windfall profits tax on the huge sums that these firms have sucked in this year thanks to Vladimir Putin’s war.…
TRUTHOUT

Carbon Capture Won’t Work, But It Will Funnel Billions to Corporations

By Wenonah Hauter 07/31/22
Carbon capture is having a moment, and it’s not hard to see why: As Texas Monthly reports, “the worldwide carbon-capture market is expected to grow from about $2 billion this year to about $7 billion in 2028.”...
IOP 9/1/22
IOPSCIENCE

The American electric utility industry’s role in promoting climate denial, doubt, and delay

By Emily L Williams, Sydney A Bartone and Others 09/01/22
For decades, oil and gas companies have misled the public on climate science. Despite conducting their own research that showed climate change was real, these companies publicly sowed doubt about its existence and human cause (Oreskes and Conway 2010, Frumhoff et al 2015, Hall 2015, Supran and Oreskes 2017, Bonneuil…
The Atlantic

It Wasn’t Just Oil Companies Spreading Climate Denial

By Robinson Meyer 09/07/22
The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway. “If we had to stop producing CO₂, no coal, oil, or gas could be burned,” Carroll Wilson declared. The world would have to adopt nuclear energy en masse and perhaps even turn to…
NATURE 9/1/22
NATURE

Comprehensive Evidence Implies a Higher Social Cost of CO2

By Kevin Rennert, Frank Errickson and Others 09/01/22
The social cost of carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) measures the monetized value of the damages to society caused by an incremental metric tonne of CO2 emissions and is a key metric informing climate policy. Used by governments and other decision-makers in benefit-cost analysis for over a decade, SC-CO2 estimates draw on…
Yale Climate Connections

New study more than triples estimated costs of climate change damages

By Dana Nuccitelli 09/08/22
A peer-reviewed analysis by two dozen experts more than triples – from $51 per ton of carbon dioxide to $185 per ton – the federal government’s estimate of the “social cost of carbon” (SCC)...
AP

EXPLAINER: Can climate change be solved by pricing carbon?

By Matthew Brown 04/22/22
As climate change bakes the planet, dozens of nations and many local governments are putting a price tag on greenhouse gas emissions that are increasing flooding, droughts and other costly catastrophes...
NATURE 8/29/22
NATURE

Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise

By Jason E. Box, Alun Hubbard and Others 08/29/22
Ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet is one of the largest sources of contemporary sea-level rise (SLR). While process-based models place timescales on Greenland’s deglaciation, their confidence is obscured by model shortcomings including imprecise atmospheric and oceanic couplings. Here, we present a complementary approach resolving ice sheet disequilibrium with…
AP NEWS

Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches

By Seth Borenstein 08/30/22
Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches (27 centimeters) -- more than twice as much as previously forecast. That’s because of something that could be called zombie ice. That’s doomed ice that, while still attached to thicker areas of ice, is…
The Washington Post

Greenland ice sheet set to raise sea levels by nearly a foot, study finds

By Chris Mooney 08/29/22
Human-driven climate change has set in motion massive ice losses in Greenland that couldn’t be halted even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today. The findings in the journal Nature Climate Change project that it is now inevitable that 3.3 percent of the Greenland ice sheet will melt —…
USA TODAY

Inevitable: Melting Greenland ice sheet will send seas nearly a foot higher, study finds

By Dinah Voyles Pulver 08/29/22
Even if the entire world stopped burning fossil fuels today, a new study finds the Greenland ice sheet would still lose enough ice to add nearly a foot to rising sea levels. Melting over the past century has altered the ice sheet's equilibrium, according to the study led by two…
The New York Times

New Research Forecasts More Dire Sea Level Rise as Greenland’s Ice Melts

By Elena Shao 08/29/22
The melting of the Greenland ice sheet could eventually raise global sea levels by at least 10 inches even if humans immediately stop burning the fossil fuels that are warming the planet to dangerous levels, according to a new study published...
NATURE 8/23/22
NATURE

To create serious movement on climate change, we must dispel the myth of indifference

By Cynthia McPherson Frantz 08/23/22
Seventy eight percent of Americans—including 66% of Republicans—are concerned about climate change, a number that has increased dramatically in the last 3 years. Climate models and recent anomalous weather events such as a “once in a millennium” heat dome in the Northwest and unprecedented wildfires in California make clear that…
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Climate Change Actions Are Far More Popular Than People in U.S. Realize

By Robin Lloyd 08/23/22
A multibillion-dollar slate of moderate climate-mitigation measures in the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act has been met so far with general public approval. But a broader reaction to the historic federal action underlies the discourse: What took you so long...
NATURE 8/10/22
NATURE

Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change

By Chris R. Stokes, Nerilie J. Abram and Others 08/10/22
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth’s glacier ice (about 52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming than the West Antarctic or Greenland ice sheets. However, some regions of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have lost mass over recent decades,…
REUTERS

Satellite imagery shows Antarctic ice shelf crumbling faster than thought

By Steve Gorman 08/11/22
Antarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world's largest ice sheet over the past 25 years...
INDEPENDENT

New warning that collapse of Antarctica ‘sleeping giant’ could raise sea level more than 16ft

By Louise Boyle 08/10/22
The collapse of Antarctica’s “sleeping giant” could cause planetary-scale change in the coming centuries, according to a new warning from scientists. If the climate crisis continues on its current trajectory, then melting of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) alone could contribute around 3-10 feet (1-3metres) of sea-level rise by…
THE CONVERSATION

The world’s biggest ice sheet is more vulnerable to global warming than scientists previously thought

By Chris Stokes and Guy Paxman 08/10/22
The eastern two thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so large that if it melted the sea would rise by 52 metres. Most scientists had once thought this ice sheet was largely invulnerable to climate change, but not any more. And our new research, published in Nature,…
NAE 8/1/22
NAE

Loving the Least of These: Addressing a Changing Environment

By Dorothy Boorse 08/01/22
Evangelicals look to the Bible for guidance in all areas of life. What can the Bible say to us in this world where pollution, heat waves, floods and droughts are frequent? The Bible does not tell us anything directly about how to evaluate scientific reports or how to respond to…
THE HILL

