News links for August

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Acceleration and the hope-doom schism

​Bloomberg Evening Briefing: Accelerating Global Warming Narrows Choices - Bloomberg

 

Climate crisis deepens with El Niño | The Saturday Paper

 

Climate nears point of no return as land, sea temperatures break records, experts say | Reuters

 

Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists - BBC News

 

Could Climate Change Be More Extreme Than We Think? - The Atlantic

 

Earth shatters heat records, faces uncharted extreme weather - The Washington Post

 

‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record | Climate science | The Guardian

 

Extreme weather: the climate crisis in four charts | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Long La Niña events could rise in frequency as the planet warms

 

Melting Arctic glaciers are triggering the release of methane - The Washington Post

 

‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out | Climate experts | The Guardian

 

Texas heat wave means life revolves around access to air conditioning - The Washington Post

 

The Earth Is Dancing Too Close to a Temperature Tipping Point - The Washington Post

 

UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are | Roger Harrabin | The Guardian

 

Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm? | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

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Business, politics and international relations

 

Climate Change Costs Balloon As Wildfires, Floods Intensify

 

Earth needs a world climate crisis organisation, says eminent scientist | The Independent

 

I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera

 

Is China really leading the clean energy revolution? Not exactly | Li Shuo | The Guardian

 

Italian media more focused on foreign coverage of heatwave than its effects | Italy | The Guardian

 

‘It’s brutal’: Europeans tell of sleepless nights and dizzy spells in heatwave | Extreme weather | The Guardian

 

Schwarzenegger to Sue Big Oil for ‘First Degree Murder’ - POLITICO Magazine

 

The Economic Cost of Houston’s Heat: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore’ - WSJ

 

World Bank’s ‘Paris Alignment’ could add fuel to the climate crisis

 

 

 

Drought and desertification

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Anthropogenic warming has exacerbated droughts in southern Europe since the 1850s | Communications Earth & Environment

 

Morocco's centuries-old irrigation system under threat from climate change

 

‘Swallowed by the sand’: Somalia’s coastal towns succumb to the desert | Global development | The Guardian

 

 

 

Earth’s Fever

 

Acropolis closes to protect tourists as Greece faces unprecedented heatwave | Greece | The Guardian

 

Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show | Climate science | The Guardian

 

Death Valley approaches global heat record as US reels from extreme weather | Extreme weather | The Guardian

 

Florida ocean records ‘unprecedented’ temperatures similar to a hot tub | Florida | The Guardian

 

Heat Records Broken Across Earth - The New York Times

 

Heatwave last summer killed 61,000 people in Europe, research finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

‘Hell on earth’: Phoenix’s extreme heatwave tests the limits of survival | Arizona | The Guardian

 

Hot streak: US heatwaves lasting longer as record temperatures bake south-west | US news | The Guardian

 

Hottest June kills UK fish and threatens insects - BBC News

 

How we know the Earth is now the hottest in thousands of years - The Washington Post

 

Ice core from secret US Army base reveals dramatic historical Greenland ice-sheet melting - ABC News

 

Inside China's Experiment to Save a Melting Glacier - Bloomberg

 

Scientists sound alarm over ‘unheard of’ conditions off the coast of England: ‘We could see mass mortality’

 

Strike threats in Italy and stoppages in Greece as workers struggle with heat | Europe | The Guardian

 

 

 

Ecology, farming and natural sinks

 

Analyzing Mass Timber's Climate Impact | World Resources Institute

 

Indigenous rangers eye carbon market to tackle 'worst' problem of feral buffalo in Arnhem Land - ABC News

 

Mosquito days and malaria cases are likely to rise as climate warms - The Washington Post

 

Saguaro cacti collapsing in Arizona extreme heat, scientist says | Reuters

 

 

 

Emissions

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Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble | US news | The Guardian

 

Europe should cap ‘luxury’ energy use to meet emissions targets, study says | Energy | The Guardian

 

Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad as Coal for Climate, Study Says - The New York Times

 

New North Sea oil and gas licences will send ‘wrecking ball’ through climate commitments | Fossil fuels | The Guardian

 

New research reaffirms hydrogen’s impact on the climate, provides consensus

 

