News links for September

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Acceleration and the hope-doom schism

 

Climate change will raise sea levels, cause apocalyptic floods and displace almost a billion people | Salon.com

 

NASA Study Reveals Compounding Climate Risks at Two Degrees of Warming – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

 

‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate? | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

‘One climate disaster after another’: North America’s long hot summer | Financial Times

 

Opinion | This Summer Is Pointing Us Toward Uncharted Territory - The New York Times

 

Rising methane could be a sign that Earth's climate is part-way through a 'termination-level transition'

 

Scientists Warn 1 Billion People on Track to Die From Climate Change : ScienceAlert

 

The Age of Climate Disaster Is Here | Foreign Affairs

 

The climate appeasers are leading us towards catastrophe

 

The climate canary is dead » Yale Climate Connections

 

The economics of systems collapse

 

‘Virtually certain’ extreme Antarctic events will get worse without drastic action, scientists warn | Antarctica | The Guardian

 

We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse | The Nation

 

World | Free Full-Text | The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major “Population Correction” Is Inevitable

 

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Business, politics and international relations

 

Carbon credit speculators could lose billions as offsets deemed ‘worthless’ | Carbon offsetting | The Guardian

 

Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist's perspective, it’s inevitable

 

Europe’s dry rivers put climate ambitions at risk – POLITICO

 

Global Critical Infrastructure Wasn't Designed for Climate Change

 

Opinion | What Happens When Great Power Conflict and Climate Action Collide? - The New York Times

 

Shell ordered to cut its emissions – why this ruling could affect almost any major company in the world

 

UAE firm's carbon credit deal sparks scrutiny over Liberia's forests | Africa Times

 

 

 

Commissions, emissions and omissions

 

China continues coal spree despite climate goals | China | The Guardian

 

Cleaner shipping emissions may have warmed the planet – but only a bit | New Scientist

 

Energy: Indonesia's Plan to Break Its Coal Habit Is Failing - Bloomberg

 

Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail - BBC News

 

Why carbon capture and storage will not solve the climate crisis any time soon | Carbon capture and storage (CCS) | The Guardian

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Earth’s Fever

 

Antarctica’s heatwaves are a warning to humanity – and we have only a narrow window to save the planet | Climate scientists | The Guardian

 

From Coral to Nuclear Power: The Global Temperature Shift Is Wreaking Havoc

 

July was the world's hottest month, in an era of climate records - The Washington Post

 

Revealed: Thousands of chickens in transit died from heat stress on day UK hit 40C - Carbon Brief

 

South America is topping 100 degrees, even though it's winter - The Washington Post

 

Volcanoes and wildfires offset 20% of global heating over eight years | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

‘Winter is disappearing’: South America hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal heatwave | Argentina | The Guardian

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Ecology, farming and natural sinks

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Climate change: The record summer that scorched Asia - BBC News

 

For Decades, Our Carbon Emissions Sped the Growth of Plants — Not Anymore - Yale E360

 

Global warming could push tropical forest leaves past a ‘critical temperature’ - Carbon Brief

 

‘Huge’ coral bleaching unfolding across the Americas prompts fears of global tragedy | Coral | The Guardian

 

Mountain treelines are rising due to climate crisis, study finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

Phoenix’s extreme heat withers saguaros, trademark cactus of desert landscape | Arizona | The Guardian

 

Tropical forests face ‘massive leaf death’ from global heating, study finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian

 

How we broke the water cycle and can no longer rely on rain to fall | New Scientist

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Food, crops and famine

 

As climate woes intensify, risks to food supply (and inflation) grow

 

Out With Shrimp, In With Jellyfish? Seafood Industry Facing Potential Overhaul Due To Climate Change

 

"Rare, expensive": Fish eating by Lake Victoria plunges amid climate change | African Arguments

 

South America's scorching winter is decimating crops and threatening lives

 

US airlines ally with farmers to seek subsidies for corn as jet fuel | Financial Times

 

China floods hit 'northeastern granary," fueling food security concerns | CNN

 

 

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Ice and oceans

 

AMOC collapse: Atlantic Ocean current tipping point could occur as soon as 2025 | New Scientist

 

Antarctica is missing a chunk of sea ice bigger than Greenland – what's going on?