Major evangelical organization says Christianity demands climate action

By Zack Budryk 08/30/22
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) called climate action a Christian responsibility in a 50-page report this week, a call to action for a demographic far less likely than the general population to consider climate change a threat. The NAE’s report, “Loving the Least of These,” addresses the scientific evidence…
RHG 7/14/22
Rhodium Group

Taking Stock 2022: US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Outlook in an Uncertain World

By Ben King, Hannah Kolus and Others 07/14/22
For the past eight years, Rhodium Group has provided an independent annual assessment of US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and progress towards achieving the country’s climate goals in our Taking Stock report series. Each year, we research trends in the key drivers of US GHG emissions—including technology cost and performance…
The Washington Post

Climate goals face major headwinds, two reports say

By Maxine Joselow 07/14/22
More than 70 countries have committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, while President Biden has vowed to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030...
IHS 7/1/22
IHS Markit

The Future of Copper: Will the looming supply gap short-circuit the energy transition?

07/01/22
Copper -- the "metal of electrification" -- is essential to the energy transition. But could a looming mismatch between available copper supply and future copper demand present challenges to the achievement of Net Zero Emissions by 2050 goals? The new S&P Global study, The Future of Copper: Will the looming…
The Washington Post

Climate goals face major headwinds, two reports say

By Maxine Joselow 07/14/22
More than 70 countries have committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, while President Biden has vowed to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030...
ACS 6/28/22
ACS Publications

Home is Where the Pipeline Ends: Characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds Present in Natural Gas at the Point of the Residential End User

By Drew R. Michanowicz, Archana Dayalu and Others 06/28/22
U.S. oil and natural gas (O&NG) production has grown substantially since 1990 and now makes up over 69% of the total U.S. energy consumption. Natural gas (NG) has become the dominant energy source for nearly all-consuming sectors in the U.S., including industrial (41%), commercial (38%), residential (42%), and electrical power…
The Hill

Natural gas used in homes may contain hazardous air pollutants: study

By Sharon Udasin 06/28/22
Natural gas used for powering household stoves, furnaces and water may contain levels of cancer-linked compounds that are toxic to residents when leaked, a new study has found...
The New York Times

Gas Piped Into Homes Contains Benzene and Other Risky Chemicals, Study Finds

By Elena Shao 06/28/22
The natural gas delivered to homes contains low concentrations of several chemicals linked to cancer, a new study found. Researchers also found inconsistent levels of odorants — substances that give natural gas its characteristic “rotten egg” smell — which could increase the risk of small leaks going undetected...
FEMA 6/9/22
FEMA

Building Alliances

06/09/22
Alliances built at Resilient Nation Partnership Network (RNPN) among partners help drive action at the national, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels. These collaborations work toward improving equity and resilience...
NASA

NASA, FEMA Release Comprehensive Climate Action Guide

07/09/22
NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have released a guide that provides resources for adapting to and mitigating impacts of climate change. The guide, Building Alliances for Climate Action, includes various perspectives, stories, insights, and resources about climate change to help individuals and organizations make informed decisions.
ISD 6/9/22
ISD

Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at COP26 & Beyond – Summary

By Jennie King, Lukasz Janulewicz and Francesca Arcostanzo 06/09/22
In this executive summary we outline the most prominent discourses identified before, during and after COP26. These narratives show how the climate conversation has moved from outright climate denialism to delayism and distraction from acting. As these narratives infiltrate general discourse, stances on climate actions are entrenching into broader individual…
Common Dreams

‘Deny, Deceive, Delay’: How ‘Evolving’ Disinformation Tactics Stymie Climate Action

By Jessica Corbett 06/09/22
Pushing for policies requiring Big Tech "to be transparent and accountable about the harms their products create," one campaigner said that "we should not continue this endless game of climate denial whack-a-mole."
Newsweek

How Facebook, Twitter Let Climate Fall Into Culture Wars: Study

By Giulia Carbonaro 06/09/22
Climate disinformation has crowded out the facts on social media over the past 18 months, outperforming science-based content even when it is promoted by the platforms, a new report has found...
The Guardian

Climate policy dragged into culture wars as a ‘delay’ tactic, finds study

By Matthew Taylor 06/09/22
Climate policy is being dragged into the culture wars with misinformation and junk science being spread across the internet by a relatively small group of individuals and groups, according to a study...
Protocol

One big step social media platforms can take to stop disinformation

By Brian Kahn 06/09/22
Tech companies have failed the climate misinformation test. So far, moderation efforts haven’t managed to stamp out everything from baseless denial to more subtle forms of misinformation that nevertheless have contributed to climate action gridlock...
EVERGREEN 6/1/22
EVERGREEN ACTION

How President Biden Can Align the Federal Fossil Fuel Program to Deliver on Climate and Put People Over Profits

By Mattea Mrkusic, Lena Moffitt and Others 06/01/22
This report will focus on one of the dirtiest uses of America’s federal public lands and waters: fossil fuel development. The U.S. federal government sells leases to private companies which allow them to extract oil, gas, and coal in vast quantities from America’s public lands and waters. By doing so,…
Forbes

The Wrong People Are Making Our Energy Decisions

By David Blackmon 06/16/22
This has been a week when a rift seemed to develop among global political leaders regarding the “incredible” energy transition agenda. It’s a rift that once again shows us that political elites who don’t have to suffer the consequences of their own policy actions are the wrong class of people…
EARTH JUSTICE

Now Is Biden’s Chance to Address the Source of Nearly 1/4 of All U.S. Carbon Emissions

By Earthjustice and Evergreen Action 06/15/22
President Biden can use his legal authority to transition the U.S. away from oil, gas, and coal by aligning the federal leasing program with his climate and environmental justice commitments...
The Washington Post

Fossil fuel leasing program undercuts Biden’s climate goals, report says

By Maxine Joselow 06/15/22
The federal fossil fuel leasing program is at odds with President Biden's commitments to tackling climate change and environmental injustices, according to a report shared exclusively with The Climate 202 before its public release...
DELOITTE 5/1/22
Deloitte

