We’ve long talked about the carbon budget, but given that the world is on track to pass the 1.5C target in the coming decade its time to start talking about the "carbon debt".
My latest piece over at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-growin...
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'Fascism in America?'
thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/fascism-in...
'The fascism debate rages on: Here is why it matters, what the main contentions are, and why the arguments of the Skeptics are increasingly untethered from what is happening on the Right'
#Trump #GOP #Project2025
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'Fascism in America?'
thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/fascism-in...
'The fascism debate rages on: Here is why it matters, what the main contentions are, and why the arguments of the Skeptics are increasingly untethered from what is happening on the Right'
#Trump #GOP #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation
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The magnitude of cooling associated with our emissions of sulfur dioxide and other aerosols is one of the largest uncertainties in the climate system, and has large implications on how much warming we will experience in the future as we clean up pollution and emissions decline:
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'In this guest post, we unpack the latest research on grounding-zone mechanisms and why they suggest that current global projections of sea level rise may be substantially underestimated.'
www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-t...
#ClimateEmergency #IceSheets #glaciers #Thwaites #Antarctica #unknowns
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'Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans' lives by 2050, study finds'
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'Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades'
#ClimateEmergency
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'Climate crisis driving exponential rise in most extreme wildfires'
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'Scientists warn of "scary" feedback loop in which fires create more heating, which causes more fires worldwide'
#ClimateEmergency #feedbackloops #wildfires
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'... we calculate average ... equilibrium climate sensitivity, resulting in ... 7.2 °C per doubling of pCO2 ... These values are significantly higher than IPCC global warming estimations ...'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ClimateEmergency #unknowns
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'With the help of #AI, the researchers were able to detect [in detail] the movement of human bodies in a room using Wi-Fi routers - even through walls.'
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'... the widespread use of WiFi-enabled human detection raises concerns about ... privacy.'
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'Energy demand is growing faster than renewables output'
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#ClimateEmergency #degrowth
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'Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution'
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'The compounds that plants release in hot weather react with pollutants to form harmful ozone'
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This seems like great news, but it remains to be seen whether there are any major disadvantages (required agricultural land, among other things?)
'Researchers Invent One Hundred Percent Biodegradable "Barley Plastic"'
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'The silent disaster of a noisy North Sea'
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'In the rush to energy transition, marine ecosystems are being damaged by the commotion of wind turbines.'
#ClimateEmergency #degrowth
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#AI producer with an appropriate last name deceives the public like it has been done since the pharaohs: my doings are written in the stars.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: '[...] it's not something we get to choose [...] Mostly, it’s a fact of nature.'
time.com/6990386/anth...
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Als je een column dit weekend moet lezen, is het deze van Thomas von der Dunk. Over Rutte, het neo-liberalisme en het aanstaande - tot voor heel kort onvoorstelbare - kabinet.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
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'How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.'
www.cpr.org/2024/06/23/h...
'The critical danger point outdoors for illness and death from relentless heat is several degrees lower than experts once thought ...'
#ClimateEmergency #PublicHealth
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Boeddhistische monniken betrokken bij het stropen van beschermde dieren
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'How droughts and worsening soil health can increase carbon emissions'
india.mongabay.com/2024/06/how-...
#ClimateEmergency #feedbackloops #unknowns
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