Plastic production creating greenhouse gases 'equal to 5.7m cars', conservation groups say - ABC News

 

U.S. heat waves prompt surge in use of natural gas, a fossil fuel - The Washington Post

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Food and crops

 

Rampant heatwaves threaten food security of entire planet, scientists warn | Food security | The Guardian

 

Scientists Raise Alarm Over Risk of 'Synchronized' Global Crop Failures

 

Soaring temperatures and food prices threaten violent unrest

 

With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth | George Monbiot | The Guardian

 

 

 

Ice and oceans

 

Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet - ABC News

 

Arctic permafrost runoff driven by climate change

 

Greenland melted some 416,000 years ago, shows high risk of causing sea level rise today

 

Gulf stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Hurricanes found to push warm water deep into ocean, impacting climate in distant locales

 

Oceans are growing hotter, triggering global weather disasters

 

‘Something weird is going on’: search for answers as Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows | Antarctica | The Guardian

 

World’s oceans changing colour due to climate breakdown, study suggests | Oceans | The Guardian

 

 

 

Mitigation and adaptation

 

China accused of scores of abuses linked to ‘green mineral’ mining | China | The Guardian

 

Engineering the climate could cost us the earth

 

Giant kites could pull ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions | CNN

 

Opinion | China reaches warp speed on renewables and electric vehicles - The Washington Post

 

The carbon costs of global wood harvests | Nature

 

Tiny forests are springing up in urban areas to combat climate change. This one measures just 10m x 10m - ABC News

 

 

 

Pyrocene Chronicles

 

Canada Offers Lesson in the Economic Toll of Climate Change - The New York Times

 

‘Fighting a losing battle’: waves of wildfires leave Canada’s volunteer firefighters drained | Canada wildfires | The Guardian

 

Greece ‘at war with fire’ amid chaotic evacuation of tourists from Rhodes | Greece | The Guardian

 

Greece carries out its biggest ever evacuation as wildfires rage on Rhodes | Greece | The Guardian

 

Is paradise being lost? Raging wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes gives southern Europe a terrifying glimpse into the future - ABC News

 

Southern Europe and north Africa count heavy cost of wildfires | Wildfires | The Guardian

 

Welcome to the Pyrocene – The fiery world we've created | Grist

 

 

 

Rain and flood

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Asia floods: Death toll climbs in severe monsoon season - BBC News

 

At least 50 dead in Pakistan monsoon floods since end of June | Pakistan | The Guardian

 

Canada’s heaviest rains in 40 years block roads and cut power for thousands | Canada | The Guardian

 

‘Heaviest rain ever’ causes deadly floods and landslides in Japan | Japan | The Guardian

 

Pennsylvania flash flood: five people killed and two children missing | Pennsylvania | The Guardian

 

South Korea floods: president urges climate crisis action as death toll hits 40 | South Korea | The Guardian

 

The Trillion-Gallon Question: What if California’s Dams Fail? - The New York Times

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Society

 

As heat records break, the climate movement has the right answers – but the words are all wrong | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian

 

Climate grief is real – and I cannot keep watching images of our dying planet | David Shearman | The Guardian

 

Climate scientist Maisa Rojas: ‘I have a mandate to be part of Chile’s first ecological, feminist government’ | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Florida rocked by home insurance crisis: ‘I may have to sell up and move’ | Florida | The Guardian

 

Future generations will regard climate inaction like sending children up chimneys, says Wildlife Trusts chief

 

Global hunger enters a grim ‘new normal,’ United Nations says - The Washington Post

 

Green revolution: how I learned to be an eco warrior, one step at a time | Environment | The Guardian

 

‘It’s positive, not apocalyptic’: can climate change art help save the planet? | Art | The Guardian

 

‘Everyone is indoors’: life on pause on hottest day of Greek heatwave | Greece | The Guardian

 

Pascal Soriot of AstraZeneca: ‘The climate crisis is a health crisis’ | AstraZeneca | The Guardian

 

To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower? | The New Yorker

 

Why are people dying at sea? They are fleeing disasters that we once called ‘biblical’, and now call normal | Fatima Bhutto | The Guardian

 

Why aren’t we more scared of the climate crisis? It’s complicated | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis | US weather | The Guardian

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