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New data from Nasa has revealed a dramatic rise in the intensity of weather events such as droughts and floods over the past five years.
The steepness of the rise was not foreseen.
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The steepness of the rise was not foreseen.
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Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events
Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, study says
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June 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
New data from Nasa has revealed a dramatic rise in the intensity of weather events such as droughts and floods over the past five years.
The steepness of the rise was not foreseen.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe
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The steepness of the rise was not foreseen.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe
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For the first time, the data indicated a small likelihood that before 2030, the world could experience a year that is 2C hotter than the preindustrial era, a possibility scientists described as “shocking”.
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Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years
Data also shows small but ‘shocking’ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030
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May 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For the first time, the data indicated a small likelihood that before 2030, the world could experience a year that is 2C hotter than the preindustrial era, a possibility scientists described as “shocking”.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency
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The continued use of fossil fuels and other environmentally destructive practices have set the world on a course towards at least 2.5C of heating. This is expected to trigger a “really dire” sea level rise of around 12 metres.
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The Guardian view on rising sea levels: adaptation has never been more urgent | Editorial
Editorial: Stark warnings about threatened coastal areas should prompt fresh efforts to protect those most at risk
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May 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The continued use of fossil fuels and other environmentally destructive practices have set the world on a course towards at least 2.5C of heating. This is expected to trigger a “really dire” sea level rise of around 12 metres.
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Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating and lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, the scientists behind a new study have warned, even if the average level of heating over the last decade of 1.2C continues.
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Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn
Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds
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May 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating and lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, the scientists behind a new study have warned, even if the average level of heating over the last decade of 1.2C continues.
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European companies are increasingly lobbying for strong climate action, research has found, in a “profound shift” that analysts say challenges the narrative that businesses see green rules as a threat to profits.
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European firms ramping up lobbying for climate action, report finds
Research shows companies ‘aligned’ with strategies to meet climate goals have risen from 3% in 2019 to 23% in 2025
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May 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
European companies are increasingly lobbying for strong climate action, research has found, in a “profound shift” that analysts say challenges the narrative that businesses see green rules as a threat to profits.
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The world’s wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study.
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Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests
Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes
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May 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The world’s wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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Rich countries are dragging their feet on producing new plans to combat the climate crisis, thereby putting the poor into greater danger.
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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Pacific island states urge rich countries to expedite plans to cut emissions
Developed countries pressed to submit national plans well before Cop30 as time runs out to avoid 1.5C temperature rise
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April 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Rich countries are dragging their feet on producing new plans to combat the climate crisis, thereby putting the poor into greater danger.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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The overwhelming majority of people in the world – between 80% and 89% – want their governments to take stronger climate action.
The current mismatch between public will and government action amounts to a deficit in democracy.
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The current mismatch between public will and government action amounts to a deficit in democracy.
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A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority
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April 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The overwhelming majority of people in the world – between 80% and 89% – want their governments to take stronger climate action.
The current mismatch between public will and government action amounts to a deficit in democracy.
#climateChange
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The current mismatch between public will and government action amounts to a deficit in democracy.
#climateChange
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The world’s coral reefs have been pushed into “uncharted territory” by the worst global bleaching event on record that has now hit more than 80% of the planet’s reefs.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
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April 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The world’s coral reefs have been pushed into “uncharted territory” by the worst global bleaching event on record that has now hit more than 80% of the planet’s reefs.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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The home-wrecking storms and floods that swept Europe last year affected 413,000 people, a report has found, as fossil fuel pollution forced the continent to suffer through its hottest year on record.
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Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024
European State of the Climate report ‘lays bare’ impact of fossil fuels on continent during its hottest 12 months on record
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April 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The home-wrecking storms and floods that swept Europe last year affected 413,000 people, a report has found, as fossil fuel pollution forced the continent to suffer through its hottest year on record.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency
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The climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs.
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown
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Climate crisis has tripled length of deadly ocean heatwaves, study finds
Hotter seas supercharge storms and destroy critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs
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April 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown
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Last year marked a historic and deeply troubling threshold: for the first time, global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Without drastic and immediate climate action, this breach will not be temporary.
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We passed the 1.5C climate threshhold. We must now explore extreme options | Sir David King
We do not have the luxury of rejecting solutions before we have thoroughly investigated their risks, trade-offs and feasibility
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April 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Last year marked a historic and deeply troubling threshold: for the first time, global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Without drastic and immediate climate action, this breach will not be temporary.
