News links for November

 

Acceleration and the hope-doom schism

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2023 year of record extremes: new report — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

 

Bushfires one day, floods the next: why Australia can expect more ‘compound events’ | Bushfires | The Guardian

 

Climate Change Now a Major Factor in Formation of El Niño - Yale E360

 

Earth close to ‘risk tipping points’ that will damage our ability to deal with climate crisis, warns UN | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Earth’s ‘vital signs’ worse than at any time in human history, scientists warn | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Extreme weather is outpacing even the worst-case scenarios of our forecasting models

 

Heatwave intensity set to spike, new hot spots likely: Govt study | Latest News India - Hindustan Times

 

Opinion | Climate change is the catastrophe to end all other catastrophes - The Washington Post

 

Opinion | I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New. - The New York Times

 

September's Record-Shattering Heat Was ‘Absolutely Gobsmackingly Bananas’ | WIRED

 

Tiny Biological Particles Are Influencing Cloud Formation Over The Arctic : ScienceAlert

 

To a growing number of scientists, climate change is an ‘emergency’ - The Washington Post

 

‘We Are Afraid’: Scientists Issue New Warning As World Enters ‘Uncharted Climate Territory’

 

We could be 16 years into a methane-fueled 'termination' event significant enough to end an ice age | Live Science

 

Why Worry About Collapse? | Do the Math

 

World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days - BBC News

 

'World in polycrisis': AXA ranks global warming most pressing risk in every world region for first time | BusinessGreen News

 

World on brink of environmental tipping points, UN says | Reuters

 

 

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Business, politics and international relations

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Climate Change and Inflation Are Inextricably Linked - Bloomberg

 

Exxon reinforces support for fossil fuels with deal to buy shale giant for $60bn | Fossil fuels | The Guardian

 

Inside the Campaign That Put an Oil Boss in Charge of COP28

 

Is crisis at Siemens Energy symptom of a wider wind power problem? | Wind power | The Guardian

 

Use of weather derivatives surges as extreme climate events rock the globe | Reuters

 

The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle | The New Yorker

 

Opinion | Africa Needs Its Debts Paused So It Can Prepare for Climate Catastrophe - The New York Times

 

View(s) from Africa: Did the Africa Climate Summit fulfil its vision? | African Arguments

 

When conflict meets climate change, in Gaza and beyond

 

"Why do they punish us?" Uganda charcoal ban ignites transition debate | African Arguments

 

 

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Commissions, emissions and omissions

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AC use rising sharply in India, will surpass all other home appliances by 2050: Report | Latest News India - Hindustan Times

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Analysis: Global CO2 emissions could peak as soon as 2023, IEA data reveals - Carbon Brief

 

Carbon emissions threaten 1.5C climate threshold sooner than thought - report - BBC News

 

Dour outlook on Paris climate target sets stage for COP28

 

Environmental group raises concerns about loophole in ozone, climate treaty | The Hill

 

EU launches first phase of world's first carbon border tariff | Reuters

 

Global energy consumption to increase through 2050, outpace efficiency gains, EIA says | Reuters

 

Japan has serious work cut out with carbon cutting ambitions | Reuters

 

Many Climate ‘Solutions’ Are Dead Ends Or Niches & Should Be Ignored

 

Opinion | America’s Disaster Recovery System Is a Disaster - The New York Times

 

World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says - BBC News

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Earth’s Fever

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Acapulco: nearly 100 dead and missing after Hurricane Otis, officials say | Mexico | The Guardian

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Arctic cyclones have become more intense and longer-lived over the past seven decades | Communications Earth & Environment

 

Earth breaks September heat record by unprecedented margin - The Washington Post

 

‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Nepal's mountains have lost one-third of their ice, UN chief says | Reuters

 

​​'One of the biggest on record': Ozone hole bigger than North America opens above Antarctica | Live Science

 

‘Only the rich can bear this heat’: how Dhaka is battling extreme weather | Global development | The Guardian

 

South America's Winter Hot Spell Was 100 Times More Likely with Climate Change - Scientific American

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Ecology, farming and natural sinks

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Billions of snow crabs in Alaska likely vanished due to warm ocean, study says | Marine life | The Guardian

 