The Turning Point

By Pradeep Philip, Claire Ibrahim and Cedric Hodges 05/01/22
The passage of time frames history—but it is the choices we make that define progress, and our humanity. Turning points can be purposeful—or imposed on us through either inertia or external forces beyond our control. Time and again, our actions, as one humanity, have demonstrated that we can solve the…
GEOSPATIAL WORLD

Global Warming Could Cost the Global Economy $178 Trillion by 2070: Report by Deloitte

By Nibedita Mohanta 05/27/22
If left unchecked- climate change could cost the global economy USD178 trillion over the next 50 years, or a 7.6% cut to global gross domestic product (GDP) in the year 2070 alone. If global warming reaches around 3°C toward the century’s end, the toll on human lives could be significant—disproportionately…
WSJ

Path to Economic Disaster: Climate Inaction Could Cost $178 Trillion By 2070

By Deloitte 05/25/22
Economic modeling shows unchecked climate change could ravage every region of the global economy; decarbonizing by midcentury would net $43 trillion over 50 years. Insufficient action on climate change could cost the global economy $178 trillion over the next 50 years, a 7.6% cut to global gross domestic product (GDP)…
BUSINESS INSIDER

Deloitte lays out 4 steps to keep the climate crisis from tanking the global economy over the next 50 years

By Ben Winck 05/24/22
Letting climate change go unchecked could decimate the global economy by 2070. A new report by Deloitte lays out the four steps that governments, corporations, and citizens need to take if they're to avoid such catastrophe. The world has plenty of economic problems on its plate, what with inflation, Russia's…
WNN

Climate inaction could cost world USD178 trillion: Deloitte

By World Nuclear News 05/24/22
The Global Turning Point Report from the recently established Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress (DCSP) was released during the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, which is taking place in Davos, Switzerland from 22-26 May. Based on research conducted by the Deloitte Economics Institute, the report analyses 15 geographies in Asia…
Market Watch

Unchecked climate change will cost the global economy $178 trillion: Deloitte

By Rachel Koning Beals 05/23/22
But a systemic net-zero transition could create five-decade gains of $43 trillion — a boost to global GDP of 3.8% in 2070 alone, says report issued for the World Economic Forum in Davos. Inaction on climate change will cost the global economy $178 trillion over the next 50 years, enough…
environmentalleader.com

Deloitte: Inaction on Climate Change Could Cost World Economy $178 Trillion by 2070

By Emily Holbrook 05/23/22
A new report from the Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress (DCSP) released during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting indicates that—if left unchecked—climate change could cost the global economy $178 trillion over the next 50 years, or a 7.6% cut to global gross domestic product (GDP) in the year 2070…
GreentechLead

Inaction on climate change could cost economy $178 trillion: Deloitte

By Deloitte 05/23/22
Inaction on climate change could cost the economy $178 trillion over the next 50 years, or a 7.6 percent cut to gross domestic product (GDP) in 2070, a research report from Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress (DCSP) said...
REUTERS

The Turning Point on Climate Change: The New Asia Pacific Economic Engine

By Deloitte 05/01/22
Scientists agree that unless society makes changes, unchecked climate change will devastate the environment. The economic impact will be significant too, as countries across the globe face a growing threat. For years climate change was an intangible idea. Sure, hurricanes, drought, and floods were on the rise, but many people…
SCIENCE 4/28/22
Science

Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming

By Justin L. Penn and Curtis Deutsch 04/28/22
Climate change brings with it the increasing risk of extinction across species and systems. Marine species face particular risks related to water warming and oxygen depletion. Penn and Deutsch looked at extinction risk for marine species across climate warming and as related to ecophysiological limits (see the Perspective by Pinsky…
National Geographic

Mass extinction in oceans can be avoided by curbing fossil fuels

By Craig Welch 04/28/22
Near the end of the Permian Period, roughly 252 million years ago, a single supercontinent dominated the planet. The ocean around it was traversed by bony fish covered in armored plates and sea scorpions the size of modern humans. Segmented arthropods such as trilobites ruled the deep, along with all…
Inside Climate News

The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years

By Bob Berwyn 04/28/22
A new study suggests that warming, oxygen-starved seas could lead marine species to vanish at a rate matching the planet’s biggest extinction event on record. If greenhouse gas pollution remains unchecked, global warming could trigger the most catastrophic extinction of ocean species since the end of the Permian age, about…
USA Today

Climate change could cause mass extinction of marine life in Earth’s oceans, study says

By Doyle Rice 04/28/22
Unless climate change is curbed, Earth's oceans could see a mass extinction of marine life unlike anything the planet has seen for millions of years. "If carbon dioxide emissions accelerate unchecked over the next century, this would lead to extreme warming, driving extinctions in the ocean rivaling the mass extinctions…
The New York Times

Warning on Mass Extinction of Sea Life: ‘An Oh My God Moment’

By Catrin Einhorn 04/28/22
At first, the scientists chose a straightforward title for their research: “Marine Extinction Risk From Climate Warming.” But as publication approached, something nagged at them. Their findings illustrated two drastically different outcomes for ocean life over the next three centuries depending on whether greenhouse gas emissions were sharply curbed or…
The Washington Post

Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds

By Sarah Kaplan 04/28/22
Not since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs — along with at least half of all other beings on Earth — has life in the ocean been so at risk. Warming waters are cooking creatures in their own habitats. Many species are slowly suffocating as oxygen leaches out of the…
NATURE 4/28/22
NATURE

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk

By Colin J. Carlson, Gregory F. Albery and Others 04/28/22
At least 10,000 virus species have the capacity to infect humans, but at present, the vast majority are circulating silently in wild mammals. However, climate and land use change will produce novel opportunities for viral sharing among previously geographically-isolated species of wildlife...
AP News

Increased infectious disease risk likely from climate change

By Drew Costley 04/28/22
Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that’s likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according to a new study. This is especially true for Africa and Asia, continents that have been hotspots…
The Hill

