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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

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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

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?

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

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Teachers' Guide

The News for Wednesday 27th of June 2018

Barents Sea / ‘Atlantification’ of Arctic sea tipping it towards new climate regime Carbon Brief

"Rising temperatures and declining sea ice are driving a “rapid climate shift” in the Arctic’s Barents Sea... warming conditions and decreasing sea ice volume “may soon” see the Barents Sea complete a transition from cold, fresh Arctic waters to a warm, salty Atlantic regime."

Barents Sea / ‘Atlantification’ of Arctic sea tipping it towards new climate regime

Carbon Brief

Photo credit: Alamy Stock Photo.

CFC-11 traced / Mysterious emissions of banned greenhouse gas traced to Chinese factories Climate Home News

CFC-11 traced / Mysterious emissions of banned greenhouse gas traced to Chinese factories Climate Home News

"Chinese factories are illegally producing chemicals that damage the ozone layer and the climate. That was revealed in a survey of manufacturers carried out by the EIA and corroborated... on Monday."

Photo credit:Flickr/ilovebutter

Trade and climate / France renews push for EU trade policy to link with Paris climate deal Carbon Pulse

Trade and climate / France renews push for EU trade policy to link with Paris climate deal Carbon Pulse

"France’s environment ministers are pushing for the EU’s trade policy to be brought into line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, in what many will see as a retaliatory move aimed at the US."

Photo credit: see #3 below

Limits of climate modelling / Palaeo-climate constraints on the impact of 2 °C... warming and beyond Nature Geoscience

Limits of climate modelling /

Palaeo-climate constraints on the impact of 2 °C... warming and beyond Nature Geoscience

"Comparison of palaeo observations with climate model results suggests that, due to the lack of certain feedback processes, model-based climate projections may underestimate long-term warming... by as much as a factor of two"

Photo credit: see #4 below

Cities v Big Fossil / US judge throws out climate change lawsuits against big oil ABC News

Cities v Big Fossil / US judge throws out climate change lawsuits against big oil

ABC News

"A U.S. judge who held a hearing about climate change... ruled Monday that Congress and the president were best suited to address the contribution of fossil fuels to global warming, throwing out lawsuits that sought to hold big oil companies liable..."

Photo credit: Associated Press

CO2 drawdown / Potential for converting renewable electricity to negative-CO2-emissions hydrogen Nature

CO2 drawdown / Potential for converting renewable electricity to negative-CO2-emissions hydrogen Nature

"We estimate that methods of combining saline water electrolysis with mineral weathering powered by any source of non-fossil fuel-derived electricity could, on average, increase energy generation and CO2 removal by >50 times relative to BECCS..."

Photo credit: Naim Jennings / Flickr

Photo Attributions

Headline #3 photo: By Presidencia de la República Mexicana - https://www.flickr.com/photos/presidenciamx/23430273715/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45354530

Headline #4 photo: Recreation of a scene in late Pleistocene northern Spain, by Mauricio Antón

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