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The 100 most crucial climate change news links from November 2022  

News links for December

 

Climate effects

Australia faces worsening extreme weather events latest BoM and CSIRO climate report finds | Australia weather | The Guardian

‘In Delhi I can see the climate catastrophe unfolding before my eyes’ | Delhi | The Guardian

Climate crisis will bring more and worse tropical cyclones to Australia’s east coast, study predicts | Australia weather | The Guardian

Ocean currents show global intensification of weak tropical cyclones | Nature

West Africa’s deadly rainfall in 2022 made ‘80 times more likely’ by climate change - Carbon Brief

2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions | Nature Climate Change

Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent, UN finds

 

Drought and desertification

Can the Rhine River Be Saved From Climate Change? - The New York Times

Senegal to receive aid payouts from drought insurance - spokesperson | Reuters

The US megadrought won't just end – it will change the land forever | New Scientist

 

Ecology

Record heat over Great Barrier Reef raises fears of second summer of coral bleaching | Great Barrier Reef | The Guardian

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be on ‘in danger’ list: UN | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera

Antarctica is changing, and wildlife and weeds could be on the way - ABC News

Fire

Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe - ScienceDirect

Drought, Fire, Insects Destroyed Nearly a Third of Southern Sierra Nevada Forest in Last Decade - Yale E360

Early snowmelt and polar jet dynamics co-influence recent extreme Siberian fire seasons | Science

Unprecedented fire activity above the Arctic Circle linked to rising temperatures | Science

 

Ice

A Massive Freshwater River Is Flowing Under Antarctica’s Ice | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Extensive inland thinning and speed-up of Northeast Greenland Ice Stream | Nature

Huge glacier melt and fast rising seas amid hottest eight years on record – WMO - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Kenya’s rapidly vanishing glaciers are a harbinger of what is to come - Washington Post

 

Sea level rise

How do we mourn an island? Where do we mark its grave? | Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner | The Guardian

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels | Climate crisis | The Guardian

‘It takes more and more’: Camargue under threat from rising seas – photo essay | France | The Guardian

 

Water cycle changes

Climate change will clearly disrupt El Niño and La Niña this decade – 40 years earlier than we thought

Deforestation Drives Desiccation in Global Monsoon Region - Liang - 2022 - Earth's Future - Wiley Online Library

Emergence of changing Central-Pacific and Eastern-Pacific El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate | Nature Communications

Explainer: Why are West and Central Africa's floods so devastating this year? | Reuters

Intensification of subhourly heavy rainfall | Science

Think storms are getting worse? Rapid rain bursts in Sydney have become at least 40% more intense in 2 decades

Unusually warm lakes lead to mammoth snowfall » Yale Climate Connections

 

Emissions

Global carbon emissions at record levels with no signs of shrinking, new data shows. Humanity has a monumental task ahead

In-depth: Russia’s war means fossil fuels will peak within five years, IEA says - Carbon Brief

Oil and gas greenhouse emissions ‘three times higher’ than producers claim | Climate crisis | The Guardian

World making little progress on food waste, a big climate problem | Reuters

World’s biggest carmakers to build 400m more vehicles than 1.5C climate target will allow | Electric vehicles | The Guardian

Bankers pour cold water on red hot coal | Reuters

World's dash for natural gas endangers climate goals -report | Reuters

 

 

Mitigation

As reefs die from climate change, a coral gardener in Asia draws a following - The Washington Post

Livestock is a form of climate justice in the Global South | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera

Protected areas provide thermal buffer against climate change | Science Advances

 

Drawdown

Climate pledges depend too much on natural carbon sinks -report | Reuters

Fighting Climate Change, Indigenous People Protect Canadian Forests - The New York Times

Guest post: Discovering a potential ‘tipping point’ for Congo’s tropical peatland - Carbon Brief

Nepal Fights Deforestation, and Wins - The New York Times

Norway-backed fund to protect Amazon to restart early 2023 - Norwegian minister | Reuters

The Amazon forest is reaching a tipping point and starting to collapse - Washington Post

‘It all hinges on the herders’: world’s largest soil carbon removal project enlists Kenyan pastoralists | Global development | The Guardian

EU readies certification of carbon removals to help tackle climate change – EURACTIV.com

Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, Yet We’re Inching Toward It | The New Yorker

