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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

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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

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

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Your 3 best climate updates for today

Friday 30th December 2022

The Guardian: There’s no such thing as ‘freak’ weather any more – and 2023 already looks like a disaster movie

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Nature: Global science must not be treated as a diplomatic pawn

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The Guardian: ‘I am an optimistic person’: the scientist who studies climate catastrophes

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Saturday 31st December 2022

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The Guardian: Environmental review of 2022: another mile on the ‘highway to climate hell’

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The New York Times: A ‘Once in a Generation’ Storm. What’s the Role of Climate Change?

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Grist: Heatflation, overshoot, soup throwers: Grist’s picks for words of the year

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Thursday 29th December 2022

Met Office: 2022 provisionally warmest year on record for UK

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The Guardian: ‘We got lucky’: inside California’s strangely quiet wildfire year

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The Guardian: Drama, dismay, triumph: nailbiting climax to the world’s biodiversity deal

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Wednesday 28th December 2022

The Guardian: Fossil fuel interests revealed to have sponsored more than 500 Australian community organisations

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MIT Technology Review: The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere

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The Guardian: The classic ocean poetry taking on troubling new meanings

Tuesday 27th December 2022

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MIT Technology Review: A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate

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Nature Climate Change: Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model

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The New York Times: This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition

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Monday 26th December 2022

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The Washington Post: Scientists say Arctic warming could be to blame for blasts of extreme cold

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Business Insider India: Study reveals Climatic change doesn't necessarily bring evolution in species

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Bill McKibben: The Crucial Years: A little Xmas cheer for trees

Sunday 25th December 2022

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The Guardian: Huge ‘bomb cyclone’ storm hits US with life-threatening cold as holidays begin

Image: Sayamindu Dasgupta

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Le Monde: Scientists have discovered why methane rose dramatically in the atmosphere in 2020

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New Scientist: California's carbon offsetting may actually be increasing emissions

Saturday 24th December 2022

Mongabay: Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry

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The New York Times: How Climate Change Can Supercharge Snowstorms

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Bangkok Post: Japan makes major nuclear about-turn

Friday 23rd December 2022

The New Yorker: The climate changed fast this year, and institutions responded

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Reuters: Has green hydrogen sprung a leak?

Belfast Telegraph: Turtles are in a race against time to beat climate change, study suggests

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Thursday 22nd December 2022

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Carbon Brief: Argentina’s record-breaking 2022 heatwave made ‘60 times more likely’ by climate change

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Reuters: New Zealand announces changes to agricultural emissions scheme to help farmers

Image: Rob Young

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The Guardian: US college biology textbooks failing to address climate crisis, study says

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Wednesday 21st December 2022

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Al Jazeera: UN chief promises ‘no-nonsense’ climate summit in 2023

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The Guardian: Big oil is behind conspiracy to deceive public, first climate racketeering lawsuit says

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The Guardian: Analysis: Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified

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Tuesday 20th December 2022

The Guardian: Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030

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Big Think: Return of the old gods: why there is nothing delicate about Earth’s balance

Image: Marcus Woodbridge

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Inside Climate News: As the Climate Changes, Climate Fiction Is Changing With It

Monday 19th December 2022

The Guardian: Witness to paradise being lost: my year in the dying Amazon

Image: Christian Ziegler

JGR Atmospheres: Quantifying Flash Droughts over China from 1980 to 2017

Inside Climate News: Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

Sunday 18th December 2022

Salon: Winter storms are back — and scientists say climate change is making them a lot worse

The Washington Post: Scientists say they know why the Southern Hemisphere is so stormy

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The Guardian: A newborn held aloft in Pakistan sums up the sheer injustice of the climate crisis

Saturday 17th December 2022

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The Guardian: The call to put ‘a price on nature’ can be appealing – but it misunderstands what’s at stake

Photo: Manny Moreno

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Frontiers in Climate: Methods for determining the CO2 removal capacity of enhanced weathering in agronomic settings

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The Conversation: Arctic Report Card 2022: The Arctic is getting rainier and seasons are shifting, with broad disturbances for people, ecosystems and wildlife

Friday 16th December 2022

CNN: How the climate crisis may be changing the way tornadoes behave

The Washington Post: The surprising reasons parts of Earth are warming more slowly

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The Guardian: Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

Thursday 15th December 2022

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Reuters: G7 nations to provide Vietnam with $15.5 bln to cut coal use

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Nature Communications: The burden of heatwave-related preterm births and associated human capital losses in China

Unearthed: “How are we going to live?” Families dispossessed of their land to make way for Total’s Congo offsetting project

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Wednesday 14th December 2022

The Guardian: Explainer: What is nuclear fusion and what have scientists achieved?

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The Guardian: ‘Like an oilwell in your back yard’: Irish people turn to cutting peat to save on energy bills

The Guardian: Plan to protect 30% of Earth divides and inspires at Cop15

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Tuesday 13th December 2022

The Washington Post: One of climate change’s great mysteries is finally being solved: Scientists are beginning to understand whether clouds are a friend -- or enemy -- of climate change.

Image: Photo by Marek Szturc

Inside Climate News: Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

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Axios: Hacking the planet may be closer than you think

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Monday 12th December 2022

The New York Times: Tiny Vanuatu Uses Its ‘Unimportance’ to Launch Big Climate Ideas

Image: By Graham Crumb

Earth System Dynamics: Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada in June 2021

USA Today: Weird weather hit cattle ranchers and citrus growers in 2022. Why it likely will get worse.

Sunday 11th December 2022

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Carbon Brief: State of the climate: 2022 is currently tied for fourth warmest year on record

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The Guardian: Rising temperatures causing distress to foetuses, study reveals

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The Guardian: Planes, trains and automobiles: comparing cost, speed and emissions of Sydney-Melbourne travel

Saturday 10th December 2022

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BBC News: COP27: What was agreed at the Sharm el Sheikh climate conference?

Carbon Brief: Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?

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Gizmodo: Over Half the World's Energy Transition Minerals Are on Indigenous Lands

Friday 9th December 2022

Reuters: World Bank, partners launch tracking system to clean up carbon markets

The Japan Times: Citing climate change, IOC postpones 2030 Winter Games host selection

The Washington Post: Alaska’s northernmost city posts warmest winter temperature on record

Thursday 8th December 2022

Science Advances: Curtailing the collapse of the living world

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The Guardian: The food emissions ‘solutions’ alarming experts after Cop27

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The Guardian: Australia needs ‘wartime mobilisation’ response to climate crisis, security leaders say

Wednesday 7th December 2022

The Guardian: Stop burning trees to make energy, say 650 scientists before Cop15 biodiversity summit

Image: Tiia Monto

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Nature Communications: Earth and Environment: Methane emissions from agricultural ponds are underestimated in national greenhouse gas inventories

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Yale Climate Connections: The bizarre and destructive 2022 hurricane season ends

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Tuesday 27th December 2022 Let’s give people more clarity about climate change effects at the time of impact

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Tuesday 20th December 2022 The climate and biodiversity crises are the same crisis