 

Climate change: Something strange is happening in the Pacific and we must find out why | New Scientist

 

Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet - Inside Climate News

 

Indonesia’s tropical Eternity Glaciers could vanish within years, experts say | Indonesia | The Guardian

 

Is Climate Change Causing More Record-Breaking Hail? - Scientific American

 

Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet - BBC News

 

‘We’re changing the clouds.’ An unforeseen test of geoengineering is fueling record ocean warmth | Science | AAAS

 

Zero-degree line at record height above Switzerland as heat and fire hit Europe | Climate crisis | The Guardian 

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Pyrocene Chronicles

 

Canada wildfires: British Columbia in state of emergency while 19,000 flee Yellowknife fire | Canada wildfires | The Guardian

 

Canada’s wildfires caused 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, Chinese scientists say | The Independent

 

Climate change makes wildfires in California more explosive : NPR

 

Devastating Hawaii fires made ‘much more dangerous’ by climate change | Hawaii fires | The Guardian

 

Fires could lock vast parts of the Amazon into ‘treeless state’ - Carbon Brief

 

Greece wildfire declared largest ever recorded in EU | Greece | The Guardian

 

Hawaii fires become deadliest in modern US history as ‘grim’ search for victims continues | The Independent

 

Hawaii's climate future: Dry regions get drier with global warming, increasing fire risk − while wet areas get wetter

 

Heat deaths surge in the US’s hottest city as governor declares statewide ‘heat emergency’ | Phoenix | The Guardian

 

Heat records topple across sweltering Asia

 

New Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse | World Resources Institute

 

Today’s bushfires are off-the-scale bad. The only safe option is to leave before they start | Calla Wahlquist | The Guardian

 

 

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Rain and flood

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Beijing records heaviest rainfall in at least 140 years, causing severe flooding and 21 deaths | AP News

 

Climate change altering monsoon patterns, ringing in extreme weather: Experts | Nagpur News - Times of India

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Everything, everywhere, all at once: The great floods of 2023 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

 

Himachal Pradesh floods: More rain, less snow are turning Himalayas dangerous - BBC News

 

How climate change might trigger more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

 

Slovenia floods 'worst-ever natural disaster' - BBC News

 

Tropical Storm Hilary unleashes flash floods in California | Reuters

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Science journal articles  

 

Adjusting 1.5 degree C climate change mitigation pathways in light of adverse new information | Nature Communications

 

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios | PNAS

 

Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California | Nature

 

Climate-driven ecological thresholds in China’s drylands modulated by grazing | Nature Sustainability

 

Low-carbon warfare | Nature Climate Change

 

Nonlinearity of the cloud response postpones climate penalty of mitigating air pollution in polluted regions | Nature Climate Change

 

Stressed economies respond more strongly to climate extremes - IOPscience

 

Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation | Nature Communications

 

Global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change - IOPscience

 

Future emergence of new ecosystems caused by glacial retreat | Nature

 

Record low 2022 Antarctic sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins | Communications Earth & Environment

 

Climate Change and Potential Demise of the Indian Deserts - Rajesh - 2023 - Earth's Future - Wiley Online Library

 

Climate change impact on flood and extreme precipitation increases with water availability | Scientific Reports

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Society

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Anger is most powerful emotion by far for spurring climate action, study finds | Environmental activism | The Guardian

 

Children Have a Right to Sue Nations Over Climate, U.N. Panel Says - The New York Times

 

Climate Change Is an Ally of Jihadists in Africa | Opinion

 

Climate Change Is Driving Up Commercial Real Estate Costs | Time

 

Climate change made July hotter for almost every human on Earth | AP News

 

It is not just heat waves — climate change is also a crisis of disconnection

 

‘It was hell but the owner said, you have to work’: dying from heat in Greece | Extreme weather | The Guardian

 

Judge rules in favor of youths in landmark Montana climate trial - The Washington Post

 

Pope decries 'terrible world war' on environment, announces new writing | Reuters

 

The climate future is here, and it looks like this proud commune in S Africa | African Arguments

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