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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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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

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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

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

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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

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

"Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would be most pronounced in the Arctic. This has many reasons, but climate feedbacks are key... This expectation has become a reality"

Major malfunction / Melting Arctic sends a message: Climate change is here in a big way The Conversation

Photo credit: USGS

Climate change news for Saturday 28th of April 2018

Sea Level Rise / Within Decades, Floods May Render Many Islands Uninhabitable

National Geographic

"For the Marshall Islands, climate change isn't some distant, future danger: It is already wreaking havoc across the Pacific country's more than 1,100 low-lying atolls"

Photo credit: Alessandro Silvano

Cold sweat / One of the most worrisome predictions about climate change may be coming true The Washington Post

"[Scientists had] laid out a dire scenario in which gigantic pulses of fresh water from melting glaciers could upend the circulation of the oceans, leading to fast-rising seas and even superstorms"

Photo credit: see #4 below

Forest lost behind trees / ...the US is wrong to say burning wood is carbon neutral New Scientist

"It is a disaster for forests, wildlife and efforts to tackle climate change. The US EPA has decided that wood is a renewable energy source... it will now qualify for support from programmes supposed to reduce carbon emissions"

Photo credit: Winn Mc Namee/Getty

The masses revolt / America's top scientists reprimand Donald Trump (again) The New Yorker

"More than 570 members of the National Academy of Sciences [have decried] the... “denigration of scientific expertise...” [which] has been “particularly egregious” in the case of climate change"

Photo credit: see #6 below

New Zealand / Hot summer leads to a tenfold explosion in rat population The Guardian

"The 2017-2018 summer in New Zealand was the hottest since records began, and fertile breeding conditions have led to a surge in rat and mice numbers"

Photo Attributions

Article #4 photo by: Andrew Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Article #6 photo by: NZ Department of Conservation/ Nga Manu Images

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