Deforestation has big impact on regional temperatures, study of Brazilian Amazon shows | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian

 

Dengue will 'take off' in southern Europe, US, Africa this decade, WHO scientist says | Reuters

 

Forests Are Worth More Than Their Carbon, a New Paper Argues - Inside Climate News

 

Forests v farmland: what the world would look like if we allocated all our land in the optimal way

 

Full article: Tracking climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa: integrating governmental and livestock keeper perspectives

 

Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade | Nature Geoscience

 

Home countries of major rainforests agree to work together to save them | Reuters

 

‘No normal seasons any more’: seed farmers struggle amid the climate crisis | Farming | The Guardian

 

The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet

 

The Rigid World of French Cheesemaking Meets Unbound Climate Change - The New York Times

 

Valuing the functionality of tropical ecosystems beyond carbon: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Ice and oceans

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Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable – new research

 

Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research shows | Polar regions | The Guardian

 

Sea-level rise: West Antarctic ice shelf melt 'unavoidable' - BBC News

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Ill wind

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How Hurricane Otis shocked forecasters with its rapid strengthening

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Hurricane Otis strikes Acapulco, Mexico as a Category 5 storm, breaking records

 

Hurricanes twice as likely to rapidly intensify into powerful, catastrophic storms in last two decades: study | The Hill

 

More Atlantic Hurricanes Rapidly Increasing to Cat. 3, Study Finds - The New York Times

 

New study suggests cyclones in the Arctic are forming more often and getting stronger

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Why Smaller Storms Are Growing More Fearsome, More Often - The New York Times

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Pyrocene Chronicles

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How Megafires Are Remaking the World - The New York Times

 

‘It’s Like Our Country Exploded’: Canada’s Year of Fire - The New York Times

 

Wildfires in dry Amazon rainforest choke Manaus city | Reuters

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Science journal articles

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2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory | BioScience | Oxford Academic

 

Climate change and the aridification of North America | PNAS

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Heat extremes in Western Europe increasing faster than simulated due to atmospheric circulation trends | Nature Communications

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Irreversible loss in marine ecosystem habitability after a temperature overshoot | Communications Earth & Environment

 

Mechanisms and Impacts of Earth System Tipping Elements - Wang - 2023 - Reviews of Geophysics - Wiley Online Library

 

Observed increases in North Atlantic tropical cyclone peak intensification rates | Scientific Reports

 

Overshooting the critical threshold for the Greenland ice sheet | Nature

 

Increasing wildfires threaten progress on halting deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia | Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Society

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Bolivia forest fires shutter thousands of schools

 

Climate change exacerbates nutrient disparities from seafood | Nature Climate Change

 

COP28: Climate change is one of our biggest health threats – we face a staggering toll unless we act

 

Ditching 'degrowth': Bertrand Piccard calls for revamp of the climate lexicon | BusinessGreen Analysis

 

Extreme weather displaced 43m children in past six years, Unicef reports | Global development | The Guardian

 

Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance | PNAS

 

How climate change is affecting the way we have babies

 

Matilda Lane-Rose: Why Australia’s answer to Greta Thunberg is facing years behind bars | SBS News

 

Opinion | The Pope’s Journey to Climate Outrage - The New York Times

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These are the places that could become ‘unlivable’ as the Earth warms - The Washington Post

 

‘They challenged the Communist monopoly’: Vietnam regime turns on its climate champions | Vietnam | The Guardian

 

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency | The BMJ

 

Young Europeans more likely to quit driving and have fewer children to save planet | Europe | The Guardian

 

 

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Too wet

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Death toll from flash floods in Indian Himalayas climbs to 74, rescue gathers pace | Reuters

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Northeast India flood: Man-made disaster worsened by climate change — Radio Free Asia

 

Type of storm that drenched New York is up to 20% wetter due to climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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Too dry

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Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian

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Drought, migration and the fall of civilization: A cautionary tale | The Hill

 

Drying of Amazon could be early warning of ‘tipping point’ for the rainforest - Carbon Brief

 

Grand plan to drought-proof India could reduce rainfall

 

River interlinking alters land-atmosphere feedback and changes the Indian summer monsoon | Nature Communications

 

South American monsoon heading towards ‘tipping point’ likely to cause Amazon dieback | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian