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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

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Teachers' Guide

Climate change news for Friday 16th of March 2018

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Cascading lake drainage on the Greenland Ice Sheet triggered by tensile shock and fracture Nature Communications

"Supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet are expanding inland... We show evidence for open crevasses 135 km inland from the ice margin, which is much farther inland than previously considered possible. We hypothesise that inland expansion of lakes will deliver water and heat to isolated regions of the ice sheet’s interior where the impact on ice flow is potentially large"

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What the Late Stephen Hawking, Who Studied the Universe's Past, Said About Our Future Fortune

"“We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action [pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement] could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid,” Hawking said"

Oil majors mulling price on carbon — Whitehouse E&E Daily

"Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse yesterday said he's heard through intermediaries that [the US's] Big Four oil majors are considering supporting a $40-per-ton cost on carbon... When asked whether the Big Four or their surrogates would trade a price on carbon for immunity from lawsuits, the senator replied, "Absolutely.""

February 2018 was [earth's] sixth warmest February on record NASA

"Last month was +0.78°C warmer than the average February of the 1951-1980 period. The only months of February warmer than that occurred in 2016 (+1.34°C), 2017 (+1.12°C), 1998 (+0.90°C), 2015 (+0.87°C), and 2010 (+0.79°C)"

The temperature is rising ... and so is the death toll Sydney Morning Herald

"In 2009 Melbourne [had] three consecutive days of above 43 [°C], while elsewhere... it [approached] 49. There were 980 heat-related deaths...Morgues were over capacity and bodies had to be stored in refrigerated trucks"

Insurers face sea and land threats from warming E&E Climatewire

"Insurance companies face greater dangers from climate change, including weather-related catastrophes and court fights, than they do silver linings, according to a report released today by [ratings agency] Moody's"

Warmer Winters Are a Huge Threat to $30 Billion Nordic Industry Bloomberg

"According to the foresters who work the land in Finland and Sweden, unusually mild winters are turning once icy grounds into thick layers of mud capable of swallowing up the 25-ton vehicles used to gather [pulp biomass]"

Post-Paris hike in corporate renewables demand drives double-digit growth in green certificates Carbon Pulse

"Double-digit growth in global renewables procurement by companies seeking to boost their climate credentials has helped push European green certificate prices to record highs, a conference heard this week"

The Risk of Termination Shock From Solar Geoengineering Earth's Future

"If solar geoengineering were to be deployed... and then stopped suddenly, there would be a rapid and damaging rise in temperatures... We conclude that some relatively simple policies could protect... against most of the... drivers"

GOP is trying to prop up coal, but plants keep closing E&E News Climatewire

"U.S. power companies are set to unplug ... about 4 percent of the American coal fleet... Analysts said an economic maelstrom is responsible for the trend... [including that] renewables... continue to eat up coal's market share"

World’s great forests could lose half of all wildlife as planet warms – report The Guardian

"The world’s greatest forests could lose more than half of their plant species... [Animals] are also likely to disappear on a catastrophic scale...The research... examined the impact of three different levels of warming"

There’s Trouble Brewing For Beer in a Warming World Climate Central

"The drier climate developing in the West [of the US] will impact [hop] production... Barley... is particularly susceptible to heatwaves and droughts. U.S. farmers are planting less of it to reduce their financial risk."

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