Climate Update - what must happen & news links

The Limits of Clean Energy
If the world isn’t careful, renewable energy could become as destructive as fossil fuels.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-limits-of-clean-energy?utm_source...

Climate crisis: Is it time to ditch economic growth?
https://m.dw.com/en/climatechange-emissions-fossilfuels-gdp-economy-rene...

You Can’t Save the Climate With a Dying Economy
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-16/you-can-t-save-the...

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People must use less transport, eat less red meat and buy fewer clothes if the UK is to virtually halt greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government's chief environment scientist has warned.
https://t.co/YXylkMMa7g?amp=1

urgent changes needed include ending population growth, leaving fossil fuels in the ground, halting forest destruction and slashing meat eating.
https://t.co/wRMbIUYwkB?amp=1

Global emissions need to be halved by next decade and net-zero by mid century, says energy economist Nebojsa Nakicenovic
https://t.co/fcp0MUWpc2?amp=1

“Nearly two-thirds of the pledges under the Paris climate agreement are ‘totally insufficient’ to meet critical climate targets.” And almost no nation in the world is on track to meet those targets.
tweet here: https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1193207884378718214

India, the U.S. and China saw some of the biggest rises in greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, a new report says. The EU’s output fell by 2.5%
tweet here: https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1193498581392605184

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FROM THE WEB

Latest (September 2020)

greenwashing-capitalism-wont-heal-the-planet/
https://truthout.org/articles/greenwashing-capitalism-wont-heal-the-planet/

worlds-richest-1-cause-double-co2-emissions-of-poorest-50-says-oxfam
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/worlds-richest-1-cau...

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https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leading-through-t...

EU climate change targets: Low carbon emissions plan hopes to speed up shift towards electric cars
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/eu-climate-change-targets-low-carbon-emis...

Latest (August 2020)

Half of Antarctic ice shelves could collapse in a flash, thanks to warming
https://www.livescience.com/antarctic-ice-shelf-cracks-melting.html

How Much Will Earth Really Warm By?
https://www.sciencealert.com/how-sensitive-is-earth-s-climate-to-carbon-...

Rising temps could kill millions a year by century’s end
https://www.futurity.org/climate-change-deaths-rising-temperatures-24166...

CLIMATE NEWS FOR THE LAST 6 MONTHS

(newer? see http://phantom.university/node/75 )

October 2020

Unprecedented energy use since 1950 has transformed humanity's geologic footprint -- ScienceDaily,
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201016092452.htm

Ice melt projections may underestimate Antarctic contribution to sea level rise -- ScienceDaily,
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201009102731.htm

Expect more mega-droughts -- ScienceDaily,
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201030111839.htm

The future is now: Long-term research shows ocean acidification ramping up on the Reef -- ScienceDaily,
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201028101846.htm

Photovoltaics industry can help meet Paris agreement targets -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201027111243.htm

September 2020

Ocean carbon uptake widely underestimated
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200904090312.htm

Humans, not climate, have driven rapidly rising mammal extinction rate
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200909100244.htm#

Siberia's permafrost erosion has been worsening for years
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200916113452.htm

How much will polar ice sheets add to sea level rise?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917122838.htm

Curbing land clearing for food production is vital to reverse biodiversity declines
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917135517.htm

August 2020

Sea level rise from ice sheets track worst-case climate change scenario
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200831112101.htm

July 2020

Agriculture - a climate villain? Maybe not!
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200707113331.htm

Tree planting does not always boost ecosystem carbon stocks, study finds
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200715123154.htm

Heat stress: The climate is putting European forests under sustained pressure
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200716123000.htm

Discovery of first active seep in Antarctica provides new understanding of methane cycle
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200722163246.htm

June 2020

Carbon emission from permafrost soils underestimated by 14%
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200615140854.htm

New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200616113915.htm

Half of the world's population exposed to increasing air pollution
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200617090958.htm

Global warming will cause ecosystems to produce more methane than first predicted
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200629120210.htm

Major new paleoclimatology study shows global warming has upended 6,500 years of cooling
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200630072044.htm

May 2020

Warming Midwest conditions may result in corn, soybean production moving north
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200504150218.htm

Planting trees is no panacea for climate change
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200507143008.htm

Sea level could rise by more than 1 meter by 2100 if emission targets are not met
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200508083545.htm

El Niño-linked decreases in soil moisture could trigger massive tropical-plant die offs
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200511142116.htm

Climate change will turn coastal Antarctica green, say scientists
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200520084135.htm

World can likely capture and store enough carbon dioxide to meet climate targets
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200521083551.htm

April 2020

Some of the latest climate models provide unrealistically high projections of future warming
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200430113003.htm

Glacier detachments: A new hazard in a warming world?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200428131709.htm

Unusually clear skies drove record loss of Greenland ice in 2019
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200415091236.htm

Offshore oil and gas platforms release more methane than previously estimated
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200413140507.htm

Long-living tropical trees play outsized role in carbon storage
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200409141550.htm

New study helps improve accuracy of future climate change predictions
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200408104950.htm

Upper ocean water masses shrinking in changing climate: Less efficient CO2 sink
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200406112530.htm