May 10 | Climate Now

Not The Weather Report

"One [study] directly links Hurricane Harvey’s disastrous rains to the [record-setting ocean heat] before the storm plowed into Texas last year. The other shows an increasing trend in storms that are becoming really strong, really fast"

Hurricanes more intense / Hurricanes are raining harder and may be growing stronger more quickly The Washington Post

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Climate change news for Thursday 10th of May 2018

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Plan-jam at the UN / Extra climate talks scheduled amid Bonn stalemate

Climate Home News

"UN climate officials add a week-long session in Bangkok in September to the diary, as Bonn talks make insufficient progress on the Paris Agreement rulebook"

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Forest morbidity feedback / Tree-murdering fungi and insects increasingly contribute to climate change Massive

"In the United States between 1997 and 2015, insects and pathogenic infections resulted in at least as much carbon release as forest fires"

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Milk goes sour / ..Environmental costs of China's thirst for milk Global Change Biology

"Meeting China's milk demand in a business as usual scenario will increase global dairy‐related... greenhouse gas emissions by 35%... and land use... by 32%... reactive nitrogen losses... will increase by 48%"

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EU Carbon Market / Brussels shrinks carbon leakage list, but...

Carbon Pulse

"The European Commission cleared 44 big-emitting industries to receive free carbon allowances for 2021-30, reducing drastically the number of eligible sectors but retaining big polluters such as steel, cement,..."

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Hydropower demand / Bhutan to graduate from being a Least Developed Country Third Pole

"Bhutan could be the first Asian country to graduate to developing country status since the category was established in 1971. Bhutan has largely achieved this by exporting hydropower as electricity to India"

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Article #1 photo by: Jill Carlson (jillcarlson.org) from Roman Forest, Texas, USA - Hurricane Harvey Flooding and Damage, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62247020

Article #4 photo by: Gunnar Richter Namenlos.net - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4181220

Article #5 photo by: Damian27 at Polish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7159537

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