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Tipping points: News links for ...[month]... 2019

Brakes gone: The Great Acceleration

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Arctic Carbon:

Boom means bust

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Particulate Pollution:

Bandaid™ in the sky

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Hothouse Earth: Domino Effect

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Photo Attributions

Banner picture: Photo by: Daria Devyatkina

Hothouse earth: Photo by: Bernard Spragg. NZ

Arctic carbon: Photo by: Daxis

Brakes gone: Photo by: Marcus Pink

Particulate Pollution: Photo by: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Tipping points: News links for ...[month]... 2019

Brakes gone: The Great Acceleration

Headline

Arctic Carbon:

Boom means bust

Headline

Particulate Pollution:

Bandaid™ in the sky

Headline

Hothouse Earth: Domino Effect

Headline

Photo Attributions

Banner picture: Photo by: Daria Devyatkina

Hothouse earth: Photo by: Bernard Spragg. NZ

Arctic carbon: Photo by: Daxis

Brakes gone: Photo by: Marcus Pink

Particulate Pollution: Photo by: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019

Melting Ice: Sword of Damocles

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Sea levels: How fast, how much?

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Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating

Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash

Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.

Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Tsunamis: Unsettling news

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019

Melting Ice: Sword of Damocles

Headline

Sea levels: How fast, how much?

Photo Attributions

Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating

Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash

Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.

Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Tsunamis: Unsettling news

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019

Melting Ice: Sword of Damocles

Headline

Sea levels: How fast, how much?

Photo Attributions

Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating

Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash

Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.

Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Tsunamis: Unsettling news

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019

Melting Ice: Sword of Damocles

Headline

Sea levels: How fast, how much?

Photo Attributions

Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating

Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash

Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.

Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Tsunamis: Unsettling news

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019

Melting Ice: Sword of Damocles

Headline

Sea levels: How fast, how much?

Photo Attributions

Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating

Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash

Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.

Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Tsunamis: Unsettling news

Ice and sea level: News links for ...[Month]... 2019

Melting Ice: Sword of Damocles

Headline

Sea levels: How fast, how much?

Photo Attributions

Banner : Photo by: Ian D. Keating

Melting Ice: Photo by: Ash

Sea levels: Photo by: .Martin.

Tsunamis: Photo by: yisris / Flickr

Tsunamis: Unsettling news

c l i m a t e n e w s s i n c e 2 0 1 8

Teachers' Guide

Not The Weather Report

Climate change news for Wednesday 18th of April 2018

"Black carbon particles from smoke plumes can... [contribute] to more heat absorption and more melting. “I think it’s a warning sign that something like this can happen on permafrost that was supposed to be melting at the end of the century,” rather than today, [said] Andreas Stohl, a senior scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research"

Feedbacks already / Greenland’s Biggest Fire Is a ‘Warning’ for Its Future Scientific American

"Most of the world’s nations agreed to an historic deal that for the first time will limit emissions from the global shipping industry"

Tall ships? / Nations Strike Historic Deal to Curb Shipping Emissions

Bloomberg

"EU carbon prices briefly climbed to a new seven-year high above €14 on Monday, gaining for the seventh consecutive session as observers pointed to further gains"

Carbon market / EU Market: EU Allowances hit new 7-yr high above €14 as rally seen continuing Carbon Pulse

Photo credit: see #4 below

Carbon sinks / Colombia takes ‘unprecedented’ step to [protect] forests Eco-Business

"Indigenous communities that depend on Colombia’s Amazon rainforest for their survival will have more say over their ancestral lands, as Colombia adds 8 million hectares to its protected areas in an effort to stem forest loss"

Photo credit: see #5 below

"Massachusetts' highest court has ruled that Exxon Mobil must hand over documents related to a state investigation into whether the company misled the public about the impact of fossil fuels on climate change"

Fossil fuels / Court Rules Exxon Must Provide Documents in Climate Probe U.S. News

Photo credit: see #6 below

"China’s climate change office has asked for assistance from the power industry to develop realtime CO2 emissions data reporting for power stations covered by the national emissions trading scheme"

China emissions / [Aiming] for realtime CO2 data for power stations in ETS Carbon Pulse

Photo credit: Dave Harp

Useful and good-looking / Solar power...: more landscape-friendly siting Bay Journal

"Some say [the Annapolis Renewable Energy Park] is a model for resolving a growing conflict over how to transition to a more climate-friendly energy future without sacrificing precious farmland and scenic rural vistas"

Photo credit: Jose Jimenez/Getty Images

Caribbean / Hurricane-hit islands need debt relief The Guardian

"Those who have contributed the most to climate change are the real debtors so it is unfair that small island states be indebted as a result, write Keith Mitchell, prime minister of Grenada, and Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda."

Photo credit: see #9 below

Renewable renewables /

‘Renewable energy breeding’ can help... The Conversation

"Building all of [the] new renewable energy will initially require fossil fuels to help power all of the necessary mining, construction and decommissioning. This raises the question as to whether the energy transition itself will be pointless"

Photo Attributions

Article #1 photo by: Jesse Allen NASA Earth Observatory

Article #2 photo by: JORGE SILVA/REUTERS: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/

Article #4 photo by: mariusz kluznia,CC BY-SA 0.0, via IFPRI Flicker

Article #5 photo by: AP Photo/LM Otero, File) The Associated Press

Article #6 photo by: 文子言木 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14858895

Article #9 photo by: https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/gigafactory

Article #11 photo by: Jorge Lascar,CC BY-SA 2.0, via IFPRI Flicker

Culpable and capable / Rich ... countries ‘shirking responsibility on climate...’ Gibraltar Chronicle

"Countries including the UK, Australia and Canada have not made sufficient pledges to cut emissions... a report by Christian Aid suggests. But poorer countries such as Bangladesh, Kenya and Zambia are doing more than their fair share"

Photo credit: see #11 below

Cities / A data drought hampers cities from acting on climate change Eco-Business

"Although cities occupy only 2 per cent of the world’s land, they account for 70 per cent of global emissions. Lacking the right data to take action on reducing emissions puts them—and the whole world—in jeopardy, say WRI experts"

Arctic / Engaging traditional knowledge in adaptation strategies and policies ES&P

"The representation of indigenous peoples in international governance structures does not guarantee that traditional knowledge is entirely engaged in evidence-based policy making"

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