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The world won’t stay below 1.5C of warming, largely because we’re already there.
“We now expect a 3C world,” states a March analysis by Morgan Stanley. This level of global heating above preindustrial times is well beyond the 2C limit.
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“We now expect a 3C world,” states a March analysis by Morgan Stanley. This level of global heating above preindustrial times is well beyond the 2C limit.
#climateChange
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US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive
Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%
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April 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The world won’t stay below 1.5C of warming, largely because we’re already there.
“We now expect a 3C world,” states a March analysis by Morgan Stanley. This level of global heating above preindustrial times is well beyond the 2C limit.
#climateChange
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“We now expect a 3C world,” states a March analysis by Morgan Stanley. This level of global heating above preindustrial times is well beyond the 2C limit.
#climateChange
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The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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April 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people’s wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer – an almost four-fold increase on some estimates.
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Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global heating – as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’
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April 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people’s wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer – an almost four-fold increase on some estimates.
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Normally, two-thirds of sea level rise is due to melting ice, and one-third from the thermal expansion of the oceans.
Last year, the hottest year on record, this was reversed, with warmer water accounting for two-thirds of the sea level rise.
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Last year, the hottest year on record, this was reversed, with warmer water accounting for two-thirds of the sea level rise.
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Weatherwatch: warmer water drives higher-than-expected rise in sea level
Nasa data for 2024 shows reversal of dynamic in which melting ice usually accounts for majority of increase
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March 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Normally, two-thirds of sea level rise is due to melting ice, and one-third from the thermal expansion of the oceans.
Last year, the hottest year on record, this was reversed, with warmer water accounting for two-thirds of the sea level rise.
#climateChange
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Last year, the hottest year on record, this was reversed, with warmer water accounting for two-thirds of the sea level rise.
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Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies.
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report
Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts
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March 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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Taking strong action to tackle the climate crisis will increase countries’ economic growth, rather than damage their finances as critics of net zero policies have claimed, research from the world’s economic watchdog has found.
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Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds
Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report
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March 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Taking strong action to tackle the climate crisis will increase countries’ economic growth, rather than damage their finances as critics of net zero policies have claimed, research from the world’s economic watchdog has found.
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Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will have unpredictable consequences.
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Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN
Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources
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March 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will have unpredictable consequences.
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Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature. See where and by how much.
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Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised
In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature
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February 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature. See where and by how much.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency
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#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency
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We are firmly in the post-climate change world now and the serious implications of this demand honest acknowledgment. The reality is that we are living now in a time of continual disasters that are unfolding alongside our planetary scale disaster.
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Extreme weather is our new reality. We must accept it and begin planning | Gaia Vince
As wildfires, floods, droughts and record-breaking temperatures have shown, the post-climate change era has arrived. Now we need honesty and action from our leaders
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February 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We are firmly in the post-climate change world now and the serious implications of this demand honest acknowledgment. The reality is that we are living now in a time of continual disasters that are unfolding alongside our planetary scale disaster.
#climateChange
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Flying causes more climate-heating pollution than any other form of transport for every kilometre and is dominated by rich passengers, with 1% of the world’s population responsible for 50% of aviation emissions.
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Revealed: ‘extremely concerning’ industry influence over UN aviation body
Exclusive: Firms outnumber green groups at environmental talks, with related events sponsored by fossil fuel companies
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February 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Flying causes more climate-heating pollution than any other form of transport for every kilometre and is dominated by rich passengers, with 1% of the world’s population responsible for 50% of aviation emissions.
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In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.
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Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
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October 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.
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The current period will likely be the warmest the planet has been in 125,000 years. #climatechange
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Hottest January on record mystifies climate scientists
EU monitor says global temperatures were 1.75C above preindustrial levels, extending run of unprecedented highs
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February 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The current period will likely be the warmest the planet has been in 125,000 years. #climatechange
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Beijing Buses 95% Electric, Hydrogen Buses Dwindling, Refueling Stations Closing - CleanTechnica
19,000 electric buses on Beijing's roads while hydrogen buses queue for expensive hydrogen or rust in parking lots. Even China can't make hydrogen for transportation work.
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February 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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