Climate change could spark next pandemic, study finds

By Sharon Udasin 04/28/22
As the global climate continues to warm, wild animals may be forced to relocate to areas with large human populations — increasing the likelihood of a “viral jump” that could cause the next pandemic, a new study has found. Different mammals will encounter one another for the first time during…
The New York Times

Climate change will accelerate viral spillovers, study finds

By Carl Zimmer 04/28/22
Over the next 50 years, climate change will drive thousands of viruses to jump from one species of mammal to another, according to a study published in Nature on Thursday. The shuffling of viruses among animals may increase the risk that one will jump into humans and cause a new…
ALA 4/21/22
ALA

What’s the State of YOUR Air

04/04/22
For 23 years, the American Lung Association has analyzed data from official air quality monitors to compile the State of the Air report. The more you learn about the air you breathe, the more you can protect your health and take steps to make the air cleaner and healthier.
ABC7

LA ranks No. 1 in ozone pollution, new report finds

By Jaysha Patel 04/22/22
1 in ozone pollution, new report finds. The report conducted by the American Lung Association found that the greater Los Angeles area had the worst ozone pollution out of more than 200 areas
WABI5

American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” reports on Maine’s air quality

By WABI News Desk 04/22/22
This year’s “State of the Air” report, released by the American Lung Association, finds Maine still has some of the cleanest air in the country. However, some areas saw mixed progress for some of the most harmful and widespread types of air pollution. Cumberland, Hancock, Knox, and Washington counties all…
ABC7

Chicago gets failing grade for ozone air pollution from American Lung Association

By Stacey Baca 04/22/22
A new report from the American Lung Association gives the Chicago area a failing grade when it comes to some types of air pollution. Officials from the organization said the city ranks in their top 25 most polluted cities.
Gothamist

American Lung Association: NYC’s air quality is improving, but still gets a failing grade

By Rosemary Misdary 04/21/22
More than 22.5 million people are breathing bad air across New York City, Newark and its surrounding areas – and just over half are people of color. These conclusions come from the 23rd annual State of the Air report released Thursday morning by the American Lung Association. It assesses human…
The Hill

137 million in US live with unhealthy levels of air pollution: American Lung Association

By Sharon Udasin 04/21/22
More than 40 percent of the U.S. population — or 137 million people — are living in areas with unhealthy levels of particle pollution or ozone, according to the American Lung Association’s newest “State of the Air” report card.
NPR

More than 137 million Americans live in areas with poor air quality, report finds

By Dustin Jones 04/21/22
Despite decades of environmental efforts, over 40% of Americans — more than 137 million people — live in cities and states with poor air quality, a new report says. And, in addition to cars and factories, wildfires are increasingly contributing to unhealthy air.
NLC 4/21/22
NLC

What Cities Should Know About Climate Change and Populations on the Move

By Anna Marandi and Kelly Leilani 04/21/22
Americans have historically been some of the most mobile people in the world, continually seeking better housing and job opportunities. However, in recent years, mobility — particularly among young Americans — has slowed, due largely to dramatic increases in housing prices and housing-related debt among American families since the Great…
NLC

The Next American Migration: What Cities Should Know About Climate Change and Populations on the Move

04/21/22
Climate change is no longer just a problem for future generations – it is here now, with storms, wildfires, droughts and extreme temperatures becoming more prevalent in our cities, towns and villages. As these impacts intensify, more Americans are being forced out of their homes or are voluntarily relocating in…
RF 4/20/22
Reclaim Finance

The Asset Managers Fueling Climate Chaos

By Lara Cuvelier 04/20/22
We surveyed 30 major asset managers, mostly headquartered in Europe (25) and in the US (5) and among the biggest institutions worldwide in terms of assets under management. We analyzed their investment practices regarding climate change, focusing on the fossil fuel sector as the priority sector to tackle. The first…
CNBC

Giant global asset managers have $82 billion in coal projects, $468 billion in oil and gas

By Catherine Clifford 04/20/22
Reclaim Finance found that collectively 30 asset managers have $82 billion in companies developing new coal projects and $468 billion in 12 major oil and gas companies. In a ranking of the asset managers, six received the worst possible score — zero out of 30. Because of its size and…
NATURE 4/19/22
NATURE

Methane emissions from US low production oil and natural gas well sites

By Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala-Araiza and Others 04/19/22
Mitigation of methane (CH4) emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas with >80× the 20-year warming potential of carbon dioxide is widely recognized as strategically integral to the attainment of the climate-neutrality goals of Paris Agreement. In the United States, official estimates from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicate nearly one-third…
REUTERS

Low-producing U.S. oil wells account for half of methane emissions, report says

By Valerie Volcovici 04/21/22
Low-producing oil and gas wells that account for just 6% of total U.S. production account for half of the methane emitted from all U.S. well sites. The study, published in Nature Communications, is the first to take a comprehensive look at the over 560,000 active "marginal" oil and gas wells…
E&E NEWS

Study: Low-producing oil wells cause 50% of methane emissions

By Carlos Anchondo 04/21/22
Low-producing oil and gas wells are to blame for roughly half of the methane emitted from all U.S. well sites, despite making up 6 percent of the country’s total production, according to new research published this week. The study, published in Nature Communications, is the first comprehensive look at low-production…
NATURE 4/12/22
NATURE

Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change

By Kevin A. Reed, Michael F. Wehner and Colin M. Zarzycki 04/12/22
Hurricanes are among the most costly and deadly geophysical extremes on Earth. Hurricane damage is caused by extreme wind speeds and flooding due to storm surge and heavy amounts of rainfall over relatively short periods of times. The recent 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season was a clear example of the…
The New York Times

Most Active Hurricane Season Was Also Wetter Because of Climate Change

By Maggie Astor 04/12/22
Climate change contributed significantly to the severity of the ferocious 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, increasing both rainfall rates and rainfall totals, according to a study published on Tuesday. The most extreme three-hour rainfall rates were 10 percent higher than they would have been without climate change, and the most extreme…
CNN