Australia risks being a ‘state sponsoring greenwashing’ if it relies on carbon offsets, expert warns | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

Climate change could dry up hydropower in some regions » Yale Climate Connections

Society

Barcelona students to take mandatory climate crisis module from 2024 | Barcelona | The Guardian

Factbox: The newest fronts in climate-change-related legal battles | Reuters

Religious leaders join world-first inter-faith ceremony on climate change - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

What “longtermism” gets wrong about climate change - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Who should say how climate change affects severe weather? : NPR

‘Life Brought Me Here.’ Madagascar Adapts to a Changing Climate - The New York Times

Climate Change and Human Activity Erode Egypt’s Treasured Antiquities - The New York Times

In Mongolia, climate crisis threatens herding traditions | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera

At COP 27, an artist asks attendees to feel climate change — literally - The Washington Post

Explainer: How can climate finance be increased from 'billions to trillions'? - Carbon Brief

Can the world feed 8bn people sustainably? | Global development | The Guardian

Climate change forces Thai farmers off rice fields

After the deluge — cascading effects of extreme weather on human health » Yale Climate Connections

More than half of infectious diseases may be aggravated by climate change » Yale Climate Connections

 

Politics and International Cooperation

Treaty against fossil fuels floated at UN climate summit | AP News

New U.S. message on climate change: Make China pay - POLITICO

 

COP 27

Barbados PM launches blistering attack on rich nations at Cop27 climate talks | Cop27 | The Guardian

COP27 delivers climate fund breakthrough at cost of progress on emissions | Reuters

Cop27: coral conservation groups alarmed over ‘catastrophic losses’ | Cop27 | The Guardian

COP27: Increasing climate finance crucial to bring about sustainable transformation of agrifood systems

COP27: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh - Carbon Brief

EU: COP27 agreement 'not enough' for the planet – DW – 11/20/2022

The big takeaway from Cop27? These climate conferences just aren’t working | Bill McGuire | The Guardian

US receives stinging criticism at Cop27 despite China’s growing emissions | Cop27 | The Guardian

The 1.5C climate target is dead – to prevent total catastrophe, Cop27 must admit it | Bill McGuire | The Guardian

The world is going to miss the totemic 1.5°C climate target | The Economist

 

Loss and Damage

Africa is being devastated by a climate crisis it didn’t cause. Cop27 must help | Amina J Mohammed | The Guardian

Column: The complex calculus of apportioning CO2 emissions liability: Maguire | Reuters

How to Pay for Climate Justice When Polluters Have All the Money | The New Yorker

Incremental win: The Hindu Editorial on ‘Loss and Damage’ fund commitment at COP27 - The Hindu

National progress on emissions

At COP27, Brazil's Lula vows to be a global climate leader - The Washington Post

Biden released a “nature-based-solutions” climate roadmap at COP27. What is that? - Vox

Countries vowed to try to ramp up climate pledges this year. Very few have. - Washington Post

The Paris Agreement Is Working … For Now - The Atlantic

U.S., Japan and partners mobilise $20 billion to move Indonesia away from coal | Reuters

Cracking down on greenwashing in a country where fossil fuels are officially “carbon neutral”

Column: China’s fast-growing renewables limit coal generation | Reuters

Science research

Advance Media Copy – State of the Cryosphere Report 2022 – ICCI – International Cryosphere Climate Initiative

Are general circulation models obsolete? | PNAS

Climate and socioeconomic drivers of biomass burning and carbon emissions from fires in tropical dry forests: A Pantropical analysis - Corona‐Núñez - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

ESSD - Global Carbon Budget 2022

Aerosols must be included in climate risk assessments

Evaluating the Performance of Past Climate Model Projections - Hausfather - 2020 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

 

Summations

If we keep abusing nature it will collapse, taking us with it. We need a new mindset | Christiana Figueres | The Guardian

Science Day at COP27 Shows That Climate Talks Aren’t Keeping Pace With Planetary Physics - Inside Climate News

Why scientists are using the word scary over the climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian

World has nine years to avert catastrophic global warming, study shows - The Washington Post

Climate effects
Drought and desertification
Ecology
Fire
Ice
Sea level rise
Water cycle changes
Emissions
Mitigation
Drawdown
Society
Politics and international cooperation
COP 27
Lossand damage
National progresson emissions
Science research
Summations
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