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The 100 most crucial climate change news................ links from September 2021

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Contents

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Adaptation

          International aid

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Business

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Climate effects

          Cyclones/hurricanes/typhoons

          Cold

          Drought

          Ecology

          Fires

          Heat

          Ice

          Rain and floods

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Emissions

          Corporations

          Fluorocarbons

          Methane

     

Mitigation

          Albedo interventions

          Degrowth

          Carbon taxes, trading and offsets

          Clean energy

                    Nuclear

          Finance

          Negative emissions

                    Carbon capture

                    Farming

                    Vegetation

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People

          Climate migrants

          Food

                    Famine

          Health and safety

          Media

          Mental health

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Politics

          China

          Europe

          United States

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Science 

          Summations

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Adaptation

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Adapting to climate change is an imperative -

The Washington Post

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New York mayor: Ida devastation shows need to prepare

for ‘very, very worst’ | US news | The Guardian

 

 

International Aid

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Biden vows to double aid for vulnerable nations dealing with climate change - The Washington Post

 

 

Business

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Banks at bigger risk from climate than subprime mortgages, researcher says | TheHill

 

Exxon and BP called to testify on climate after ‘troubling’ new documents | ExxonMobil | The Guardian

 

Zurich Insurance sets climate steps to curb C02 emissions | Reuters

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Climate effects

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‘The climate crisis is a reality for all of us’: Africa’s unreported summer of extremes | The Independent

 

Coffee bean price spike just a taste of what’s to come with climate change | Coffee | The Guardian

 

 

Cyclones/hurricanes/typhoons

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After Ida, Louisiana Struggles to Tally the Environmental Cost. Activists Say Officials Must Do Better - Inside Climate News

 

How climate change made Hurricane Ida worse - CNN

 

Hurricane Ida and Our Summer From Hell - Rolling Stone

 

Hurricane Ida’s death toll in Northeast reaches at least 49 - The Washington Post

 

Ida's deluge stuns New Yorkers in its sheer intensity | Reuters

 

Is this the beginning of the Category 6 hurricane? - The Boston Globe

 

Record landfalls for tropical storms and hurricanes in U.S. - The Washington Post

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Cold

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In the Arctic, Less Sea Ice and More Snow on Land Are Pushing Cold Extremes to Eastern North America - Inside Climate News

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Drought

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Desertification is turning the Earth barren – but a solution is still within reach | David R Montgomery | The Guardian

 

Drought – More Than Temperature – Governs Diversity of Life on Earth | University of Arizona News

 

South America drought: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia suffer climate change - The Washington Post

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Ecology

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Animals ‘shapeshifting’ in response to climate crisis, research finds | Animals | The Guardian

 

Climate Change Could Devastate Emperor Penguins, U.S. Officials Warn - The New York Times

 

One in three trees face extinction in wild, says new report - BBC News

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Fires

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Global wildfire carbon dioxide emissions at record high, data shows | Wildfires | The Guardian

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Russia forest fire damage worst since records began, says Greenpeace | Russia | The Guardian

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Nighttime air in the western U.S. has turned drier, drying out fire fuels - The Washington Post

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Australian bushfire smoke caused massive phytoplankton bloom in Southern Ocean | Bushfires | The Guardian

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Heat

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August 2021 was sixth hottest recorded August since 1880 » Yale Climate Connections

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Climate change: World now sees twice as many days over 50C - BBC News

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Decreasing subseasonal temperature variability in the northern extratropics attributed to human influence | Nature Geoscience

 

Enhanced hydrological cycle increases ocean heat uptake and moderates transient climate change | Nature Climate Change

 

Europe just had its warmest summer on record, EU scientists say | Reuters

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The Greatest Killer in New Orleans Wasn’t the Hurricane. It Was the Heat. - The New York Times

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Ice

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Melting of polar ice shifting Earth itself, not just sea levels

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Rapidly melting Arctic is causing chaos in world's oceans, scientists warn

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Rain and floods

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Spain hit with severe flooding after storm - BBC News

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Emissions

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Biden administration to resume drilling auctions in setback to climate agenda | Reuters

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Climate change: ditch 90% of world's coal and 60% of oil and gas to limit warming to 1.5°C – experts

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The Guardian view on fossil fuels: a very long way to go | Editorial | The Guardian

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China’s pledge to kick the coal habit comes at a critical moment for the planet | Sam Geall | The Guardian

 

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Corporations

 

Big oil’s ‘wokewashing’ is the new climate science denialism | ExxonMobil | The Guardian

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Climate NGOs in Germany threaten legal action against VW, Daimler, BMW | Reuters

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Opinion | Corporate America Is Lobbying for Climate Disaster - The New York Times

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Opinion | Worrying About Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do - The New York Times

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Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world | Nature

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Fluorocarbons

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Protecting the Ozone Layer Also Protects Earth's Ability to Sequester Carbon – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

 

The ozone hole over the South Pole is now bigger than Antarctica | New Scientist

 

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Methane

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The case for regulating downstream methane emissions from oil and gas – Analysis - IEA

 

Utility paying up to $1.8B in settlement for worst methane gas leak in US history | TheHill

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Mitigation

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Electric revolution set to usher in taxes for using roads | News | The Times

 

 

Albedo interventions

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Geoengineering by Gernot Wagner review – a stark warning | Science and nature books | The Guardian

 

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Degrowth

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‘Green growth’ doesn’t exist – less of everything is the only way to avert catastrophe | George Monbiot | The Guardian

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Carbon taxes, trading and offsets

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'Indispensible': Can the carbon offset market bolster its credibility? | BusinessGreen Feature

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Clean energy

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Australian billionaire sets up global green hydrogen organisation | Reuters

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Nuclear

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Energy panic ushers in ‘new nuclear age’ | News | The Sunday Times

 

 

Finance

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‘Big line in the sand’: China promises no new coal-fired power projects abroad | China | The Guardian

 

Ultra-wealthy investors tout private capital as 'essential' to tackle climate change | BusinessGreen News

 

 

Negative emissions

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Carbon capture

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Climate crisis: do we need millions of machines sucking CO2 from the air? | Carbon capture and storage (CCS) | The Guardian

 

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Farming

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‘It’s not the cow, it’s the how’: why a long-time vegetarian became beef’s biggest champion | Food | The Guardian

 

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Vegetation

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'A game changer that will help safeguard humanity': Philanthropies pledge record $5bn for nature protection | BusinessGreen News

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Can investors save the Amazon? - BBC Future

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Endangered African montane forests could be a key ‘carbon store’, scientists say | Carbon Brief

 

Policy, drought and fires combine to affect biodiversity in the Amazon basin

 

Sweden’s green dilemma: can cutting down ancient trees be good for the Earth? | Trees and forests | The Guardian

 

Tree planting efforts aren’t replacing burned U.S. forests — not even close | Reuters

 

Will the Amazon Rainforest Survive? Climate Under Threat in Bolsonaro’s Brazil - Bloomberg

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People

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Climate Change Is Bankrupting America’s Small Towns - The New York Times

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Climate Change Is Making the Middle East Literally Uninhabitable

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Schoolchildren demand ‘compulsory’ climate education | The Independent

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The climate crisis is destroying the human rights of those least responsible for it | Patrick Verkooijen and AK Abdul Momen | The Guardian

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Climate migrants

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Climate change could trigger migration of 216 million people, World Bank warns

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Food

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‘Out of control’ durum wheat market expected to cause pasta shortage

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Climate change stokes ASEAN food supply fears: regional survey - Nikkei Asia

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Climate change, trade, and global food security | SEI

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Increasing risks of crop failure and water scarcity in global breadbaskets by 2030 - IOPscience

 

 

Famine

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Madagascar faces one of world's first climate change famines

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Health and safety

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Biden Administration Unveils Plan to Protect Workers and Communities from Extreme Heat - Inside Climate News

 

Climate change linked to risk of viruses jumping species in the Arctic | New Scientist

 

Climate resilience efforts pose new risks for disabled people | TheHill

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Media

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A new media strategy for selling the seriousness of the climate crisis: Humor - The Washington Post

 

Greta Thunberg: ‘I really see the value of friendship. Apart from the climate, almost nothing else matters’ | Greta Thunberg | The Guardian

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London protests show climate activism isn't just for the Greta Thunberg generation - The Washington Post

 

Pope Francis praises youth activists in fight to tackle climate change

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World's top three Christian leaders in climate appeal ahead of U.N. summit | Reuters

 

 

 

Mental health

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Anxiety and biscuits: the climate cafes popping up around the world | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Mental health needs to evolve for climate change, experts say - The Washington Post

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Politics

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Climate change: Vulnerable nations call for 'emergency pact' - BBC News

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Climate cooperation means climate competition for China and the US — Quartz

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Governments falling woefully short of Paris climate pledges, study finds | Climate change | The Guardian

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China

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China warns US poor relations could undermine progress on climate change | China | The Guardian

 

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Europe

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Climate tops list of global threats in EU ‘strategic foresight’ report – EURACTIV.com

 

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United States

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Janet Yellen faces climate test as environmentalists push for more aggressive financial action - The Washington Post

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Science

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Guest post: How artificial intelligence is fast becoming a key tool for climate science | Carbon Brief

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Is Humanity Doomed? Science Says We Are In Middle Of A 'Mass Extinction Event'

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Summations

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‘Climate crisis is here’ says Biden in week of storms, floods and wildfires | Joe Biden | The Guardian

 

Climate scientist: This is a dystopian moment (Opinion) - CNN

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Forget plans to lower emissions by 2050 – this is deadly procrastination | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian

 

From climate crisis to Brexit, alarmists have been proved right. It’s time to start listening | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

 

Opinion | Climate Disaster Preparation Is More Urgent Than Ever - The New York Times

 

Opinion | The goals we’ve set aren’t enough to stave off global warming. It’s past time to get real. - The Washington Post

 

The Answer to Climate Change Is Organizing | The New Yorker

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The climate crisis has made the idea of a better future impossible to imagine | Ian Jack | The Guardian

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