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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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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 Wednesday 21st of March 2018

Global warming to date could ‘obliterate’ a third of glacier ice Carbon Brief

"The warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world’s glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland – regardless of current efforts to reduce emissions... That is the stark conclusion of a new study, which analyses the lag between global temperature rise and the retreat of glaciers"

*Photo credit: see below

A marine heatwave drives massive losses from the world’s largest seagrass carbon stocks Nature Climate Change

"We estimate that 36% of Shark Bay, [Western Australia's] seagrass meadows were damaged following a marine heatwave in 2010/2011… [up to] 9 Tg CO2 could have been released to the atmosphere during the following three years, increasing emissions from land-use change in Australia by 4–21% per annum"

The Paris Agreement is deeply flawed - it's time for a new deal Aljazeera

"As of this year, [scientists have] arrived at a startling consensus: the Paris Agreement is deeply flawed - and we're going to need a better one. The problem is that the Paris deal is built on the assumption that highly speculative technologies are going to save us from climate catastrophe"

Dutch offshore wind farms first in world to go subsidy-free Euractiv

"The Dutch government has begun to follow through on its renewable energy pledges by awarding Swedish firm Vattenfall two contracts for what will be the world’s first wind farms to be built entirely without public money"

Is China losing interest in nuclear power? Chinadialogue

"There is a question mark hanging over the sector’s future growth… Reasons... include mixed attitudes towards new nuclear power within government, and the over-supply that’s affecting China’s power generation sector."

Drones Spray Tree Seeds From the Sky to Fight Deforestation National Geographic

"Every year, about 15 billion trees are cut down... [this] has accelerated global warming and imperiled the survival of millions of species... no one has been able to plant enough trees to make up for that loss—but..."

Avocado trade threatened by shipping climate measure, say Chile, Peru Climate Home News

"Speed limits at sea could cut shipping’s carbon footprint fast, but fresh fruit exporters are raising concerns about trade impacts ahead of a critical UN meeting"

In rural Manipur, [north-east India], women feel the heat of climate change thethirdpole.net

"It is that time of the year when the weather is dry and windy. Hmuoki has to work even harder than usual to water and fertilize her four acres of farmland on the banks of the Khuga River"

California Sets Two New Solar Records Greentech Media

"The escalating integration of solar has created “a new operating paradigm” for California’s grid operator, although the escalation is now on hold"

Extreme event attribution: the climate versus weather blame game [US] National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

"For more than a decade, scientists have been accumulating evidence... Heat waves? Check. Heavy downpours? Check. Deeper and more frequent high-tide flooding? Check"

Manitoba [Canada] tables carbon tax and trade bill, opening door to linking via offsets Carbon Pulse

"The Manitoba government on Thursday introduced legislation underpinning its new provincial carbon tax and trading system, opening the door to linking with other jurisdictions through the use of offsets"

Quantified, localized health benefits of accelerated carbon dioxide emissions reductions Nature

"We… examine the human health benefits of increasing... CO2 reductions by 180 GtC... The decreased air pollution leads to 153 ± 43 million fewer premature deaths worldwide, with ~40% occurring during the next 40 years"

* Photo Attribution

By Brian W. Schaller - Own work, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30828388

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