The climate crisis is supercharging rainfall in hurricanes, scientists report

By Rachel Ramirez 04/12/22
The rainfall from hurricanes during the deadly, record-breaking 2020 season was as much as 11% higher because of the human-caused climate crisis, scientists reported Tuesday. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found global warming supercharged hourly rainfall rates in tropical storms and hurricanes by 5 to 10%. When…
The Washington Post

Climate change fueled historic 2020 hurricane season’s rainfall, study shows

By Kasha Patel 04/12/22
Over the course of six months, hurricane activity in 2020 churned as never observed before in the Atlantic. The season marked the most named storms on record and the most storms to make landfall in the continental United States, and it chalked up more than $40 billion dollars in damage.…
IPCC 4/4/22
IPCC

Global Warming of 1.5 ºC

04/04/22
An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty...
Time

We Have the Technology to Solve Climate Change. What We Need Is Political Will

By Alejandro de la Garza 04/07/22
Decades ago, the state of California tried to strike a major blow against climate change, and failed. The state passed an ambitious rule in 1990 mandating car companies slowly begin replacing their offerings with electric vehicles (EVs). But in 2002, the state backed off the policy.
Forbes

Climate Critical: 5 Big Takeaways From The IPCC Mitigation Report, According To Experts

By David Vetter 04/05/22
The world is running out of time to prevent runaway climate collapse, but greenhouse gas emissions can still be halved by 2030 if nations dramatically improve energy efficiency, protect nature and continue to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy, experts representing 195 countries have agreed.
PBS News Hour

UN climate report warns governments are falling short on lowering planet’s temperature

04/05/22
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid out its latest report Monday stressing the critical need to implement dramatic cuts in greenhouse gasses to head off the worst impacts of climate change. Dave Roberts writes a newsletter and hosts a podcast called “Volts,” which covers clean energy and…
nbcnews.com

U.N. report outlines possible solutions for climate change and its societal impact

By Evan Bush 04/05/22
From wildfires to sea level rise and heat waves, climate change is having a dramatic impact on the environment and people’s health and well-being. So what can the world do about it? That’s the focus of the third and final report — released Monday — from a recent cycle of…
Carbon Brief

In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how to tackle climate change

04/05/22
Instead, emissions have continued to rise – albeit at a slowing rate – and it will be “impossible” to stay below 1.5C with “no or limited overshoot” without stronger climate action this decade, says the new document, which forms part of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report (AR6).
AP NEWS

UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’

By Frank Jordans and Seth Borenstein 04/05/22
Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress.
The Washington Post

The world is running out of options to hit climate goals, U.N. report shows

By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis 04/04/22
With the world on track to blaze past its climate goals, only immediate, sweeping societal transformation can stave off catastrophic warming. The world is on track to blaze past a crucial climate target within eight years, some of the planet’s top researchers, economists and social scientists said in a sober…
BBC NEWS

Climate change: Scientists race to finish key IPCC report

By Matt McGrath 04/04/22
UN scientists have worked through the weekend to complete a key report on how to restrict the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are likely to advise a rapid shift from fossil fuels over the next 8 years. They will also…
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Renewables Are Key to Cutting Emissions Over Next Decade, U.N. Panel Says

By Nidhi Subbaraman 04/04/22
Countries must make major, rapid shifts away from fossil fuels and to renewable energy to meet the goals in the 2015 Paris agreement, climate experts tapped by the United Nations said in a report...
USA TODAY

‘It’s now or never’: UN climate report shows globe is on ‘track toward an unlivable world’

By Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver 04/04/22
The time for talk has passed and the time to act is now, according to a new United Nations report on how to curb the worst consequences of climate change. Rapid mitigation measures – reductions in fossil fuels and better building practices – are needed to avoid unsustainable global warming,…
The Crucial Years

IPCC talks go down to the wire

By Bill McKibben 04/04/22
Burning coal, gas and oil have put us in this existential bind, and we now have the wit and technology to use sun and wind instead. But there are, obviously, nations (and companies larger than nations) who can’t imagine a world where you didn’t dig stuff up and set it…
IPCC

The evidence is clear: the time for action is now. We can halve emissions by 2030

04/04/22
In 2010-2019 average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history, but the rate of growth has slowed. Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach. However, there is increasing evidence of climate action, said scientists…
POPULAR SCIENCE

Climate action is a ‘now or never’ situation, IPCC warns

By Sara Kiley Watson 04/04/22
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third chapter of the Sixth Assessment Report covering climate mitigation. And its findings are grim. United Nations secretary general António Guterres called it a “litany of broken climate promises” and a “file of shame cataloging the empty pledges that put us…
PBS

We have the tools to save the planet from climate change. Politics is getting in the way, new IPCC report says

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas 04/04/22
We have the knowledge, money, technology and affordable clean energy that we need to cut our carbon emissions in half by 2030. That’s the good news from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group III report. What’s standing in the way is lack of political will and sufficient funding…
E&E NEWS

IPCC: For climate goals, it’s ‘now or never’

By Chelsea Harvey 04/04/22
For decades, the key to halting climate change has been clear: The world must reduce net greenhouse gas emissions down to zero. Now, a comprehensive new U.N. climate report summarizes years of studies from climate scientists, social scientists, economists, energy experts, policy specialists and others on how to make that…
THE HILL

UN calls for ‘substantial reduction’ in fossil fuels to limit climate change

By Rachel Frazin 04/04/22
The United Nations’ climate change panel is calling for a “substantial reduction” in the global use of fossil fuels in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Warning there is limited time to act, the latest report from the panel says that by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions need…
GRIST

‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future

By Lina Tran and Joseph Winters 04/04/22
Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within the next three years, and in the next eight,…
Yale Environment 360

New UN Climate Report Outlines Failure of Existing Policies, Need for Rapid Emissions Cuts

04/04/22
The world must make immediate and drastic cuts to carbon emissions to keep warming to under 1.5 degrees C, according to a new report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Existing policies and economic growth would allow warming to reach 3.2 degrees C, or nearly 6 degrees…
GIZMODO

‘It’s Now Or Never’: We Have 3 Years to Reverse Course, Major Climate Report Finds

