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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

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

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Teachers' Guide

Not The Weather Report

Climate change news for Saturday 24th of March 2018

Flooding and heavy rains rise 50% worldwide in a decade, figures show The Guardian

"Floods and extreme rainfall events... are now occurring at a rate four times higher than in 1980, according to a new report [by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council]... Storms, droughts and heatwaves... are being recorded twice as frequently as in 1980"

Oil Giant Accepts Climate Consensus, Denies Responsibility for Warming Scientific American

"“Chevron accepts the consensus... on climate change,” said attorney Theodore Boutrous, [who] made the case that oil companies are not directly responsible for climate change. Rather, he said, humanity’s larger economic decisions are to blame"

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Ex-UN climate chief calls for green bonds to hit $1 trillion by 2020 Climate Home News

"Cities and companies are being urged to show their commitment to climate-friendly infrastructure investments by signing a “green bond pledge” launched on Tuesday"

Report: Coal's tipping point near, but climate goals are not ABC News

"Declines in coal power plant construction... are projected to push the heavily-polluting fuel over the edge— but not fast enough... environmental groups said Wednesday"

Carbon–climate feedbacks accelerate ocean acidification Biogeosciences

"Under the high-emissions scenarios... the carbon–climate feedbacks advance the onset of surface water under saturation and the decline in suitable coral reef habitat by a decade or more"

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Tokyo to use carbon credits to achieve zero emissions during Olympic ceremonies Eco-Business

"The plan is to make [Tokyo] free of carbon dioxide emissions using carbon offsets for the four days on which the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will be held"

Climate change and protectionism could harm efforts to feed the world: report Reuters

"Rising protectionist and anti-trade sentiments threaten efforts to curb malnutrition even as more people go hungry and climate pressures rise, [The International Food Policy Research Institute] said on Tuesday"

EU Market: EUAs scale new peak above €13 as Macron talks up price floors Carbon Pulse

"EU carbon prices briefly broke above €13 to hit another 6.5-year high on Thursday on a strong auction and as French President Emmanuel Macron again talked of the need for a European carbon price floor"

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Designing Marine Protected Areas in a Changing Climate Hakai Magazine

"Combined, the effects of climate change are “putting ocean life through a blender,” says Malin Pinsky, an ecologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey"

Shifts in tree functional composition amplify the response of forest biomass to climate Nature

"Here we use systematic forest inventories from the 1980s and 2000s across the eastern USA to show that forest biomass responds to decadal-scale changes in water deficit"

Are Polar Continental Shelves Economic to ‘Farm’ for Increased Carbon Capture and Storage?EA&ES

"West Antarctic, and probably Arctic, continental shelves are sites of significant negative feedbacks on climate change through benthos carbon accumulation… Seabed CCS by benthos could increase 400% if it was all rubble."

Pearl Jam invests in Amazonian reforestation to offset emissions from current Brazil tour Mongabay

"Rock band Pearl Jam is voluntarily offsetting the carbon emissions of its current tour... The band has partnered with Conservation International in purchasing carbon offsets"

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Pete Saloutos: Getty Images https://www.gettyimages.com/license/561126863

By Oregon State University - Bleached coral, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50490719

By Zinnekederivative work: Ssolbergj (talk) - This file was derived fromQuartier européen Bruxelles 2011-06.JPG:, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18298616

Photo courtesy of Conservation International https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/pearl-jam-invests-in-amazonian-reforestation-to-offset-emissions-from-current-brazil-tour/

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