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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

Climate change news for Sunday 18th of March 2018

Photo: https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MY1DMM_CHLORA

'Game changer': New vulnerability to climate change in ocean food chain The Sydney Morning Herald

"[In a paper published on Thursday in Nature] a team of researchers… applied techniques from the emerging field of synthetic biology to understand how ocean acidification from the absorption of CO2 is affecting… phytoplankton [which] are not only a key food source for global fisheries, they are also important to the removal of CO2."

Photo: https://twitter.com/Asiacarfuture/status/914097509844254722

Beijing WKW Automotive Parts to invest more than $2 billion in new [energy] car project Reuters

"The company… said [its new] facility will have an annual capacity of 300,000 new energy cars, which include electric cars. The plan has been given the go-ahead by the company’s board and is pending approval from shareholders. [Sales of] new energy vehicles…in China… [are] up 200 percent in January and February"

Natural Disasters Are Costing Farming Billions of Dollars a Year Bloomberg

"Agricultural losses from weather events in developing nations totaled $96 billion in a decade... according to the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organization... “This has become the ‘new normal,’ and the impact of climate change will further exacerbate [this]” FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said in a statement."

No longer 'alternative', mainstream renewables [in Australia] are pushing prices down The Guardian

"A decade ago, power from a large-scale solar farm was unthinkably expensive at close to $A200 per megawatt hour... almost five times the grid average at the time... Renewable energy prices have since plummeted"

[US] flood maps miss two-thirds of vulnerable people — study E&E Climatewire

"Federal flood maps include major miscalculations, according to a new study suggesting floods are a real risk for more than triple the number of people covered under current estimates"

China reshapes ministries to better protect environment Chinadialogue

"Currently, the National Development and Reform Commission... [manages] greenhouse gases and combating climate change. However, these duties... will be passed to a new Ministry of Ecological Environment"

What a century of climate change has done to France’s biggest glacier The Local FR

"The spectacular Mer de Glace glacier that winds through the Mont Blanc Massif near Chamonix is vanishing at a record pace"

Offsets for emissions breaches prove Australia has a carbon market, Labor says The Guardian

"Sixteen Australian industrial sites have… had to buy millions of dollars in carbon credits… Labor and industry body the Carbon Market Institute both said [this] was evidence the country had a carbon market"

Global warming could wipe out almost 70 per cent of Amazon species SBS News

"At warming of 4.5C, the Amazon could risk the local extinction of 69 per cent of its plant species. The Miombo Woodlands risks losing 90 per cent of its amphibians, 86 per cent of birds, and 80 per cent of mammals"

Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

"Approximately one in three houses and one in ten hectares are now in the wildland-urban interface. These growth trends will exacerbate wildfire problems in the future."

Global climate science group ponders effort to recruit more female authors Science

"The world’s leading climate science body is expected to decide this week on whether to establish a new task force on promoting gender equity within the male-dominated group"

World's Happiest Country Also Has No Carbon Emissions National Geographic

"Steeped in both antiquity and innovation, the largely Buddhist nation is perhaps most famous for happy people and thriving forests that persist despite looming environmental threats"

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