By Molly Taft 04/04/22
In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to make a serious U-turn over the next three years to curb our emissions, a stark new report finds. It’s possible to do so, concludes the report, released Monday from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—but only…
The Boston Globe

‘A file of shame’: Major UN climate report shows world is on track for catastrophic levels of warming

By Dharna Noor 04/04/22
The world is on track to usher in a devastating level of global warming, warns a major report from the world’s leading climate scientists. “It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unlivable world,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said…
ALA 2022
American Lung Association

Zeroing in on Healthy Air

03/30/22
Zeroing in on Healthy Air finds that a widespread transition to zero-emission cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles, coupled with non-combustion, renewable energy resources would yield tremendous air quality, public health and climate benefits across the United States. To illustrate the potential benefits, a transition to 100 percent sales of…
Bloomberg Law

EV Shift Would Spur Trillions in Health Benefits, Report Says

By Jennifer Hijazi 03/30/22
Widespread transition to zero-emission vehicles would yield more than $1 trillion in public health benefits, according to research from the American Lung Association. A nationwide switch to electric cars and other vehicles would save 110,000 lives and 13 million workdays over the next thirty years—the equivalent of $1.2 trillion in…
Yahoo News

Report: Switch to electric vehicles will save lives, money

By Shawne Wickham 03/30/22
The transition to electric vehicles and clean electricity production could generate an estimated $3.9 billion in public health benefits — and prevent 356 premature deaths — in New Hampshire by 2050, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.
Grist

Switching to zero-emission cars and trucks could save more than 100,000 lives over the next three decades

By Julia Kane 03/30/22
More than 100,000 lives could be saved over the next 30 years if the United States switches to zero-emission vehicles powered by a zero-emission grid, according to a new report by the American Lung Association. Not just lives would be saved. The report also estimates that more than $1.2 trillion…
Forbes

Switching To Electric Vehicles Could Save More Than 100,000 Lives, Study Finds

By Jamie Hailstone 03/30/22
Moving to zero-emission vehicles and energy could help prevent up to 110,000 deaths in the United States, according to a new report. The Zeroing in on Healthy Air report by the American Lung Foundation claims a nationwide transition to clean transport and energy could also generate $1.2 trillion in public…
The Guardian

US transition to electric vehicles would save over 100,000 lives by 2050 – study

By Nina Lakhani 03/30/22
A speedy nationwide transition to electric vehicles powered by renewable energy would save more than 100,000 American lives and $1.2tn in public health costs over the next three decades, according to a new report. Analysis by the American Lung Association highlights the public health damage caused by the world’s dependence…
IEA 3/1/22
IEA

Global Energy Review: CO2 Emissions in 2021

03/01/22
The global CO2 emissions and energy demand numbers are based on the IEA’s detailed region-by-region and fuel-by-fuel analysis, drawing on the latest official national data and publicly available energy, economic and weather data. Combined with the methane emissions estimates published by the IEA and estimates of nitrous oxide and flaring…
AXIOS

Carbon dioxide emissions hit record high last year

By Andrew Freedman 03/09/22
The world's energy-related CO2 emissions reached an all-time high in 2021, according to new data released by the International Energy Agency. The emissions rebound after the COVID-related economic downturn is another sign that the global economic recovery has not been a "green" or sustainable one.
CNBC

Coal helped drive energy-related CO2 emissions to a record high last year, research says

By Anmar Frangoul 03/09/22
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose to their highest level in history last year, according to the International Energy Agency, as economies rebounded from the coronavirus pandemic with a heavy reliance on coal. The IEA found energy-related global CO2 emissions increased by 6% in 2021 to reach a record high of 36.3…
USA Today

Global carbon dioxide emissions reach highest level in history

By Doyle Rice 03/08/22
Emissions of carbon dioxide rose by 6% in 2021 to 36.3 billion metric tons. COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 caused a massive plunge in fossil fuel use. Coal accounted for over 40% of the overall growth in global CO2 emissions in 2021.
Reuters

Global energy-related CO2 emissions rose to record high in 2021-IEA

By Susanna Twidale and Nina Chestney 03/08/22
Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide rose to their highest ever level last year as economies recovered from the coronavirus pandemic and coal use increased, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. Global emissions from energy rose 6% in 2021 to a record 36.3 billion tonnes, IEA analysis showed. "The world…
IPCC 2/27/22
Volts

Podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC’s new climate-solutions report

By David Roberts 04/13/22
Anyone who’s followed climate change for a while has become accustomed to the cycle of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the dire warnings, the brief flurry of press coverage, and the rapid return to normal. It’s easy for them to blur together.
The Conversation

Revolutionary changes in transportation could slow global warming

By Alan Jenn 04/04/22
Around the world, revolutionary changes are under way in transportation. More electric vehicles are on the road, people are taking advantage of sharing mobility services such as Uber and Lyft, and the rise in telework during the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way people think about commuting.
Forbes

Emissions must peak in 3 years to avoid worst climate change impacts

By Nicholas Reimann 04/04/22
The United Nations called on governments Monday to drastically reduce fossil fuel emissions and ramp up investment in renewable energy in what it framed as a last-ditch plan to stave off the most extreme effects of climate change, warning that a goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius…
Volts

Podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC’s new climate-solutions report

By David Roberts 04/13/22
Anyone who’s followed climate change for a while has become accustomed to the cycle of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the dire warnings, the brief flurry of press coverage, and the rapid return to normal. It’s easy for them to blur together.
The Washington Post

In the race to slow warming, the chorus for cutting methane grows louder

By Brady Dennis 04/08/22
According to the IPCC, methane emissions linked to energy supply, particularly “fugitive” emissions that escape from the production and transport of fossil fuels, accounted for as much as 8 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas pollution in 2019.
The Nature Conservancy

The Latest IPCC Report: What is it and why does it matter?

