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Inside Climate News
New Research Explores the Costs of Climate Tipping Points, and How They Could Compound One Another5 min read · 2021-08-16 · Calculating the future cost of global warming is one of society’s most urgent challenges. And that math will depend on the speed of major shifts in Earth’s climate system, like the complete loss of…
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Getting to zero emissions is critical because the climate won’t start to stabilize until 20 to 30 years after that—that car on the wet road won’t slow down until long after the driver hits the brakes.
Guardian Environment
Health journals make joint call for urgent action on climate crisis2 min read · 2021-09-05 · Editorial in publications worldwide urges leaders to take measures to stop ‘greatest threat to public health’
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nature
The mortality cost of carbon~15 min read · 2021-07-29 · Climate change is expected to have impacts on human mortality, e.g. through increases in heat waves. Here, the author proposes a new metric to account for excess deaths from additional CO2 emissions,…
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Carbon Brief
Guest post: Why CO2 removal is not equal and opposite to reducing emissions5 min read · 2021-06-21 · An assumption that is commonly made when balancing a CO2 emission with a CO2 removal is that “one tonne in equals one tonne out” – that is, that the behaviour of the climate system in response to…
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Eric Holthaus
The era of 'rapid' climate change has begun8 min read · 2021-08-09 · Here's what the new IPCC report says, and what it doesn't, about the most important moment of our lives.
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Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.
Axios
How climate change kills the future3 min read · 2021-08-14 · It will be challenging to remain optimistic about a future where the climate will get worse by the year
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One of the hardest facts to grasp about climate change is this: No matter what we do now, it's almost certain to get worse in the future.
Fast Company
This company is building a carbon calculator for every product in the world4 min read · 2021-07-22 · Carbonfact is impossibly ambitious. But impossible ambition is just what the environment needs right now.
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something like Carbonfact needs to exist. Consumers deserve to be able to look up the environmental cost of their products with ease and transparency, and with standards (a la our FDA labels) that they can understand.
BBC News (World)
Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'6 min read · 2021-08-09 · Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in coming decades.
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Guardian Environment
Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse3 min read · 2021-08-05 · A shutdown of the Atlantic currents would have devastating global impacts and cannot be allowed to happen, researchers say
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The research found “an almost complete loss of stability over the last century” of the currents that researchers call the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). The currents are already at their slowest point in at least 1,600 years, but the new analysis shows they may be nearing a shutdown.
Vox
Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?~17 min read · 2021-08-03 · The "degrowth" movement to fight the climate crisis offers a romantic, utopian vision. But it’s not a policy agenda.
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It’s a bold, even romantic vision. But there are two problems with it: It doesn’t add up — and it would be nearly impossible to implement.
The Guardian
Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)~17 min read · 2021-07-05 · The long read: The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom
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climate change wasn’t getting the attention it could have, and there was a lack of urgency in discussions. There was no large public outcry, nor did anyone seem to be trying to generate one.
The Economist
Three degrees of global warming is quite plausible and truly disastrous~11 min read · 2021-07-22 · Rapid emission cuts can reduce the risks but not eliminate them | Briefing
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Scientific American
Pesticides Are Killing the World’s Soils6 min read · 2021-06-01 · They cause significant harm to earthworms, beetles, ground-nesting bees and thousands of other vital subterranean species
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as principles of regenerative agriculture and soil health gain popularity around the world, pesticide companies have jumped on the bandwagon to greenwash their products
World Economic Forum
Cryptocurrencies can enable global financial inclusion. Will you participate?6 min read · 2021-06-10 · Blockchain technology and the cryptocurrencies that use it are creating democratic financial systems, but they remain misunderstood. What are the facts?
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The crypto economy is leading to the development of an alternative financial and technological infrastructure that is global, open source, and accessible to all who have access to the internet, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, and socioeconomic class.
VICE
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on Schedule5 min read · 2021-07-14 · A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we're unfortunately right on schedule.
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The best available data suggests that what we decide over the next 10 years will determine the long-term fate of human civilization.
Vox
Indigenous people are the world’s biggest conservationists, but they rarely get credit for it~11 min read · 2021-06-11 · More than 30 percent of the Earth is already conserved. Thank Indigenous people and local communities.
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