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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

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Teachers' Guide

Not The Weather Report

Climate volatility / California, battered by global warming’s weather whiplash, is fighting to stop it The Guardian

"In 1988 – the same year Nasa’s James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human-caused global warming – water expert Peter Gleick wrote about the wet and dry extremes that it would create for California"

Climate volatility / California, battered by global warming’s weather whiplash, is fighting to stop it The Guardian

Photo credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Climate change news for Wednesday 16th of May 2018

Institutional renewables investing / Hey, Oil Giants: Want to Sell Renewables? Funds Are All Ears Bloomberg

Institutional renewables investing / Hey, Oil Giants: Want to Sell Renewables? Funds Are All Ears Bloomberg

"If more oil and gas companies want to follow Enbridge Inc.’s lead and sell renewable energy assets, there are plenty of institutional investors ready to pounce."

Photo: Pixabay

Climate change insurance / African small farmers get record $1.5 m payout for... crop losses Business Standard

"The record payment was made possible under an innovative climate risk management scheme, the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative, launched by WFP and Oxfam America in 2011 to compensate small farmers for weather-related crop losses..."

Photo credit: FAO

Steel by hydrogen / Swedish steel boss: ‘Our pilot plant will only emit water vapour’ Euractiv

Steel by hydrogen / Swedish steel boss: ‘Our pilot plant will only emit water vapour’

"A new pilot facility under construction in... Sweden will produce steel using hydrogen from renewable electricity. The only emissions will be water vapour, explains the CEO of Hybrit, the company behind the process, which seeks to revolutionise steelmaking"

Photo credit: Onni Wiljami Kinnunen / SSAB.COM

CO2 emissions / ...burgeoning ‘South-South’ trade may threaten climate goals -study Carbon Pulse

CO2 emissions / ...burgeoning ‘South-South’ trade may threaten climate goals -study

Carbon Pulse

"The growth in trade between developing countries in the first decade of the 21st century, fuelled by the offshoring of manufacturing to lower-wage economies, has led to a surge in emissions that threatens the climate goals of the Paris Agreement"

Photo credit: see #5 below

Australia's 'new normal' / Farmers adapt to dry conditions, with rainfall well below normal... ABC News

Australia's 'new normal' /

Farmers adapt to dry conditions, with rainfall well below normal... ABC News

"With drier years fast becoming the new normal, WA grain grower Mark Adams said farmers were adapting to the change. Mr Adams and his wife Heather are planting 4,400 hectares of genetically modified canola and barley in dry and dusty conditions this year"

Photo credit: ABC Rural: Kit Mochan

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