04/04/22
The IPCC has released a new climate report, building on the findings of a previous report released in February. But what exactly is the IPCC? What do these reports mean, and how are they different from previous reports? Is our situation as grim as some of the news headlines make…
TIME

The new IPCC report was delayed as scientists debated carbon capture

By Ciara Nugent 04/04/22
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the worst of climate change would be relatively cheap and technologically feasible, but governments and financial bodies are failing to do so as they continue to prop up the fossil fuel industry. That’s the conclusion of a landmark report published Monday by the United…
National Geographic

‘It’s now or never’: UN climate report’s 4 urgent takeaways

By Kieran Mulvaney 04/04/22
To limit warming to manageable levels, the world has only a few years to stop using fossil fuels completely.
Los Angeles Times

Editorial: U.N. finally calls out misinformation blocking climate action

By the Times Editorial Board 03/07/22
A landmark U.N. climate report on the escalating effects of global warming broke new ground by finally highlighting the role of misinformation in obstructing climate action. It was the first time one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s exhaustive assessments has called out the ways in which fossil fuel…
The Washington Post

Postcards from Earth’s climate futures

By Aaron Steckelberg and others 02/28/22
Our world is undergoing a radical transformation. This is the unmistakable message of the latest report on Monday from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels, are warming the planet and altering the environment at a pace unmatched in…
The Independent

IPCC report: 10 key findings from major global climate assessment

By Louise Boyle and Harry Cockburn 02/28/22
The world’s leading authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has published the second chapter of its most sweeping assessment in seven years. The report describes how the climate crisis is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet, and calls for…
PBS News Hour

How climate change is hurting living things on Earth right now, according to a new report

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas 02/28/22
Rising temperatures around the globe are increasingly killing humans and trees, have forced half of all species on the planet to relocate, caused more water-borne and respiratory illnesses in people and threatened food and water security for millions, says a major new climate report released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel…
NBC NEWS

Global health has improved for decades. Climate change could change that.

By Evan Bush 02/28/22
As temperatures warm, the health risks of climate change are expected to intensify in the U.S. and worldwide. The effects of climate change have already left millions of people hungry, caused deaths during heat waves and strained some people’s mental health as they are forced to leave their homes because…
The Hill

New UN report warns of deadly climate change consequences

By Rachel Frazin 02/28/22
A new report from a United Nations climate panel is warning of the deadly effects of climate change both now and in the future — and finding that they are currently worse than scientists had believed they would be.
USA Today

UN panel’s grim climate change report: ‘Parts of the planet will become uninhabitable’

By Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice 02/28/22
Life in some locations on the planet is rapidly reaching the point where it will be too hot for the species that live there to survive, international climate experts said in a report Monday.
The New York Times

Climate Change Is Harming the Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt, U.N. Warns

By Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong 02/28/22
The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly reduced, according to a major new scientific report released on Monday.
The Boston Globe

The effects of climate change are worse than we thought, an unflinching new UN report finds

By Dharna Noor 02/28/22
Climate change is changing our world more quickly than anticipated, and its effects are even more widespread and horrific than previously thought, according to an urgent new report from the world’s top climate scientists.
NPR

Climate change is killing people, but there’s still time to reverse the damage

By Rebecca Hersher 02/28/22
Billions of people on every continent are suffering because of climate change, according to a major new United Nations report released on Monday. And governments must do a better job of protecting the most vulnerable communities while also rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
AP News

UN climate report: ‘Atlas of human suffering’ worse, bigger

By Seth Borenstein 02/28/22
Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, a new United Nations science report says.
The Washington Post

Humanity has a ‘brief and rapidly closing window’ to avoid a hotter, deadly future, U.N. climate report says

By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis 02/28/22
In the hotter and more hellish world humans are creating, parts of the planet could become unbearable in the not-so-distant future, a panel of the world’s foremost scientists warned Monday in an exhaustive report on the escalating toll of climate change.
Carbon Brief

In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world

By Aruna Chandrasekhar, Daisy Dunne and Others 02/28/22
The threat that climate change poses to human well-being and the health of the planet is “unequivocal”, says the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
WWF

WWF Statement on UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report

02/28/22
The IPCC’s report on the impacts of climate change paints a dire picture. We have now reached 1.1° C of warming, and we’re already seeing enormous harm and damage to our cities, economy, human health, food and water security, and natural ecosystems. Climate impacts, like extreme weather events, sea-level rise,…
IPCC

Video message by UN Secretary General at the WGII AR6 press conference

02/28/22
The IPCC provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation...
ENERGY 2/24/22
energy.gov

Securing America’s Clean Energy Supply Chain

02/24/22
In February 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition”—the first comprehensive U.S. government plan to build an Energy Sector Industrial Base. The strategy examines technologies and crosscutting topics for analysis in response to Executive Order 14017…
energy.gov

America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition

09/15/22
Demand for clean energy technologies such as wind turbines and batteries for electric vehicles has increased significantly as technology costs have plummeted over the last decade and countries seek to diversify their energy systems with more reliable clean energy sources to lower costs for businesses and consumers...
anl.gov

New U.S. reports illuminate clean energy supply chain challenges and opportunities

By Christina Nunez 09/14/22
The clean energy transition depends on the United States’ ability to secure critical materials. A series of reports, bolstered by Argonne expertise, explores the supply chain landscape...
WHITEHOUSE.GOV

PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS: Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains

02/24/21
The United States needs resilient, diverse, and secure supply chains to ensure our economic prosperity and national security. Pandemics and other biological threats, cyber-attacks, climate shocks and extreme weather events, terrorist attacks, geopolitical and economic competition, and other conditions can reduce critical manufacturing capacity and the availability and integrity of…
ENERGY 2/24/22
energy.gov

America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition

By Igogo and Tsisilile 02/24/22
This document, “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition,” lays out the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the energy supply chain as well as the Federal Government plans to address these challenges and opportunities. It is accompanied by several issue-specific…
The New York Times

Our carbon budget is running out quickly

By David Wallace Wells 11/10/22
Last November in Glasgow, Scotland, the annual United Nations climate conference ended with its president, Alok Sharma, declaring that the global goal of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius had been just barely kept alive. “Its pulse is weak,” he said.
energy.gov

DOE Releases First-Ever Comprehensive Strategy to Secure America’s Clean Energy Supply Chain

02/24/22
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released America’s first comprehensive plan to ensure security and increase our energy independence. The sweeping report, “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition,” lays out dozens of critical strategies to build a secure, resilient, and diverse domestic…
NATURE 2/16/22
NATURE

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

By Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Abatzoglou and Others 02/16/22
Night-time provides a critical window for slowing or extinguishing fires owing to the lower temperature and the lower vapour pressure deficit (VPD). However, fire danger is most often assessed based on daytime conditions, capturing what promotes fire spread rather than what impedes fire...
The Washington Post

Massive wildfires helped fuel global forest losses in 2021

By John Muyskens, Naema Ahmed and Brady Dennis 04/28/22
Around the globe, 2021 brought more devastating losses for the world’s forests, according to a satellite-based survey by the University of Maryland and Global Forest Watch. Earth saw more than 97,500 square miles of tree cover vanish last year, an area roughly the size of Oregon.
CNN

Wildfires used to ease in intensity at night. A study says it’s not the case anymore

By Jennifer Gray 02/16/22
The West is burning out of control. Warmer temperatures and historically dry conditions are leading to longer and more devastating wildfire seasons than we have ever seen before. And now a new study suggests fires are becoming bigger and stronger at night, the time when firefighters used to be able…
The Washington Post

Wildfires are becoming more intense at night and lasting longer, study finds

By Kasha Patel 02/16/22
In recent decades, wildfires have become more intense and longer lasting amid rising temperatures linked to human-caused climate change. A key influence on their growing duration? Their increasing ability to survive the night, when temperatures typically dip and humidity rises.
THE HILL

Nighttime wildfires growing in frequency, intensity: study

By Sharon Udasin 02/16/22
Nocturnal blazes have grown more intense and frequent in recent decades as hot, arid nighttime weather becomes the norm across the western U.S., a new study has found. While such “flammable nights” were a rarity just 40 years ago — with cool, moist nights offering firefighters some respite — the…
NATURE 2/14/22
NATURE

Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021

By A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook and Jason E. Smerdon 02/14/22
A previous reconstruction back to 800 ce indicated that the 2000–2018 soil moisture deficit in southwestern North America was exceeded during one megadrought in the late-1500s. Here, we show that after exceptional drought severity in 2021, ~19% of which is attributable to anthropogenic climate trends, 2000–2021 was the driest 22-yr…
PBS NEWS HOUR

Megadrought causes perilously low water levels at Lake Mead

06/03/22
The megadrought currently choking the western United States is the worst drought in the region in more than 1,000 years. It's having an enormous impact across many states and on several major reservoirs including Lake Mead, a water source for millions of people in the West. Alex Hager, who covers…
The Guardian

US west ‘megadrought’ is worst in at least 1,200 years, new study says

By Gabrielle Canon 02/15/22
The American west has spent the last two decades in what scientists are now saying is the most extreme megadrought in at least 1,200 years. In a new study, published on Monday, researchers also noted that human-caused climate change is a significant driver of the destructive conditions and offered a…
NPR

Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years

By Nathan Rott 02/14/22
Shrunk reservoirs. Depleted aquifers. Low rivers. Raging wildfires. It's no secret that the Western U.S. is in a severe drought. New research published Monday shows just how extreme the situation has become...
UNKOCH 2022
UNKOCH

Updated Model Funding Policies for Higher Education

02/01/22
The Charles Koch Foundation has an insidious history of using its “philanthropy” to colleges and universities to shape local, state, and federal policies in ways that serve his free-market agenda while stripping power from the people. With growing awareness of the ways in which CKF buys influence over hiring, research,…
DAILY KOS

Koch et al Spend Over $50 Million on Climate Disinfo Organizations Between 2014-2020

03/24/22
Alex Kotch at the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) published the latest count of climate disinfo funding, tallying up over $50 million in “donations” to climate denial groups, straight from industry profits, billionaire ideologues fortunes, and everything in between.
EXPOSED BY CMD

The Dirty Dozen: The Biggest Nonprofit Funders of Climate Denial

By Alex Kotch 03/21/22
In its recently released report on climate impacts and adaptation, a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change points out the very real danger of climate misinformation—for the first time since its annual assessments began in 2017.
NOAA 1/13/22
NOAA

2021 was the sixth-warmest year on record for the globe

01/13/22
The global surface temperature for 2021 was the sixth highest since record keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA scientists. In a separate analysis of global temperature data, also released today, NASA has 2021 tying with 2018 as the sixth-warmest year on record. December’s global surface temperature tied with 2016…
MSNBC

Velshi: We need to prioritize environmental justice in our efforts to fight climate change

By Ali Velshi 02/19/22
Natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires – all made worse by the climate crisis – have something in common: they disproportionately cripple poor, Black and minority communities. Dozens of studies demonstrate how climate-aggravated natural disasters and pollution hurt minority communities in ways that barely touch wealthy white communities. There’s…
REUTERS

U.S. sea level to rise by 2050 as much as in past century, NOAA says

By Steve Gorman 02/17/22
Sea levels around the United States will rise up to a foot over the next 30 years due to climate change, as much as they have risen in the previous century, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) projected in a report on Tuesday.
THE CONVERSATION

What drives sea level rise? US report warns of 1-foot rise within three decades and more frequent flooding

By Jianjun Yin 02/16/22
A new report led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that the U.S. should prepare for 10-12 inches of relative sea level rise on average in the next 30 years. The rise is due to both sinking land and global warming. And given the greenhouse emissions…
NOAA

2021 was world’s 6th-warmest year on record

01/13/22
After two consecutive years (2019 and 2020) that ranked among the top three warmest on record, Earth was a slightly cooler planet in 2021. But not by much. According to an analysis by scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), 2021 ranked sixth on the list of warmest…
The Washington Post

The past seven years have been the hottest in recorded history, new data shows

By Sarah Kaplan and John Muyskens 01/13/22
In the middle of a historically sweltering summer, a NASA researcher stood before Congress and declared the unvarnished, undeniable scientific truth: “The greenhouse effect has been detected,” James Hansen said. “And it is changing our climate now.”
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